People like to shit on and say main characters are overrated and a good amount of the times isn't true but they are just bitter because they prefer side characters
I absolutely hated Illuminae even though everyone seemed to love it : I found it so cringy and boring ! I regretted buying it sooo hard and to this day I still don't understand why people hyped it this much... same with Caraval...I'm not against some romance but God I hated the ones in these two Btw I love your videos ! And I don't usually cry while reading either but ah... A Monster Calls made me cry my heart out 😭
Hugging a book? Crying? Immediately pops up The Book Thief. Boy, how much I cried with that one. After was over I was actually sobbing, even remembering it makes me so emotional. Still no regrets, such a beautiful book.
@@smartlikewoah yes, definitely. I was interested because the whole "death telling a story" thing but was so deep and beautiful and meaningful. It definitely is the type to make you cry but also worth it for sure.
@@BookswithEmilyFox oh that's for sure, but I say it's worth it. Is that type of story makes your heart ache after you're done but you have no regrets because it was so beautiful and touching.
I usually cry at historical fiction books with war topics but Book thief didn't do it for me actually. It always felt forced and meh like the author was "loook hooow saad this isss staaart cryying" *eyesroll* But yeah, i guess it depends, i know that book has pretty divided opinions.
When I recommend Night to people I usually tell them to get ready to be kicked right in the face because that what is fells like to read this book. Great choice.
Night most definitely made me cry. I’ve never been so affected by nonfiction, but the story really made me realize the reality of the Holocaust tragedy. Important read, everyone should read it sometime in their life.
Yes! Night shocked me so much. I knew it was about the holocaust, but I had to read it for school(which i usually hate reading required books) and books don't often make me cry. I'm also not a huge fan of nonfiction, so I wasn't really expecting so many emotions! Let's just say it was a bad choice to read it on the bus surrounded by lots of people...
"After the Fire" is by FAR my favorite book I've ever read -- its SO SO SO heartfelt and is uniquely written. I can't say enough about this book. (MUST READ!)
book that made me cry: song of achilles.... the ending had me in actual sobs, sometimes I pull it off my shelf just to read the last couple of pages and I always tear up :')
Funny enough I discovered Flowers for Algernon when I watched the Japanese drama and then later found out that it was a book. The drama was great and the book was beautiful. I cried so much when I read it.
everytime you say you don’t have a copy of Evelyn Hugo, I want to buy you one SO BAD! fun fact: when I first got my library card last year, I took out I’ll Give You The Sun, Evelyn Hugo AND The Astonishing Color of After. I had to ask myself why I was trying to break my own heart that way.
I mostly like going into a book without knowing much about it *except* if it’s going to make me cry, so a heads up video like this is much appreciated. That being said, I read Flowers for Algernon in the 8th grade not knowing what I was getting myself into and that’s probably why I need the “you’re gonna cry” heads up to this day.
I read Flowers for Algernon YEARS AND YEARS ago and I still remember how it felt like a gut punch when I got to the end. Brilliantly heartbreaking, I totally agree. It left a permanent mark on me.
I was kinda satisfied with the ending for main character in Flowers for Algernon. It just reinforced my belief that Ignorance is bliss and all. But it was also sad, so I agree with you on that.
But why would you be satisfied? And the begin he was ignorant and blissful but also extremely unintelligent. But by the end he had reverted back but was no longer ignorant. Things did not go back to the way they were. He remembered who he has as an intelligent man and how he was treated.
Can't wait to do all of this crying! But seriously thank you for the recommendations. I have Night and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas on my bookshelf to read this year. I'll definitely be adding more from this list.
I read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo based on your recommendation last year. It's not something I would have ever picked up otherwise. BUT...I loved it so much (and yes, I cried several times too). It became one of my two favorite books of the year.
I just recently read His Dark Materials for the first time, and I'm glad I waited until I was an adult to read it because there are do many layers of meaning in the series. But I agree, that ending hurt my soul a little bit (or a lot lol). Yep, Flowers for Algernon and A Monster Calls are both heart-wrenching. 😭
This is very interesting! I'm actually trying to learn that skill in writing, the skill of making arcs so heart-wrenching that one cannot help but cry. I know that I can make myself cry when I write, but I'm not sure about others' reactions. I'm going to definitely check out your recommendations for influence!
I read the short story version of flowers for Algernon in middle school and I'm pretty sure I started crying during class because of it. I cry really easily though. Such a good story, I need to pick up the full book sometime soon!
Flowers for Algernon is definitely number one on my list, I completely agree with you. It's so hard for me to talk about it without wanting to just blurt out everything! As well as I'll Give You The Sun because I read it first at 13 and then again at 16 and having the twins be the ages that I was at the time really put into perspective how teenagers deal with their own issues, it'll be a while before I can read it again haha. Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Outsiders also got me the second time that I read them. I wanna read Evelyn Hugo now! I already had an interest, but everyone keeps mentioning the ending and you really sold me, I was also interested in Man's Search for Meaning-- nonfictions like that are always the hardest for me because, as you said, I will (hopefully) never understand what they went through and it's heartbreaking.
