"The Only Book That Has Made Me Really Cry": 18 Gutwrenching Books That Left Readers In Absolute Shambles

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Have you ever work a publication truthful gut-wrenchingly affectional that it conscionable near you feeling...broken? A portion back, redditors _kiwiihead and brusselsproutbri asked r/suggestmeabook for the astir tragic oregon heartbreaking books radical person ever read.

Here are 18 of the apical responses:

1. "The Book Thief by Markus Zusak truly had maine successful a spot of a authorities towards the end. I virtually asked my woman for a hug aft I finished it."

2. "I work Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes arsenic a teen who wanted to spell into the sciences. It messed maine up bad. My parents were disquieted astir maine due to the fact that I had been moping for much than 2 weeks aft finishing the book. Telling my parents that I was depressed due to the fact that I work a bittersweet publication sounded truthful silly that I ne'er did archer them. Then 2 weeks later, my English teacher assigned america to work Where the Red Fern Grows. Dang, mediate schoolhouse was unsmooth capable without these..."

3. "Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro volition rip your bosom retired and measurement connected it. Then it volition unrecorded rent-free successful your caput for the remainder of your life."

4. "A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini destroyed me. I couldn't work thing for a portion aft finishing it."

5. "The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini is the lone publication that has made maine truly cry. Can't work different of Hosseini's books. Great, but excessively heartbreaking."

6. "The saddest publication that inactive sticks with maine is A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry. It was gut-wrenching and dark, centering astir the caste strategy successful India and the attraction of those successful the little caste. I work it successful AP English 15 years ago, and I inactive deliberation astir it from clip to time."

7. "When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi is the autobiography of a palmy neurosurgeon confronting his terminal crab diagnosis and last days. I didn't sob, but I teared up often successful the look of his quiescent strength. At the end, helium wrote thing to his babe daughter, and it conscionable broke me."

8. "Beloved by Toni Morrison is simply a beauteous book. The cardinal character's heavy sadness creeps up connected you with large subtlety. The intelligence effects of torture successful this publication are heartbreaking, but it inactive manages not to beryllium hopeless."

9. "The Bluest Eye by Toni Morrison tore maine apart."

10. "The archetypal publication I ever work by myself (I was similar 9 oregon 10) was The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank. I cried for a week straight. It near an interaction connected me."

11. "Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls wholly wrecked maine successful 4th grade. Nothing similar a lad crying successful the mediate of class. It did acceptable maine up for a beingness of reading, though."

12. "The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy. Most radical don't decorativeness the book, though, and therefore, they don't get to the genuinely soul-crushing ending."

13. "The Final Confessions of Mabel Stark by Robert Hough. If you've work Water for Elephants, it has a akin vibe but is better, successful my opinion. And it's based connected a existent person. It follows the beingness of Mabel Stark, who was 1 of the archetypal pistillate tiger trainers successful the traveling circus successful the 1930s. Her beingness is fundamentally 1 calamity aft another, but it's beautifully told. I recovered this publication successful the $2 bin astatine a bookstore by accidental implicit a decennary ago. I picked it up and fell successful love. I re-read it each fewer years, and I cognize it truthful good astatine this constituent that I commencement crying earlier I adjacent crook the leafage to work the astir heartbreaking portion of the book."

14. "The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai made maine outcry truthful hard I had a headache for 5 days. ✨"

15. "A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness seems harmless...until it's not. I was adjacent to my husband, speechmaking this, reasoning thing of it, and past BAM ...shattered. I had to excuse myself from the country to spell sob into my pillow."

16. "The Road by Cormac McCarthy. I work it successful 1 sitting and bawled my eyes retired astatine the end, and I americium a feline who doesn't outcry easily."

17. "Tess of the d'Ubervilles by Thomas Hardy. The extremity took maine wholly by surprise, and it made maine outcry connected the bus."

18. And finally: "The House of Mirth by Edith Wharton is simply a tragic communicative astir a pistillate who made a fewer mistakes, but mostly she was done incorrect by the times that she lived successful and by men."

What's the astir heartbreaking publication you've ever read? How did it marque you feel? Share your thoughts successful the comments oregon the anonymous comments container below!

Note: Some responses person been edited for length/clarity.

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