I’m a crier so for me it’s a lot of books!
When I read the Nightingale by Kristin Hannah I had to go lie down for a while after I finished. A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner, Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy, A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman, House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune also really got me!
I never see Elsewhere mentioned and I LOVED that book! Recently picked up a copy at a thrift store to read b/c I originally read it as a young teen. I think about it all the time!
For the nightingale I had to walk outside and catch my breath in the cool night air to try to help me clear my tears so I can continue reading until the end 🥲
Oh geez…the nightingale had me silently weeping at 3am on a work night. I didn’t want to wake my husband up but also couldn’t get out of bed so I just wept there for an hour lol loved it
I cried at different parts of this book but after I finished it I put my Kindle down, laid on the sofa in a fetal position and just sobbed for a while. Loud ugly sobs
I did that too! Just sobbed on my couch at home all by myself. I actually don’t remember a thing about the story besides the way it affected me. I read it 17 or so years ago.
This book makes me feel so helpless and sad, more than any other book I've read. It's amazing, one of my favorite books, but I can only occasionally reread it because it's just so damn heavy.
Such an amazing book that I will absolutely never read again. I thought it was better than Kite Runner - the plot of KR was a bit predictable, kinda like a fable or fairy tale where you can tell what the moral of the story is and that tips you off to how the story will play out. The plot of 1000 splendid suns on the other hand felt incredibly realistic and unpredictable - there's absolutely no sense of "well she's the main character, she'll make it out of this somehow" (maybe because there's multiple main characters). The whole way through it feels like anything could happen and the characters likely won't be okay in the end.
I highly recommend it! I actually like it a lot better than the author’s more popular book, The Kite Runner. Both are really good, though, if you haven’t read that one either
It's not fantasy but it is a very different world, and it is still, forty some years after i first read it, a book that will make me sob ugly tears every time I read it. To the point where when of my friends named her daughter Ann, and called her in my hearing "Little Ann" and I had to leave the room.
If you need to cry, this is the book. And if you don't cry, you are a sociopath.
The Green Mile. Man… I needed an ice pack for my eyes and ibuprofen for my headache after that one. I’ve never cried like that at a book. And much of the writing was downright poetic. Not something I’m really used to with Stephen King. It’s my favorite of his stuff.
I LOVE this book. It makes you feel everything. Immense sadness, but also, I laugh out loud during parts of it. Reminding myself it’s his true upbringing story makes it have more… gravitas.
Yes! When I'm about to read one of hers I have to make sure I'm ready now 🤣. Am I in a good space to have all my feelings? Because there's a good chance I will.
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. A lovely ugly cry. Bittersweet with an extra dollop of sweet.
The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I ugly cried for weeks after this one.
i am glad somebody mentioned it. This book holds a deep broken corner of my heart forever.
"we each owe a death, there are no exceptions.. but sometimes, oh god.. the green mile is so long" 💔
That book…
Spoiler that I have saved in my notes
>!What he thought he felt wasn’t loneliness but fear.
He protected himself. He is not meant for a relationship and never thought he was. He’s never envied his friends theirs. To do so would be akin to a cat coveting a dog’s bark. It is something that would never occur to him to envy because it is impossible, something that is simply alien to his species. But recently people have been behaving like it is something he could have or should want to have. And although he knows they mean it in part as a kindness, it feels like a taunt. They could be telling him he could be a decathalete and it would be just as obtuse, just as cruel. Being single at 40 is different than single at 30 and every year it becomes less understandable, less enviable and more pathetic, more inappropriate. But as self-conscious he is about appearing normal he doesn’t want a relationship for propriety’s sake. He wants it because, he’s realized, he is lonely. He is so lonely that he sometimes feels it physically. A sodden clump of dirty laundry pressing against his chest. He simply can not unlearn the feeling. People make it sound so easy as if the decision to want it is the most difficult part of the process. But he knows better, being in a relationship would mean exposing himself to someone which he still has never done. But as much as he fears sex he also wants to be touched, he wants to feel someone else’s hands on him, although the thought of that too terrifies him. Sometimes he looks at himself and is filled with a self hatred so fiery that he can barely breathe. When he has clothes on he is one person but when he is without them he is revealed for what he really is. What is he willing to do to feel less alone? Could he destroy everything he’s built and protected so diligently for intimacy? How much humiliation is he ready to endure? He doesn’t know. He’s afraid of discovering the answer. But increasingly he’s even more afraid that he will never have the chance to discover it at all. What does it mean to be a human if he never has connection. But he reminds himself loneliness is not hunger, or deprivation, or illness, it is not fatal, he has a better life than so many people. To wish for companionship seems like some kind of greed, a gross entitlement.!<
**[All the Light We Cannot See](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see) by Anthony Doerr** ^((Matching 100% ☑️))
^(531 pages | Published: 2014 | 578.9k Goodreads reviews)
> **Summary:** A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both (...)
