very sad books

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 6:03pm

what books got you balling like a baby?
for me one was WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS I remember listening to it on cassette when i was little and just being in hyterics. also
OF MICE AND MEN WOW- The ending just gets me
What about y'all

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 6:05pm

The Time Traveler's Wife

Updated On: 10/21/06 at 06:05 PM

[Kitzarina]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 6:11pm

Bridge to Terabithia gets me every time. So does Tuck Everlasting.

It's funny...the very first book I thought of when I saw this thread was Where the Red Fern Grows!

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 6:20pm

Kitzarina Bridge to Terribithia also gets me. Its just so unexpeted

[#1Elphie]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 6:23pm

When I was younger, Bridge to Terabithia and Where the Red Fern Grows both had me bawling as well.

A Prayer for Owen Meany makes me cry. A lot.

[Glebb]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 6:34pm

Narcissus and Goldmund.
The last line makes me cry.

[StephenSondheimWHOO]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 6:35pm

I can not believe i forgot Animal Farm. I'm going to give it away, but when the thing with boxer happened, I threw my book across the room and when sreaming through the house. Literaly

Posted: 10/21/06 at 6:53pm

Time Traveler's Wife! My Boyfriend won't let me read it anymore cause I get so sad. excellent book though and set in my old chicago neighborhood!

[spiderdj82]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 7:01pm

I don't usually like romance stuff, but I LOVE that book.

[Caroline-Q-or-TBoo]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 7:01pm

When i read Bridge to Terebithia i sobbed like a baby

[mejusthavingfun]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 7:18pm

I love melodrama so most of my favorite books are tear jerkers.

I was reading "Kite Runner" on the train about a year or so ago, and I could barely keep back the tears. It had a profound effect on me.

[shiksa_goddess]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 7:30pm

"Where the Red Fern Grows" gets me as well. I read it in 6th grade and sobbed like an idiot. Dan and Nan!!!

[hannahshule]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 7:35pm

I read Time Traveler's Wife last year, and it was so sad, but it's still one of my favorite books.
Add me to the club of those who bawled after reading Bridge to Terebithia and Where the Red Fern Grows (and I'm a dog lover).

Also, any book that deals with the Holocaust, or Jews during that time period, always makes me tear up.

[EverythingIsRENT]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 8:06pm

Ditto to Bride to Terebithia. It's a kids book but talk about DARK!! It's still one of my favorites. I'd also like to add The Giver. That book tears me up every time I read it.

[punk ballerina]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 8:42pm

I cried when I read "Tuck Everlasting"
Also, "The Little Princess" I think is what it's called about the girl who goes into the orphanige because her father goes to war and her mom is dead. I cried like a baby. I couldn't stop crying the next day in school because I was afraid my mom and dad would die. I'm quite emotional somtimes.

[InTheAudience]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 9:50pm

A Seperate Peace

[justagirl2]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 9:52pm

Bridge to Terabithia is ridiculously sad. I had actually completely forgotten about that book until I read this!

In the American Girl series, I always thought Kirsten's first book was sad. Her family has to leave Sweden and come to America, and they suddenly kill off her best friend on the journey over! I always skipped that one.

[Atrias]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 9:56pm

Well, the ending wasn't exactly sad, but I remember the first time I read The Giver and I found out about "release", I just cried and cried without knowing why.

[secondstar05]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 10:01pm

Pretty much anything by Nicholas Sparks... I don't know why I continue reading them, because I *know* they're going to make me cry, but still I read on.

Also, Little Women gets me every time.

[singingwendy]

Posted: 10/21/06 at 11:29pm

Not so much the book, as the movie adaptation of "The Velveteen Rabbit" that they used to show us in school. The whole part about him being thrown away and not being with "his boy" again....it made me so sad. And I hated when they said they were going to show it to us in school, because I knew I was going to cry!

And there's a grown up book that had me in tears recently, but I'll be damned if I can remember it's title! I'm going to have to think hard and post later.

[Rose_MacShane]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 12:19am

I always cried when Beth dies in Little Women.
And singingwendy, I was the same way. Well, I still am, but that's neither here nor there...
Anything that dealt with a beloved toy or security item being lost or anything to do with abandonment destroyed me. I couldn't watch The Velveteen Rabbit, The Brave Little Toaster, Dumbo, The Christmas Toy (I still can't hear the song "Old Friends, New Friends" without wanting to cry)...

[gogannon]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 12:25am

The Giving Tree
By: Shel Silverstein

[SweetQintheLights]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 12:29am

Davie Pelzer books.

Especially, "A Child called It" and "The Lost Boy"

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

And I pretty much cried throughout Anthony's book, "Without You"

Updated On: 10/22/06 at 12:29 AM

[eponine88]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 12:29am

Rose_MacShane, I COMPLETELY agree about the Christmas toy- I used to cry at that one all the time.

As for books, I can never get through Tuesdays with Morrie or The Five People You Meet in Heaven without a box of tissues handy

[miss pennywise]

Posted: 10/22/06 at 2:19am

The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton
Sophie's Choice> by William Styron

Updated On: 10/22/06 at 02:19 AM