I want to read a sad book that will make me cry?! Family Drama Fiction!!?

Question

I want to read a book that is drama-filled and will make me cry. I like family dramas...Any suggestions??

Answer 1

A Day No Pigs Would Die

Sad book

Answer 2

FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC    V.C. ANDREWS   if you read it you wont be sorry!

Answer 3

Nineteen Minutes - Jodi Picoult

In this emotionally charged novel, Jodi Picoult delves beneath the surface of a small town to explore what it means to be different in our society.

In Sterling, New Hampshire, 17-year-old high school student Peter Houghton has endured years of verbal and physical abuse at the hands of classmates. His best friend, Josie Cormier, succumbed to peer pressure and now hangs out with the popular crowd that often instigates the harassment. One final incident of bullying sends Peter over the edge and leads him to commit an act of violence that forever changes the lives of Sterling’s residents.

Even those who were not inside the school that morning find their lives in an upheaval, including Alex Cormier. The superior court judge assigned to the Houghton case, Alex—whose daughter, Josie, witnessed the events that unfolded—must decide whether or not to step down. She’s torn between presiding over the biggest case of her career and knowing that doing so will cause an even wider chasm in her relationship with her emotionally fragile daughter. Josie, meanwhile, claims she can’t remember what happened in the last fatal minutes of Peter’s rampage. Or can she? And Peter’s parents, Lacy and Lewis Houghton, ceaselessly examine the past to see what they might have said or done to compel their son to such extremes. Nineteen Minutes also features the return of two of Jodi Picoult’s characters—defense attorney Jordan McAfee from The Pact and Salem Falls, and Patrick DuCharme, the intrepid detective introduced in Perfect Match.

Rich with psychological and social insight, Nineteen Minutes is a riveting, poignant, and thought-provoking novel that has at its center a haunting question. Do we ever really know someone?

Answer 4

The Linnet Bird

Answer 5

* Sad ones

** very sad - need tissues!

The Time Travelers Wife by Audrey Neffenigger*

Last Chance by Sarah Dessen

Best of Fathers by Anne Baker*

The Knitting Circle by Ann Hood*

Cell by Stephen King

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult**

Before I Die by Jenny Downham**

Swimming with the Fishes and Swimming without a net by MaryJanice Davidson

Inkheart and Inkspell by Cornelia Funkt

Ingo series by Helen Dunmore

Jane Eyre

Gulliver's Travels by Johnathan Swift

Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill

Lord of the Flies and The Inheritors by William Golding

No! I don’t want to join a Book Club by Virgina Ironside

Gods Behaving Badly by Marie Phillips

Innocent Traitor by Alison Weir......and her other books

Eragon series

Odd Thomas series by Dean Koontz

My Legendary Girlfriend by Mike Gayle

The Book Thief by Markus Zusack*

Mr Strange and Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Wuthering Heights

Lady Chatterley’s Lover by D H Lawrence*

The Arthur Trilogy by Bernard Cornwall starts with Winter King

Mr McGreggor, The Last Lighthouse Keeper, Animal Instincts, Only Dad*, Rosie*, Love and Dr Devon all by Alan Titchmarsh

Anything by Stephen King, John Saul, John Connolly, James Herbert Mike Gayle, Nicholas Sparks and Alexander McCall Smith

The Sword of Truth series by Terry Goodkind starts with Wizards First Rule

The Dark Tower series by Stephen King starts with The Gunslinger

All the Harry Potter books

Answer 6

The books that I've read that have made me cry were:

A Child Called It- by David Pelzer

A Time for Dancing- by Davida Wills Hurwin (i cried my eyeballs out with that one!),

Tuesdays with Morrie- by Mitch Albom

Answer 7

Read: Corner of the Universe

It made me cry for like more than an hour I think

its good

Answer 8

In the Time of the Butterflies by Julia Alvarez. Its a beautiful yet heartbreaking story of the 4 Mirabel Sisters who grew up in the Dominican Republic under the dictatorship of Trujillo and left their comfortable lives to join the resistance and fight against him. It's a true story but its not a history or biography. Julia Alvarez wove fiction into their tale, telling the story through the voices she created for them (honestly I like to pretend it is fiction, too sad to imagine actually happening).

It might sounds slightly impersonal since it surrounds such a big issue but it is actually surprisingly personal. It goes into the stories of each girl and switches narrators in every chapter so you hear from each sister.

I really recommend it and if you do end up picking it up, power through the first few chapters, its honestly worth it.

Answer 9

A Time for Dancing    

By: Davida Wills Hurwin

It is really sad. Also has a sequel that is more funny than sad. The name is at the end of the first one.

Answer 10

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Piccoult....it's an absolute tear-jerker.

Answer 11

*Dave Peltzer- A Child Called It, The Lost Boy, and the third one (forget the name)- abused child's story

Speak-girl is living with a rape secret

The Skin I'm In-girl is dealing with her darkness

Night-child during holocaust

The Great Gilly Hopkins *-child in foster care

Stuck In Neutral *-tolf from point of view of a basic human vegatable

Behind the Bedroom Wall-

The Devil's Arithmetic

Blizzard's Wake

The Whipping Boy

Sparks

White Oleander (adult, longer)

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