Thank you for recommending great books.😘 01:55 The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse by Charlie Mackesy 04:45 A Man Called Ove: A Novel by Fredrik Backman 08:33 Son by Lois Lowry 10:45 The Anthropocene Reviewed by John Green 12:43 A Monster Calls: Inspired by Patrick Ness 14:38 Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 17:06 Tess of the d'Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy 18:50 Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom 21:38 THE LITTLE PRINCE by ANTOINE de SAINT-EXUPÉRY 25:17 The Marvels by Brian Selznick

I’m not really a crier, but “When Breath Becomes Air” by Paul Kalanithi got me teary eyed. It’s a memoir about a surgeon who gets diagnosed with a terminal illness, so you know the ending, more or less, but you want him to survive so bad that it still shocks you.

Surprisingly East of Eden made me cry. The characters are just so well written.

I’m currently reading The Lord of the Rings, and I have teared up a couple of times (I’m sure more tears will follow as I reach the ending). However, no book has made me sob as hard as The Book Thief. Ove is very high on my TBR! Will cry for sure

I cried at the end of "Tale of two cities" by Charles Dickens. Honestly I wish I cried more while reading 😊

Every book by Thomas Hardy will make you cry. Tess of the D'Urbervilles was a good call. But the most devastating one for me was Jude, the Obscure. Jane Eyre can sometimes still make me cry. Both The Nightingale and The Kite Runner made me cry but both left me feeling a bit manipulated. A Christmas Memory, by Truman Capote, makes us sob each and every year. A Christmas Carol makes me cry a bit too. Les Miserables definitely made me cry several different times. Ray Bradbury's short story "All Summer in a Day," Just about every major Dickens novel, but especially, NIckolas Nickelby and a Tale of Two Cities, Anne of Green Gables and all the others in the series, Tender is the Night, Ethan Frome, Charlotte's Web and a Diary of Young Girl.

The Book Thief for sure! And The Giving Tree (I can't even get past the first line!)

"All Quiet on the Western Front" by Remarque completely destroyed me and broke my heart. But it's such an important and deeply human book, that I feel like it should be required reading, especially for the poeple responsible for wars. A few more books that made me cry are: - The Eighth Life by Nino Haratischwili - I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman - The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

I feel like in the future when I'm reading one of your books, your writing will make me cry. Not because the story was brutal or scarring but how beautifully wholesome it was. They will be tears of healing 🧡

Books that brought me to tears: Villette by Charlotte Bronte Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman Beartown Ofcourse! Everything I Never Told You by Celeste Ng

The book that made me cry the most is "Human Acts" by Han Kang. This novel is set against the backdrop of the May 18 Gwangju Democratization Movement in 1980, a historic event in Korea. Many people died due to the military regime's suppression, and "Human Acts" tells the stories of those who died or survived then. Han Kang has also won the International Booker Prize, and her writing is extremely beautiful yet sharp. (Actually, I cry almost every time when I read any of her books 😂) By the way, I always enjoy watching your videos. Sending love from Korea 💝

I recently read David Copperfield for Game of Tomes, and I cried at the end, it has so many beautiful characters 🥺

“When you are sorrowful look again in your heart, and you shall see that in truth you are weeping for that which has been your delight.” - Khalil Gibran Khalil Gibran is poetry in prose form. Utterly timeless!

The Kite Runner is the most heart-wrenching thing I have ever read

The Cider House rules by John Irving made me cry so hard. (you might know the movie with Tobey Maguire and Michael Caine?) So did A man called Ove, Call me by your name, Harry Potter, Never let me go, East of Eden, Song of Achilles, Me before you...but there are so many more. It's also incredibly easy to make me cry. I cry all the time while reading books, watching movies or tv shows. I constantly cry when I'm listening to movie scores. They make me very emotional 🤗🤗💖💖

I cried,no to be more precise, I bawled,while reading A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara such a beautiful novel 😢

I’m not a regular cryer. But since the beginning of the year, Backman has me bawling. I also felt destroyed by Dostoyevsky’s The Idiot in January . I did not anticipate that ending. I left feeling totally empty thinking « How can you do this to me, Dosty? » There were certain sections of David Copperfield that definitely made me sentimental. I was not ready for Martha comparing herself to the river. She took me by surprise and I felt her in a very deep level.

