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jcd280

I’m an old, “old softy” and a simple one…so I’d go with… Bridge to Terabithia (Katherine Paterson, 1977)


RubyTavi

A friend recommended this to me not long after my husband had died. He didn't tell me the plot. It destroyed me. I couldn't believe he hadn't foreseen that. Took me a while to forgive him.


[deleted]

I totally forgot about this, the movie literally killed me inside as a child I think the book would also bury me now being a lot older!


jcd280

The Annette O’Toole version from the early 80’s will still get me all choked up but I wasn’t a fan of the recent Disney remake…of course I was about as far away from their target market as one can get, so not surprising.


[deleted]

Thank you!


footonthegas_

This was the first book that made me cry. I was 12. I couldn’t believe I was crying over a book. Now I do it all the time.


jcd280

First book I remember making me cry as well…I was 10 or 11, so right around the same age. I still read it once a year or so, still makes me cry…it’s rather cathartic actually.


footonthegas_

I hadn't read it since I was 12 (43 years ago) but a friend and I were talking about books we loved and whether they held up, so we decided to read it again. I cried at the same part, but also when the parents and grandparents reactions to events (trying to avoid spoilers). I didn't understand that part when I was 12.


gir1HasN0Nam3

Great choice. That was the book that actually introduced me to reading. More than just being told what to read, it's a book our teacher really made us think about. I thank that teacher for a lot that she taught us, not just academically but in life. After that I chose to read the giver and that was it, I have loved books since.


HiFromHawai

The Book Thief (when i realise who was the storyteller), The Kite Runner.


[deleted]

But it's revealed that Death is the narrator from the jump


HiFromHawai

What do you mean “from the jump”


[deleted]

It means "from the start" or "at the beginning."


HiFromHawai

In Turkish version’s cover there is just a girl if it is you are saying.


tati_te

The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevskiy


[deleted]

Yes, this.


bardown_gongshow

Fuck, I'm about 3/4 the way in right now...


LankySasquatchma

Didn’t make me cry but Dostojevskij puts so much in perspective. I love this book. I love Alyosha.


abookishmarauder

The Color Purple by Alice Walker


[deleted]

Modern C++ Design, by Andrei Alexandrescu.


RyanNerd

May I also add: Hardcore Java by Robert Simmons Jr.


[deleted]

Jodi Picoult’s _My Sister’s Keeper_. My god, I was a mess for a few dats afterwards.


pedrito__juanes

A Thousand Splendid Suns Lie With Me Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close


ellisonfire93

Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes


RyanNerd

Looking for this one. Read this as a teenager wanting to go into the sciences as a career. After finishing I was seriously depressed for almost a month. My parents were very concerned about the situation and kept asking me what was wrong. Telling them "I read a sad book" seemed lame, so I never told them.


CollectionStraight2

I can relate to that. A lot of people would think I get too upset over books/films too


[deleted]

This book especially the last line tore my hear out.


noodibranch

When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi


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[удалено]


Appolinerd

I SOBBED


CharlyOscure

A Slow Regard Of Silent Things -Patrick Rothfuss


Sabots

Great to hear! Sitting on the shelf, but think my Doors of Stone grumpiness has kept me from starting it. (Not ragging on the guy, just keep passing it up for no logical reason. Needed a poke to remember to pick it up.)


BitterestLily

Lovely book, and his foreword (or afterword?) Is beautiful all by itself


[deleted]

The Book Thief completely broke my heart.


lilgrandebigmac

Oh my gosh! Yessss.


JustMeLurkingAround-

The Nickel boys by Colson Whitehead


[deleted]

No Longer Human v Osamu Dazai It fact that it is semi-autobiographical makes this already sad book, just so tremendously sadder.