Before I Die by Jenny Downham broke me. I usually do not cry, like at all but by the end of that book, I was a wreck. The name is kind of a spoiler but the small details of her relationship with her brother and father just made my heart shatter. Just her knowing that she won't live long and knowing she won't achieve what she wants before she dies- just her family and friends coming to terms with that. I highly recommend. Sure, the romance was nice but it was her family relationships that got me.
I read the short story version of Flowers for Algernon when I was in 8th grade. I don’t remember too much about the plot, but I remember feeling a lot of things you described as I was going through it. It one of the few stories that have stuck with me
A Monster Calls, the movie, made me ugly cry the entire time. It was so beautiful and is so worth a watch. The Little Prince is a good heart wrencher if you're in the market for a good heart felt cry. Maybe it was just me. The old man in the story reminded me very much of my grandpa and it just pounded on all the feels. ETA: for a fun read that also hits the feels, the Newsflesh series by Mira Grant...I reread it every year. The writing could be helped, but the story is really fun.
One of the few books that made me cry was Heartless, by Marissa Meyer. It is an origin story about the Queen of Hearts, and it broke me for a solid few days.
I LOVE books that give you all the feels...but also hate them lol. I totally agree about I'll Give You the Sun, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and A Monster Calls. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is also incredible. The Knife of Never Letting Go actually destroyed me, but I still love it so much and it was so worth the read! Other sad books I love are Me Before You by Jojo Moyes and Impulse (or really anything) by Ellen Hopkins!
I saw the Monster Calls movie before reading the book and the book still made me sob, even knowing what was coming. One of my favourite books of last year along with Evelyn Hugo.
I agree with A Monster Calls !! IT BROKE ME TO PIECES !!!! Also, The Song of Achilles WOW. My heart cannot be mended since reading that book it's beauuutiful !!
So, The Monster Calls also broke me. Then I decided that we should watch the movie as a family. It broke my then 7 year old son! He sobbed and kept holding onto me. It was so good!
Flowers for Algernon was such a strange experience! The prevalent emotion I felt throughout the book was annoyance, I just really didn't sympathize with the main character after he started the experiment. I fully expected to feel angry and disappointed after I finished it. And then the ending hit and I found myself inexplicably crying my eyes out. An I don't mean shedding a tear or two, shit got ugly. A really powerful book.
I read Flower for Algernon when I was in middle school and it made me sad but I didn't cry. I feel like if I were to read it now for the first time as an adult I would cry my eyes out!
I’ll give you the sun is one of my all time favorites and completely not a genre I ever pick up. I only read it bc if you and I’m so thankful! It’s so wonderful💛💛💛
Some books that brought tears to my eyes: The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman Books that made tears stream down my face: The Book Thief by Markus Zusak A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
I've read "A monster call" but I didn't know there was a movie. I've just watch the trailer and I'm starting to cry, so I don't think i'm ready for the movie yet! The audiobook for A Monster Call is read by Jason Isaacs, the actor who did Lucious Malfoy. It's sooo good.
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Illuminae, and The Death Cure made me cry. I think in school when I read The Outsiders, Where the Red Fern Grows, and Night I cried. I don't cry often in books (in general really though unless animals being hurt are involved lol) but those got to me!
I read A Monster Calls a few months ago but I read it in one day and I guess that kind of ruined the experience for me. Normally, even if a book is only 150 pages long, I will read part of it in one day and continue the next, so I can really absorb the plot and get more attached to the characters. A Monster Calls was my experiment to see if I would get as attached to the characters and get as intrigued by the plot if I finish it in one sitting. Unfortunately, that was not the case. I ended up really liking the book but it didn't touch me as much as it would've had I read it in my natural pacing. I'll definitely go for a reread sometime this year, though.
Do you remember if you talked about His Dark Materials in a video? Like a wrap up or readathon? I’m reading it now and would love to watch that video to hear your thoughts when they were fresh!
I have read most of the ones you recommended and I completely agree with your assessments and also harry potter the entire series for real! I'll give you the sun and a monster calls are so underrated but bloody amazing and yes to war books being almost uncanny in their ability to just shake us! Both of those books sat with me long after I read them.
I only read Seven husbands from your list and oh boy... that really did a number on me. The last fifty pages I spent with endless tears and sniffling until I ran out of tissues.
