Young Adult Book Reading Challenges discussion

Hey guys I'm Taylor! :) I really want to find a book that makes me cry. I never cry while watching films/reading books. The only exceptions being the film versions of The Boy in the Striped Pajamas and Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close. I really like to read sad/emotional books so if anyone could recommend one that made you cry I would really appreciate it! ^^

Have you read ?

Cried so ridiculously hard reading that.

Kissed by an Angel
this book i cried!!!

is a good one, too.

Forbidden by Tabitha Suzuma

Teary tearjerkers.

I LITTERY CRIED WITH

WHERE THE RED FERN GROWS-cause the dogs died
&
THE HUNGER GAMES-cause rue died

How about On the Jellicoe Road by Melina Marchetta? It's a fabulous book :)

Maybe don't post spoilers for people who haven't read these things? Common courtesy.

A Monster Calls

I cried a lot while reading this

I don't typically cry while reading although I do cry at commercials, go figure. I don't know what genre you are looking for but Thirteen Reasons Why and Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas are sad books for different reasons.

Just finished Hallowed by Cynthia Hand and I cried like a little kid. And yeah, I cried when reading Harry Potter and Hunger Games and all those.

I cried throughout the second part of the book..especially in the end. It was just so..depressing and sad :(

I cried reading these:

Josheka wrote: " I cried throughout the second part of the book..especially in the end. It was just so..depressing and sad :("

Me too! I just love her books!

If i stay by Gayle Forman

I had a good single cry during

read the fault in our stars, the last song, or dear John. I cried in all 3 books. I really recommend the fault in our stars

... these books have made me cry my eyes out.

I agree, & are also tearjerkers

Definately... I couldn't stop that one,

and then there was ....

I cried so hard in the 3rd book of His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman.(but you would have to read books one and two first)

(the first book)
<---I also loved this book and it is so sad in the end
<--- I just finished thi and I shed a tear at the end

Dammmit I can't think of any at the moment, but in terms of fims it is without a doubt Bridge to Terabithia, I think it is much sadder than the book and I'm always a mess after watching it.

Here are five novels, not all of them YA, that made me cry this year:

the fault in our stars and the book thief both made me sob like a baby!

Teary eyed the whole time.

This was almost too much. Really embarrassing to cry in front of your boyfriend while reading a book. At least he hugged me until I finished :)

<3 this book.

I own The Fault in our Stars, but am afraid to read it, lol.


Virginia Woolf's novels make me want to cry, but those aren't YA.

I read Are You There God It's Me Margaret while really young and that book made me really sad.

any book that someone dies! its so sad :(

Taking Chances by Molly McAdams ... bawled like a baby!

Lara wrote: "any book that someone dies! its so sad :("

Ugh I know! Then after that I always cry when they're remembered in the book.

Taking Chances, Molly McAdams.....great book...Books normally don't make me cry. This one did!

I cried on a lot more books. As you can all tell, I am a very easy crier.

Tiger Lily was just awesome, emotional and I pretty sure you will cry(or at least get pretty darn close to crying)

Lottie wrote: "Tiger Lily was just awesome, emotional and I pretty sure you will cry(or at least get pretty darn close to crying)"

Oh dear! I was just getting ready to read that one. It's making me reconsider. I'm really not wanting to read a sad book.

Kim wrote: "Lottie wrote: "Tiger Lily was just awesome, emotional and I pretty sure you will cry(or at least get pretty darn close to crying)"

Oh dear! I was just getting ready to read that one. It's making..."

Oh please do read it! It is a masterpiece :)

Lottie wrote: "Oh please do read it! It is a masterpiece :) ..."

Don't worry, I will read it, just probably when I feel more up to being sad. I don't suppose you cried because it was happy?

Kim wrote: "Lottie wrote: "Oh please do read it! It is a masterpiece :) ..."

Don't worry, I will read it, just probably when I feel more up to being sad. I don't suppose you cried because it was happy?"

Well it was more of a bittersweet ending but most of the sad stuff happens at the end of the middle part of the book. Yeah this is more of a rainy day read :)

I cried in this book, it was very emotional knowing you have so little time left, but then to fall in love and then having to lose it all.

Oh my God. BAWLED MY EYES OUT READING PULLED BY AL JACKSON. It was SOOOOO GOOD.
Also, try reading something that's notorious for being a tear jerker, like My Sisters Keeper or The Last Song.
But seriously read Pulled because I was bawling.

Books that make me cry(in rank order)
1. Boy in the stripe pyjamas
2. Mocking bird
3. iron fey
4. Goddess test
5. Hunger games

The Last Song

and

If I Stay

The only book I have read recently that mad me cry was

Try

Or

Both by Cat Patrick

Only 2 books EVER made me cry. It's really hard to do that, i don't cry easily. Those books are:

and


Sing me to sleep not only made me cry, but also SOB like a baby. The ending was SO sad.

Ohh I forgot...
I can't even think about one of the scenes in too much detail :'(

Ela wrote: "Ohh I forgot...
I can't even think about one of the scenes in too much detail :'("

ugh,I know EXACTLY which one you are talking about!! Me too, I cried and cried!!!!!!

I haven't read The Knife of Never Letting Go I want to though, is it good? Would you guys recommend it?

Slammed The Fault in Our Stars Where She WentOn the Jellicoe Road and basically every other novel that Melina Marchetta wrote. And it's never just a depressing kind of crying with her. There are always sad and happy tears.