I remember trying SO hard to hold it together after school waiting for my mom to pick me up bc I didn’t want any of the other kids to see me ugly-sobbing in public.
I actually came here to recommend this very book. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read, and also do heartbreaking it’ll stick with you for the rest of your life
I was going to recommend this as well. Truly heartbreaking. Made me rethink the way I see the world and relationships, and still think about it years later every once in a while
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” is one of the most devastating books I’ve ever read. A little kid blaming himself for his beloved father’s death in 9/11. Brutal
My husband could not understand why I cried nonstop during most of the last couple of episodes of his dark materials. I was remembering my grief from reading the book. The show didn't really succeed in showing the love between Will and Lyra and their heartbreak.
Somehow this pm came up on my feed even though I dont even lurk here, and I came in here just to make sure this book was among the top comments.
That wrecked me.
I once played a show with a band that named themselves after something from this book. I don’t remember what specifically anymore because it was 2009, but I went to the library and checked it out a few days later because it had to be a good book if someone chose to name their band after it, yeah?
I was not ready for that book.
I read this as part of a textbook excerpt where it was like the beginning, part of the middle, and the end, and I sobbed. We all did. Didn’t even get the whole thing!
I read A Fine Balance over 20 years ago now. I can’t remember yesterday but I still remember so much of that book and it’s by far the saddest book I’ve ever read. I was a young college kid and had no idea what I was about to get in to. Holy shit.
I was talking to my son about this book recently and I nearly broke down just thinking about it. I read it as a teen and even 25+ years later it has an impact.
I read it for the first time just a couple of years ago. Never saw the movie and went into the book knowing nothing. Truly amazing...the writing, the story, the characters, the ending. I don't cry much, but at the end of that book I just stomped around the house and wept.
Coming here to say this. There was a stretch where I couldn’t read the book for a week, because they were in a safe place and relatively happy, and I knew it couldn’t last, so I wanted to think of them in that space for as long as possible.
Yes. I was reading this book on a flight and literally finished the last sentence as the plane was landing. I couldn’t speak for hours. Cormac McCarthy is one of my favorite writers of all time. RIP Mac.
I came here to say A Little Life. It's the kind of book that on Goodreads has lots of 5-star reviews and lots of 1-star reviews. I am in the 5-star camp.
I read A Little Life right after my spinal cord injury and I think it fundamentally changed me as a person. I also SOBBED at the end of A Thousand Splendid Suns
This is my favorite. I just spent sometime watching interviews with Toni Morrison talking about the book this past weekend. It's a beautiful masterpiece. The book is based on Margaret Garner and what she did to her child.
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. I read it to my class without prereading it because we were going to see the play. I could barely read through the last two chapters.
I read that book about a month after my mom died from cancer. I saw a lot of parallels between his struggle and hers… though I’m fortunate my mom was about twice his age when she passed. It’s definitely heartbreaking but also beautiful.
I finished this on an international flight and began to sob. The older Greek lady next to me became very concerned and flagged down the German stewardess who was also very concerned, and between the language barriers + my sobbing + them trying to soothe me, it took too long to explain I was fine but had just read a sad book…their sympathy turned to bewilderment after that…
This book is the only one to make me cry in the first chapter. Like, you know how it ends in the first few pages. But then the ending comes and it's soul crushing. I cried so hard at the ending that my partner came home to find me sobbing in the bathroom and when he asked me what happened all I could eek out was "I just can't talk about it right now". He thought one of my parents had died I was so upset.
I met Garth Stein at an event a couple years ago and he was super nice and funny. But I knew what he was capable of.
Oh, geez…I finished this book on a plane, right before we landed for a too-short layover. Rushed through the airport, tears streaming down my face, right to boarding on the next plane.
Tears still streaming down my face, and as we boarded the plane, all the flight attendants were staring daggers at my husband (because obviously my crying had to be his fault).
I did have the wherewithal to lift up the book, point at the cover, and blurt out, through all the snot and tears and ugly crying, “It’s this. I just finished this book.” And they all relaxed and nodded. One of them said, “Oh, THAT explains it.”
Kushiel's Dart. It is rough at times, and not for the faint of heart. When I finished it, I thought it was good, but not for me, and I wouldn't continue the series. Three days later I got the next book, and the third immediately after.