As a person whose default setting is crying (when happy, when angry, when sad, when worried etc.) a lot of novels made me cry. There are some that really got me going and one of them is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. That one made me cry for days after reading it. Same goes for The Book Thief (I knew I was going to cry but I was not expecting that level of crying from it). A Monster Calls oddly enough, did not make me cry (I only shed a few tears in the end, but again, this is just normal for me). I don't know why since it is a decent novel but it just didn't have that much effect on me. I have tried to read non fiction retelling of horrible events twice: the first time was that being a fan of murder/mystery/detective genre, and not a squeamish reader at all, I decided to give true crime a try and got The Green River Killer by Ann Rule. I couldn't even read past page 10 or someting (there were small photos of the victims and the whole horror of if was simply too much and I had to dnf it right there and then. Same thing happened with a book about Nanking Massacre again I couldn't even finish the first chapter.
It was years ago but The Notebook hit me hard. I reread it last year to see if I was more cold hearted now. Yes, maybe I am but it still got me. More recently was When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. I’d put it off because I knew I’d cry but oh my word, I ugly sobbed. Not one I’d recommend though. And Obviously, the Harry Potter series gets me every single time.
From all these the only ones I've read are TSHOEH, and MSFM, and both made me feel a lot, in different ways, but none made me cry. Still, great books; MSFM is a necessary educative read, and TSHOEH a great story with an amazing main character, so real and gripping (I actually want it to be adapted to a series/tv show, I think it'd suit it better than a film, but a film would be cool too!). AMC is in my TBR list, and you just made me want to read FFA and IGYTS! Thank you~
I loved Night, it's one of my favourite books. My favourite, that I have read numerous times, I Heard the Owl Call My Name. I cry throughout..... Thanks for doing this video, loved it!
Maybe it's not a popular book, but "Fish have no feet" by Jón Kalman Stefánsson just gave me all the feels. It's like poetry in the form of a novel. I don't want to spoil it, so I'm just going to say that I have never seen human emotions and thoughts expressed so beautifully before. Scandinavian (and icelandic) literature rules!
YES the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo ! So unexpected, I honestly thought it was going to be some light chick lit (the kind of guilty pleasure reads I like to indulge in from time to time) but it's SO much more than that ! Ended up being one of my favorite books I read in 2018 and still is a favorite, can't wait to re read it ! Definitely needs to become a movie
My cry worthy books (not necessarily crying at the ending, but crying at various heart rending parts): Forbidden - Tabatha Suzuma 11/22/63 - Stephen King The Binding - Bridget Collins The Taste of Sorrow - Jude Morgan Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini The Fault In Our Stars - John Green The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Tears came to my eyes thinking of the ending to Flowers for Algernon . I read the short story first and a few years later I read the novel . There is also a movie which I have seen
Have you read Lyra's Oxford? It take place 2 years after the Amber Spyglass! I haven't read it yet but I am going to reread the series this year so I can!
I don't read a lot of books that make me cry, but I just finished reading Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and it did make me cry, although the movie made me cry more.
"If this is a man" by Primo Levi is an absolutely amazing work of writing. He survived Auschwitz concentration camp but they way he writes....he was an Italian Jewish chemist and writes his journey through the camp like Dante's pilgrims journey through hell in Inferno. Reading it, your mind automatically reacts the way you would reading fiction because the horror they witnessed is something we don't want to be real, but you're so right, history needs to be witnessed in order to not let the past be repeated.
Cry-worthy books for me: 1.) Still Alice 2.) One Day 3.) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 4.) The Reader 5.) The Road 6.) To Kill a Mockingbird 7.) Tattoos on the Heart 8.) Chinese Cinderella 9.) Tell the Wolves I’m Home 10.) Me Before You 11.) The Goldfinch 12.) The Silver Linings Playbook 13.) Man’s Search for Meaning 14.) The FAult in Our Stars 15.) Love Story 16.) Curious Incident of Dog in the Night-time 17.) Love in the Time of Cholera 18.) Just Mercy 19.) Redeeming Love 20.) The Kite Runner Among other things.. :)
The last book that made me cry was The Night Diary. It’s a middle grade novel about the partition of India that’s written in the form of diary entries from the narrator to her dead mother, who she never met. Overall, it’s a very beautiful and often painful exploration of family and identity, as well as a window into a tragic part of history that isn’t discussed enough.
I finished Monster Calls like an hour before watching this video, so have to agree on that. I didn't actually find Evelyn Hugo and I'll give you the sun cry worthy at all. I can't remember many books that would make me cry a lot, maybe the ending of Harry Potter 5.
I loved Flowers for Algernon. I really want to reread it this year. The novel is better and more complex than the short story. The short story was written first and the novel has the short story plus a lot more.
Yep I would agree with that selection of tear jerkers. I would also recommend Anne Griffin's when all is said and done - My Goodreads review is still just that it made me cry in a restaurant - can't quite get to writing it !
I have only ever cried at five books: The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien, The Ghost Road by Pat Barker, Fool's Errand and Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb and The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas. I have a big problem saying goodbye it turns out.