The Book Thief made me cry like never before

I cried on 1. A little life, i actually cried alot on this one, 2.The boy in a stripped pyjamas 3. A man called Ove

It's funny because Antoine de Saint Exupéry grew up close to where I live... His childhood home is in disrepair because the townhall and his family don't agree on what to do with it... It's such a shame because it is a beautiful mansion and it could be a great museum! I usually never cry while reading books... The only one that has made me cry is a short story by Ken Liu, "The Paper Menagerie"... I'm sure his other short stories are just as devastating 😭 Would totally recommend!

Yes! I love when books bring out such raw emotions out of readers! I am taking notes Carolyn! 🖊️ 📝🗒️📑❤ and that tear on the thumbnail!! It’s totally believable as you said on IG! 😂💧🥲

I know you mentioned a Mitch Albom book but Five People You Meet In Heaven is the one by him that gets me every time.

I have wept for three movies and three books. BOOKS 27) "The Painted Bird" by Jerzy Kosiński 45) "A Child called 'It"" by Dave Pelzer 104) "The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree: An Appalachian Story" by Gloria Houston MOVIES 10) Spiderman: No Way Home (2021) 27) Schindler's List (1993) and a movie that I can't seem to put into my favorite movies list as I can't find the right version of "Who will Love my Children?" "The Painted Bird" made me cry for the first love of the main character. He has to put up with such awful things and yet any man would gladly put up with all that he had to put up with prior to becoming a man to make sure their first love never has to put up with what she puts up with and so upon hearing of what happens to her I broke down in tears thinking he already had to put up with so much how could such a horrible thing happen to the little girl he loves. "A Child called It" made me cry when his mother was trying to shove his head into a bucket of acid and so to save his face from being eaten away he puts his hands into the bucket to keep his head from going into it. Later his mother sends him to school with no skin on either of his hands and the teachers begin crying for all the other things they had ignored seeing if this is what it has come to for him. All the laws of mandated reporters exist because of him. "The Year of the Perfect Christmas Tree" made me cry at the end that all that love and wonderful society was missing something and when that missing something returned it was emotional for me. That last Spiderman movie made me cry cause my first love, when I was fourteen and so was she, hit her head and forgot who I was as she had just met me that day. She told me to get her friends and never show my face to her again as she didn't know who I was and so I stayed at the park while she went to the hospital as that was what she requested, but later when I asked the friends to help me met her again they hated me for doing what she said. I just wanted a chance to try remeeting again aside from the day we met and fell in love to see if it could happen again. So when Spiderman abandoned his speech of who he was and merely left the coffee shop I cried because I realized what he was going to do. He was going to become friends with his friend so that he could re-enact meeting her in college through his friend and then it would be more like real as opposed to some speech she wouldn't understand and that was what I wanted to do too. "Schindler's List" for the car and ring scene because I read the book and knew Schindler was not really like that at all. Finally, the movie "Who will Love my Children?" which has the scene of the boy at four years old at the bottom of the steps (and only the one that has the boy at the bottom of the steps, which I can't find) refusing to be adopted by rich wonderful parents because his disabled five year old brother will be alone and so when he reveals he refuses them because "no one will love my brother" I broke down crying thinking of a four year old giving up on a real good life because of his brother. And then after crying hard for that I cried even more when the rich parents adopt both of them.

Two books that made me cry recently are: - Happening by Annie Ernaux - A tree grows in Brooklyn

A Tale of Two Cities By Charles Dickens made me cry buckets and buckets after reading. This book has an ending that I will continue to think of for years and years to come. I can’t wait to reread it!

‘The Little Prince’ leaves me crying buckets each time I read it. ‘A Man Called Ove’ was another book that broke my heart. And ‘The Fault in Our Stars’ just totally tore my heart to pieces.

She’s so poetic ❤ “It left me in a river of my own tears”.

NEVER CLICKED SO FAST OMG 😭 i have been waiting for your upload im so happy

Three Comrades by Erich Maria Remarque made me sob. I'm talking ugly cried.

You should read All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr. It's set in WWII. Dual storylines but they come together about a third of the way through. It made me cry so much and gave me new perspective on the German people in that war time. It is just so good! I think you will really like it.

I cried my eyes out reading A man called Ove too. Cried and laughed at the same time.