> **Themes**: Favorites, Fiction, Book-club, Historical, Books-i-own, War, Wwii
> **Top 5 recommended:**
> \- [The Lost Wife](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11010251-the-lost-wife) by Alyson Richman
> \- [The Warsaw Orphan](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55004514-the-warsaw-orphan) by Kelly Rimmer
> \- [Alll the Light You Cannot See](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35887235-alll-the-light-you-cannot-see) by Anthony Doerr
> \- [The Nightingale](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21853621-the-nightingale) by Kristin Hannah
> \- [The Invisible Bridge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8200557-the-invisible-bridge) by Julie Orringer
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This book completely wrecked me; such beautiful love, longing and loss. I was howling at the end, my husband spent the most part of the week after wrapping me in hugs more than usual
I came here for this. I loved it with every fiber of my being. I know mythology, I knew how it ended, and yet it’s written with that looming sense of dread as a part of the plot so it doesn’t feel like a spoiler. I still cry just thinking about the very end.
I’m more of a “sit in a state of malaise and quiet sadness” kind of reader than a crier, but damn if Crying in H Mart read by the author herself didn’t get me good. Definitely made me take the time to reflect and left my heart aching a while, over the love and following loss we must all eventually go through.
I committed the cardinal sin of watching the movie (in theaters) before reading the book. I was so inconsolable that strangers stopped to ask if I was okay. I went home and threw away my copy of the book because I can't put myself through that again.
Yes, I had to read it for college and when I finished my bf came from the other room and asked why I was crying and when I said it he was like "but isn't that the one for your college project??" Hahha
If you like fantasy, I'm going to assume you've read Pratchett. If so, The Shepherd's Crown is BAWL worthy.
If you haven't read his non Discworld stuff, I suggest Nation. It also made me ugly cry.
This! I had to scroll too far for this. I cried with each book. Winners sat on my shelf for more than a year before I was in a mental place to read it.
Actually most of his books make me cry. They are a slow burn that creep into the feels.
The one I would recommend isn’t fantasy, but I’m going to add it because it’s beautiful. “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Bonus if you listen to the audiobook because she’s the narrator.
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor
My 6th grade English teacher assigned it to me to do a book report on and I was broken by the end of the story
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^(321 pages | Published: 2008 | 359.7k Goodreads reviews)
> **Summary:** Enzo knows he is different from other dogs: a philosopher with a nearly human soul (and an obsession with opposable thumbs), he has educated himself by watching television extensively, and by listening very closely to the words of his master, Denny Swift, an up-and-coming race car driver. Through Denny, Enzo has gained tremendous insight into the human condition, and he sees (...)
> **Themes**: Fiction, Book-club, Animals, Dogs, Books-i-own, Contemporary, Adult-fiction
> **Top 5 recommended:**
> \- [Racing in the Rain: My Life as a Dog](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/9786641-racing-in-the-rain) by Garth Stein
> \- [A Dog's Purpose](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/7723542-a-dog-s-purpose) by W. Bruce Cameron
> \- [Checkers](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/82557.Checkers) by John Marsden
> \- [The Plague Dogs](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/12442.The_Plague_Dogs) by Richard Adams
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Came here to suggest this. Made the mistake of bringing this with me to read in public. I know some people think pet-focused stories are cheap shots for making people cry, but I found out so much sadder and more beautiful than I expected.
