I’ve never been a guy who reads or cries a lot, but I just read the giving tree to my nephew and sobbed afterwards. I remember my mother reading that to me a lot when I was little, but I never actually grasped the message of it.
It felt good to cry. I think I want to do it more often and That’s why I am asking this question.
by Firm_Book2519
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I cry every time I read The Little Prince. Also had it read to me as a kid and I didn’t get it but now I do and it makes me cry.
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
I had a whole mascara situation while trying to discreetly read at work.
Mother, Come Home by Paul Honschemeier. I cannot get through it without weeping and I don’t cry anymore because meds. It’s a doozy.
Most recently? Murtagh.
“A Man Called Ove”. Fredrick Backman.
Never Let Me Go or Remains of the Day by Ishiguro.
The Book Thief, read it when it was first published when I was 13/14 and I was sobbing by the end
Seven Fallen Feathers – Tanya Talaga
Not a novel, it’s a non fiction book about the experiences that Indigenous children still face today as a result of a history of colonialism and racism. It follows the stories of 7 children who were sent away from home to the Canadian small city of “Thunder Bay”.
This isn’t ancient history, these stories all happened after 2,000.
The most recent one was The Wild Children by Felice Holman, which is about Russia’s street children in the 1920s, orphans of the Bolshevik Revolution.
Art of racing in the rain
Flowers for Algernon
A Little Life
Freak the Mighty. It’s a quick and easy youth novel to read. When me and the siblings were in school, my mom would always read our assigned books. She happened to finish this one in the middle of the night and it took her out at the knees.
The Remains of the Day. I didn’t cry but definitely had some heavy, cathartic feelings.
Little Women. It’s a long read and mostly doesn’t fit this bill, but when Beth died I cried harder than any book has ever made me cry, before or since.
rich dad poor dad
Stargazing Dog by Takashi Murakami. It’s a graphic novel. Prepare to bawl.
The Kite Runner and A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. The only books I can remember that made me cry out loud.