I really love the way you talk about books and LOVE that you read excerpts from these ones 🥰 we have a few in common for books that have made us cry; a man called love, a monster calls, anthropocene reviewed! some other books that made me cry include a little life (I was FULLY sobbing), and the mountains echoed, and salt to the sea. I will certainly be scoping out the ones I haven't read from this list.

What a great way for me to start off my day! Thank you for another wonderful video! You are a ray of sunshine ☀️

the little prince is one of my favourite books ever

Tuesday's with Morrie Where The Red Fern Grows Pax

The Little Prince is definitely a masterpiece. I love it so much. Last year I read Lonely Castle in the Mirror and it made me cry quite a bit. Another book that is known to make people weeping their eyes out is The Traveling Cat Chronicles. (Both books I mentioned here are Japanese Lit, btw). Hope you'll like it!

What a perfect, wonderful list, Carolyn! I'd put The Grapes of Wrath and The Diary of Anne Frank on this list. ❤

The Lady of the Camellias, by Alexandre Dumas fils. I cried so much with this book. But it was totally worth it. 📖

Having seen your recent February review, it reminded me of the John Green book "The Fault In Our Stars" and that was a devastatingly sad sorry. Also "The Boy Called It" was another emotive sorry and a very hard read.

I cried all through Michelle Zauner's "Crying in H Mart." This is now one of my favorite books of all time, but I cannot reread it for at least another few years because of how much of an emotional wreck I became.

i can’t wait for part 2 with all the responses. i said tess in your instagram box but omg villette also devastated me

i've cried with every single backman novel i've read, he truly has a death grip on my emotions and knows how to tug at my every heartstring 😭

The book thief. And I don't cry easily. 🤗❤

Currently I'm reading Beartown by Backman - that one is breaking my heart. Song of Achilles made me cry - worse I was actually holding my breath and had to tell myself to breathe lol

i never cried with a book! ice queen princess 👸 but i def cry with movies and tv shows

I think "Burial Rites" by Hannah Kent is the book that has made me cry most in my life. It's one of those books where you know where it's going to take you, and yet when you reach its destination, it's just so heartbreaking and well-done. Had me bawling.

"We're talking about how much we love crying at books..." I wish I had such a friend! My friends don't have the same taste in films and books so I barely share with them, but I can go on very enthusiastically when someone shows interest in a piece of work that I love. I repress my emotions in front of people, and my friends/classmates usually perceive that I am chilled, or very calm. Only when I watch films and read books that I let myself go free and I can ugly cry at stories when I'm alone, and they are a form of 'therapy' for me, actually (although invest too profoundly when I am not in a good head space can backfire, but that barely happens). I heard many people recommended Backman, including you, so I was sure that I'd love his books. Well, little did I know how crazy I'd go for them. Even 'smaller' works, such as "The Deal of a lifetime", can bring me to tears, he surely became my favorite contemporary writer. I also think the translations for his books are amazing because although I read them in English, I also heard a lot of people who read the book in my native language praising him, which, I guess, also means that the original idea/storytelling is incredible and universally touching. I also want to recommend a book called "My Sweet Orange Tree" by Brazilian writer José Mauro de Vasconcelos, if you haven't read it. When it was published in my country people literally went crazy. I saw it everywhere, and I see a lot of reviews on many platforms I was a bit patronized, but only until I read it that I saw why it had such an influence. I think readers who love children's stories would love it, since it is sweet, funny at times, touching at other moments, and to me, it is both sad and very beautiful.

A box full of good recommendations!

I read A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara in January and loved it. Im not a crier but if I was i definitely would’ve; it’s so raw (tw). Don’t be intimated by the length. I often struggle reading a lot at a time but I was so captivated I didn’t want to put it down

I recommend Leo Tolstoy's short story "Alyosha the Pot" its only like a dozen pages but man it took me by surprise! Have a great week Carolyn and friends :)

"As long as the LEMON TREES grow" by Zoulfa Katouh 😭😭 "The stationery shop " and obv Fredrik backman's

What a great idea for a video! Love your videos and art from India. I have so much adoration for you.❤

Saving video because both the presentation and comments are so 👌

Wow. Just found your book tube channel. Immensely enjoyed the content, and I love your vibe. I definitely hit the subscribe button.

