Books to make you cry
Thousands of book community members have contributed to this survey so far, with these 78 books being the most frequently mentioned for books that made them cry.
Before the Coffee Gets Cold - Toshikazu Kawaguchi || Giovanni's Room - James Baldwin || The Nightingale - Kristin Hannah || Hamnet - Maggie O’Farrell || Blood Over Bright Haven- M.L Wang || A Place For Us - Fatima Farheen Mirza || The Stationery Shop - Marjan Kamali || Betty - Tiffany McDaniel || Promise Me Sunshine - Cara Bastone || Foster - Claire Keegan || The Five People You Meet in Heaven- Mitch Albom || A Little Life - Hanya Yanagahira || Clockwork Princess - Cassandra ClareAtmosphere- Taylor Jenkins Reid || Know My Name - Chanel Miller || Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin || Crooked Kingdom - Leigh Bardugo || Babel - RF Kuang || The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison || The Traveling Cat Chronicles - Hiro Arikawa || Against the Loveless World - Susan Abulhawa || Crying in H Mart - Michelle Zauner || Here We Go Again- Alison Cochran || Bridge to Terabithia - Katherine Paterson || My Sister’s Keeper - Jodi Picoult || Kingdom of Ash - Sarah J. MassThe Fault in Our Stars - John Green || Everything I Never Told You - Celeste Ng || Little Women- Louisa May Alcott || Once There Were Wolves - Charlotte McConaghy || In Memoriam - Alice Winn || We All Want Impossible Things - Catherine Newman || All My Rage - Sabaa Tahir || A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini || Pachinko - Min Jin Lee || Lily and the Octopus - Steven Rowley || Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls || The Hero of Ages - Brandon Sanderson || Sunrise on the reaping - Suzanne CollinsWild Dark Shore - Charlotte McConaghy || The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue - VE Schwab || The Sword of Kaigen - M. L. Wang || The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak || The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo - Taylor Jenkins Reid || Jellicoe Road - Melina Marchetta || When Breath Becomes Air - Paul kalanithi || I Cheerfully Refuse - Leif Enger || Human Acts - Han Kang || The Sparrow- Mary Doria Russell || Shuggie Bain - Douglas Stuart || The Last Devil to Die - Richard Osman || Jade Legacy - Fonda LeeAnd Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer - Fredrik Backman || Migrations - Charlotte McConaghy || The Seven Year Slip - Ashley Poston || Me Before You - Jojo Moyes || All the Light We Cannot See - Anthony Doerr || The Names - Florence Knapp || As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow - Zoulfa Katouh || A Man Called Ove - Fredrik Backman || When The Cranes Fly South by Lisa Ridzén || Stone Butch Blues - Leslie Feinberg || The Great Alone - Kristin Hannah || Under the Whispering Door - TJ Klune || The Winners - Fredrik BackmanA Monster Calls - Patrick Ness || Beartown - Fredrik Backman || The Marrow Thieves - Cherie Dimaline || Song of Achilles - Madeline Miller || Shark Heart - Emily Habeck || My Friends - Fredrik Backman || Heart the Lover - Lily King || The Great Believers - Rebecca Makkai || Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes || The Binding- Bridget Collins || Firefly Lane - Kristin Hannah || The Last Letter - Rebecca Yarros || Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb
