FB: Name a book that made you weep.

LibraryThing's FB post this morning: "Name a book that made you weep."

https://www.facebook.com/librarything/posts/10155673605580039

Thought I'd try crossposting. Anyone?

Weep or sob? Because if I'm gonna cry over a book, it's gonna get ugly.

A Monster Calls
Last story in Twilight's Dawn, Bishop
Thirteen Reasons Why
The Art of Racing in the Rain
If I Stay

Fifteen Dogs by Andre Alexis

Secondhand Time by Svetlana Alexievich, Regeneration by Pat Barker

I cry at movies, but not so often at books, mostly because I don't read the right books. But I recently lost it listening to an audiobook of Gerard Manley Hopkin's poems, specifically "The Leaden Echo and the Golden." http://www.bartleby.com/122/36.html

I lose it ever time at:
See; not a hair is, not an eyelash, not the least lash lost; every hair
Is, hair of the head, numbered.

Before that, I can specifically recall:

* Graham Greene, The Power and the Glory, a number of times. But not, I think, The Heart of the Matter
* A short passage from How Far Can You Go where one of the characters' very young child is killed stepping into the street.
* Runciman's The Fall of Constantinople, when Constantine XI casts off his imperial clothing and disappears with his friends into death — I cry at non-fiction too! :)
* The Subtle Knife, Speaker for the Dead, The Sparrow (but not sequel)
* Ruskin's King of the Golden River, with son (eyes wet, not sobbing at final scenes).
* The Velveteen Rabbit (to Liam)
* I'm pretty sure I wept a number of times during Parable of the Sower. If not, it was only from being so traumatized by it.
* Oh, and definitely Pnin, when Pnin loses the nutcracker in the sink. Except that turns around.

Citizen: An American Lyric

I didn't expect it to, but it did. It's VERY difficult to make me cry, but this did it.

The Brothers Karamazov. (Answering for a friend.)

The Silmarillion, specifically "Of the Voyage of Eärendil and the War of Wrath"...

As a wife and a mother:
Night Road by Kristin Hannah

I cried at the end of Five Quarters of the Orange, by Joanne Harris.

And Reading with Patrick, by Michelle Kuo, because it reminded me of a dear friend who died last fall.

James Joyce's short story, "The Dead", always gets me.

In non-fiction, Every Day Lasts a Year: a Jewish Family's Correspondence from Poland, edited by Christopher Browning.

I've seen plays based on these last two, and wept at them, too.

No book has made me weep but Transcript might well have done if it hadn't been so stunning and so depressing. Certainly made my vision blur for a moment, though.

The Road, by Cormac McCarthy. Never Let Me Go, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Both books broke my heart.

I shed some tears over My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman. Before that, Me Before You by Jojo Moyes just tore out my heart and stomped on it.

The first book I remember making me cry was My Girl. Others include but are not limited to, The Book Thief, The Little Prince, HP5, Where'd You Go Bernadette (audio), A Man Called Ove (audio), The Song of Achilles (audio). Off the top of my head. Oh god and The Perks of Being a Wallflower.

Little man, what now by Hans Fallada

Grapes of Wrath
To Kill a Mockingbird
Mistborn
Cry, the Beloved Country
The Color Purple
The Fellowship of the Ring

Oh, there isn't the time to list them all. :)

Me too! Re Fifteen Dogs!

Still Alice by Lisa Genova
A Lesson Before Dying by Ernest J Gaines

The premise of the OP is good because it asks us to put aside our schoolyard social/political habits and invites a more personal reading.

First ones that come to mind for me:

Pnin (When the memory of Mira Belochkin is forced upon him);

My Antonia (When Jim encounters her in later life, near the end)

A Christmas Memory (Capote's pirouette at the end to turn a sentimental tale into something truly sad and painful.)

I don't cry easy--I was dry-eyed when Bambi's mother died--but the end of A Farewell to Arms had me sobbing.

Anne of Green Gables, every time.

Room
A Little Life

Middlemarch (When Dorothea is in Rome just after her marriage to Casaubon)
War & Peace (When Prince Andrei dies)
The Road (When the father dies)

Ironically it was Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows by J K Rowling I never expected the tears and sobs that came over me towards the end of that book. Fortunately, I was alone in the house or I would have been really embarrassed to try to explain it. I can't even recall another book that made me cry. I'm sure there are others.

Onion Delights Cookbook.

>26 cpg: This is the only time I have wanted a "thumbs up" option on LT. 😁 👍

Once when I returned to my home State for a meeting (work) my brother gave me a copy of Alistair Macleod's short stories. Next day I flew home. For some reason - probably just congestion - the aircraft could not land at the scheduled time and the pilot told us all that we would be circling off the coast for some time (turned out to be about 30 minutes). Although there was no suggestion of an emergency a ripple of conversation began to run around the cabin. Unfortunately the pilot's announcement coincided with my trying to read a story called "In the Fall". I defy anyone to read that story without sobbing aloud. Certainly I was bawling my eyes out. Some of my fellow passengers were looking at me anxiously and whispering to each other. I'm sure some of them were saying "Do you think he knows something that we don't?" while others were saying "Look at that old fool!". Anyway all the stories are marvelous.

The Room and The Bean Trees