I’ve never cried to a book or movie. Suggest me a book that is guaranteed to make me cry like a baby 👍 by alberich21 Related: Literaturre from Ireland/U.K. Books where unsettling/new/unexpected customs and tribal groups emerge Classics/contemporary fiction from the German speaking region Books with a ocean setting (beach town, elements of surfing/free diving/ whales would be cool! ) A book that will blow my mind
EurydiceFansie on October 6, 2025 6:06 am Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller Four Treasures of the sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang Go As a River by Shelley Read We Are Not Free by Traci Chee The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh Room by Emma Donoghue Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
Doom1967 on October 6, 2025 6:10 am No guarantees, but these did it for me: Flanders, by Patricia Anthony Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis Mortal Memory, by Thomas H Cook The King’s Last Song, by Geoff Ryman Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck Flowers for Algernon (short story), by Daniel Keyes For me, it’s more often short stories that do it.
GloomyProgrammer4874 on October 6, 2025 6:45 am Ones that made me tear up. Back in the day… Flowers for algernon. Scene where Beth died in “little women” (to be fair I was 7.) Bridge to terabithia
Fancy-Restaurant4136 on October 6, 2025 6:49 am These books made me cry, Of mice and men, Lions of Al Rassan, As long as the lemon trees grow, Watership Down, The book thief, The hearts invisible furies, Island of the missing trees by Elif Shafak, The plague dogs, The traveling cat Chronicles, The kite runner,
Turbulent-Parsley619 on October 6, 2025 6:54 am There are a lot, but I’ll offer two things: short story that will make you regret being able to read- The Scarlet Ibis cathartic crying in several places in a book that makes your soul feel cleansed- The Guncle
LiosiNovelist on October 6, 2025 7:05 am I can’t self-promote but mine will make you laugh, cry, and hate people.
Miserable_Coast701 on October 6, 2025 8:04 am 11/22/63 by Stephen King The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah
bookblabber on October 6, 2025 8:42 am I have just started reading Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout. And I can feel tears already. Not ugly crying but all mushy
eightchcee on October 6, 2025 9:03 am *The Correspondent* by Virginia Evans. Finished this last night. Oh my god I loved it so much.
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Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller
Four Treasures of the sky by Jenny Tinghui Zhang
Go As a River by Shelley Read
We Are Not Free by Traci Chee
The Sun Is Also a Star by Nicola Yoon
I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter by Erika Sanchez
Salt to the Sea by Ruta Sepetys
As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow by Zoulfa Katouh
Room by Emma Donoghue
Men We Reaped by Jesmyn Ward
No guarantees, but these did it for me:
Flanders, by Patricia Anthony
Doomsday Book, by Connie Willis
Mortal Memory, by Thomas H Cook
The King’s Last Song, by Geoff Ryman
Of Mice and Men, by John Steinbeck
Flowers for Algernon (short story), by Daniel Keyes
For me, it’s more often short stories that do it.
A Little Life made me cry.
A Man Called Ove – Frederik Backman
Ones that made me tear up. Back in the day…
Flowers for algernon.
Scene where Beth died in “little women” (to be fair I was 7.)
Bridge to terabithia
These books made me cry,
Of mice and men,
Lions of Al Rassan,
As long as the lemon trees grow,
Watership Down,
The book thief,
The hearts invisible furies,
Island of the missing trees by Elif Shafak,
The plague dogs,
The traveling cat Chronicles,
The kite runner,
There are a lot, but I’ll offer two things:
short story that will make you regret being able to read- The Scarlet Ibis
cathartic crying in several places in a book that makes your soul feel cleansed- The Guncle
I can’t self-promote but mine will make you laugh, cry, and hate people.
11/22/63 by Stephen King
The Great Alone by Kristen Hannah
I have just started reading Oh William! by Elizabeth Strout. And I can feel tears already. Not ugly crying but all mushy
*The Correspondent* by Virginia Evans. Finished this last night. Oh my god I loved it so much.