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Since this week is a freebie topic I decided to go with an older topic that I missed out on. I’m a huge fan of tearjerkers so I had to pick this one.
1. If I Stay by Gayle Forman: From the very beginning of this book I had tears in my eyes. I literally had to keep a box of tissues with me the whole time I read this book. So sad yet so beautiful!
2. Where She Went by Gayle Forman: This is the companion to If I Stay and while it wasn’t nearly as sad as the first there were quite a few times I teared up. Some of these were happy tears though.
3. The Probability of Miracles by Wendy Wunder: This is a book about a girl with cancer who knows she is going to die. I knew it was going to be sad when I started it but I didn’t expect to need tissues because I laughed so hard I cried a couple times. There were definitely sad tears as well but much more happy tears.
4. A Need So Beautiful by Suzanne Young: I didn’t really know what to expect from this book but it definitely wasn’t what I got. I adored this book for every happy and sad moment. I also bawled like a baby at the end. Yeah..
5. Collision by Stefne Miller: This book is like 98% happy, 2% sad. However the 2% definitely hit me hard. This is another one that didn’t just make me tear up but instead I cried a lot.
6. The Sky Is Everywhere by Jandy Nelson: This is one of my all time favorite books. It’s so beautiful. It is however a book about grieving and trying to move on. I didn’t cry a ton at this one but I definitely teared up a few times.
7. Before I Fall by Lauren Oliver: This was the first book I ever read by Lauren Oliver and I’m really glad I started with this one. It’s amazingly well written and the story is beyond fabulous. While it definitely made me cry some sad tears it left me with a smile on my face.
I actually can’t think of 3 more books for this topic. What are some of your favorite tearjerkers?
The Sky is Everywhere! If I Stay! Where She Went! WAAAAAAAH D’: I totally cried in Between Shades of Gray as well
Cool List! I totally agree w/ The Sky is Everywhere… sobfest! Definitely Where the Red Fern Grows when I was in Middle School had me crying… it was traumatizing! Recently Pushing the Limits made me cry a little, and Like Moonlight at Low Tide, oh and Love and Other Perishable Items too! Apparently I’m a little too emotional these days!
Last night I spent a good 30 minutes crying so hard that I had to put down the book I was reading and just ugly-cry with the occasional scream of “How could you?!” until my contacts fell out and I had to go get my glasses before I could continue reading. While I’ve cried from books before, A Storm of Swords (book three in A Song of Ice and Fire) is just killing me.
Oh, gosh. If I Stay and Where She Went. I can read those two a hundred times and still cry at the exact same spots.
oh my gosh the sky is everywhere was so bad for me I was constantly tearing up but I adored it!
Marissa
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I loooove books that make me cry and boohooed during almost all of these! If I Stay makes you cry within the first few pages. I love it. 🙂
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Tiger Lily was a book that made me cry and I’m not such a crier at all. And the last Harry Potter, because it was sentimental and my favorite character EVER died TTT@thedailyprophecy
love it. alot of these are on my tbr list.. i need a good tear jerker! Check out our Top Ten Fictional Crushes Katie @ Inkk
Chris Crutcher’s DEADLINE and Jenny Downham’s BEFORE I DIE got me really bad.
I actively stay away from books that I think will make me cry – weird I know! Lol – but I loved seeing your list. I’ve read Before I Fall, and while I didn’t cry – the ending was so sad.
I cried reading Before I Fall, too. The only book that’s made me cry in a while, though, has been Every Day by David Levithan.
I just read Slammed by Colleen Hoover and that book made me both laugh and shed a few tears, I really recommend it! 🙂
I haven’t read 2 of these yet, but the others are great. I ALMOST teared up on most of them, and ACTUALLY cried on Probability of Miracles!
I have to look these up! I love books that make me emotional 🙂 I’ve read a couple of these though!
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I would definitely recommend Second Chance Summer by Morgan Matson. It made me appreciate my dad a whole more, and I shamelessly cried at the end. A very touching read 🙂
If I Stay is the only one I read and yes it made me cry.
And I second the recommendation for Slammed by Colleen Hoover. That book will make you cry (and laugh!)
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Another great “tearjerker” is The Sea of Tranquility by Katja Millay. LOVED that book!
I’ve read and loved all these except Collision. I guess I have to read that one sometime…anyways, the 6 I did read–those books killed my heart, too! So many tears. I cried for The Outsiders, too. And The Story of Us by Deb Caletti. I held it together so well until those last few pages…then I balled like a baby. I don’t even understand it! I can’t look at those pages without bursting into tears now. I have no idea why. No. Clue. Just saying. I loved your picks!
♥Jessica(:
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Holy Heck… A Need so Beautiful had me in a STATE! I was crying so hard at one point I actually had to stop, lol. It was amazzzzzing 🙂 Great picks-I haven’t read most of these picks but a lot are on my tbr!
Thanks for sharing!
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LOVE Before I Fall, If I Stay, and The Sky is Everywhere. Some of my favorite tearjerkers are The Fault In Our Stars by John Green (holy cow; cried like a baby) and Hallowed by Cynthia Hand (also cried like a baby. Multiple times)
The only book that I remember really making me cry in ages is The Fault in Our Stars. I sobbed and sobbed and sobbed.
The Art of Racing in the Rain – had me sobbing by page 2!
I loved the Art of Racing in the Rain. Some books that made me ugly cry were..>The Fault in Our Stars by John Green, Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma, The Bronze Horseman trilogy (I cried because it was over). I know there are more, but I can’t think of any right now.
The Sky Is Everywhere is the perfect sad book that ends hopefully. I loved the writing and the characters and I still remember them all, like they’re real people.