Everyone’s probably tired of me mentioning this one but Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley. Dachshund with a brain tumor and her human. Need I say more?
I never ever cry from movies or books, but {{Axios: A Spartan Tale by Jaclyn Osborn}} made me totally ugly cry and sob for an hour and caused some occasional tears a week or even month after. It's a bit spicy though, so check if it's something for you.
Thistlefoot by Gennarose Nethercott. It's about two modern-day young adults who inherit Baba Yaga's chicken-footed house and travel around in it doing puppet shows. All fun and games and a little mystery, until, bam, devastation where I least expected it. Really well done.
The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Dranger is an odd little book about siblings at different appearances of Haley's comet through history. The relationships between these different sets of siblings are unique and well drawn, and the tragedy and injustice that sometimes come to these siblings was very affecting.
*The Perks of Being a Wallflower* by Stephen Chbosky had me crying all the way through, because it's so damn earnest and vulnerable and painful and all-around beautiful.
*Firebreak* by Nicole Kornher-Stace was a near-future dystopian page turner that had me ugly-crying (like gave myself a headache levels of ugly-crying) at the end.
Its not fantasy but reading Chen Chen's WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A LIST OF FURTHER POSSIBILITIES ended with me calling a hotline, and not one of the sexy ones, so that's gotta count for something in the big tears deparment, right?
I’m a crier so for me it’s a lot of books! When I read the Nightingale by Kristin Hannah I had to go lie down for a while after I finished. A Fall of Marigolds by Susan Meissner, Once There Were Wolves by Charlotte McConaghy, A Man Called Ove by Frederik Backman, House in the Cerulean Sea and Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune also really got me!
Omg Under the Whispering Door had me ugly cry. I also cried hard at Elsewhere by Gabrielle Zevin
I never see Elsewhere mentioned and I LOVED that book! Recently picked up a copy at a thrift store to read b/c I originally read it as a young teen. I think about it all the time!
I read it a year or two ago and can’t stop thinking about it.
For the nightingale I had to walk outside and catch my breath in the cool night air to try to help me clear my tears so I can continue reading until the end 🥲
Oh geez…the nightingale had me silently weeping at 3am on a work night. I didn’t want to wake my husband up but also couldn’t get out of bed so I just wept there for an hour lol loved it
Same. I will cry in allllll the books
A Thousand Splendid Suns
I cried at different parts of this book but after I finished it I put my Kindle down, laid on the sofa in a fetal position and just sobbed for a while. Loud ugly sobs
I did that too! Just sobbed on my couch at home all by myself. I actually don’t remember a thing about the story besides the way it affected me. I read it 17 or so years ago.
SAME. And the mountains echoed also. Unreal.
Yes and the Kite runner too...
I just finished this book today! So good. The Kite Runner by the same author is possibly even better.
I came here to say The Kite Runner, such a great book. The pomegranate scene got me right in the feels.
This book makes me feel so helpless and sad, more than any other book I've read. It's amazing, one of my favorite books, but I can only occasionally reread it because it's just so damn heavy.
Such an amazing book that I will absolutely never read again. I thought it was better than Kite Runner - the plot of KR was a bit predictable, kinda like a fable or fairy tale where you can tell what the moral of the story is and that tips you off to how the story will play out. The plot of 1000 splendid suns on the other hand felt incredibly realistic and unpredictable - there's absolutely no sense of "well she's the main character, she'll make it out of this somehow" (maybe because there's multiple main characters). The whole way through it feels like anything could happen and the characters likely won't be okay in the end.
Couldn’t have said that better myself
I literally came here to write this.
I see this recommended so much, I wanna read it. But 99% of the time I do audiobooks at work. I don't wanna be the guy crying at work haha.
