Big fat tears just STREAMING non stop down my face, and people side-eyeing me. And I just picked that book up randomly ’cause it was small and looked so sweet… WOW. What a book.
Krissy: I never could read Love You Forever without sobbing. My kids always wanted me to read it because they though it was hilarious when I started to cry.
Maryse: I’d want to read it to my mom, because I know she’d totally love this book, but we’d both cry like crazy and I just don’t want to put us through that…
Heidi: Seriously, I can’t even THINK about that book (Love You Forever) without crying hysterically. And since I lost my mom 2 years ago, it’s even worse.
Mo: I love that children’s book too… makes me cry every time!!
Shannon: I cry every time I read that one.
So now… it’s your turn. 🙂
What book made you cry in public? Where were you when it happened, and did anyone react?
Molly McAdams: omg
I’m so sorry
Maryse: HOLY MOLY!!! You poor thing. That’s a book I’ll NEVER forget. Freaked me out! Here’s my review.
Dawnee: Ugggghh!! Taking Chances !!! Molly McAdams …. Gut and soul wrenching…I was walking my dog in the neighborhood. Neighbors didn’t know what was wrong !! It was truly an ugly cry!!! Molly has put out an alternative ending recently for the book but the damage is done to my heart already!!
Carol: Ok how about when Beth dies in Little Women. That’s a multigenerational one, my kid says the same. Or: when Boromir dies in LOTR. I was in high school…
Stephanie D: The first book that made me cry and I mean full blown sobbing was Marley and Me. I just look at the cover and the tears start up.
Shannon: You know what book made me sob like a baby? Marley and Me. I know it’s not really within the subject matter of books covered in this blog, but I was sobbing on the couch, asking my husband, “Wwwhhhhyyy won’t this dog just die already?”
Maryse: I won’t even watch it… I know what I’m in for and I can’t do it, even though I know I’ll love that story.
Gracie: oh trust me. My husband (at the time was my boyfriend) and we had just started dating, watched it and he was devastated. I warned him though….
Kathy: Suanne Bierman Laqueur is good at the emotional words
Carole: One of the best series I’ve ever read. I’ve never forgotten it!
Kathy: me too!
Maryse: LOVED this series big time. Here’s my 4.5 star review of book #1.
Jemi: I only read that one to a class once – we all sobbed together too!
Jenny Sims: Where The Red Fern Grows as a youngster and Emi Lost & Found series by Lori Otto at work (had to read the second book a sentence at a time and take a break lol)
Stacy: The first book I ever cried over was “Where the Red Fern Grows” when I was in 3rd grade.
Debbie: The first book I ever remember crying to was Where the Red Fern Grows. I was about 11 Years old and I remember heart wenching, bone deep sobbing. My Dad walked by my room and saw me crying and told me he cried when he read this book too. It made me feel much better.
Kathy: Bright Side by Kim Holden. it was a reread during a hotel stay at a book signing. My friend read the book already, she understood why I was sobbing and snot was all over my face.
Colette: Bright Side by Kim Holden I thought I was safe listening to the audio at work since I had already read the book. I. Was. Wrong.
Mo: For me it was Bright Side by Kim Holden! Tears for days!
Maryse: Oh yes… 100% agree. Cried!!! Here’s my 4.5 star review
Kathy: The Notebook. I think my pages of my book are still tear stained!
Tammy: I really liked reading “The Notebook” by, Nicholas Sparks. I love books set in the south & the story of Noah & Allie always touches my heart.
Rachel: A dog called kitty! Read it as a kid and bawled in class
Maryse: I won’t even watch Marley and Me, because I know I’ll love it and hate it equally.
Rachel: yes!!
Colby: Acheron and the later Styxx. Those poor boys went through so much.
Hollis: Invisible Love Letter by Callie Anderson
Tracy: Dearest Ivie by JR Ward. My husband was going through cancer treatment and the lead has a terminal illness and it was just way too much for me. I was keeping it together for him, and that just broke the dam.
Maryse: LOVED IT!! Here is my 5-star book review.
