5 Books That Made Me Cry

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Little by Edward Carey
Heaven by Mieko Kawakami (tr. Sam Bett & David Boyd)
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
His Dark Materials by Philip Pullman

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[aIparica]

Your skin looks so good and vampirish in contrast to your shirt, hair, makeup, and background! But then, when you hold the NLMG book up, your skin glows! Either way, you look beautiful. I also think it's so wholesome how you talked about your emotions. You have such a way with words. 🥺 Anw, just felt the need to say that. Imma continue the video now. 😅 Can't wait to hear more of what you gonna say. Muah!

[shalryma]

I almost never cry while reading - but it happened to me very recently for the second time in my life. I was reading "Know My Name" by Chanel Miller, and I completely welled up on the part where she gets letters of support. I love women supporting women and it was very clear how much that meant to her. Hence the waterfalls on the train 😭😭😭

[MB-hctk]

I only came across your channel yesterday but I just want to say I’m really enjoying your videos and recommendations.. the way you describe books is very clear and I immediately want to consume them all. Your love for them really shines through and even though you said you are not a teacher anymore, I feel that you would make a really good understanding one. The way you described your school life reminded me of my own experience of it too eventhough it’s now 20 years since I left, I try not to reminisce about it too much because it’s like you relive those moments again and what are now scars become wounds again, so it might take me awhile to get to the one about the bullying . ❤

[sweetkarolines]

I finished Little today. I read it based off this video and it was a wonderful read! And yes, I cried at the end.

[red-blue]

I actually came across your channel because of ur heaven review and I’m so glad I did because it’s given me hours of entertainment on your channel . Also I’m glad you brought up the philosophical scene in heaven because something about that scene made me angry and sad at how I couldn’t really understand the logic yet I couldn’t argue against it.not many reviewers brought that scene up thank you.

[hollykane]

A decade after the Columbine school shooting, I read Dave Cullen's book, Columbine. An emotional interview with one of the teachers just made me break. It all just hit so close to home. I remember the horror of watching the events unfold, live on television, with the rest of the nation. Being in highschool at the time, it literally changed everything. Until that time, I'd never seen anything like it.

[ellie]

I love how you preview the next book up behind you on the book stand! That scene in Heaven also got me.

[NovelFindsByKassi]

It is a rare book that makes me cry. I'll never forget the first time I read 1984. I was on vacation with my family and I was reading it for a HS English class during the summer. I was so into it that I went to the bathroom at the hotel to finish reading it and the ennding devastated me to the point where I was sobbing in the bathroom, trying desparately not to awake any of my family members who I *knew* woludn't understand that 1, the book was worth staying up late into the night to read and 2, why I had been so moved.

[marya]

I'm loving your beautifully arranged bookshelf behind you!

[adelinefrey]

I was really pleased to wake up to a new video, something to help my work shift go a little faster. :) I'm the kind of person who also feels a lot, but struggles to be emotionally vulnerable in front of other people, lol. However, one type of book above all others will almost always make me cry, and those are stories primarily featuring animals/pets. The first book to ever make me cry was a children's book called "I'll Always Love You" by Hans Wilhelm, which is a story about saying goodbye to a beloved pet. When I was very young I'd read that over and over again. I still can't read it without getting emotional! Thank you for this great video and all these fantastic recommendations. :D

[soniaalmeidadias]

I was finishing "Into the Wild" from Jon Krakaeur on my bus ride to work, and I almost lost my stop, I was crying so hard. Many people were staring at me like I was crazy. And I did not use to cry at all with books and films, but after having my kid, it seems my hormones never recovered and now I cry every other book, sometimes I don't even know why. 🤷
Oh, and I cried a lot with Heaven as well...

[kateodonnell]

Lincoln in the Bardo. I don’t think any book has ever been so funny and strange but also succinctly shown what it is to experience grief and accept loss. I lost my mother when I was a teen. I’m now in my 40s and reading that book allowed a cathartic cry I didn’t know was still in me. I can’t wait to read the only one of these I haven’t explored which is “little” . Lauren Groff has become an author whose book releases have become events to me and the Vaster Wild’s lived up to its expectations.

[MarilynMayaMendoza]

I cried, reading heaven, and I hardly cry anymore. Glad you mentioned it. Aloha

[tyghe_bright]

Never Let Me Go is one of my favorite books, not least because it makes me cry.

I saw the movie first, which is lovely. But the writing in the book is so powerful, it wasn't spoiled.

[jstamps]

I've always been able to let a novel break my heart until tears flow. If the writers good at their art I'm involved. It was seeing the sensitivity and tenderness of the situation in the movie The Remains of The Day, that released the pain and tenderness we readers were witnessing.

[deblawrence]

What a touching video! Loved the story where you came full circle - and glad you became friends with "the bully." ❤ 😍 In my 50's I still hadn't read "Watership Down, " but desperately wanted to. It just happened to be one of my girlfriend's favorite books, so she figuratively held my hand throughout the reading of it. Couldn't have done it without her and loved, loved, loved it! Tears do not come easily for me and this one pulled at my heartstrings.

[spexi]

I cried at end of Vaster Wilds also . Those last 3 pages wow

[jeeranko]

I cry a lot. Like, A LOT. Sad tears, happy tears, angry tears... but all of them because of art, not life. Gosh, when I was first watching The Return of the King in 2003 in cinema I began crying at the first scene and just never stopped. Books? Yep, definitely. The last one that made me cry was As long as the lemon trees grow. Sobbed. A great story.

[radiantchristina]

Saw the title of the video....hit "like" 1 second into the video 🤗
Bring on the tears ! I love me some sad books.

[micaelagonzalez]

I cry very VERY easily. With songs, movies, videos, when I argue... But books have rarely made me cry. Demian by Hesse made me cry. And last week, the manga Solanin made me tear up a lot. I guess existentialism makes me cry.