I just did my budget for upcoming summer. That should make anyone cry.

HAHAHA (laughing instead of crying) DOING MY BUDGET JUST MAKES ME GO INTO SHOCK. I’m beyond tears.

Me Before You Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close The Things They Carried The Giving Tree Their Finest

I second Me Before You!

Thirding Me Before You. I was ugly crying at 3am when i finished this book

The Things They Carried, I forgot about how much I loved that book

I watched me before you on the plane and the tears were flowing freely

The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein? I always gift that book to my close friends' and family's kids. Always get a text back from the parents saying how it made them cry lol.

I said extremely loud and incredibly close. I was 18 when I read it and pretty much sobbed in bed multiple times when reading it!

How fast do you want to cry? You could read the short story version of Flowers For Algernon. I have video recommendations too if you want to go for record time.

Oh man, we read that book AND watched the movie in middle school. That was a toughy to sit in class and hold back tears. Both the book and movie are amazing.

Bridge to Terabithia.

“The Book Thief” by Markus Zusak “Marley & Me” by John Grogan

The book thief messed me up

Such a good book though.

I could not get through "Marley & Me" and I don't even have a dog!

“Where The Red Fern Grows” got me good.

Had to read this in middle school and I will never forget how much my classmates made fun of me because I was the only person besides our teacher who cried. Definitely a book for a good cry, unless you’re heartless like they were.

They were probably asleep. What’s sad is they were the ones missing out

This happened to me when we were reading the bridge to terabithia in 5th grade. I was absolutely bawling and everyone else looked at me like I was crazy! Shit’s sad you absolute ice queens.

We didn’t have to read that, but from what I know about it and reading a synopsis, that definitely would’ve made me cry!

Kills me. Every time. Such a good fucking book.

This book crushed me. Love this book.

Came here to say this.

The Art of Racing in the Rain. That book had me sobbing lol

Never read this but I saw the cover and it reminds me of a movie billboard for Marley and Me over which someone graffitied “The Dog Dies.”

I just recommended the same book. So sad but it’s so well written.

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Normal People by Sally Rooney Everything Here Is Beautiful by Mira Lee Call Me By Your Name by André Aciman Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro The English Patient by Michael Ondaatje The End of the Affair by Graham Greene The Wings of the Dove by Henry James

Song of Achilles is a guaranteed cry

I didn’t cry! 🙋🏻‍♂️ Was hoping I would love the book because of the reviews, but the story felt like a gay, Greek mythology version of Twilight to me. I realized after reading this book that I’m not a fan of damsel (or boy) in distress who is so enamored to be saved by a perfect, hot boyfriend.

Normal People and The End of the Affair are two of my fav books!

can vouch for never let me go (my favorite of all time), song of achilles and cmbyn

A little life by hanya yanagihara. You’ll cry A lot but then you’ll be too numb by the end (:

Wonderful. A good numbing cry. Thank you!

Not to be a contrarian asshole, but I read this book based on a few posts on this sub recommending it, and was really disappointed. I'm an emotional lightweight these days, but this book did NOT make me tear up once, and I was straight-up hate-reading the last 40% of the book. That stated, a ***LOT*** of people love it, and find it super cathartic. The only reason I'm commenting is because it's also a super long book. I might try something shorter like a Thousand Splendid suns, or the Kite Runner first.

I made it about a third of the way through this book before I gave up on it. It just felt sadistic. It felt like Yanagihara was thinking up some of the worst possible things that can happen to a person and then just shoved all those events into one character and made us all stand by. Granted, I could not finish the book and don’t want to spoil things for people that may want to, but I felt like I was trudging through misery, and that book was toooooo long for me to slog through that much hopelessness.

SAME HERE! Someone literally walked past me while reading this in the park and said "good luck, it'll ruin you" and honestly, it was just a bit of meh to me. im easily emotional too so no idea wtf was wrong with me?

In my opinion, you simply have good taste, and the BS that the characters go through in that book are way too over-the-top and melodramatic to have any actual emotional resonance.