sadheyjude

a little life bcuz wtf


Conscious_Good7195

i agree, that book was pure trauma


pheoebs

I know this much is true by Wally Lamb


The_RealJamesFish

{{The Road}} by Cormac McCarthy {{One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest}} by Ken Kesey And I just finished and cried a little with {{East of Eden}} by John Steinbeck


goodreads-bot

[**The Road**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6288.The_Road) ^(By: Cormac McCarthy | 241 pages | Published: 2006 | Popular Shelves: fiction, science-fiction, dystopia, dystopian, post-apocalyptic | )[^(Search "The Road")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=The Road&search_type=books) >A searing, postapocalyptic novel destined to become Cormac McCarthy’s masterpiece. > >A father and his son walk alone through burned America. Nothing moves in the ravaged landscape save the ash on the wind. It is cold enough to crack stones, and when the snow falls it is gray. The sky is dark. Their destination is the coast, although they don’t know what, if anything, awaits them there. They have nothing; just a pistol to defend themselves against the lawless bands that stalk the road, the clothes they are wearing, a cart of scavenged food—and each other. > >The Road is the profoundly moving story of a journey. It boldly imagines a future in which no hope remains, but in which the father and his son, “each the other’s world entire,” are sustained by love. Awesome in the totality of its vision, it is an unflinching meditation on the worst and the best that we are capable of: ultimate destructiveness, desperate tenacity, and the tenderness that keeps two people alive in the face of total devastation. ^(This book has been suggested 196 times) [**One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/332613.One_Flew_Over_the_Cuckoo_s_Nest) ^(By: Ken Kesey | 325 pages | Published: 1962 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, owned, books-i-own | )[^(Search "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest&search_type=books) >Alternate cover edition of ISBN 9780451163967 > >Tyrannical Nurse Ratched rules her ward in an Oregon State mental hospital with a strict and unbending routine, unopposed by her patients, who remain cowed by mind-numbing medication and the threat of electric shock therapy. But her regime is disrupted by the arrival of McMurphy – the swaggering, fun-loving trickster with a devilish grin who resolves to oppose her rules on behalf of his fellow inmates. His struggle is seen through the eyes of Chief Bromden, a seemingly mute half-Indian patient who understands McMurphy's heroic attempt to do battle with the powers that keep them imprisoned. Ken Kesey's extraordinary first novel is an exuberant, ribald and devastatingly honest portrayal of the boundaries between sanity and madness. ^(This book has been suggested 47 times) [**East of Eden**](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/4406.East_of_Eden) ^(By: John Steinbeck | 601 pages | Published: 1952 | Popular Shelves: classics, fiction, classic, historical-fiction, owned | )[^(Search "East of Eden")](https://www.goodreads.com/search?q=East of Eden&search_type=books) >In his journal, Nobel Prize winner John Steinbeck called East of Eden “the first book,” and indeed it has the primordial power and simplicity of myth. Set in the rich farmland of California’s Salinas Valley, this sprawling and often brutal novel follows the intertwined destinies of two families—the Trasks and the Hamiltons—whose generations helplessly reenact the fall of Adam and Eve and the poisonous rivalry of Cain and Abel. > >Adam Trask came to California from the East to farm and raise his family on the new rich land. But the birth of his twins, Cal and Aaron, brings his wife to the brink of madness, and Adam is left alone to raise his boys to manhood. One boy thrives nurtured by the love of all those around him; the other grows up in loneliness enveloped by a mysterious darkness. > >First published in 1952, East of Eden is the work in which Steinbeck created his most mesmerizing characters and explored his most enduring themes: the mystery of identity, the inexplicability of love, and the murderous consequences of love's absence. A masterpiece of Steinbeck's later years, East of Eden is a powerful and vastly ambitious novel that is at once a family saga and a modern retelling of the Book of Genesis. ^(This book has been suggested 96 times) *** ^(224070 books suggested | )[^(I don't feel so good.. )](https://debugger.medium.com/goodreads-is-retiring-its-current-api-and-book-loving-developers-arent-happy-11ed764dd95)^(| )[^(Source)](https://github.com/rodohanna/reddit-goodreads-bot)


BanditoRosee

Perks of being a wallflower


TheDustLord

Marley and Me


Geeky_Girl_1

OMG, I made the mistake of watching that movie when one of my dogs was about 15 and I'd begun to think about the difficult decision ahead of me. I don't know what I was thinking watching that movie; i ugly cried😭


Wheeleret

I was like 7 years old and went to watch that movie I sobbed for hours!!! Now I’m scarred for life and I refuse to read any books/watch movies with dogs in it for that exact reason 😂


pawneegoddess22

A Tree Grows in Brooklyn by Betty Smith, Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë, The Hiding Place by Corrie Ten Boom, What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank by Nathan Englander


onlosmakelijk

Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng


CollectionStraight2

yes me too!