@@messy678 Yes it is. I haven't read Silence of the Girls but the Regeneration Trilogy was excellent. Also, bit of useless information, the second book, the Eye in the Door, was the first book I ever read with a homosexual love scene.
The last book that made me cry was Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA by Roberta Kaplan. The title may give the impression of a school textbook for a history of law class, but it's honestly a beautiful and touching story. I highly recommend it.
Agreed about Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. It was a 5 star for me last year. And yes some tears! Also just finished Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new novel Daisy Jones and the Six and oh man it was good. I recommend for you to put it on your list.
Rita Landells Hi, have you read any other books by the same author other than the two you mentioned above? I very much look forward to the new book, but the other one I read “maybe in another life” by her was not very good comparing to the seven husbands.
Salt to the Sea and Sarah’s Key will forever hold a special place in my heart and I remember crying so much afterwards but they are incredible works of historical fiction
I loved his dark materials trilogy and am looking forward to the next book in the 'Book of Dust' series. The one series that broke my heart was Robin Hobb's Fitz and Fool series. Whilst reading the end of Assassins Fate I just sat on my bed crying. My lovely husband took me out for a walk and some lunch and I just sat there, saying nothing and trying not to burst into tears. I have never been so strongly affected by the fate of fictional characters before - it was bonkers!!
What are some of you UNPOPULAR BOOK OPINIONS?
Leave them here and I'll do a video reacting to them :D
I really hate Shatter me, Hunger games, Twilight, Mortal instruments, Divergent... series! Also I really hate Rone and Hermione like couple...
Oh... I hate Cruel prince, too. :)
People like to shit on and say main characters are overrated and a good amount of the times isn't true but they are just bitter because they prefer side characters
If we are being realistic here Ron and Hermione would never work and they'd definitely have gotten a divorce, probably never have dated at all.
I absolutely hated Illuminae even though everyone seemed to love it : I found it so cringy and boring ! I regretted buying it sooo hard and to this day I still don't understand why people hyped it this much... same with Caraval...I'm not against some romance but God I hated the ones in these two
Btw I love your videos ! And I don't usually cry while reading either but ah... A Monster Calls made me cry my heart out 😭
Books that made me cry:
Organic Chemistry: Structure and Function. (2014). Vollhardt, K., Peter, C., & Schore, N. E.
10/10 would NOT recommend.
Oh I feel you!
Physics 3 in Cegep almost killed me :/
😂😂😂😂😂😂👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
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Seems like a cool book 😂😘
Chalyse Wood It has been 54 years and I’m still having nightmares about the Organic Chemistry!
Hugging a book? Crying? Immediately pops up The Book Thief. Boy, how much I cried with that one. After was over I was actually sobbing, even remembering it makes me so emotional. Still no regrets, such a beautiful book.
I still haven't read that book 😔 So I'm guessing from your comment it's worth reading right? Lol
Still haven't read it... I have a feeling it will make me too sad :/
@@smartlikewoah yes, definitely. I was interested because the whole "death telling a story" thing but was so deep and beautiful and meaningful. It definitely is the type to make you cry but also worth it for sure.
@@BookswithEmilyFox oh that's for sure, but I say it's worth it. Is that type of story makes your heart ache after you're done but you have no regrets because it was so beautiful and touching.
I usually cry at historical fiction books with war topics but Book thief didn't do it for me actually. It always felt forced and meh like the author was "loook hooow saad this isss staaart cryying" *eyesroll* But yeah, i guess it depends, i know that book has pretty divided opinions.
Try reading Khaled Hosseni books.
The kite runner and A thousand splendid suns are gems!
Yessss
Those books got me into reading.love them so much
YASSS!
Yes yes yes
I just finished The Kite Runner... most powerful novel I’ve ever read.
Don't know if it sounds weird, but I really like crying after a good emotional story. Thanks for the recommendations Emily!
Non-fiction - Night by Ellie Wiesel
Fiction - The Kite Runner by Khaleed Hosssein .This book has a very special place in my heart .
When I recommend Night to people I usually tell them to get ready to be kicked right in the face because that what is fells like to read this book. Great choice.
Night most definitely made me cry. I’ve never been so affected by nonfiction, but the story really made me realize the reality of the Holocaust tragedy. Important read, everyone should read it sometime in their life.
The Kite Runner - YES. Sometimes you have to check twice that it's fiction. At least you hope it is. :(
Yes! Night shocked me so much. I knew it was about the holocaust, but I had to read it for school(which i usually hate reading required books) and books don't often make me cry. I'm also not a huge fan of nonfiction, so I wasn't really expecting so many emotions! Let's just say it was a bad choice to read it on the bus surrounded by lots of people...
The kite runner just broke my heart in 10000 pieces
The boy in the striped pajamas was a very emotional read for me more so than Night.