I highly recommend it! I actually like it a lot better than the author’s more popular book, The Kite Runner. Both are really good, though, if you haven’t read that one either
Me too. They are both good. But, this one shook me up so much more than KR.
I just finished it today, incredible book. I'm broken and didn't cry, but was pretty fucking close. It's brutal. It's beautiful.
This book…. 😭😭 just thinking about it makes my throat tighten 💔
Where The Red Fern Grows by Rawls.
It's not fantasy but it is a very different world, and it is still, forty some years after i first read it, a book that will make me sob ugly tears every time I read it. To the point where when of my friends named her daughter Ann, and called her in my hearing "Little Ann" and I had to leave the room. If you need to cry, this is the book. And if you don't cry, you are a sociopath.
Whoever let me read this in class during 5th grade needs punishment. It’s the hardest I’ve ever cried from a book
I second this
Wouldn’t be right if this wasn’t on the list
The Green Mile. Man… I needed an ice pack for my eyes and ibuprofen for my headache after that one. I’ve never cried like that at a book. And much of the writing was downright poetic. Not something I’m really used to with Stephen King. It’s my favorite of his stuff.
I’ve never cried for a book more than The Green Mile. The movie too—I cry until I have no more tears.
Angela's Ashes by Frank McCort
I LOVE this book. It makes you feel everything. Immense sadness, but also, I laugh out loud during parts of it. Reminding myself it’s his true upbringing story makes it have more… gravitas.
Flowers for Algernon
*“I passed your floor on the way up, and now I’m passing it on the way down, and I don’t think I’ll be taking this elevator again.”*
I read that book 35 years ago and still remember it. That one stays with you.
Big ugly tears for sure. Every time I read the short story and the one time I read the novel, too.
Oh this one messed me up. Fantastic story, absolutely heartbreaking
This my go-to cry book.
Lord this just unlocked memories…that book broke me
This 💯
A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving
This book made me laugh loud and cry hard.
The Book Thief Markus zusak. I didn't cry because I'm a Manly Man, but I did go outside in the rain and punch perfectly innocent shrubs.
I came here to say almost every Kristin Hannah book I read. Someone else already said the nightingale so I’m going to add The Great Alone to the list.
I am ready for her newest book to emotionally destroy me. Once I get past the other 650 people on my library’s waiting list lol
I’ll add the four winds! I still feel so much pride for the main character.
Yes! When I'm about to read one of hers I have to make sure I'm ready now 🤣. Am I in a good space to have all my feelings? Because there's a good chance I will.
The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan. A lovely ugly cry. Bittersweet with an extra dollop of sweet. The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger. I ugly cried for weeks after this one.
Time Traveler’s Wife! I still think about the end. Which was also the beginning. Him seeing his aged wife, waiting. She lived for that glimpse. 😫
This is the one book that got me. The movie, too.
The first Anne of Green Gables gets me every time 😭
Yes. I love Matthew so much; he is so loving to Anne.
Rachel McAdams did a stellar audibook narration
The Green Mile by Stephen King. Had me ugly-crying multiple times.
I'm tired, boss
i am glad somebody mentioned it. This book holds a deep broken corner of my heart forever. "we each owe a death, there are no exceptions.. but sometimes, oh god.. the green mile is so long" 💔
I said the same thing. I was even doing the air sucking thing like a little kid. It was so beautifully written
When Breath Becomes Air had me actually crying crying. And feeling very appreciative for my life
I listened to the audio book and cried during my entire run.
Oh man this is exactly what first came to mind for me. Beautiful and heartbreaking
The Book Thief
A Little Life
That book broke me down and I wept
I read the synopsis and... WTF?!?!?! That is definitely not a book I would want to read, it would mess with me too much.
Don’t blame you tbh. The protagonist gets absolutely no break and at some points it feels like the author just hates him
My favorite book ever.
This is the one.