Laura: an absolutely FABULOUS book!
Tina B: I don’t think that I have ever cried like that over a book.
Angy: This book was simply amazing. I procrastinated starting this book for two days and was scared to keep reading because of what the characters were going through. Beautiful story, best one yet.
Tracey: I was so raw and vulnerable after finishing that story that it’s a good thing I was holed up at home, who knows what could have happened to me out there with my emotions so damn exposed. Lord knows……
Damn that was a book for the list….the best books I’ve ever read. This one sits top five, easily.
I paid the price though, I took her for a pedi and tried to read One True Loves while I was getting my foot massaged. I had a mini breakdown. She of course found this hilarious.
Michele: You Before Me by Jojo Moyes. I was reading excerpts to a friend on an island beach.
Maryse: Oh cry and cry, I did. Holy moly! Here’s my 5-star book review.
Cheryl: Finished Butterfly Weeds, oh yeh, I cried.
Michelle: “Butterfly Weeds” also ripped my heart out!
Rhonda: I sobbed reading Butterfly Weeds, I mean ugly cried..
Natasha: Butterfly Weeds, that last chapter…phew.
Samantha: …book that made me cry my eyes out ha to have been butterfly weeds. I read it in one sitting then gave it to my friend who did the same (and she never sits and reads a book at one time)!
Maryse: I LOVED it! Here’s my 4.5 star book review.
Heidi: I’ll give you that one. Even though it was tedious to me or read it, I felt that pain in those words. Probably because I experienced that kind of emotional pain myself
Lisa: exactly
Gingersnap: When Edward leaving Bella in the woods is also the part in New Moon I sobbed in. Went to bed crying, tears streaming down my face. I had just flippped through the next 6 or so pages that only said, “October. November. December….”. O…M….G. (chills now remembering!).
Maryse: I cried through that WHOLE part. I felt her heartache like it was my own.
Michelle: …When I lived outside Boston I had an hour commute on the train and did cry in public once. The lady next to me was giving me the side eye so I pointed and said really sad book. I didn’t want her to think I was emotionally unbalanced…well I probably would have blended in with a good percentage on the train but that’s besides the point 😉
Loni: Oh my gosh. The edge of never NEEDS to come with a warning label “Do not read in public places” You don’t know how HARD I had to fight the tears finishing this book on the subway. Pretty sure people though I was crazy. HOW am I going to wait for the Edge of Always?!
Charity: Edge of Never J A Redmerski. I was ugly crying at work in the break room.
Maryse: That book had me crying too… luckily I was in my “reading room” on my bean bag when it happened. Here’s my 5-star freakout of a book review. LOL!
Aubery: The Reluctant Dom By Tymber Dalton, not only did I cry , I sobbed. It was a great book, but i woke up with swollen eyes and a red nose. It was so heartfelt. You become attached to the characters from the beginning…
Maryse: YESSSSSSS!!! Here’s my book review.
Kathy: I just picked up Desperately Seeking Epic by B.N. Tyler. …I have been waiting for this one with tissues in hand!
Linda: Guys just finished Desperately Seeking Epic. Can’t open my mouth to speak. Grateful I’m alone in the house right now!!!! I’m a snotty mess!! Most beautiful story. Just epic storytelling.
Catherine: So in the last week I’ve read One Thousand Boy Kisses and Desperately Seeking Epic and I have NEVER cried so much!!!! I read ALOT, and these two books tore me in two. I don’t normally comment, but I love your blog Maryse and I just wanted to say you should read these books. They really are beautifully written and so emotionally perfect!
Maryse: I have it and need to read it. Privately away from prying eyes (and the boys in my house that would probably laugh at me). LOL!!
