Has a book ever made you cry?...

[snagged]

My brother threw a copy of the Encyclopedia Britannica - Ant to Ardvaark - at me when I was younger... I balled my eyes out.... (sniff)...

[missjef]

yes when i read The Pact by Jodi Picoult, and The Lovely Bones by Alice Seabold.

[froggequene]

Charlotte's Web, I've never met anyone who didn't cry at the ending

[File Cutter]

Try "The Last of the Just" by Andre Schwarz - Bart

[China Doll]

God yeah Snagged... all the bloody time! And films and music.... I'm actually quite a soppy c0w contrary to popular belief but don't tell anyone!

The most recent ones to have done this are We Need to Talk about Kevin,The Lovely Bones, Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion and Sense and Sensibility. (The last three I've only read about six times each so y'know.. you can see why it'd have that effect on me.) There's loads tho...

[jno]

I once when younger was rather shy and needed to know how to get romantic with the opposite sex... so I bought a book called How to Hug, but I didn't realise till I got it home that it was volume 8 of the Encyclopedia Britannica...

[fat rascal]

my sisters keeper by jodi picout,

part of the dark matrials triology by philip pulman,

[sophie_1003]

Loads! Charlottes Web
Winnie the Pooh
The Time Travellers Wife
Lovely Bones
Two Weeks with the Queen
Little Women
Green Mile
Harry Potter, probably more as well!

[Quizmonkey]

Only once - actually cry. The end of the last part of His Dark Materials (The Amber Spyglass) by Phillip Pullman. I was in a public lounge on a cruise-ship at the time and had to retire to our cabin as I was so embarrassed!

[RogK]

Just finished Arthur & George. Made me fill up twice - suddenly and unexpectedly in Coffee Republic. Embarrassing.

[lizzierose]

wept throughout the entirety of 'and when did you last se your father' by blake morrison, 'the diving bell and the butterfly' by jean-dominique-bauby and at the end of 'grapes of wrath' by steinbeck and 'atonement' by ian mcewan. coincidentally i posted these on the life view changing books post

also vikram seth's 'an equal music' i cried like an idiot

'love in the time of cholera' by gabriel garcia marquez

[lizzierose]

oh and i didn't cry when i read charlottes web, perhaps i was feeling hard hearted that day : )

[gizmo1]

It's not a novel but the transcript of Arthur Miller's 'Death of a Salesman' got me weeping. In fact, if you want to have your guts torn out, most of Arthur Miller and Tenessee Williams will do the job.