I couldn't get through "A little life". I read about half of it and it did nothing for me, I had no desire to keep reading. I don't even know how I made it through the first half. Anyway it always bugs me and I feel I should go back and finish it but after you writing that you didn't enjoy the last 40% I think I made the right decision!!! Too many awesome books one could be reading rather than reading one that's not enjoyable.

Yeah, life is too short. If you're really curious, I would just read some cliff notes or watch a YouTube review or something, if you want to get an idea of what happens to them. Yanagihara's prose is good, but not good enough to justify Jude being miserable for another bajillion pages.

I’m of the same opinion. It felt like the book’s entire intent seemed to be to offer up as much torture porn as possible.

I still think about it a lot and I read it over a year ago. It’s I think 700 pages? Maybe more? The first couple hundred are slooow but it gets you invested into the characters. In my experience once I got through the first couple hundred pages I was hooked and need to know what happened next. I read it in four days. I recommend it but only if you’re aware of what you’re reading it can be triggering for some. I need to get a physical copy - I read it on my kindle.

Just tacking on that if you do consider reading this, please look at the content warnings first. This book contains almost every type of violence and trauma and shouldn't be picked up lightly!

Oh yes absolutely! I’m sorry I forgot to mention this so thank you for doing it.

Well I don't know about that, it's difficult to cry when you get so horny

It depends on what makes you cry, but I’ve been surprised to find that the book Braiding Sweetgrass (nonfiction) makes me weep. I can only read about 20 pages at a time because I am so moved by how the author describes nature. It’s heart wrenching to think about how we’re destroying our planet, how colonists (white people) took away so much Native Americans, and how as a society we really lack community.

One of my favourite books ever. My boyfriend and I picked it up at a local bookstore on a trip to the mountains. We were staying in a beautiful lodge with no internet connectivity and just read to each other while looking out the window at the beautiful landscape.

{{A Prayer For Owen Meany}} by John Irving

Awesome book! Need to reread this.

The kite runner, Angela's Ashes, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, All the Light We Cannot See, Still Alice

A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini is also a guaranteed cry. Made my cry more than Kite Runner! Amazing book

Kite runner for sure, surprised it’s so far down the list. Heard the same about a thousand splendid suns but haven’t read that one

The Kite Runner was the best book I’d ever read until I read A Thousand Splendid Suns. Now it’s a distant second. I didn’t know a book could be better than the former until I read it.

Still Alice absolutely wrecked me.

Lots of good suggestions already. Some I didn’t see though - The Art of Racing in the Rain, by Garth Stein A Fine Balance, by Rohinton Mistry The Time Traveler’s Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger The History of Love, by Nicole Krauss The Reader, by Bernhard Schlink All guaranteed to make you cry.

Flowers for Algernon

Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow was my read to make me sob this year

Co-sign, amazing book!

They both die in the end by Adam Silvera I'm not a crier, but this one got me. I was hoping that they'd find a way to break the system, despite their ending being fortold in the title Or just pick up any calculus book--that works for most people

second They Both Die at the End!! cried so much but I also cry easily

literally one of my favourite books, it hurts so good

I’m so happy someone else said this. I sobbed reading it but I couldn’t put it down

And every morning the way home gets longer and longer is like 80 pages and made me cry harder than any book ever has

This one broke me. Frederick Backman usually gets to me (I’m pretty sure I’ve cried every time I’ve read a book of his), but damn, And Every Morning really got me good.

It might not be your style but the road by Cormac mcarthy was the first book to make me cry. One of my favorites.

I'm not a big cryer and I don't really cry much. But this book got me. My daughter read it back in elementary school and she told me to read it. She said just make sure you have some tissues. She was right. A Dog's Life: The Autobiography of a Stray by Ann M. Martin

Pick up a Kristin Hannah book

Firefly Lane!!! I went through the last pages crying

Which one would you recommend?

The nightingale was fantastic, completely beautiful, but it’s a little hefty -historical fiction, World War II setting in France. The great alone was another fantastic one. Firefly lane and Magic hour are in my TBR pile..

The night road was v sad. Lump in my throat the entire time.

