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Books that made you cry like a baby.

I just read the book: The Fault in our Stars. I was crying like a baby in the subway. Of course, people looked at like me like I was crazy.

What books made you cry?

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Re: Books that made you cry like a baby.

  • The Lovely Bones made me cry.

    I can't remember the title at all, but there was a book I read as a kid about a girl whose sister dies of leukemia. I still vividly remember both crying like anything when the sister dies and also a scene where the narrator punches her sister and makes her nose bleed and then just keeps thinking of that in guilt through the rest of the book. The whole thing made me stop fighting with my brother for a couple of weeks. I wish I remembered the title.

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    I was bawling as I was reading the final chapter of Cheaper by the Dozen during story-time last Saturday.

    And there was one I read during lunch at the office, but I cannot remember what book it was.  I had to leave the kitchen and then I had to go hide in the ladies room because I could not stop crying as I was finishing the book.  I'll have to think about it.

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    I can't remember the title at all, but there was a book I read as a kid about a girl whose sister dies of leukemia. I still vividly remember both crying like anything when the sister dies and also a scene where the narrator punches her sister and makes her nose bleed and then just keeps thinking of that in guilt through the rest of the book. The whole thing made me stop fighting with my brother for a couple of weeks. I wish I remembered the title.

    It sounds very much like Lois Lowry's A Summer to Die.

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  • Oh! Just thought of more. TWO books by Edwidge Danticat made me cry: Breath, Eyes, Memory AND Brother, I'm Dying.

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  • When I was younger, Watership Downs made me cry like a baby... it upset me so much I couldn't finish the book... just too sad...
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  • imagedorothyinAus:
    imageanna7602:

    I can't remember the title at all, but there was a book I read as a kid about a girl whose sister dies of leukemia. I still vividly remember both crying like anything when the sister dies and also a scene where the narrator punches her sister and makes her nose bleed and then just keeps thinking of that in guilt through the rest of the book. The whole thing made me stop fighting with my brother for a couple of weeks. I wish I remembered the title.

    It sounds very much like Lois Lowry's A Summer to Die.

    Thank you! I read a ton of Lois Lowry books, so it's very probable this is it.

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  • Where the Red Fern Grows

    Marley & Me (also made me laugh hysterically)

    I think a few others, as well, but those are the ones I can remember right now. I guess dogs dying really get to me ;-)

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  • Where the red fern grows!! Been my favorite book since I was 12 and still makes me bawl!
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  • The Time Traveler's Wife is the only one that's made me actually cry.
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  • Bridge to Teribithia and Goodnight, Mr. Tom. Both had me bawling as a kid. I am sure ther have been others more recently but those are the first that came to mind.
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  • imageGilliC:
    The Time Traveler's Wife is the only one that's made me actually cry.

    This also made me cry.  But I'm a big crybaby when it comes to books and movies...and life.  Haha. 

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  • I am reading the Time Traveler's Wife now and I am not really liking it. I am only on chapter two but it seems strange about the guy meeting up with the girl when she is like 6.

     

    I also LOVE Bridge to Tabithia.

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  • Time travelers wife, marley and me, the notebook, my sister's keeper...I'm sure there are more. If you can't tell, I'm a crier. 
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  • Flags of our Fathers. It was very graphic and pretty much any war book that depicts scared young men wishing for their wives and mothers and then getting their heads blown off is probably going to make me cry. I also had tears in my eyes with La part de l'autre which is about what the world would be like if Hitler had made it into art school. But once again, it was the depiction of scared young men in battle not even knowing why they were fighting that made me sad.
  • Ditto on Where the Red Fern Grows.  It's funny b/c that book (and our mutual like for it) was one of my parting discussions w/ a BWFF (best work friend)!
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