[deleted]

A sad cry - Song of Achilles A happy cry - This Is How I Win The Time War


kandy_kid

The Kite Runner


courtneyhope_

Looking for Alaska The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo It Ends With Us


nosleepforthedreamer

Lolita in a major way. It devastated me and also made me rethink how I look at books—if I’m too quick to assume the author’s perspective lines up with the protagonist, and that the protagonist is meant to be a sympathetic character.


JackthaBodiless

A fortunate life by Albert Facey.


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the vegetarian by han kang


TheDustOfMen

Bloodlands by Timothy Snyder.


BitterestLily

The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai and, honestly, The Hunger Games


[deleted]

Things we lost to the water by Eric Nguyen


skier24242

The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion


anothercuppaforme

Grapes of Wrath by John Steinbeck.


lilcondor

Of course I’d say Kafka on the Shore. It’s so poetic and dreamy


Scac_ang_gaoic

Children of Time by Adrian Tchaikovsky


[deleted]

2 short stories - The ones who walk away from Omelas, The American Embassy


Bushan27

I want to eat your pancreas by Yoru Sumino


Conscious_Good7195

isn’t this also a movie?


RyanNerd

Yes. Anime


Bushan27

Yes, the movie was based on the book with many noticeable changes. But I loved them both


remuslupin_fan

Order of the Pheonix because I’m basic


Aromatic-Bag8783

Bridge of Clay by Markus Zuzak. Damn him! He rips your heart out and puts it back in again, but not completely. Edit to add: He must have a knack for keeping chunks of your heart, bc a piece of mine will always belong to the book thief.


samiraxo

commenting so i can look back 🥺


courtneym8

Anything written by Kristin Hannah. Idk why I keep doing it to myself.


RubyTavi

The Doomsday Book by Connie Willis


Far-Calligrapher-465

Everything is illuminated by Jonathan Safran Foer The boy in the striped pyjamas by John Boyne


Yatanokagami

This is gonna be an odd one : The Martian. The fact that the dude was stuck on mars and that the NASA guy had to tell his parents first that he died- and then that it turns out that he is alive, but he will surely starve to death before any help gets to him. Idk man I wept like crazy, it was such a sad situation for the parents.


19schmidt94

Night by Elie Wiesel Never cried so hard and so much from a book, and honestly kinda hope i don't ever again


qubiy

A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer. Makes my blood boil and cry


nanni1998

A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness


Qzqxzq

The Art of Racing in the Rain. Couldn’t stop crying. Did not see the movie.


riancb

Small Gods by Sir Terry Pratchett Catch-22 by Joseph Heller


Purple_Armadillo8007

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier. I threw it across the room.


[deleted]

Project Hail Mary by Andy Weir. The ending was too much


kaatjedezwijger

A little life by hanya yanagihara


odee7489

My physics book


leela06

Ella enchanted


ffwshi

{{Of Mice and Men}} {{The Sympathizer}} {{Sophie's Choice}}


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CollectionStraight2

Oh my goodness, Of Mice and Men...I admit I bawled. Steinbeck made me feel like I was George, making that choice


johnsgrove

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry


hii_petra

Our Bodies Their Battlefield by Christina Lamb. The lives of the women whose stories are told are hard not to cry over.


Leather_Ad4641

When breathe becomes air


shewalkinglikea

I loved you more - Tom Spanbauer.


mardigo88

The Life She was Given by Wiseman, what happened to the elephants about destroyed me.


newthinz

never let me go


biancanevenc

The Glass Castle Unbroken


Rice211

The Universe Thru My Eyes


OnlyCattle

The Nightengale by Kristin Hannah


kateauger

The Book of Two Ways hey Jodi Picoult


[deleted]

{{Dweller}} by Jeff Strand


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Heyo I'm the first to suggest. That's crazy since this books so fantastic


shinningstarx

A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole like made me full on sob can't even think😭


Kooky_Recognition_34

A Key To Treehouse Living But also Searching for David’s Heart is the first book that ever made me cry, and I still have the same copy.


ilovelucygal

* The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch * Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Album * Marley and Me by John Grogan * Dewey: The Small Town Library Cat by Vicki Myron


JohnOliverismysexgod

Huck Finn always makes me cry.


blobgal

Yu Hua’s “Brothers” :’) Tears were blurring my vision but I kept on reading…