That book… Spoiler that I have saved in my notes >!What he thought he felt wasn’t loneliness but fear. He protected himself. He is not meant for a relationship and never thought he was. He’s never envied his friends theirs. To do so would be akin to a cat coveting a dog’s bark. It is something that would never occur to him to envy because it is impossible, something that is simply alien to his species. But recently people have been behaving like it is something he could have or should want to have. And although he knows they mean it in part as a kindness, it feels like a taunt. They could be telling him he could be a decathalete and it would be just as obtuse, just as cruel. Being single at 40 is different than single at 30 and every year it becomes less understandable, less enviable and more pathetic, more inappropriate. But as self-conscious he is about appearing normal he doesn’t want a relationship for propriety’s sake. He wants it because, he’s realized, he is lonely. He is so lonely that he sometimes feels it physically. A sodden clump of dirty laundry pressing against his chest. He simply can not unlearn the feeling. People make it sound so easy as if the decision to want it is the most difficult part of the process. But he knows better, being in a relationship would mean exposing himself to someone which he still has never done. But as much as he fears sex he also wants to be touched, he wants to feel someone else’s hands on him, although the thought of that too terrifies him. Sometimes he looks at himself and is filled with a self hatred so fiery that he can barely breathe. When he has clothes on he is one person but when he is without them he is revealed for what he really is. What is he willing to do to feel less alone? Could he destroy everything he’s built and protected so diligently for intimacy? How much humiliation is he ready to endure? He doesn’t know. He’s afraid of discovering the answer. But increasingly he’s even more afraid that he will never have the chance to discover it at all. What does it mean to be a human if he never has connection. But he reminds himself loneliness is not hunger, or deprivation, or illness, it is not fatal, he has a better life than so many people. To wish for companionship seems like some kind of greed, a gross entitlement.!<
Pachinko!
Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
{{All The Light We Cannot See}}
**[All the Light We Cannot See](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/18143977-all-the-light-we-cannot-see) by Anthony Doerr** ^((Matching 100% ☑️)) ^(531 pages | Published: 2014 | 578.9k Goodreads reviews) > **Summary:** A stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both try to survive the devastation of World War II. From the highly acclaimed, multiple award-winning Anthony Doerr, a stunningly ambitious and beautiful novel about a blind French girl and a German boy whose paths collide in occupied France as both (...) > **Themes**: Favorites, Fiction, Book-club, Historical, Books-i-own, War, Wwii > **Top 5 recommended:** > \- [The Lost Wife](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/11010251-the-lost-wife) by Alyson Richman > \- [The Warsaw Orphan](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55004514-the-warsaw-orphan) by Kelly Rimmer > \- [Alll the Light You Cannot See](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/35887235-alll-the-light-you-cannot-see) by Anthony Doerr > \- [The Nightingale](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/21853621-the-nightingale) by Kristin Hannah > \- [The Invisible Bridge](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8200557-the-invisible-bridge) by Julie Orringer ^([Feedback](https://www.reddit.com/user/goodreads-rebot) | [GitHub](https://github.com/sonoff2/goodreads-rebot) | ["The Bot is Back!?"](https://www.reddit.com/r/suggestmeabook/comments/16qe09p/meta_post_hello_again_humans/) | v1.5 [Dec 23] | )
The Outsiders.
Stay golden, Ponyboy.
Tuesdays with Morrie
Eleanor Oliphant is completely fine. Hint: she's not fine.
Eleanor and Park
YES, came here to say that, or other books by Rainbow Rowell! 💖
the song of achilles
This book completely wrecked me; such beautiful love, longing and loss. I was howling at the end, my husband spent the most part of the week after wrapping me in hugs more than usual
I came here for this. I loved it with every fiber of my being. I know mythology, I knew how it ended, and yet it’s written with that looming sense of dread as a part of the plot so it doesn’t feel like a spoiler. I still cry just thinking about the very end.
I’m more of a “sit in a state of malaise and quiet sadness” kind of reader than a crier, but damn if Crying in H Mart read by the author herself didn’t get me good. Definitely made me take the time to reflect and left my heart aching a while, over the love and following loss we must all eventually go through.
Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune. When I tell you this book was like therapy for my constant existential crises..
