Books That Will Make You Cry

If you are looking for a tear-jerker, we've got you. Here is a list of books from different genres that will make you cry.

1. The Fault in Our Stars by John Green (2012)

Hazel Grey has thyroid and lung cancer and meets Augustus Walters, a cancer survivor. Together, they explore the meaning of life and how they should leave their mark on the world. This is a must-read, and it was adapted into a movie.

2. To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Although published 50 years ago, this book still packs a punch. The mysterious case of Tom Robinson is still as heart-wrenching as ever.

3. Marley & Me: Life and Love with the World’s Worst Dog by John Grogan

This book explores the perils, love, stress, and everything involved with having a dog. Marley, the Grogan family's Labrador retriever, takes us on the most comedic and gut-wrenching story ever. This was adapted into a movie.

4. Me Before You by Jojo Moyes

When Lou Clark loses her job, she gets a new one working for Will Traynor, and they develop the unlikeliest romance. Their unlikely and saddest relationship brings us all to tears.

5. Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

Lennie Small is one of the most endearing yet conflicting characters in literature. The tale of the complicated friendship between Lennie and his fellow worker, George Milton, brought us to tears even before the tragic ending.

6. The Color Purple by Alice Walker

"This book is an absolute must-read. It entails the story of a Black woman in the early '80s who was abused by a man she calls her father. It traces her life story from the beginning, where she faced numerous hardships. The most interesting part lies in the book's subtleties, which the writer has beautifully curated. There are parts in the book where you tear up simply because of how beautiful the moment is. Altogether, it is a book that reminds us of the beauty in simple things that we seem to have forgotten today."

7. All Your Perfects by Colleen Hoover

"Their imperfect marriage threatens Quinn and Graham's perfect love. The memories, mistakes, and secrets they have built up over the years are tearing them apart. The one thing that could save them might also push their marriage beyond the point of repair."

8. A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

"Born a generation apart and with very different ideas about love and family, Mariam and Laila are two women brought jarringly together by war, loss, and fate. As they endure the ever-escalating dangers around them — in their home as well as in the streets of Kabul — they come to form a bond that makes them both sisters and mother-daughter to each other, and that will ultimately alter the course not just of their own lives but of the next generation. With heart-wrenching power and suspense, Hosseini shows how a woman's love for her family can move her to shocking and heroic acts of self-sacrifice and that, in the end, it is love, or even the memory of love, that is often the key to survival."

9. My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult

"Anna is not sick, but she might as well be. By age thirteen, she has undergone countless surgeries, transfusions, and shots so that her older sister, Kate, can somehow fight the leukaemia that has plagued her since childhood. The product of preimplantation genetic diagnosis, Anna was conceived as a bone marrow match for Kate--a life and a role that she has never challenged...until now. Like most teenagers, Anna is beginning to question who she truly is. But unlike most teenagers, she has always been defined in terms of her sister--and so Anna makes a decision that for most would be unthinkable, a decision that will tear her family apart and have perhaps fatal consequences for the sister she loves."

10. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

"This is the story of a little boy who leaves the safety of his own tiny planet to travel the universe, learning the vagaries of adult behaviour through a series of extraordinary encounters."

11. Out of My Mind by Sharon M. Draper

"Eleven-year-old Melody is not like most people. She can't walk. She can't talk. She can't write. All because she has cerebral palsy. But she also has a photographic memory; she can remember every detail of everything she has ever experienced. She's the smartest kid in her whole school, but nobody knows it. Most people — her teachers, her doctors, her classmates — dismiss her as mentally challenged because she can't tell them otherwise. But Melody refuses to be defined by her disability. And she's determined to let everyone know it...somehow."

12. The Perks of Being a Wallflower Stephen Chbosky

Standing on the fringes of life offers a unique perspective. But there comes a time to see what it looks like from the dance floor. This haunting novel about the dilemma of passivity vs. passion has become a modern classic.

The Perks of Being a Wallflower is the story of what it’s like to grow up in high school. More intimate than a diary, Charlie’s letters are singular, unique, hilarious, and devastating. We may not know where he lives or to whom he is writing. All we know is the world he shares. Caught between trying to live his life and running from it, he is on a strange course through uncharted territory. The world of first dates, mixed tapes, family dramas, and new friends. The world of sex, drugs, and music — when all one requires to feel infinite is that perfect song on that perfect drive.

Through Charlie, Stephen Chbosky has created a deeply affecting story, a powerful novel that will take you back to those wild and poignant roller-coaster days of growing up.

13. If He Had Been with Me, Laura Nowlin

An achingly authentic and raw portrait of love, regret, and the life-altering impact of the relationships we hold closest to us, this YA romance bestseller is perfect for fans of Colleen Hoover, Jenny Han, and You’ve Reached Sam.

If he had been with me, everything would have been different...

Autumn and Finn used to be inseparable. But then something changed. Or they changed. Now, they do their best to ignore each other.

Autumn has her boyfriend, Jamie, and her close-knit group of friends. And Finn has become that boy at school, the one everyone wants to be around.

That still doesn’t stop how Autumn feels every time she and Finn cross paths and the growing, nagging thought that things may have been different. Maybe they should be together.

But come August, things will change forever. And as time passes, Autumn will be forced to confront how else life might have been different if they had never parted ways.

14. The Giver Lois Lowry

The Giver, the 1994 Newbery Medal winner, has become one of the most influential novels of our time. The haunting story centres on 12-year-old Jonas, who lives in a seemingly ideal, if colourless, world of conformity and contentment. Not until he is given his life assignment as the Receiver of Memory does he understand the dark, complex secrets behind his fragile community.

15. "Reminders of Him" by Colleen Hoover

Colleen Hoover is known for evoking powerful emotions with bestsellers such as "It Ends With Us" and "Verity." Her newest novel, "Reminders of Him," continues that trend. When Kenna Rowan returns from her prison sentence to reunite with her daughter, it seems as though everyone is determined to keep them apart, except the local bar owner who has both a link to her child and a growing connection with Kenna. Readers love this book's heart-wrenching, sob-worthy ending.