Books that have made you cry?

[McFatter]

When I was a boy, I read Old Yeller by Fred Gipson. I reckon that was the first time I "let loose them tears on the page."

As an adult, Book VII of Stephen King's Dark Tower series did that for me when a main character died. (Don't want to spoil it for anyone that might be climbing their way through the tower right now.)

I'm not sure if I actually cried when I read The Time Traveler's Wife, but I was certainly profoundly affected by it emotionally--enough to get me to read the book about three times.

But the most powerful emotion or sense of feeling a book has ever made me feel was when I read the "red wedding" chapter in George R. R. Martin's A Storm of Swords. This was years before the HBO show came out and I had no idea this was coming. I was actually working at a petroleum plant during this time. It was early in the morning and we always gathered in this massive lunch tent before disembarking to our various jobs following our safety meeting. We'd be there anywhere for a good 30-45 minutes, so I was always reading a book while other guys and gals were eating breakfast. I came upon this chapter unexpectedly and I was just gutted. I didn't cry, but it was like being told that someone I knew had just been brutally killed and murdered or that a group of my friends had died in a terrible bus accident. I felt hollow and numb and I had to go into my entire work day like that. That is fine writing right there. Years later, I was actually disappointed by its depiction in the show because the Red Wedding on the pages was powerful, powerful stuff. There was no need to be profane and add a pregnant woman being stabbed in the belly and killed along with the rest to make it effective. That was just gratuitous and unneeded when the chapter as it played out on the pages was powerful enough.

But anyway, I digress.

[J Gordon]

I cried at Exiles by Ron Hansen, when the nuns sacrifice their lives to save others on a sinking ship, and at the culminating and foreseen death of Gerard Manley Hopkins, who writes about them in his poem Wreck of the Deutschland.

[eddyokoth]

Who told you that you were naked was touching book to me especially God's message

[J Gordon]

Who told you that you were naked was touching book to me especially God's message

I am reading that one RIGHT NOW!

[Helen_Combe]

The second half of my copy of ‘Captain Corelli’s’ Mandolin is positively pulpy from me weeping over it.
Jasper Fforde’s ‘Shades Of Grey’ surprised me when the despicable character Courtland died. The comedy switched off, he suddenly became a vulnerable young man, and I found myself crying for him

[EricaWilson]

Old Yeller definitely made me cry. Any book with a dog in it will make me cry honestly.

[Rorb]

what we left behind by robin talley, not even a good book but everything seemed so hopeless for the characters that i had to cry.
same feeling with south of sunshine by dana elmendorf, not the best book ever but the feeling of sheer powerlessness got to me

[Myah Schultz]

I have cried at a lot of books. “The Book Thief” made me ball like a baby. When I watched the movie adaptation, I cried, not because of the movie, but because I was remembering a specific line from the book. It’s one of my all time favorites.

[Hannah_Vibbert]

I cry often when I read. I tend to fall in love with the characters and get so involved with them that I can't help but to cry sometimes.

That being said, I think the one that gets me the worst (no matter how many times I read it) is Black Magic Sanction by Kim Harrison (book #9 of the Hollows series). One of the secondary characters in the series dies, but her death so greatly impacts everyone else that I am always left blubbering like a baby for hours afterwards

[WingTaken]

Definitely The Fault in Our Stars.
With this one, you know something is going to happen, but there is so much hope in the book and somehow, John manages to actually go around your expectations and really deliver an unexpected turn that stirs all emotions up.

[fengaraki77]

I mostly cry if someone dies in a book or a movie. The book that comes to mind right now that made me cry was "Cujo" by Stephen King.

[JodyVamp]

Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince and Harry Potter and Deathly Hallows always get me.
Eye of God by James Rollins does me in towards the end, too. It's like losing Dumbledore all over again.

[Sorchadorcha]

Most Jodi Picoult books. She just has a way of making me sob like a child.

[Jeyasivananth]

Margaret Atwood's Blind Assassin and Arundhati Roy's God of Small Things are two more books that have made to cry.

[Hheaton]

Some are embarrassing, but whatever... Bring on the shame!

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J.K. Rowling
The Five People You Meet In Heaven - Mitch Albom
Where the Red Fern Grows - WIlson Rawls --> OMG, I can't even type the name without a lump forming in my throat
A Storm of Swords - George R.R. Martin
The Fault in Our Stars - John Green

I know there have been others... But these are the ones that stick with me as being some of the most sad stories I've ever read. There have been many that have made me "tear up." But the titles above had me heaving. I resisted reading The Fault in Our Stars forever because I didn't want to buy into the teenage hype around the book. But John Green managed to turn me into a puddle of sniffling sobs.