Erin: As much as it is a heartbreaking story I am so glad I read it. Absolutely beautiful story
Pam: Its been a long time since a book has made me cry to the point that my face looks like a punching bag!!! ***SPOILER*** The last letter…*sniff*….*sniff*…omg 🙁
Amy: …maybe help a girl out a bit and warn me which BDB book shouldn’t be read in public?!? I was reading Rhage’s book in a waiting room and got to *that* part at about loc. 5800 and had people looking at me like I had lost my damn mind. I don’t think they bought my claim of allergies. 😉
Maryse: Loved Rhage!! Here’s my 4.5 star review
Noelle: Lover Eternal. I LOVED Rhage! I remember in one scene, his dragon comes out and the heroine isn’t afraid at all and goes to him. The other were afraid that he would hurt her but he didn’t. I think he curls up to her and basically acts smitten. It was so sweet.
Mandy: The Littlest Angel.
Robin: Slammed actually made me cry a couple times!
Kristen: I think I went through an entire box of kleenex reading Slammed and POR which I laughed so hard that not only did I laugh till I cried but I laughed till I pee’d my pants…more than once actually!!
Maryse: Perfect one for this list!! Here’s my 5-star review.
Niki: I’m a high school special education teacher: when I read “Wonder” by RJ Palacio to my students- the scene where their dog Daisy dies?? I was a wreck, and so were my students! 
Jackie: I read that book to my kids for their All School Read and I could barely make it through that chapter. We were all sobbing.
Maryse: Oh wow… I wouldn’t have been able to read it out loud. Or at all… that would have been a “put the book in the freezer” moment.
Maryse: Beautiful book!!! Did you cry it out in public?
Becky: yes. Both as a child and an adult. I made the mistake of reading it to my son’s first grade class.
Lauren: My mom gives The Giving Tree & Are You My Mother to each grandchild the day they are born. She writes a sweet, somewhat meaningful message on the inside, along with the date & child’s full name.
Tessa: *grins* The Giving Tree was seriously great as a kid. It had a real purpose and moral that was told so gently, almost every kid loved it.
Maryse: Did you tell him it was the book? What was his reaction then?
Shalyn: I explained several times it was the book. I then had to describe the plot to him which seemed to satisfy his concern
Mo: I just finished that!!!
Michele G: A Thousand Boy Kisses by Tillie Cole that is currently gutting me as I listen to it…..ugh. I’m not to the adult lovers part yet…I’m hoping they get there…currently being emotionally destroyed while they are still teenagers….sorry…obviously I needed to vent!
Heather: Tillie Coles A Thousand Boy Kisses! Rune is amazing! I cried my brains out for 2 days after that book! I still get teary eyed when I think about it! It was amazing, so amazing!
Wendy: A Thousand Boy Kisses – I have never cried like I did with that book.
Melanie: I never cried ever before or since like I did since I read A Thousand Boy Kisses. I’m constantly searching for tearjerkers and nothing has even come close!
I was on the plane. We had a delay so I’m pretty sure my seat buddy thought it was because of that. Thankfully he didn’t ask haha!
Maryse: Nice seat partner. Book-wise, that would be a funny “meet-cute” (seat partner stranger… sobbing on a plane)
Courtney: haha yes it would!!
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Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson. There’s been few books that have made me cry for as long as that one did. My husband didn’t know what the heck to do with me.
I’ll Love You Forever is one of the books I’ve kept from when my son was a baby. I actually had a wall decal made that said “as long as I’m living my baby you’ll be” and put on his wall for a long time. I love that book ❤️
I LOVE that quote!!!! So sweet and heart-rending. My mom always tells me I’m her baby.
Hade’s Hangmen series by Tillie Cole has me wailing at what went on in the cult!!!!!
Oh my!!! Wailing is the biggest kind of crying. Were you in public? What were the reactions?
OMG I love this!! I forgot the name of the book, because I read it on Wattpad, but it was an arranged marriage book. I was in the elementary school car rider line and bawling my eyes out! I love a good cry!!! I wish I remembered the name but it was also a cheating romance that got me hooked on that type of books
I wish you did too! I’d totally post it.
I would say the Fish Tales was definitely a reader beware! Crying and nightmares from it! It was worth the read but it was one to put down and come back to from so much emotion!!!
It was INTENSE!! A slower start, but once things started rolling, they never stopped.