Top Ten Tuesday (70)

Top Ten Tuesday is an original feature meme created by The Broke and the Bookish.

This Tuesday's theme is...

Top Ten Books That Will Make You Cry

Ew, books that make me cry. I tend to avoid these, mainly the heartbreakers and heartwrenchers, especially after a book or two I read last year. Because some books that make me cry just hit me to hard, and I hate how it makes me feel. I can't always handle it, at least not quickly or well. And while I thought this topic would be a piece of cake, it's actually kind of hard for me to come up with ten books worthy of my precious, powerful tears. (Not like I can control them.) (Also, I'm not including books that made me cry just because a series I love ended and that sort of thing.) So. Here are nine books I can think of that make Rachel curl into a ball and hurt ow and create a waterfall of magical, painful tears will make you cry.

I think I cried?

I looked at this book on my shelf and thought, "Yes, this belongs on the list," but I read it long, long ago in sixth grade so I don't remember if I cried. But it's about Yellow Fever and lots of people die. So sadness.

Nobody but us and our tears.

I was not expecting to cry with this one, I think. But that ending? Yeah, THANKS FOR THAT.

I was PISSED.

I cried because of the ending. YOU CAN'T DO THAT! I was so mad about it that I cried.

It's just so beautiful.

Ah, happy-yet-sad tears.

Be still, my heart.

This book will take your heart out and stomp and shred it into a million painful pieces yet simultaneously keep it beat beat beating inside your body and giving you life, 100% guaranteed.

That's how you do it.

I cried because of death. But I also cried because it's over. And THAT'S how you end a series and do it beautifully and stay true to it.

Obvi.

SO MANY THINGS IN THAT ENDING, AND MY BABY DIED.

Okay? NOT OKAY.

This is probably my number two for most tears I've shed. SO EMOTIONAL. And when the movie comes, I will flood the theater with my tears.

The Book That Shall Not Be Named

Number one crier. Probably ever. I don't want to talk about it.

EDIT: It's like 3:00 a.m. and I just finished this book and I have to add it because

WHY, BOOK, WHY?

Do you ever go into a book thinking, "Oh hey, this looks good and it would never make me cry," and then you reach a point in the book and you suddenly think, "Oh gosh, is this book going to break my heart?" and then at another point you cry? *glares*

Here, have a tissue, or five million.