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animal stories such as Beautiful Joe and Black Beauty. I also cry in stories about people too such as The Kite Runner.

A Tale of Two cities made me cry (I was in a taxi at the time two. Rather akward moment between me and the driver).
Baudolino, when a favorite character bit the dust. I was depressed for the rest of the day.
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hollows-Pretty much the whole time.

Siddow said:

A Prayer for Owen Meany.

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I'm in the middle of that one right now, and already getting misty. It's fantastic.

I cried throughout Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows as well, which is odd. I never cried during the other books, and the part I cried in this book weren't even after the deaths.

Lonesome Dove
Three Came Home
Charlotte's Web
Outlander

Mary Renault's books, 'Fire from Heaven' and 'Last of the Wine' were the ones that really made me lose it.

Others I had a sniffle at: LM Alcott's 'Little Women' and Stephen King's 'Christine.' Gaines's 'A Gathering of Old Men'. Ruth Picardie's 'Before I Say Goodbye'.

When I picked up Michael Tolliver Lives by Armistead Maupin last month, I was almost weeping with joy that he'd written another Tales of the City book (I don't care what he says! It's part of the series!), but I fell apart from page 147 on because of the story. Haven't cried that much over a book in aeons.

A Prayer for Owen Meany

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Island of the Blue Dolphin by Scott O'Dell - This was my absolute favorite book when I was a kid. I read into two pieces and had to replace it. I lost that copy years ago, but was in B&N last year with my daughter and found it was still in print. I reread it and cried again - what a sap! (I'm so glad to know I'm not the only one who's cried at Owen Meany - what a powerful book!)

Oh, and I did cry at The Lovely Bones - when Susie's dog suddenly comes bounding into heaven - I'd just recently lost my own dog when I was reading it and it totally wrecked me for a few hours.

the bible.

**spoiler alert**

jesus wins.

RLB said:

The one that stands out to me the most was the end of A Tale of Two Cities (maybe because I'd disliked every other Dickens novel I'd read). That line "It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known." Sobbed.

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I cried reading Dickens too, every time I picked up Great Expectations... bawled like a baby. /sarcasm

Anyhow, on to an actual answer. Bridge to Terabithia. To this day it makes me cry when I read it. Diary of Anne Franke. The Green Mile-- I was reading this on my uncles boat during summer vacation one year. I got some strange looks that day.

And a book that isn't out there-- yet-- one written by ChaosTitan. She seriously made me cry with a particular scene (and she knows the one) there.

A Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg

Recent widowhood so plainly portrayed.

A Prayer for Owen Meany is one of my all-time favorite books, and I did cry buckets. Although I wish the ending had been a wee bit different for the MC, to be honest. I don't know how, exactly. (I don't think saying that gives anything away.)

Black Beauty? Oh, I cried buckets. I don't remember how old I was, either; I was a kid.

Would I be burned at the stake for saying I cried while reading Bridges of Madison County? In the beginning, I was laughing at the horribly purple prose. But he did have a bittersweetness to his characters; he captured that longing and loss perfectly.

Oh, yeah. The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks. I bawled through the end of that book. I've tried reading his other stuff, and I don't really care for it (except for the memoir he did with his brother Micah).

Guy Gavriel Kay demolishes me every time. And I keep on reading his stuff...

(extraneous anecdote: I was reading one of his books while listening to the stereo and wondering why I was crying even harder than usual. Then I realized that I was listening to the Smiths and premenstrual. That was not my brightest move... but very cathartic... )

Norma

RLB said:

What books have made you weep? (or for the more macho among us, what books have made you misty-eyed?)

More recently, The Time Traveler's Wife

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Most definitely.

Will Lavender said:

One, ever:

Wally Lamb's I Know This Much is True.

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Yep on this one.

Siddow said:

A Prayer for Owen Meany.

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I cry just thinking about the book.

A few others: Black and Blue by Anna Quindlen and The Tender Bar by J.R. Moehringer.

Oh there's so many...it's the hallmark of great fiction if it can make me cry as I do have a cold heart lol

The Notebook, both the book and the movie. I drive my roommate INSANE because I watch it no matter how far it is into the movie and sob every time. Hysterically. WHILE shrieking out "my god, what if I never luh *sob choke gasp* love like that!!"

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult. Talk about your endings...

And of course there's the "Classics for Criers" like Bridge to Terabithia and Where the Red Fern Grows. Ol' Yeller

Wally Lamb gets me too...that was a PHENOMENAL book!!!!

I cry when I read Tanith Lee's The Silver Metal Lover.

Every. Single. Time.