That one made me laugh ngl
"After the Fire" is by FAR my favorite book I've ever read -- its SO SO SO heartfelt and is uniquely written. I can't say enough about this book. (MUST READ!)
i couldn't stop crying when i finished flowers for algernon
Niki Sepehrinejad I had to read that for 8th grade last year. I didn't cry though.
definitely. a great novel so sad
A piece of my soul died with Call My By Your Name
I do only know call me by your name and i dont even move on yet from the movie.
Ps.sorry my grammar is a mess
The only emotion I conveyed from that book was feeling weird 😭
I watched the movie last night for the first time and I cried sm
How do i get myself to stop crying after thosee last linesss????
"Tuesdays with Morrie" by Mitch Albom
My favourite book is a monster calls I’m always so glad when someone mentions or recommends it because it deserves so much love
“A Little Life” by Hanya Yanagihara - broke my heart in the best way. I didn’t cry, I WEPT.
Finished that literally 10 minutes ago. Send help 😭😭😭
'The Song of Achilles' and 'Forbidden' are literally the two books that had me depressed and crying for a long ass time.
Seven husbands of Evelyn Hugo was so sad, and I loved it! Other book that made me sob was Salt to the sea by Ruta Sapetys
book that made me cry: song of achilles.... the ending had me in actual sobs, sometimes I pull it off my shelf just to read the last couple of pages and I always tear up :')
Is it a good book?
@@i_heart_jesus-l1v to me, yes 😊
@@zoeyl9662 Thank you for replying 😀
me too me too, i felt so empty
Khaled Housseini's books. Oh God. I stopped reading for months after reading them.
Funny enough I discovered Flowers for Algernon when I watched the Japanese drama and then later found out that it was a book. The drama was great and the book was beautiful. I cried so much when I read it.
everytime you say you don’t have a copy of Evelyn Hugo, I want to buy you one SO BAD!
fun fact: when I first got my library card last year, I took out I’ll Give You The Sun, Evelyn Hugo AND The Astonishing Color of After. I had to ask myself why I was trying to break my own heart that way.
I mostly like going into a book without knowing much about it *except* if it’s going to make me cry, so a heads up video like this is much appreciated.
That being said, I read Flowers for Algernon in the 8th grade not knowing what I was getting myself into and that’s probably why I need the “you’re gonna cry” heads up to this day.
"And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer and Longer " by Fredrik Backman had me ugly crying. The same with every Kahled Hosseini book.
Thanks to you I read Flowers for Algernon last year and it broke my heart!!!! It has become one of my favorite books ❤
Thanks for recommending Flowers for Algernon. I never in my life expected to cry reading a book.
I just finished the song of achilles and I cried multiple times oh god I knew it was gonna happen but still
Oh my god this comment is my life (that book is my life) in one comment
I read Flowers for Algernon YEARS AND YEARS ago and I still remember how it felt like a gut punch when I got to the end. Brilliantly heartbreaking, I totally agree. It left a permanent mark on me.
I was kinda satisfied with the ending for main character in Flowers for Algernon. It just reinforced my belief that Ignorance is bliss and all. But it was also sad, so I agree with you on that.
But why would you be satisfied? And the begin he was ignorant and blissful but also extremely unintelligent. But by the end he had reverted back but was no longer ignorant. Things did not go back to the way they were. He remembered who he has as an intelligent man and how he was treated.
Can't wait to do all of this crying! But seriously thank you for the recommendations. I have Night and The Boy in the Striped Pajamas on my bookshelf to read this year. I'll definitely be adding more from this list.
I read The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo based on your recommendation last year. It's not something I would have ever picked up otherwise. BUT...I loved it so much (and yes, I cried several times too). It became one of my two favorite books of the year.
I just recently read His Dark Materials for the first time, and I'm glad I waited until I was an adult to read it because there are do many layers of meaning in the series. But I agree, that ending hurt my soul a little bit (or a lot lol).
Yep, Flowers for Algernon and A Monster Calls are both heart-wrenching. 😭
Never have I seen a more accurate description of A Monster Calls.
Nothing made me cry like A thousand splendid suns, ooohh boy, I used to go to school with puffy eyes not being able to sleep, reading all night lol
This is very interesting! I'm actually trying to learn that skill in writing, the skill of making arcs so heart-wrenching that one cannot help but cry. I know that I can make myself cry when I write, but I'm not sure about others' reactions. I'm going to definitely check out your recommendations for influence!
Yes, I cried my eyes out after finishing Monster Calls!! Thankfully I was home alone at that time so didn't have to explain myself.
I'm reading His Dark Materials for the first time, currently in The Subtle Knife, and I am IN LOVE. I will 100% read this to my future children.
I’ve read 5/7 of these books. I don’t remember the dark materials making me cry, but I absolutely loved it.
I read the short story version of flowers for Algernon in middle school and I'm pretty sure I started crying during class because of it. I cry really easily though. Such a good story, I need to pick up the full book sometime soon!
I sobbed while reading A Monster Calls (and during the movie). Flowers for Algernon really broke my heart. It's one of my favorite books.
