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Name three books that you have read in the last 5 years that made you cry

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    #62
    philcoleman
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    The only one I can think of is the one I ream most recently - A Farewell to Arms by Hemingway. The ending just got me!


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    #63
    Gneez
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    Cloud atlas and Anathem came close, both absolutely amazing books.


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    #64
    filmbuffboy
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    At Swim, Two Boys - by Jamie O Neill


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    #65
    Asphyxia
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    There's lots :rolleyes:

    The Pact - Jodie Picoult
    Marley and Me - John Grogan
    Love Hurts - Linda Kavanagh


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    daithimac
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    1984.

    I was alternating between a lump in the throat and a burning rage.


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    #67
    ourtrail
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    Tuesdays with Morrie, great story but I dare anyone not to cry! watching the film is even harder!


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    #68
    MsJenjers
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    - Goodnight Mr Tom
    - Harry Potter 6 & 7


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    #69
    radiateur
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    The Book Thief

    The last Harry Potter

    Mothers and Sons (Colm Toibin)


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    #70
    RightlyRandom
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    A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini my god i cried so hard, such a great book, was one of them books where once you pick it up it's so hard to put it back down. Loved It! :D


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    #71
    MsJenjers
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    RightlyRandom wrote: »
    A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini my god i cried so hard, such a great book, was one of them books where once you pick it up it's so hard to put it back down. Loved It! :D

    Agreed! Fabulous book!


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    thegoodgirl
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    A thousands Splended Suns was fantastic so emotional but that didn't stop me from enjoying it completely. An excellent read.
    Thiesdays with Morrie by Mitch Alborn was also fantastic and I did shed a bucket of tears, I also cried at his at his book Have a little faith as well.

    But I also have to mention My sisters Keeper, the book was fantasrtic and completely pulled on my heart strings. Just so disappointing that they made such a muck up of the film.


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    foxinsox
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    A Thousand Splendid Suns - Khaled Hosseini

    Wild Swans - Jung Chang

    Tuesdays with Morrie - Mitch Alborn


    All three made me cry, all excellent reads.


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    #74
    coffee_cake
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    I have to admit that I pick up Watership Down once in a while, and it never fails to make me choke up a little :o:o
    I think Time Traveller's Wife came close as well.


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    wilmer mclean
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    Just finished Suttree by Cormac McCarthy probably the saddest book I have read.


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    #76
    Valmont
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    The Road by Cormac McCarthy
    Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
    Call of the Wild by Jack London

    For the last five years anyway...

    Although for unbridled gushing, fourteen years old reading The Amber Spyglass.


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    #77
    tawfeeredux
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    Valmont wrote: »
    Although for unbridled gushing, fourteen years old reading The Amber Spyglass.

    +1. Also, the scene towards the end of book 2, The Subtle Knife, where the aviator, Lee Scoresby & his daemon hare die while holding off a group of soldiers as Lyra makes her escape. That opened the tear ducts a bit too.

    Others would be Timbuktu by Paul Auster, the dog crossing the motorway at the end.

    Disgrace by J.M. Coetzee, where the professor loads the dog carcasses into the incinerator (i'm an animal person clearly:rolleyes:).


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