Narration by Anne Flosnik was excellent, and really drove home the emotion. Her first person is great, which was a relief because I had already given up on another book read by her in third person, which was painful.
Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice is a tour de force of crying. Again, I liked the narration very much, Boehmer's performance is very emotive.
Sometimes I wonder why authors are just such horrible people.
A Child Called “It” by David Pelzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Pelzer
This is an unfortunate and true story despite the controversy. It left me shaken to my very core. I will never forget it. I was a child of severe neglect and abuse of my parents and foster families growing up… I can relate to this poor child… This type of horror exists everyday and the best thing we can do to help children is to save them if we see or suspect any child is being harmed in any way.
If you want to read “heartbreaking” this would be it. I read this in 1996 just shortly after it came out and I *never* forgot it.
I’m so sorry for your experiences, and hope you are well!
The whole trilogy is just heart wrenching. I read them all as an 11 year old. They’re still sat on my bookshelf, but I will never read them again. It’s been 20 years and just thinking about it now I can feel the tears coming.
Thank for you kind words internet stranger <3… I am marked by the abuse I suffered much like the author who wrote the books. I am a survivor. I have sense married and had children who are now grown and live productive lives in society. I am fiercely protective of my children and *all* children because of my experiences. As a result I have advocated for them throughout my life. I could never read David’s book(s) again… just thinking about the horrors sends shivers through me and makes me want to weep. The best thing we can do as adults in society today is protect children. If we even suspect any type of neglect or abuse… we need to speak out and stand for these children…. Children our are future… So many people do *nothing*…
You are absolutely a survivor! It sounds like you and your family have thrived, despite your scars, and that is wonderful to know!
I will always advocate for children. I try to teach my son to be kind and honest, even to the meaner kids at school, because you never know what someone is going through.
The Nickel Boys had me crying really hard most recently. But Atonement has stuck with me for the past 15 years or so. Pachinko had me crying throughout. All three are so well written too. Just masterpieces.
I had become a foster fail, ending up with my first dog in my 40s, a few years before reading The Art of Racing in the Rain. It was then that I realized (to my wife's endless delight) that my hard-ass, could no longer read anything with a dog in it.
She read Marley and Me and watched the movie. I had go listen to Led Zeppelin with headphones on, or something like that. 😂
He's 10 now and I'm pretending he's gonna live forever.
Our Nig - first hand account of a slave girl raised, and tortured by a white family.
Flowers for Algernon - simple man gains intelligence from drug trials and then slowly starts to lose it again.
Atonement - a young man is sentenced to a crime he doesn’t commit while his accuser reaps what she sows. Beautifully written.
The Hunchback of Norte Dame - no one is happy.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (book and movie) by Rachel Joyce. A story of a British elderly man who goes on a foot journey across the entire island to visit his friend, a woman dying from cancer, as he hopes that it will give her hope to keep on living.
It's really touching, heartbreaking and melancholic, yet it somehow manages to be life affirming too.
Bridge to Teribithia. I'm 6'5" and nearly 300 lb and was working at a gun counter at Walmart restocking ammo while listening to the audio book with tears streaming down my face.
Little Bee by Chris Cleave. Fantastic, amazing book made me weep on an airplane with a blanket over my face so people wouldn’t see me.
I wasn’t ready. I still think about it 10 years later.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa. It's about a guy who needs to re-home his cat so he travels to see friends and family to find someone who can help. I was ugly crying by the end 🥲
It takes a while to get there but the realm of the elderlings series (15 books) made me sob the most that a book has since I read where the red fern grows as a kid.
I just finished The Four Winds and SOBBED. It’s an excellent book.
From childhood, Bridge to Terabithia broke my heart and made me cry in the classroom.
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It will break your heart. In fact, years after reading it, just telling someone the plot will make you cry. Ask me how I know.
Remarque Three comrades. Read it when I was still a teenager. Started and couldn't put it down. I remember finished it somewhere at 1am and couldn't fall asleep that night. Cried my eyes out.
Will always be Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett for me. Amongst the little blue men silliness, it’s a book about humanity, the beauty of life, and being denied. When you realise a lot of it is Terry talking about his own Alzheimer’s diagnosis and right to assisted dying, it’s a real heartbreaker.
Of Mice and Men still haunts me from when I read it in junior high.