Flowers for Algernon is definitely number one on my list, I completely agree with you. It's so hard for me to talk about it without wanting to just blurt out everything! As well as I'll Give You The Sun because I read it first at 13 and then again at 16 and having the twins be the ages that I was at the time really put into perspective how teenagers deal with their own issues, it'll be a while before I can read it again haha.
Perks of Being a Wallflower and The Outsiders also got me the second time that I read them.
I wanna read Evelyn Hugo now! I already had an interest, but everyone keeps mentioning the ending and you really sold me, I was also interested in Man's Search for Meaning-- nonfictions like that are always the hardest for me because, as you said, I will (hopefully) never understand what they went through and it's heartbreaking.
Before I Die by Jenny Downham broke me. I usually do not cry, like at all but by the end of that book, I was a wreck. The name is kind of a spoiler but the small details of her relationship with her brother and father just made my heart shatter. Just her knowing that she won't live long and knowing she won't achieve what she wants before she dies- just her family and friends coming to terms with that. I highly recommend. Sure, the romance was nice but it was her family relationships that got me.
Night was required reading in high school and I was completely changed after reading it. Broke me!
I read the short story version of Flowers for Algernon when I was in 8th grade. I don’t remember too much about the plot, but I remember feeling a lot of things you described as I was going through it. It one of the few stories that have stuck with me
A Monster Calls, the movie, made me ugly cry the entire time. It was so beautiful and is so worth a watch. The Little Prince is a good heart wrencher if you're in the market for a good heart felt cry. Maybe it was just me. The old man in the story reminded me very much of my grandpa and it just pounded on all the feels.
ETA: for a fun read that also hits the feels, the Newsflesh series by Mira Grant...I reread it every year. The writing could be helped, but the story is really fun.
One of the few books that made me cry was Heartless, by Marissa Meyer. It is an origin story about the Queen of Hearts, and it broke me for a solid few days.
I LOVE books that give you all the feels...but also hate them lol. I totally agree about I'll Give You the Sun, The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo, and A Monster Calls. Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys is also incredible. The Knife of Never Letting Go actually destroyed me, but I still love it so much and it was so worth the read! Other sad books I love are Me Before You by Jojo Moyes and Impulse (or really anything) by Ellen Hopkins!
The last book that made me cry was A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. Devastatingly incredible.
I saw the Monster Calls movie before reading the book and the book still made me sob, even knowing what was coming. One of my favourite books of last year along with Evelyn Hugo.
You have to get the edition of I‘ll give you the sun from Walker Books!! You absolutely have to it‘s so beautiful!!!
I agree with A Monster Calls !! IT BROKE ME TO PIECES !!!! Also, The Song of Achilles WOW. My heart cannot be mended since reading that book it's beauuutiful !!
So, The Monster Calls also broke me. Then I decided that we should watch the movie as a family. It broke my then 7 year old son! He sobbed and kept holding onto me. It was so good!
Flowers for Algernon was such a strange experience! The prevalent emotion I felt throughout the book was annoyance, I just really didn't sympathize with the main character after he started the experiment. I fully expected to feel angry and disappointed after I finished it. And then the ending hit and I found myself inexplicably crying my eyes out. An I don't mean shedding a tear or two, shit got ugly. A really powerful book.
I read Flower for Algernon when I was in middle school and it made me sad but I didn't cry. I feel like if I were to read it now for the first time as an adult I would cry my eyes out!
I’ll give you the sun is one of my all time favorites and completely not a genre I ever pick up. I only read it bc if you and I’m so thankful! It’s so wonderful💛💛💛
Some books that brought tears to my eyes:
The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
Lilac Girls by Martha Hall Kelly
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
We Are the Ants by Shaun David Hutchinson
My Grandmother Asked Me to Tell You She's Sorry by Fredrik Backman
Books that made tears stream down my face:
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls
I've read "A monster call" but I didn't know there was a movie. I've just watch the trailer and I'm starting to cry, so I don't think i'm ready for the movie yet!
The audiobook for A Monster Call is read by Jason Isaacs, the actor who did Lucious Malfoy. It's sooo good.
Never Let Me Go. Oh my!
*Harrison's Principles of Internal Medicine*
*Absolutely good, highly recommended, just by staring at it, you'll already crying*
HAGHA THE WAY ITS STARING AT ME ACROSS MY ROOM
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, Illuminae, and The Death Cure made me cry. I think in school when I read The Outsiders, Where the Red Fern Grows, and Night I cried. I don't cry often in books (in general really though unless animals being hurt are involved lol) but those got to me!