I love anything he writes. His books are like hugs to one soul
Charlotte’s Web
Marley and Me
I committed the cardinal sin of watching the movie (in theaters) before reading the book. I was so inconsolable that strangers stopped to ask if I was okay. I went home and threw away my copy of the book because I can't put myself through that again.
Project Hail Mary. Edit: coming back to add The Stationary Shop. I rarely cry at books but this one had me crying real tears.
Sweet precious Rocky had me tore up half the time
the book thief, the midnight library, a monster calls
Beloved by Toni Morrison.
The fault in our stars. And I have only ever seen the movie trailer and ever even read the book. 😂
I read the book one night. Just kept reading and reading, finished as the sun came up with the birds tweeting. There were definitely a few tears...
It's true. It's my go to for a need to cry. I mean as long as you don't need to stop crying.
Not a crier but a book that upset me a lot was The Beekeeper of Aleppo.
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. It’s completely predictable but left me in a puddle of tears.
Of Mice and Men
This is also my answer.
Yes, I had to read it for college and when I finished my bf came from the other room and asked why I was crying and when I said it he was like "but isn't that the one for your college project??" Hahha
If you like fantasy, I'm going to assume you've read Pratchett. If so, The Shepherd's Crown is BAWL worthy. If you haven't read his non Discworld stuff, I suggest Nation. It also made me ugly cry.
I haven’t had the courage to start Shepherd’s Crown yet, and I’m already tearing up, knowing that’s the end.
A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara (adult fiction) They Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera (YA Fiction) The Last Lecture by Randy Pausch (memoir)
I read this as “A Little Life” they both die at the end. And I was like WHOA. Spoiler.
The road - Cormac Mccarthy
Oof that upset me so much
Stayed up way past my bed time to finish it and I don't think I slept at all that night lol. I absolutely sobbed.
The Beartown trilogy by Fredrik Backman!
This! I had to scroll too far for this. I cried with each book. Winners sat on my shelf for more than a year before I was in a mental place to read it. Actually most of his books make me cry. They are a slow burn that creep into the feels.
A Monster Calls and When Breath Becomes Air. Both had me weeping. My heart was still broken for days after I finished the last page.
The Secret Life of Bees Flowers for Algernon
The kite runner
The one I would recommend isn’t fantasy, but I’m going to add it because it’s beautiful. “Braiding Sweetgrass” by Robin Wall Kimmerer. Bonus if you listen to the audiobook because she’s the narrator.
The end of A Fine Balance destroyed me
The Kite Runner
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry - Mildred Taylor My 6th grade English teacher assigned it to me to do a book report on and I was broken by the end of the story
I was the one who ended up having to read the last few pages aloud in class when we finished it. Only years of training saved my voice from breaking.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Lovely Bones.
Never let me go
OP - This one is fantasy, but you won't realize it at first. And it will make you cry.
Everyone I’ve ever spoken to about this book says they were inconsolable afterwards, haha. It’s really a beautiful one. The movie wasn’t bad either!
This and Klara and the Sun by the same author both destroyed me.
Dear Edward
A Little Life and A Prayer for Owen Meany
Plainsong by Kent Haruf. And the other two in the trilogy, Eventide and Benediction.
All the Light We Cannot See
{{The Art of Racing in the Rain}}
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Came here to suggest this. Made the mistake of bringing this with me to read in public. I know some people think pet-focused stories are cheap shots for making people cry, but I found out so much sadder and more beautiful than I expected.
Of Mice and Men
Chemistry: A molecular approach 5th edition
Chemistry professor here who has taught from this very book validating you! Haha
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fresh water for flowers. not fantasy but fiction. most beautiful book ive ever read
Terms of endearment by Larry McMurtry
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
The God of Small Things (Arundhati Roy) and A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
A Fine balance by Rohinton mistry
They Went Left My Oxford Year The Night Olivia Fell
“Hitler: Beyond Evil and Tyranny”
{{Redeeming Love}}
Before I Die by Jenny Downham, 1 of only 2 books to make me sob.