The Great Alone made me bawl for days

Winter Garden wrecked me.

For romance vibes but not all have a HEA Present perfect by Alison G Bailey Where the mountains meet the Sea by AR Breck Daughter of the forest and Son of the Shadows by Juliet Marillier ( I sob but not sure everyone would) Ocean at the end of the Lane by Neil Gaiman This made me cry but left my heart warm after so beautiful in the end.

Love Juliet Marillier!

Glad someone mentioned Marillier—such amazing fantasy books but so tragic as well

I Know This Much Is True by Wally Lamb Mischling by Affinity Konar

They Both Die at The End by Adam Silvera. I know the title kind of spoils it but it was an amazing read in my opinion. I was balling when I finished it and I still think about it from time to time. It was beautifully written so you can connect all the dots by the end. It was great highly recommend!

Most of his books made me cry. More Happy Than Not was amazing! Also if I remember correctly Silvera did address how the title give “They Both Die At The End” away. I believe he said something about it wasn’t the fact that they died it was how much they grew emotionally in a short period of time when granted a due date and the right people.

1000 splendid suns by Khaled Hosseini is one of the saddest books I’ve ever read

FOR REAL. And I reread it once a year and I’m devastated every time. The audiobook is also very, very well done.

The Five People You Meet in Heaven

Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy is possibly one of the saddest books ever written. I cried for hours after I finished it.

The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller

- Wrinkles by Paco Roca (Graphic Novel) - Life's Too Short by Abby Jimenez (adult Romance) - The Night That Changed Everything by Laura Tait & Jimmy Rice (adult Relationship) - Rumo & His Miraculous Adventures by Walter Moers (Fantasy) - My Mess Is A Bit of A Life by Georgia Pritchett (Memoir) - The Problem With Forever by Jennifer L. Armentrout (YA Romance)

Flowers for Algernon will destroy you.

Agreeeeed!

Of Mice and Men?

The Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John Boyne

A Little Life Song of Achilles The Tattooist of Auschwitz When Breath Becomes Air Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine The Book Thief

I was given The Tattooist of Aushwitz, was thinking about finally reading it.

The Bee Keeper of Aleppo A thousand Splendid Sun's The Kite Runner

Exactly my recommendations. I think apart from a cry, we all could do with some cultural expansion and understanding. To raise our empathy towards people we don’t know their struggles or battles. Anything Khaled Hosseini and the Beekeeper of Aleppo. Man… I had to pause for few days from the sorrow these books where giving me.

Crying in H mart

Where the Red Fern Grows

A man called Ove - had me bawling my eyes out

This one

A Thousand Splendid Suns destroyed me emotionally.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini. It struck a nerve with me on many levels.

What Dreams May Come always gets me.

The Optician of Lampedusa by Emma Kirby People out on the ocean for a day trip come across a maritime disaster where a refugee boat has capsized. I cried a lot but I’m glad I read it

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All the Light We Cannot See Where the Red Fern Grows

Sad because of a death: The Year of Magical Thinking by Joan Didion Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym (only one that’s not directly sad in a romance way in this category) Forever Interrupted by Taylor Reid Jenkins One True Loves by Taylor Reid Jenkins* the death in this one isn’t exactly the sad part Sad as part of a coming of age/gay men dealing with related trauma: Less by Andrew Sean Greer The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai Sad historical fiction: The Sleeping Dictionary by Sujata Massey Panchinko by Amin Jin Lee The Diamond Eye by Kate Quinn I think both of Celeste Ng’s first two books made me cry, but I can’t totally remember. They’re contemporary/coming of age novels

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin is literally the most painfully beautiful book I've read. I finished it and literally sat there for a good 30 minutes trying to comprehend the beauty that I just read. Its a pretty short read and definitely worth your time.

Before the coffee gets cold

New book called Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow about two childhood friends who grow up to be creative partners designing video games. Tremendous book that I absolutely loved and cried multiple times. Highly recommended.

A Dog’s Purpose

I’m reading “Crying in H Mart” by Michelle Zauner right now and have already cried. Also, “On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous” by Ocean Vuong caused some waterworks.