I read A Monster Calls a few months ago but I read it in one day and I guess that kind of ruined the experience for me. Normally, even if a book is only 150 pages long, I will read part of it in one day and continue the next, so I can really absorb the plot and get more attached to the characters. A Monster Calls was my experiment to see if I would get as attached to the characters and get as intrigued by the plot if I finish it in one sitting. Unfortunately, that was not the case. I ended up really liking the book but it didn't touch me as much as it would've had I read it in my natural pacing. I'll definitely go for a reread sometime this year, though.
Do you remember if you talked about His Dark Materials in a video? Like a wrap up or readathon? I’m reading it now and would love to watch that video to hear your thoughts when they were fresh!
Flowers for Algernon was adapted to a movie I believe. Made in 1968 called Charly. So very good and definitely cry worthy.
I have read most of the ones you recommended and I completely agree with your assessments and also harry potter the entire series for real! I'll give you the sun and a monster calls are so underrated but bloody amazing and yes to war books being almost uncanny in their ability to just shake us! Both of those books sat with me long after I read them.
I agree with so many of your recommendations. No book has ever made me cry harder than the Book Thief though.
I only read Seven husbands from your list and oh boy... that really did a number on me. The last fifty pages I spent with endless tears and sniffling until I ran out of tissues.
As a person whose default setting is crying (when happy, when angry, when sad, when worried etc.) a lot of novels made me cry. There are some that really got me going and one of them is A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. That one made me cry for days after reading it. Same goes for The Book Thief (I knew I was going to cry but I was not expecting that level of crying from it).
A Monster Calls oddly enough, did not make me cry (I only shed a few tears in the end, but again, this is just normal for me). I don't know why since it is a decent novel but it just didn't have that much effect on me.
I have tried to read non fiction retelling of horrible events twice: the first time was that being a fan of murder/mystery/detective genre, and not a squeamish reader at all, I decided to give true crime a try and got The Green River Killer by Ann Rule. I couldn't even read past page 10 or someting (there were small photos of the victims and the whole horror of if was simply too much and I had to dnf it right there and then. Same thing happened with a book about Nanking Massacre again I couldn't even finish the first chapter.
I plan on reading His Dark Materials soon. I’m excited.
It was years ago but The Notebook hit me hard. I reread it last year to see if I was more cold hearted now. Yes, maybe I am but it still got me.
More recently was When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi. I’d put it off because I knew I’d cry but oh my word, I ugly sobbed. Not one I’d recommend though.
And Obviously, the Harry Potter series gets me every single time.
From all these the only ones I've read are TSHOEH, and MSFM, and both made me feel a lot, in different ways, but none made me cry. Still, great books; MSFM is a necessary educative read, and TSHOEH a great story with an amazing main character, so real and gripping (I actually want it to be adapted to a series/tv show, I think it'd suit it better than a film, but a film would be cool too!). AMC is in my TBR list, and you just made me want to read FFA and IGYTS! Thank you~
I love the Dark materials! It's my favorite fantasy trilogy. They broke my heart into pieces
I loved Night, it's one of my favourite books. My favourite, that I have read numerous times, I Heard the Owl Call My Name. I cry throughout..... Thanks for doing this video, loved it!
Maybe it's not a popular book, but "Fish have no feet" by Jón Kalman Stefánsson just gave me all the feels. It's like poetry in the form of a novel. I don't want to spoil it, so I'm just going to say that I have never seen human emotions and thoughts expressed so beautifully before. Scandinavian (and icelandic) literature rules!
I almost never cry in books but Night made me sob, it's devastating
All the light we cannot see is also beautiful
YES the Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo ! So unexpected, I honestly thought it was going to be some light chick lit (the kind of guilty pleasure reads I like to indulge in from time to time) but it's SO much more than that ! Ended up being one of my favorite books I read in 2018 and still is a favorite, can't wait to re read it ! Definitely needs to become a movie
In the Unlikely Event and Summer Sisters both by Judy Blume they both made me cry like a baby.
My cry worthy books (not necessarily crying at the ending, but crying at various heart rending parts):
Forbidden - Tabatha Suzuma
11/22/63 - Stephen King
The Binding - Bridget Collins
The Taste of Sorrow - Jude Morgan
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows - J K Rowling
The Kite Runner - Khaled Hosseini
The Fault In Our Stars - John Green
The Help - Kathryn Stockett
Tears came to my eyes thinking of the ending to Flowers for Algernon . I read the short story first and a few years later I read the novel . There is also a movie which I have seen
Have you read Lyra's Oxford? It take place 2 years after the Amber Spyglass! I haven't read it yet but I am going to reread the series this year so I can!
I haven't! I'm scared to be disappointed as I was with The Book of Dust!
Flowers for Algernon was just amazing and made me cry so much...
I felt the exact same with Flowers For Algernon, it broke me, and left me broken for a few days lol
I don't read a lot of books that make me cry, but I just finished reading Simon vs. the Homo Sapiens Agenda and it did make me cry, although the movie made me cry more.
