What is book that made you tear up or cry and why? What was the book about?

robertsnj · 56-60, M

Walk don't run by Adele Levine. It is a memior about her time as a physical therapist at Walter Reed / a dept of defense hospital that treats wounded servicemen.

the stories are overwhelming sad. link below

https://adelelevine.com/

AliceinWonderland · F

little women when one of the sisters gets sick, that killed me. and "the house of dreams" by l.m. montgomery when her first child passes away. both books i had to stop reading because it made me so upset, but eventually i picked it back up again and i'm glad i did because both are excellent books.

DearAmbellina2113 · 41-45, F

The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan. The story of a Chinese immigrant telling her daughter the truth about how she ended up in the United States. It's beautiful, tragic, but so worth reading.

boklenholley7 · F

The Storyteller. It's about the holocaust and its affects on a survivor and her granddaughter. You hear the story of the granddaughter in modern day, the grandmas teenage years as the nazis took over and she was taken to a camp, and the story the grandmother was writing (and later telling to the women in the camps)

seaglass · F

She's Come Undone, by Wally Lamb

"She's Come Undone" tells the story of Dolores Price, a young woman struggling with personal turmoil and obesity, as she navigates the complexities of her life following her parents' divorce and subsequent traumatic experiences, finding solace in food while grappling with societal expectations and her own self-worth, ultimately embarking on a journey of self-discovery and healing.

TinyViolins · 31-35, M

Flowers for Algernon always gets to me. The main character's journey hits a little too close to home for me

jademonkey19 · 41-45, T

Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller. Devastatingly romantic and tragic. I was weeping openly - even knowing from the start how the story would end.

TweekeeKeekee · 26-30, F

Giovanni's Room by James Baldwin has made me cry multiple times but I keep going back to it. A Thousand Splendid Suns also go to me pretty hard.

hunkalove · 61-69, M

I almost always cry when I get to the end of a John Sandford novel. These are very violent and pretty disgusting mysteries over 400 pages long and yet at the end something warm and wonderful will reduce me to tears.

Gibbon · 70-79, M

Years ago I had book that made me cry.

I was actually the author.

It was call MY CHECK BOOK AND REGISTRY.

CrazyMusicLover · 31-35

I tear up with any book that builds up a solid character and then that character is dying and the whole matter is drawn out in details.

SwampFlower · 31-35, F

The Berry Pickers

A four-year-old Mi’kmaq girl goes missing from the blueberry fields of Maine, sparking a tragic mystery that haunts the survivors, unravels a community, and remains unsolved for nearly fifty years.

Jacko1971 · 51-55, M

When I was little Bambi made me cry.

icedsky · 51-55, M

Way way back... in elementary school a book called Where the red fern grows.

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