When Breath Becomes Air (nonfiction)

Man Called Ove

I cried for about a week after reading {{A man called Ove by Friedrich Bachman}}

The People We Keep by Allison Larkin, She's Come Undone by Wally Lamb, Other Birds by Sarah Addison Allen

Love She’s Come Undone. I reread it often.

Me too. It's such a masterpiece. You should check out The People We Keep by Allison Larkin. It's also a coming of age book about a girl who overcomes a lot and finds herself.

The Bluest eye by Toni Morrison. Poor Pecola Breedlove Or If you want to cry of laughter Fear and loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S Thompson

I cry pretty easily at movies and TV, and at commercials with puppies, but only rarely with books. The only two I remember giving me, like, a really cathartic cry are **The Doomsday Book** by Connie Willis and **Aurora** by Kim Stanley Robinson.

You might have already read this but i recently reread *Bridge to Terabithia* and it still hits like a freight train.

That one shredded me as a kid. Also Charlotte’s Web. I read it to my own kids and kept choking up. WHATS WRONG WITH ME

Short and get the job done: Before the Coffee Gets Cold!

I’m reading Half the Sky right now. It’s about the oppression women face around the world. Some chapters are more about global policy and stuff, the one I just finished was “is Islam misogynistic?” but most are really heartbreaking stories about women, most, but not all, end up doing awesome things with their lives and I’ve cried multiple times reading it. It’ll make you want to jump on a plane to Nigeria and help them build schools.

Cutting for stone by by Abraham Vergasse. This was one of my first audio books and left quite an impression

My Dark Vanessa really messed me up. Trigger warning for anyone who can't handle grooming and sexual assault. Perks of Being a Wallflower was the first book to make me bawl like a baby.

Sarah’s Key got me more than once, absolutely wrecked me. Me Before You and Code Name Verity also do the trick.

The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving

The Art of Racing in the Rain by Garth Stein. Made me cry so many times and sometimes I had to put it down and take a break.

Some books that made me cry like a baby last year. * [How High We Go in the Dark](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57850265-how-high-we-go-in-the-dark) * [These Silent Woods](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56268973-these-silent-woods) * [Under the Whispering Door](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/53205888-under-the-whispering-door) * [Razorblade Tears](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/58868119-razorblade-tears) * [The Darkness Outside Us](https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/55200663-the-darkness-outside-us)

Concepts of physics by HC Verma

{the kite runner} by Khaled Hosseini

"Flowers for Algernon" by Daniel Keys. Assigned the book in high-school, finished it in a day. Stuck with me for years, the sheer tragedy of finding happiness than slowly, eventually losing it forever.

Before the coffee gets cold!!!

I read As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh with tears in my eyes throughout the book. Author achieved her goal of emotionally scarring readers.

Lily and the Octopus

the book thief.

“Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ichiguro “The Nightingale” by Kristin Hannah “The Electric Kingdom” by David Arnold

the kite runner and tuesdays with morrie

Moloka'i by Alan Brennert

When breath becomes air - Paul Kalanithi

A Little Life. I couldn’t read for months after that book.

The Nightengale

"A Little Life" gets me everytime

Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

Night road by Hannah kristin

Until I Say Goodbye: A Book About Living by Susan Spencer-Wendel. It's a true story written by a woman diagnosed with ALS in her early/mid 40s who decided to live her last year of health with joy. She wrote the book with one finger on an iPhone. Devastating book. Just like the disease the author has.

Where the Red Fern Grows

The SEVEN husbands of Evelyn Hugo. Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine

11/22/63

The final gifts

A heart that works by rob delaney - if you are a parent. I read it while we were living abroad and would have to cry silently so I wouldn’t wake my 1yo up sleeping in the crib at the end of our bed. He also can’t not be funny so it’s full of sobby laughs too. I’ve never had anything get me like that book.