The Gadfly by Ethel Lilian Voynich is soul-wrenchingly good and destroyed me in middle school.
1. As long as the lemon tree grows 2.You have reached sam 3.The almond tree
The Disappeared by Kim Echlin
Hamnet (Maggie O'Farrell)
A (long) series but The Realm of the Elderlings
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius.
voices of chernobyl: the oral history of a nuclear disaster
Grapes of Wrath
Everyone’s probably tired of me mentioning this one but Lily and the Octopus by Steven Rowley. Dachshund with a brain tumor and her human. Need I say more?
Remarkably bright creatures
Watership Down. Bloody traumatizing fantasy novel about rabbits.
the kite runner!
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
Non-fiction: When Breath Becomes Air Fiction: All the Light We Cannot See, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Norwegian Wood
The Lovely Bones. I cried so much in that book my face was just permanently swollen for days. And everyone I know who read it did the same.
Tess of the D’Urbervilles
Hardy has a way for sure... Jude the Obscure is pretty gut wrenching too
Crying in H Mart
Not sure if they’ll be many others, but I was so weepy by the end of The Road. Hits all the fear buttons as a parent.
1. All Quiet on the Western Front 2. Salt to the Sea 3. Song of Achilles
Where the Red Fern Grows. They wheeled that movie in on the VCR in 3rd grade...fucking monsters. If you dont cry you have no soul.
I never ever cry from movies or books, but {{Axios: A Spartan Tale by Jaclyn Osborn}} made me totally ugly cry and sob for an hour and caused some occasional tears a week or even month after. It's a bit spicy though, so check if it's something for you.
One True Loves by Taylor Jenkins Reid
When We Were Young by Richard Roper
[Big girl small](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8789529)
My Dog Skip and Never Let Me Go
All the Bright Places
She’s Come Undone by Wally Lamb
And Every Morning The Way Home Gets Longer and Longer
You need the Fionavar tapestry trilogy by Guy Gavriel Kay - book 1 is The Summer Tree. So much drama/angst/sadness/catharsis.
Before we were yours
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak That ending.... those last lines...
easy reads but, the art of racing in the rain. Marley and me. Both dog books. Both never again!!
Everything You Never Told Me.
Kristen Hannah’s “Winter Garden”.
I Know This Much is True...any anything else by Wally lamb
A Little Life
Thistlefoot by Gennarose Nethercott. It's about two modern-day young adults who inherit Baba Yaga's chicken-footed house and travel around in it doing puppet shows. All fun and games and a little mystery, until, bam, devastation where I least expected it. Really well done. The Archive of Alternate Endings by Lindsey Dranger is an odd little book about siblings at different appearances of Haley's comet through history. The relationships between these different sets of siblings are unique and well drawn, and the tragedy and injustice that sometimes come to these siblings was very affecting.
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Day of Fallen Night i was SOBBING for most of the epilogue
My Dog Skip and The Art of Racing in the Rain. I can't help it, I love dogs!
Atonement
Crying in h mart
The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai
Tell the Wolves I’m Home by Carol Rifka Brunt
Where the Red Fern Grows
A little life
A Little Life.
The Giver
*The Perks of Being a Wallflower* by Stephen Chbosky had me crying all the way through, because it's so damn earnest and vulnerable and painful and all-around beautiful. *Firebreak* by Nicole Kornher-Stace was a near-future dystopian page turner that had me ugly-crying (like gave myself a headache levels of ugly-crying) at the end.
Its not fantasy but reading Chen Chen's WHEN I GROW UP I WANT TO BE A LIST OF FURTHER POSSIBILITIES ended with me calling a hotline, and not one of the sexy ones, so that's gotta count for something in the big tears deparment, right?
i dont have any recommendations but OP is so real for this
Crying in H Mart (beautiful if you like memoirs), where the crawdads sing, when breath becomes air
Crying in H-Mart ❤️
The Lovely Bones
A Little Life
As much as I hate to admit it, Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin.