This week's topic: Top Ten Books That Will Make You Cry
Although
I’m a crier, I don’t tend to cry much when reading. So I can’t really give you
ten books that will make you weep, but I do have ten that might make you at
least mist up. The books that truly make me cry do it with one of two things:
(1) they describe something I’ve been feeling for years better than I can, or
(2) they discuss dying animals.
So,
here are my top ten, in the order that I read them over the past several years:
A flawlessly written account of a bleak childhood.
Marley and Me, John Grogan
Aforementioned
dying animal.
The Geography of Love, Glenda
Burgess
A
woman loses her husband to cancer.
Cold
Tangerines, Shauna Niequist
One
of the crying-from-relief-of-shared-experience reads.
Happens Every Day, Isabel Gillies
A
blow-by-blow dissolution of a marriage.
Bloom, Kelle Hampton
About the birth of her daughter who was born with Down syndrome.
The Good Good Pig, Sy Montgomery
A
story about a pig. But the story near the end about her friend’s “last pig”
will tear your heart out. I cried out loud. Buckets of tears.
The Color of Rain, Michael &
Gina Spehn
Not a
great book, but the pain of them each losing a spouse is raw.
Heaven is Here, Stephanie Nielson
I
ended up crying with her, not for her. Check out her blog.
Carry On, Warrior, Glennon Melton
This
is one of those books where I found
myself crying. I didn’t even know I was crying. My husband and I went to hear
her speak last year, and we both had tears in our eyes. She can articulate your
life better than you can. Trust me. 
Great post! I blanked on the title of Marley and Me as I wrote my post, but it definitely made me cry. I can't stand hurt animals. Here's mine if you want to stop by
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