Books That Made Us Cry

Porua: Not a favorite book but Liesel and her relationship with her 'Papa' made me cry, even though back then my father was still with us. I know I would never return to it.

navelos: I remember hiding behind my bedroom door reading this so I could read and weep in peace.

slimikin: At 14: me, reading in the living room completely unprepared for the ending, unable to lower the book from my face because I didn't want my dad to see me crying because of a BOOK (he saw anyway, was v. sympathetic)

Russell_F: Hazel's passing away. The Black Rabbit calls.

searavens: I called out loud, "Don't let Bighead be dead!"

amanda4242: I cried so hard at the end that I went through most of a box of tissues.

CarltonC: I only read this recently, but the second half of The Candle in the Wind had me blubbering. By some literary magic, White changes something quite mannered into an epic tragedy.

Katealayne: It is such a long story that I became engrossed and by the end, exhausted and sad. I read the last few chapters sitting under an oak tree outside an Elizabethan moated house. I don’t know if I was saddened more by the death of Arthur or the end of the book.

themulhern: It is poor Gareth who makes me cry. It is a very moving book.

musicmanfh: I have always been drawn to the Authuriad material. I read this first in the early 1967 or 68, while working in the Education Library at SDSU. I remember laughing out loud at the Questing Beast section (indeed named my old pickup truck the Questing Beast), but the final line of the book "...with the cannons of his adversary thundering in the tattered morning, the Majesty of England drew himself up to meet the future with a peaceful heart" always gets me

hipdeep: "I could never really play the thing..."

themulhern: When Estraven gets shot at the end. Such a hero.

sturlington: I lived with this book for so long. I not only cried at the turn of events but also because it was nearly over and I was going to miss it.

Hartsellang: I read this as a teenager when i had ponies of my own and so it touched me. I can't say if it would have the same affect on me nowadays.

hipdeep: "I wouldn't show weak eyes to your father for the world."

reconditereader: Possibly the best of the Discworld series; has surprisingly dark moments and a moving ending.

saskia17: Walter is my favorite of Anne's children. This and the piper at the end of Rainbow Valley never fail to make me cry.

igorken: I wept all the way through, for reasons related to the plot as well as reasons related to the author's illness, also evident in his writing.

cpg: "I die his Majesty's good servant but God's first."

paradoxosalpha: Not all the stories are tear-jerkers, but a few are--especially "In Joy, Knowing the Abyss Behind."

slimikin: At 37: suppose I should be grateful that certain characters feel so real that their loss leaves me sobbing...but I'm not. And I still haven't picked up the next in the series.

saskia17: Placeholder for many, many Amy Lane books that have made me cry.

slimikin: At 9: crushed that there were no more new adventures to read, even more crushed that I couldn't get to Narnia via my parents' walk-in closet

SpreeMetVoeten: Beautifully written, but it is not so much the relationship between the protagonists that got me, but theirs with their dog... So loving.

Selliers: The part where Tess writes to Angel to tell him how heartlessly he had acted towards her. Hardy portrayed Alec as the obvious hypocritical cad, but it's really Angel who breaks Tess.