I read Tuesdays with Morrie for my 12 grade Lit class. Usually hated reading stuff in school because it felt like work but also they would usually pick some boring stuff to read. Tuesdays with Morrie though is something that still sticks with me. It is a beautiful book and even reread it a few years ago (in my 30s now) and some stuff hit even harder with that reread.

I cry like a little baby with On Earth we're briefly gorgeous!! Ocean Vuong writes soooo beautifully!

Many many books that's made me cry Ending from.. tale of 2 cities, grapes of wrath, pyre, Anna karenina, etc

The last book that made me cry was A Scanner Darkly by Phillip K. Dick. The heartbreaking story of the author behind the book couldn't leave me unperturbed. Also, what made me cry: Of Mice and Men (Steinbeck), The Last Leaf (O. Henry), Escape Attempt (Strugatsky).

The last books that made me sob were My Grandmother Sends her Regards and Apologises (Frederik Backman), and To The Lighthouse (Virginia Woolf).

the last book that made me cry is a thousand splendid suns

I'm a huge softie for movies and those holiday commercials too, but had never wept until I read the Book Thief, I shocked myself when I had tears at the end, totally shocked myself! That one still gets me. I see people are mentioning Where the Red Fern Grows, which is a sad one. Another that I have not seen on your list is Night by Elie Wiesel. That book is non-fiction and if you know, you know. It's highly revered by legions and legions of people. If you are easily moved, then The Good Earth by Pearl S. Buck may make you cry too. Lastly, if you are brave enough, I suggest you read "For Laci" by Sharon Rocha, which is also non-fiction in the True Crime genre. :(

6:36 Books that made me cry: all of Jeff Zentner’s books esp. The Serpent King and Goodbye Days, Gone with the Wind, The Little Prince, also The Boy, the Mole, the Fox and the Horse

I've seen The Giver in middle schools in Canada too.

I sobbed listening to The Four Winds by Kristin Hannah narrated by Julia Whelan. I agree about Fredrik Backman. Most recently, I listened to Beantown and had to stop the narration several times to take a break for the way I was feeling. I didn't cry, but my eyes got watery several times, I felt like my heart was squeezed, and I felt that I needed deep breaths to breathe... Others books that made me cry: The Book Thief A Thousand Splendid Suns A Man Called Ove The Nightingale The Wish Finding Me

Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer and The Nightingale by Kristen Hannah

Cuore by Edmondo de Amicis. I read this book when I was a child, and return to it so many times. and it hits me every single time

it makes so much sense that you should have read for children - now I know why your reading out loud reminds me so much of my mom reading childhood books :) the last book that made me cry was Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marilier

When you asked to recommend you books that have made us cry, the first book that came to mind was the Anthropocene Reviewed as well because it is the last book i read that has made me cry so much and in so many different chapters! I already loved John Green from when i was younger and through his videos but this book was so amazing and I can't wait to reread it and cry again (and I highly recommend the audiobook as well because he is the narrator so it was very comforting to hear him narrate it!

- The Picture of Dorian Grey (Chapter 13. Who knows knows) - The Red and the Black by Stendhal - Malina by Ingeborg Bachmann - Metamorphosis by Kafka - Anna Karenina (due to various scenes but the most because the part with Levin's brother) - The Winternight trilogy by Kathrine Arden And to add the book series that made me cry the most in my middle grade years: Warriors by Erin Hunter ...and there are so much more I can't think of atm

hamnet by maggie o'farrell made me SOB

When I first saw this title I was thinking about a monster calls, it’s such a beautiful devastating story

I cried at the end of „every colour of you“ 😩

The Last Lecture made me cry

Latest book that made me cry "Gone with the wind"..

Merle’s Door: Lessons from a free thinking dog… this was a beautiful heartwarming piece of nature writing and I read it on a flight and sobbed uncontrollably…. A must read if you love dogs and the great outdoors.

I have tears right now remembering reading the last few pages of Les Miserables. I almost couldn't see because of the tears. I'm going to read that book again some day.

We Are Okay By Nina LaCour , Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog by John Grogan , Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson & The book thief by Markus Zusak

I cried so much all the way through Bleak House! I also cried at the end of both Cloud Cuckoo Land and All the Light We Cannot See, such beautiful books! And I have to mention a book that makes me cry on every reread (since I was 8) - Goodnight Mr Tom.

