Book that made you cry?

for me it was


flowers for algernon by Daniel Keyes


one flew over th.... you know ))


Midnight Cowboy by cant-remember-whats-his-name


the dead zone by SKing


crime and punishment by dostoevsky

Book that made you cry?
"The Lost Domain" (aka "Le Grand Meaulnes" orig. French title [1913] by Alain-Fournier (pseud. of Henri-Alban Fournier).





A Classic (short) novel of French Literature, I read it in the mid-sixties, long before I became the hard-bitten cynic that I am today.


I can truly say that it is (almost ) certainly the only work of fiction that caused me to (actually) shed a tear. It is the truly remarkable story, beautifully written in sensitive prose, of the uncouth youth Augustin Meaulnes (aged 17) who is fated to enter a veritable dreamworld (though the events occuring all the time have a rational explanation) but in the end lead to both sadness and loss. The "lost" domain is a truly apt title for this marvelous fiction.


Sadly, the author, Alain-Fournier was himself tragically killed a year or so later in battle on the Western Front, aged 27.


This book is a true work of literature and is a million miles away from items written by authors like Stephen King and others(mentioned elsewhere on this page), but I'm certain that anyone who reads it, cannot help but be affected by it's genius. It is published in PENGUIN CLASSICS and should be very easy to obtain, as it has (I believe) never been out of print since it was first included in the series.


Highly recommended to all sensative natures.


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Reply:Here's the short list:





Dragonsbane by Barbara Hambly


The Thief of Time by Terry Pratchett


The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne


A Bait of Dreams by Jo Clayton


Anything by Amy Tan, especially The Kitchen God's Wife
Reply:Letting off the Happiness


and the royal Tenenbaums
Reply:'Bloody Jack' by something something Meyer


'The King's Pleasure' by Norah Lofts


'Good Wives'


There is another one and I can't for the life of me think what it is, which is a bit weird, seeing as I don't cry all that much
Reply:I'll Never Let You Go- Kazuo Ishiguro


He has a great style of making you fall in love with characters without even realizing it. As another answer said, The Remains of the Day made me cry too.
Reply:'My Sister's Keeper' by Jodi Picoult. So moving, and as I have a sister, I could totally relate. The ending is so unexpected and moving, I cried for ages. And I never cry over books!
Reply:the harry potter books. they're so crap they made me think how big a crock of **** contemporary 'literature' had become.
Reply:Oddly enough (or not so odd, if you've read the book) The Vagina Monologues, A Lesson Before Dying, Beloved, just to name a few from my recent memory.
Reply:I can't remeber the names of the authors at the mo... But here are a couple:





-"Tarka The Otter" - children or adult's book. The most beautiful, sad and poignant ending to any book I have ever read.





-"Memoirs of a Geisha" - The suffering and heartache in this book really moved me to tears...
Reply:message in a bottle
Reply:the Secret garden
Reply:Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix


...and the Half-Blood Prince


Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close is a tearjerker. It is about a boy who lost his father in 9/11.


Everything is Illuminated by the same author, Jonathan Safran Foer, also made me cry. It had a lot to do with the Holocaust.


Night by Elie Wisel is also heartbreaking. Also about the holocaust.


Of Mice and Men
Reply:1) Og Mandino's The Twelfth Angel


2) Nicholas Spark's A Walk to Remember


3) Nicholas Spark's Message In A Bottle
Reply:a prayer for owen meany by john irving.


beautifully written, it will break your heart
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Reply:"Katherine" by Anya Seton


"Dragonfly in Amber" by Diana Gabaldon
Reply:Chainfire by Terry Goodkind when Cara is nanometers ffrom death and Richard goes in to comfort her in her last seconds and winds up risking his life to save her. Even when everyone else thinks there is absolutely no way to save her.
Reply:There have been a few, but this question brought back a strong memory of reading "Black Beauty," when the horses are caught in a barn fire.





I was quite the horse girl, and it filled me with sorrow.
Reply:Crime and Punishment
Reply:Dave Pelzer's books did and also a few others did as well.
Reply:Wuthering Heights
Reply:my class 9 maths book
Reply:One of the Anne Shirley series (by Lucy Maud Montgomery) in which her son Walter dies in the 1st World War.
Reply:flowers in the attic when the little boy died (i know it's sad)
Reply:The Outsiders
Reply:the children's book "I'll Love You Forever" and the "Notebook"...I mean buckets !
Reply:The trig book my teacher threw at me.
Reply:A child called It.
Reply:a walk to remember and the notebook by nicolas sparks and his bright light, johnny angel, and no greater love by danielle steele
Reply:Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte


The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro


Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand
Reply:Anne Frank's Diary