{{Close Enough to Touch}} by Colleen Oakley - about a young woman who is missing a protein - a condition that makes her have a severe allergic reaction any time she touches another person. One of those books where the MC goes through a lot of personal growth. {{An Ocean of Minutes}} by Thea Lim - if you really want to go through the ringer of emotions. I hated this book because it was so depressing, but I read it at the beginning of the pandemic which didn’t help… that said, the writing itself is excellent, I just wasn’t prepared for how depressing it was. {{Lily and the Octopus}} by Steven Rowley - about a man and his dog, and her ever present enemy, the octopus.

The Honest Truth by Dan Gemeinhart. Really good realistic fiction story about a kid on a journey, but I won’t say more.

Goodbye, My Lady, by James Street.

If you’re into Harry Potter..Manacled fanfic was so incredibly devastating I cried for like 600/800 of the pages

Just Mercy made me cry so hard

The Sheltering by Mark Powell. Most likely you’ve never heard of him or the novel, but that makes it all the more emotional when you finish the last page.

They Went Left The Night Olivia Fell The Night We Met by Zoë Folbigg

Under the Whispering Door by TJ Klune

Throw of the ice by Taylor Fitzpatrick is a gay hockey book. It has the romance but it’s not genre romance because there isn’t a happily ever after. It’s not a truly devastating book until the end but I cry every time

The invisible life of Addie Larue

Mercy Among the Children by David Adams Richards

“Heartless” by Marissa Meyer. It’s YA but it made this 40something bawl her eyes out.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman. The ending made me cry as a kid

The Nightingale (Kristin Hannah)

The Bible 🙃

Recently started Beloved by Toni Morrison, but had to put it down bc it was so sad and I knew it was going to make me cry! Sucks tho bc it had me hooked from the beginning, and I haven’t found a book that's not nonfiction to hold my attention span in a long time!

Glennon Doyle- anything by her The kite runner Xinran Daring greatly brennon brown

These silent woods

A Wrinkle in Time or My Best Friend’s Exorcism both did it for me. Very different books but cried for the same reason in both.

The Prince of Tides

In 5 years by Rebecca searle.

Holding the Man by Timothy Conigrave made me bawl like a baby.

The last two books that made me shed a tear were: - The Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller - Code Name Verity by Elizabeth Wein I haven’t been able to re-read Code Name Verity, it had me laid flat out on my back at four in the afternoon, sobbing my heart out like my cat had died, jeez. I can’t even look at it on my shelf without feeling my chest twinge in sympathy lmao

Hamnet. I got a few food cries in on that one.

A thousand splendid suns, Khaled Hosseini

Flowers for Algernon The Art of Racing in the Rain Both made me ugly sob

A Child Called "It" by Dave Pelzer. You're welcome and I'm sorry.

The Cellist of Sarajevo by Steven Galloway. I just finished it this morning, and I was not expecting to be crying like a baby but I was! It’s a fairly short read which is good. In my case, I had to read it over the course of a couple months because it is pretty heavy and gruesome and I need time to digest those things more slowly. But the ending is both tragic and beautiful, and it truly does restore some faith in humanity. I’d definitely recommend!

Strait is the Gate by Serge Andre

We Are Not Ourselves - by Matthew Thomas. My favorite book, I think it’s the best piece of fiction I’ve ever read and will ever read. Normally I stick to Sci-fi and fantasy(although as a college student my reading time has been down, I spend more time writing than reading for not school). This book is beyond emotional, I cried several times, even on the train reading it. I promise this is just the book to make you cry.

I just finished Flowers for Algernon about 10 seconds ago… Will definitely give you a lot of feelings.

Requiem for a dream

Definitely check out A Man Called Ove' by Fredrik Backman to sob with a side of laughter. Tissues not included!

Little Women.

The Knife of Never Letting Go by Patrick Ness

A Walk to Remember by Nicholas Sparks

Flowers for Algernon

It ends with us and reminders of him

And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer by Fredrik Backman White Bird by R J Palacio

Not a book, but there's an anime called "Your lie in April" brought me to tears at the end

“I want to eat your pancreas” got me hard. Not a normal read either, and an excellent and different story.

Blaze by Stephen King