What books have made you cry?

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I noticed in another thread someone mentioned crying after finishing The Time Traveler's Wife, which made me cry too.

Now I'm curious: What books have made you cry?

I'll start. Sobbed: Atonement, Captain Corelli's Mandolin. Wept: Sarajevo Marlboro, The Great Gatsby, Anna Karenina, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Grapes of Wrath, The Citadel.

― zan, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:23 (twenty years ago)

That would have to be J.M. Coetzee's "Disgrace"

― Synergy (Synergy), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:26 (twenty years ago)

Oh, and how could forget: Nabokov's short story "Gods".

― zan, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:27 (twenty years ago)

Oof, did I cry

Apologies. I did a search for "cry," and when nothing came up, I thought I was being clever. I'll go back to my corner now.

― zan, Wednesday, 12 October 2005 13:38 (twenty years ago)

Don't be sad. I think the search function doesn't recognise three-letter words.

― accentmonkey (accentmonkey), Wednesday, 12 October 2005 15:55 (twenty years ago)

I'd have to say The Da Vinci Code; I cried for the hours that I wasted in reading it.

― Mark K., Saturday, 22 October 2005 15:58 (twenty years ago)

I also am sad about the time I spent reading the Da Vinci Code. However, some books really are moving and I would recommend Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo; a book called I am David, which I read as a child; Small Island and Fruit of the Lemon which took me through a whole gamut of emotions from anger to tears and laughter on the way through them.

― Ursula Osborne, Tuesday, 1 November 2005 00:11 (twenty years ago)

Much of what is required reading for Uni.

Makes me cry in despair.

I think there must be a 'no enjoyment' clause or something going on for academic education

― StrangeDays (StrangeDays), Tuesday, 1 November 2005 06:14 (twenty years ago)

two months pass...

Tess of the D'Urbervilles is stained with my tears - I can feel Hardy manipulating my emotions but it still gets me every time. Jane Eyre too, although I always cry more at the death of Jane's childhood friend, Helen, than at Mr Rochester's blindness and her reconciliation with him. Wonder what that says about me? Anna Karenina too, and Goodbye To All That, perhaps not so typical.

― Alice Saville (Bathsheba), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:26 (nineteen years ago)

Your're my sort of girl, Alice.

I spent Boxing Day explaining to my girlfriend's mother that the harmonium in Under the Greenwood Tree represented the mechanisation of agriculture forcibly imposed on a rural community. A real conversation stopper.

― Mikey G (Mikey G), Tuesday, 3 January 2006 14:34 (nineteen years ago)

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