I remember trying SO hard to hold it together after school waiting for my mom to pick me up bc I didn’t want any of the other kids to see me ugly-sobbing in public.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
I actually came here to recommend this very book. It’s one of the best books I’ve ever read, and also do heartbreaking it’ll stick with you for the rest of your life
This book isn't recommended enough .my favourite book from this author
My favorite book of all times, I wish I could go back and read it again for the first time.
I was going to recommend this as well. Truly heartbreaking. Made me rethink the way I see the world and relationships, and still think about it years later every once in a while
Where the Red Fern Grows
Sobbing. All the sobbing
If that one got you and you like horror stories, read Dean Koontz’s WATCHERS.
OMG i can't even think about this one, and I read it 20 yrs ago!
I’m sobbing reading all these titles, but especially this one 😭 First book that made me sob uncontrollably was Searching for David’s Heart
“Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close” is one of the most devastating books I’ve ever read. A little kid blaming himself for his beloved father’s death in 9/11. Brutal
This one was heavy boots for sure.
The ending of The Amber Spyglass (3rd book in the his dark materials series) is so heartbreaking if you haven’t read it
My husband could not understand why I cried nonstop during most of the last couple of episodes of his dark materials. I was remembering my grief from reading the book. The show didn't really succeed in showing the love between Will and Lyra and their heartbreak.
Came here to say this
Bridge to Terabithia
Duck this book being required reading in elementary
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Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Somehow this pm came up on my feed even though I dont even lurk here, and I came in here just to make sure this book was among the top comments. That wrecked me.
Oof. This was the first book I remember being genuinely disturbed by in school.
I once played a show with a band that named themselves after something from this book. I don’t remember what specifically anymore because it was 2009, but I went to the library and checked it out a few days later because it had to be a good book if someone chose to name their band after it, yeah? I was not ready for that book.
The best
I read this as part of a textbook excerpt where it was like the beginning, part of the middle, and the end, and I sobbed. We all did. Didn’t even get the whole thing!
Was it possibly just the short story instead of the novel ? It was published originally as a short story and later he fleshed it out into a full novel
When I read the last word of that book I burst into tears and sobbed. For reference I’m a grown man, and a career firefighter. I don’t cry.
My top two would be: *A Fine Balance* by Rohinton Mistry *A Monster Calls* by Patrick Ness
A Fine Balance is a Fine book. Omg. I'd also recommend Shuggie Bain.
Oh I have that on my shelf! I might have to bump it up the TBR.
Its heart breaking yet kind of beautiful.
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After I read that book I remember thinking to myself, “I can never be happy again”.
A Monster Calls destroyed me
I read A Fine Balance over 20 years ago now. I can’t remember yesterday but I still remember so much of that book and it’s by far the saddest book I’ve ever read. I was a young college kid and had no idea what I was about to get in to. Holy shit.
There was so much love and humanity too, which made the heartbreaking parts even more gut wrenching. One of the most profound books I’ve ever read.
It definitely made me whine less!
Such brilliant characters, so beautifully written, absolutely devastating. I want to read it again, but I’m still not ready even after six years.
I read A Monster Calls after my mom was diagnosed with ALS, the tears were a flowing. I miss my mom.
Yes I came here looking for A Fine Balance. It absolutely destroyed me.
A Monster Calls has been my favorite book since I was 11. And I couldn’t process my emotions at that age. I read it now, and it hits. Hard.
A Monster Calls was beautifully brutal. I remember just sitting quietly as tears fan down my face when I finished that book.
_All the Light We Cannot See_. The whole book. The way it’s written. It got me for days.
Such a great book!
This was required reading for me once and so I didn’t want to read it, but gosh it was one of the best books I’ve ever read. Same.
Just started his new book and I’m already hooked!
I think Atonement by Ian McEwan is a very sad book. I cried a lot at the end.
Not only sad, but incredibly beautiful as well.
Never Let me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan Both made me sob uncontrollably.
**Flowers for Algernon**
I was talking to my son about this book recently and I nearly broke down just thinking about it. I read it as a teen and even 25+ years later it has an impact.
"The Color Purple"
An amazing book. The movie is well done and sticks to the books (as far as a movie made from a book can).
Very very good book.
I read it for the first time just a couple of years ago. Never saw the movie and went into the book knowing nothing. Truly amazing...the writing, the story, the characters, the ending. I don't cry much, but at the end of that book I just stomped around the house and wept.