The Line Tender by Kate Allen made me cry. It also had lovely charcoal drawings of sharks, which I very much enjoyed. Would recommend if you want to weep.

germinal by zola made me cry badly in the end. it is a very beautiful book i highly recommend it

I cried so much reading Flowers For Algernon and Nothing New on the Western Front, but it was a while ago. I haven't cried at books for ages, sadly 😞

There have been many books that have made me tear up and even cry a bit, but there’s only one book I can think of that made me audibly sob. It was Damnation Spring by Ash Davidson. Seriously made me ugly cry. There are parts of the book that can drag a bit (so many detailed technical descriptions of logging!), but if you can get around that, I think the read is so worth it. I found the book beautiful overall. Such emotive writing in many parts.

There are lots of reasons for tears: sad tears - loss of love (death or departure), happy tears - such as reuniting of loved ones, tears of frustration, such as betrayal, etc. Five Non-fiction recommendations: 1. The Glass Castle (yes, I will continue to beat that drum) 2. Marley and Me (dog book) 3. Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee 4. The Diary of a Young Girl 5. Angela's Ashes (get the audio book by the author- that is a MUST) Five Fiction recommendations: 1. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (a top 10 book for me) 2. The Book Thief 3. The Road (I thought this one made you cry so much that you couldn't finish... I figured that'd be a reason to put at #1 on this list), 4. Where the Red Fern Grows (middle grade dog book), 5. Bridge to Terabithia (have you never read this????)

The book that made me sob uncontrollably was A Little Life. I’m always up for books that make me cry. So cathartic. I agree with Tess too. It’s my all time favourite book. Thomas Hardy is a genius.

I cried my eyes out reading "Little life" by Hanya Yanagihara

I listened to the Anthropocene podcast as it was being released. Hearing John narrate his sad and beautiful essays was so much more affecting. One of my favourites was on Jerzy Dukek and "You'll Never Walk Alone". 'Ove' audiobook downloading as I type. Thanks, Carolyn.

Dont even get me started on "The wind blows Backward" by Mary Downing Hahn. I could wax poetic about that book for HOURS.

Chapter 17 ~ 20 of "The Miraculous Journey of Edward Tulane" ripped by heart and had my eyes bawled out😭 It is the second book after "For One More Day" by Mitch Albom that ever made me cry (Yes I don't cry easily)

Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy by Rumer Godden Little Britches by Ralph Moody Wit by Margaret Edson. The film with Emma Thompson is amazing as well The Selfish Giant by Oscar Wilde The Velveteen Rabbit by Margery Williams The Runaway Bunny by Margaret Wise Brown Kristin Lavrandsdatter by Sigrid Undset Red Shoes for Nancy by Marguerite Hamilton

"Where the Red Fern Grows," "Soldier Dog," "The Book Thief," and "The Five People You Meet in Heaven" made me ugly cry 😢 😂 I recommend those books if you want to feel miserable yet happy while crying your eyes out and having a sad smile on your face. Because I sure did 😂

Haven't rad a book this year to make me cry yet, but books that did make me cry in the past few years: - A Little life - The Book Thief - The Housekeeper and the professor - One Flew over the cuckoos nest

White Fang, The Dark Tower, The Road.

I cry very easily as well!! My husband always asks Why are you crying now? I cried while reading "Clover Girls" by Viola Shipman. Definitely cried with " The man called Ove."

A Simple Plan by Scott Smith made me cry by the end. Its a very tragic tale over greed and how money corrupts people.

I got teary eyed just hearing you read from these books. Im such a baby 😂

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The ending of the brothers karamazov absolutely destroyed me. Alyoshas monologue had me crying so much I couldn’t read, and my pages were getting wet with tears. His monologue was pure & hopeful that I felt it deep in my soul.

On the Beach by Nevil Shute... It takes place in Australia shortly after a nuclear apocalypse has happened in the northern hemisphere, and everyone in the south is just waiting and looking for hope while the fallout creeps closer and closer. It's by no means a perfect book (it's from the 50s and Shute is super colonial), but wow did it make me feel things.

Emotional books can be so challenging , but so cathartic.... Most recently I was hegging at 'Young Mungo' by Douglas Stuart and 'Small Things Like These' by Claire Keegan. Usually I don't cry at films, but the adaptation of her story 'Foster' ('The Quiet Girl') left me devastated.

I recognized The Marvels right away and had to watch 😂 I love books that make you cry.