The third one just about did me in. Trying to read and sobbing at the same time is a challenge.

I had a book as a child called Blitz. It's about a volunteer fire horse. He is injured in an accident and sold to a cruel man. The abuse was horrible. My mother would walk past my room and hear me crying and know that I was reading it AGAIN. She got rid of it. I was able to find it many years later online.

Several Thomas Costain books - The Black Rose and Son of A Hundred Kings come to mind.

I love books that make me cry.

I am not a very emotional person. More of a Marcus Aurelius On Stoicism reader but the book Mr Raskin wrote, Unthinkable left me in tears more than once. I actually put the book down and walked away a couple of times.

Another impeachment manager, Madeline Dean co wrote a book with her son called Under our Roof which was a story of her sons addiction. Another difficult read.

Other books have made me cry, but not like that one.

I cried at the end of LOTR, also Watership Down because I did not want either of those to end.

Surprisingly, a few months ago I cried at the end of A Heart Full of Headstones, because I love Ian Rankin and Inspector Rebus so much. It just really got to me.

One I will not read again.

I made the mistake of admitting it made me cry to my dad, who ridiculed me. Real men don't cry.

I wept when I got to the end.

The ones with animals are the worst. I just don't read them or watch movies with animals as the main character.

I will watch a movie if I have verified that the animal doesn't die.

I can cry over all kinds of books--and have. Even the ones that make me cry because I'm happy for the characters.

Some of the memorable tear-fests for me:

The Travelling Cat Chronicles by Arikawa Hiro. Even thinking about it has me tearing up. One of my favorite books, all-time.

Every book about the Holocaust, fiction or non. No exceptions.

Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown. I made the mistake of reading this when I was pregnant with my sprog. I'd have to put it down for days at a time because it upset me so much. Which is saying something given how I've always been a huge fan of some seriously messed up police procedurals with vivid descriptions of murder and corpses not to mention some very twisted and sadistic villains.

Tale of Genji by Murasaki Shikibu. The story arc involving Lady Murasaki, in particular. Everything about her relationship with Hikaru (protagonist--he's no hero) is twisted and yet heart-wrenching. Don't even get me started on it.

I always avoid books when an animal is a central character. And I’m usually not into YA books. However, one summer I was stuck in our camper, by myself, in a local state park while some work was being done on our house. I saw on GoodReads a lot of talk about “The Fault in Our Stars.” Oh man….when I finished it I wanted to throw it across the room. Unfortunately, I had read it as an ebook, didn’t want to break an iPad….When the movie came out a friend, who hadn’t read the book, asked me to go see it. I said nope, won’t see it until it streams and I can watch it at home. I couldn’t imagine watching it in a public theater. Because when I cry at a movie it’s an ugly cry, loudly sobbing and quite snotty, so much that my mom would get embarrassed and we’d have to wait until everyone else had exited.

I usually don’t cry when reading a book, but that one got to me.