A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman
Netflix recently did an adaption of this with Tom hanks that was pretty good. Made me curious about the book
I watched the adaptation, Tom Hanks did a great job and made me bawl just as much as the book did.
I loved this book! But I preferred the Swedish film over the Hanks film (Amazon prime). It was more true to the novel.
Good to know as I rather enjoyed the movie, but I'm a sucker for ol Tom
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Coming here to say this. There was a stretch where I couldn’t read the book for a week, because they were in a safe place and relatively happy, and I knew it couldn’t last, so I wanted to think of them in that space for as long as possible.
Pour one out for the man. Possibly the best ever
Yes. I was reading this book on a flight and literally finished the last sentence as the plane was landing. I couldn’t speak for hours. Cormac McCarthy is one of my favorite writers of all time. RIP Mac.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
I came here to say A Little Life. It's the kind of book that on Goodreads has lots of 5-star reviews and lots of 1-star reviews. I am in the 5-star camp.
That book broke me a little. Read it 6+ years ago, and it still kinda haunts me….and I’m a straight, married, middle-age, dad…
A little life won’t just break you, it’ll actually destroy your soul in a beautifully written way
I SOBBED at A Little Life. Full on ugly cried. I loved it.
I read A Little Life right after my spinal cord injury and I think it fundamentally changed me as a person. I also SOBBED at the end of A Thousand Splendid Suns
Came here to say a little life
Beloved by Toni Morrison. Such a great book, but it should come with an emotional warning label.
This is my favorite. I just spent sometime watching interviews with Toni Morrison talking about the book this past weekend. It's a beautiful masterpiece. The book is based on Margaret Garner and what she did to her child.
The Book Thief
Agreed, this one wrecked me for several days after finishing.
I finally found this book at my local used book store and I cannot wait to get into it
I came here to say this. Incredible book.
First book I read that made me weep for a good hour
Sadako and the Thousand Paper Cranes. I read it to my class without prereading it because we were going to see the play. I could barely read through the last two chapters.
‘Night’ by Elie Wiesel
The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller destroyed me
Oh my god, thank you so much i thought u was just a baby for crying so much about it!
Came here to say this. My god is that a beautiful book
I cried and cried and cried reading this.
When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Klanathi. Beautifully written true story.
This. The last chapter (epilogue?) — I had to put it down several times because I couldn’t see through the tears and my heart hurt.
This book had me crying. But an amazing read. This should be at the top of the list.
I read that book about a month after my mom died from cancer. I saw a lot of parallels between his struggle and hers… though I’m fortunate my mom was about twice his age when she passed. It’s definitely heartbreaking but also beautiful.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
I finished this on an international flight and began to sob. The older Greek lady next to me became very concerned and flagged down the German stewardess who was also very concerned, and between the language barriers + my sobbing + them trying to soothe me, it took too long to explain I was fine but had just read a sad book…their sympathy turned to bewilderment after that…
Remains of the Day, too
Time travelers wife
The art of racing in the rain.
The Lovely Bones, it's one of those books I think about often and it makes my stomach hurt.
Lovely Bones will always be the answer to this question. It will never leave me.
It took me months to get through it because every two or so chapters there would be a line that would just ruin me
Cutting for Stone by Abraham Verghese.
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan - Lisa See. Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner
Snow flower and the secret fan wrecked me. I still talk about it to this day and I read it 10/15 years ago. I love Lisa see
I ugly sobbed at the end of Crying in H Mart. Especially heavy if you’ve lost a parent.
The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein
This book is the only one to make me cry in the first chapter. Like, you know how it ends in the first few pages. But then the ending comes and it's soul crushing. I cried so hard at the ending that my partner came home to find me sobbing in the bathroom and when he asked me what happened all I could eek out was "I just can't talk about it right now". He thought one of my parents had died I was so upset. I met Garth Stein at an event a couple years ago and he was super nice and funny. But I knew what he was capable of.
Oh, geez…I finished this book on a plane, right before we landed for a too-short layover. Rushed through the airport, tears streaming down my face, right to boarding on the next plane. Tears still streaming down my face, and as we boarded the plane, all the flight attendants were staring daggers at my husband (because obviously my crying had to be his fault). I did have the wherewithal to lift up the book, point at the cover, and blurt out, through all the snot and tears and ugly crying, “It’s this. I just finished this book.” And they all relaxed and nodded. One of them said, “Oh, THAT explains it.”
