Minka

It doesn't seem anybody's done this before, but what are the books that have managed to move you to tears?
I don't cry easily when reading, and the only author to have ever made me cry a lot is Philip Pullman in 'Northern Lights,' 'The Amber Spyglass,' and 'Shadow in the North.' I think I also cried a bit in a couple of books by Malorie Blackman.

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stupid_dream

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck is the only book where I've cried, but The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time by Mark Haddon was very close at making me cry.

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Kane

I teared up reading The Dark Tower, when Jake and Eddie died. Sniff. Sniff.

Edgewise

I almost cried at the end of "For Whom the Bell Tolls".

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Sir Jorah

Orson Scott Card's "Shadow of the Giant" made me cry.

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Lanex

1st To Die brought me close to tears because of how involved you get with the lead character.

kerr511

In the Tawny Man trilogy by Robin Hobb, I cried when Nighteyes died, that was very well written. I also got all emotional right through the end of Fools Fate (the last book of the trilogy)

Stewart

Not exactly cry, but it did elicit sadness in me, although others I know have cried to it, and that would be A Prayer For Owen Meany by John Irving.

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neonstorm

Absolutley, was about to post the same think except...

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You forgot Oy!

You almost get the warm and fuzzies when the they're (sort of) back together in the end...

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Rob

Not actually moved to tears, but a couple of years ago I got choked at the end of Vonnegut's The Sirens of Titan. Today I felt moved by something in Philip Roth's The Dying Animal. Other than those, not much.

Cheers,
Rob

Short Tooth

Compulsion by Shaun Hutson- Absolutely touching the way he writes about the elderly residents at a care home.

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quarterscot

My body's set up wrong for me to cry at anything. But Arundhati Roy did her damn best to break that rule with The God Of Small Things

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Blossom

I've read so many sad books it's unbelievable. I used to cry at anything but now ... not so much. A few that stand out as making me cry are:

The House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer
Feed by M.T. Anderson
Firesong by William Nicholson

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Serpentine

Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men. It takes a lot for me to shed tears over a book.

A lot.

Queen_Bee

I cried several times reading Roots by Alex Haley. I usually don't cry over books, but some of the stuff that happened was too horrible.