"If this is a man" by Primo Levi is an absolutely amazing work of writing. He survived Auschwitz concentration camp but they way he writes....he was an Italian Jewish chemist and writes his journey through the camp like Dante's pilgrims journey through hell in Inferno.
Reading it, your mind automatically reacts the way you would reading fiction because the horror they witnessed is something we don't want to be real, but you're so right, history needs to be witnessed in order to not let the past be repeated.
Cry-worthy books for me:
1.) Still Alice
2.) One Day
3.) Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close
4.) The Reader
5.) The Road
6.) To Kill a Mockingbird
7.) Tattoos on the Heart
8.) Chinese Cinderella
9.) Tell the Wolves I’m Home
10.) Me Before You
11.) The Goldfinch
12.) The Silver Linings Playbook
13.) Man’s Search for Meaning
14.) The FAult in Our Stars
15.) Love Story
16.) Curious Incident of Dog in the Night-time
17.) Love in the Time of Cholera
18.) Just Mercy
19.) Redeeming Love
20.) The Kite Runner
Among other things.. :)
My heart literally jumped when I read redeeming love. It is my all time favourite book. It is just ohhhhhh I'm speechless.
What about the mouse in The Green Mile?
I haven't read the book! The movie definitely breaks my heart tho... which is why I haven't read it yet :(
Oana-Maria Uliu Did that make you cry too?? I was pregnant, and a emotional mess when I watched it, and thought that was why it crushed me!! 😂
Yes, Amy, there are several scenes in that book that can make one very emotional.
The last book that made me cry was The Night Diary. It’s a middle grade novel about the partition of India that’s written in the form of diary entries from the narrator to her dead mother, who she never met. Overall, it’s a very beautiful and often painful exploration of family and identity, as well as a window into a tragic part of history that isn’t discussed enough.
I finished Monster Calls like an hour before watching this video, so have to agree on that. I didn't actually find Evelyn Hugo and I'll give you the sun cry worthy at all. I can't remember many books that would make me cry a lot, maybe the ending of Harry Potter 5.
OH MY GODDDD YOU INCLUDED FLOWERS FOR ALGERNONNNNNN GAHHH I LOVE THAT BOOK TOO MUCHHHH
I loved Flowers for Algernon. I really want to reread it this year. The novel is better and more complex than the short story. The short story was written first and the novel has the short story plus a lot more.
Yep I would agree with that selection of tear jerkers. I would also recommend Anne Griffin's when all is said and done - My Goodreads review is still just that it made me cry in a restaurant - can't quite get to writing it !
Emily, have you read anything from Fredrick Backman? I feel all of his books can be described as "It'll make you cry but it's so worth it!" :D
I have only ever cried at five books: The Return of the King by JRR Tolkien, The Ghost Road by Pat Barker, Fool's Errand and Assassin's Fate by Robin Hobb and The Man in the Iron Mask by Alexandre Dumas. I have a big problem saying goodbye it turns out.
hobbleit is that the same Pat Barker that wrote Silence of the Girls? I read and loved that recently.
@@messy678 Yes it is. I haven't read Silence of the Girls but the Regeneration Trilogy was excellent. Also, bit of useless information, the second book, the Eye in the Door, was the first book I ever read with a homosexual love scene.
hobbleit ok neat I’ll check it out. Thanks!
The Nightingale, by Kristin Hannah made me sob!
The last book that made me cry was Then Comes Marriage: United States v. Windsor and the Defeat of DOMA by Roberta Kaplan. The title may give the impression of a school textbook for a history of law class, but it's honestly a beautiful and touching story. I highly recommend it.
Agreed about Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo. It was a 5 star for me last year. And yes some tears! Also just finished Taylor Jenkins Reid’s new novel Daisy Jones and the Six and oh man it was good. I recommend for you to put it on your list.
Rita Landells Hi, have you read any other books by the same author other than the two you mentioned above? I very much look forward to the new book, but the other one I read “maybe in another life” by her was not very good comparing to the seven husbands.
The Serpent King by Jeff Zentner and A Little Life by Hanya Yanagahiro broke me.
Salt to the Sea and Sarah’s Key will forever hold a special place in my heart and I remember crying so much afterwards but they are incredible works of historical fiction
I loved his dark materials trilogy and am looking forward to the next book in the 'Book of Dust' series. The one series that broke my heart was Robin Hobb's Fitz and Fool series. Whilst reading the end of Assassins Fate I just sat on my bed crying. My lovely husband took me out for a walk and some lunch and I just sat there, saying nothing and trying not to burst into tears. I have never been so strongly affected by the fate of fictional characters before - it was bonkers!!
“Of mice and men” is an interesting one cuz it got real tragic at the LAST FEW PAGES.
I read Night in high school. I read A LOT. And that book is one of two that will stick with me forever. Beautifully sad.
Definitely cried when I read Tell The Wolves I'm Home
Yes. Flowers for Algernon ❤❤❤❤❤❤