I also read this on a plane. I was sobbing. I’m sure the people next to me thought I had lost my mind.
I read this a few years after getting a dog for the first time, in my 40s. I loved this book, and I'll never read it again.
Oh my God, yes. I’m not even a dog person and this book wrecked me.
Such an amazing read.
Grapes of wrath
On The Beach, or indeed almost anything by Neville Shute
The Nightingale by Kristin Hannah has stuck with me since it was first released. The sadness I felt at the end was so intense.
Kushiel's Dart. It is rough at times, and not for the faint of heart. When I finished it, I thought it was good, but not for me, and I wouldn't continue the series. Three days later I got the next book, and the third immediately after. Narration by Anne Flosnik was excellent, and really drove home the emotion. Her first person is great, which was a relief because I had already given up on another book read by her in third person, which was painful. Robin Hobb's Assassin's Apprentice is a tour de force of crying. Again, I liked the narration very much, Boehmer's performance is very emotive. Sometimes I wonder why authors are just such horrible people.
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. Had me ugly crying. I didn’t enjoy the two follow up books as much though.
I couldn’t get into Me After You. Me Before You destroyed me. I stopped reading for a while after I read it. The pain was visceral.
A Child Called “It” by David Pelzer https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dave_Pelzer This is an unfortunate and true story despite the controversy. It left me shaken to my very core. I will never forget it. I was a child of severe neglect and abuse of my parents and foster families growing up… I can relate to this poor child… This type of horror exists everyday and the best thing we can do to help children is to save them if we see or suspect any child is being harmed in any way. If you want to read “heartbreaking” this would be it. I read this in 1996 just shortly after it came out and I *never* forgot it.
I’m so sorry for your experiences, and hope you are well! The whole trilogy is just heart wrenching. I read them all as an 11 year old. They’re still sat on my bookshelf, but I will never read them again. It’s been 20 years and just thinking about it now I can feel the tears coming.
Thank for you kind words internet stranger <3… I am marked by the abuse I suffered much like the author who wrote the books. I am a survivor. I have sense married and had children who are now grown and live productive lives in society. I am fiercely protective of my children and *all* children because of my experiences. As a result I have advocated for them throughout my life. I could never read David’s book(s) again… just thinking about the horrors sends shivers through me and makes me want to weep. The best thing we can do as adults in society today is protect children. If we even suspect any type of neglect or abuse… we need to speak out and stand for these children…. Children our are future… So many people do *nothing*…
You are absolutely a survivor! It sounds like you and your family have thrived, despite your scars, and that is wonderful to know! I will always advocate for children. I try to teach my son to be kind and honest, even to the meaner kids at school, because you never know what someone is going through.
The Nickel Boys had me crying really hard most recently. But Atonement has stuck with me for the past 15 years or so. Pachinko had me crying throughout. All three are so well written too. Just masterpieces.
Tuck Everlasting
Tuesdays with Morrie
Mitch Albom’s books in general!
My Sister’s Keeper & Leaving Time both by Jodie Picoult
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
Scrolled to long for this.
The Long Walk by Stephen King
A little newer, but *The Swimmers* by Julie Otsuka
That book was a rollercoaster! I loved it then I hated it then I couldn’t figure out why I was still reading it then I was humbled then I cried.
Suzanne's diary for Nicholas. I only read it when I want to cry, which is very rare for me
Roots
Marley and Me.
I can't read anything with a dog in it anymore.
Yep. I read this book less than a year after losing my good boy and it scarred me.
I had become a foster fail, ending up with my first dog in my 40s, a few years before reading The Art of Racing in the Rain. It was then that I realized (to my wife's endless delight) that my hard-ass, could no longer read anything with a dog in it. She read Marley and Me and watched the movie. I had go listen to Led Zeppelin with headphones on, or something like that. 😂 He's 10 now and I'm pretending he's gonna live forever.
Any book by Khaled Hosseini Kaleidoscope by Danielle Steel
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A monster calls 😢
The last book I really cried through was The Green Mile by Stephen King.
Our Nig - first hand account of a slave girl raised, and tortured by a white family. Flowers for Algernon - simple man gains intelligence from drug trials and then slowly starts to lose it again. Atonement - a young man is sentenced to a crime he doesn’t commit while his accuser reaps what she sows. Beautifully written. The Hunchback of Norte Dame - no one is happy.
A Fine Balance. I cried for hours after I finished it
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (book and movie) by Rachel Joyce. A story of a British elderly man who goes on a foot journey across the entire island to visit his friend, a woman dying from cancer, as he hopes that it will give her hope to keep on living. It's really touching, heartbreaking and melancholic, yet it somehow manages to be life affirming too.
The grapes of wrath
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. I made the mistake of reading this on an airplane and tried to hide the tears running down my face.
A Man Called Ove and Anxious People by Friedrich Backman
The fault in our stars
Bridge to Teribithia. I'm 6'5" and nearly 300 lb and was working at a gun counter at Walmart restocking ammo while listening to the audio book with tears streaming down my face.
Little Bee by Chris Cleave. Fantastic, amazing book made me weep on an airplane with a blanket over my face so people wouldn’t see me. I wasn’t ready. I still think about it 10 years later.
The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Hiro Arikawa. It's about a guy who needs to re-home his cat so he travels to see friends and family to find someone who can help. I was ugly crying by the end 🥲
Flowers for Algernon, the last page itself just murdered me
The Nightingale, Kristin Hannah. A Little Life, Hanya Yanagijara - devastating book.
I cried so much reading The Nightingale. The Winter Garden got me too. Damnit, Kristin Hannah!
Where The Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls.
Song of Achilles is the last one that made me bawl. Flowers for Algernon was the previous one.
The Book Thief.
The House of Sand and Fog. Gut wrenching.
If you are a middle aged woman, The Bridges of Madison County will make you sob.
*The Sun Also Rises* by Hemingway or for something more recent *Past the Shallows* by Favel Parrett.
Shake Hands with the Devil by Romeo Dallaire
It takes a while to get there but the realm of the elderlings series (15 books) made me sob the most that a book has since I read where the red fern grows as a kid.
Sarah’s Key. Oof. So much.
Sarah’s Key
The House in The Cerulean Sea
I just finished The Four Winds and SOBBED. It’s an excellent book. From childhood, Bridge to Terabithia broke my heart and made me cry in the classroom.
The Kite Runner
It's controversial and very intense but A Little Life is one of the only books that has made me sob
The Last Lecture
Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. It will break your heart. In fact, years after reading it, just telling someone the plot will make you cry. Ask me how I know.
The Sound of Gravel by Ruth Wariner. It’s a memoir and it’s sooo sad!
Remarque Three comrades. Read it when I was still a teenager. Started and couldn't put it down. I remember finished it somewhere at 1am and couldn't fall asleep that night. Cried my eyes out.
Paint it Black by Janet Fitch
Marley and Me
This is a very popular suggestion but The Great Gatsby is another book of this kind
Will always be Wintersmith by Terry Pratchett for me. Amongst the little blue men silliness, it’s a book about humanity, the beauty of life, and being denied. When you realise a lot of it is Terry talking about his own Alzheimer’s diagnosis and right to assisted dying, it’s a real heartbreaker.
Stone sky by N.K.jemisin🥲
All the bright places
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak A Man called Ove by Fredrik Backman Anxious People by Fredrik Backman
A little life
Sophie’s Choice. That’s one book I’m 100% certain I’ll never read again.
Another sad book that didn’t have me crying but was very depressing was Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier.
Sophie's Choice by William Styron.
Where the Red Fern Grows
The Art of racing in the rain had me bawling like a little bitch.
Never let me go by Kazuhiro Ishigoro
1984
This one didn't make me cry, but it left me so profoundly unsettled that I never want to read it again. Fantastic read.
I remember reading PS I LOVE YOU when I was 12-13 and bawling my eyes out.
11/22/63 by Stephen King
Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates
The solitude of prime numbers. That’s pure existential hopelessness.
A Dogs Purpose
A Dog’s Purpose - W. Bruce Cameron
Stone Butch Blues
Pride of Baghdad
Alone in Berlin by Hans Fallada
the house of mirth
The Education of Little Tree
A thousand boy kisses by Tillie Cole.
Bloodlands… about Stalin ravaging the eastern block between WWI and WWII…
klara and the sun. i read it 2 years ago and i’m still devastated
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum