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Tearjerkers: Novels that Will Make You Cry

          Author            Title, Publication Date

• * Young Adult
• ** Not a novel, but it will make you cry!
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  Adams, Richard. The Plague Dogs, 1978
• Ahern, Cecelia. P.S., I Love You, 2004

  Alcott, Louisa May. Little Women, 1868

  Arnow, Harriette. The Dollmaker, 1954

  Banks, Russell. The Sweet Hereafter, 1991
• Beard, Philip. Dear Zoe, 2005

  Beckwith, Lillian. A Shine of Rainbows, 1984

  Berg, Elizabeth. Talk Before Sleep, 1994

  Betts, Doris. Souls Raised From the Dead, 1994

  Binchy, Maeve. The Glass Lake, 1995

  Brewer, Jeannie. A Crack in Forever, 1996

  Ciresi, Rita. Blue Italian, 1996

  Clarke, Arthur C. A Fall of Moondust, 1961

  Conroy, Pat. Beach Music, 1995

  Cook, Karin. What Girls Learn, 1997

  Dick, R.A.. The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, 1945

  Douglas, Lloyd C. Magnificent Obsession, 1957 

  Evans, Nicholas. The Horse Whisperer, 1995
• Evans, Richard Paul. The Locket, 1998

  Fairbairn, Ann. Five Smooth Stones, 1966

  Finney, Jack. Time and Again, 1970

  Flagg, Fannie. Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle-Stop Cafe, 1987

  Gabaldon, Diana. Dragonfly in Amber, 1992
• Gaffney, Patricia. The Saving Graces, 1999

  Gaines, Ernest J. A Lesson Before Dying, 1993

  Gallico, Paul. The Snow Goose, 1966

  *Gipson, Fred. Old Yeller, 1956
• **Grogan, John. Marley and Me: Life and Love with the World's Worst Dog, 2005
• Gruen, Sara. Water for Elephants, 2006
  

  Hale, Edward Everett. The Man Without a Country, 1981

  Hoffman, Alice. At Risk, 1988

  Hoffman, Alice. Turtle Moon, 1992
• Hosseini, Khaled. The Kite Runner, 2003

  Irving, John. A Prayer for Owen Meany, 1989

  Irving, John. The World According to Garp, 1978

  Isaacs, Susan. Almost Paradise, 1984
• Ishiguro, Kazuo. Never Let Me Go, 2005

  Japrisot, Sebastien. A Very Long Engagement, 1993

  Kata, Elizabeth.  A Patch of Blue, 1961
  Kay, Guy Gavriel. Tigana, 1990
  Kay, Susan. Phantom, 1991
• Kay, Terry. To Dance With the White Dog, 1990
  

  Keneally, Thomas. Schindler's List, 1982

  Kenney, Susan. In Another Country, 1984

  Keyes, Daniel. Flowers for Algernon, 1966

  Kingsolver, Barbara. The Poisonwood Bible, 1998

  Kluger, Steve. Last Days of Summer, 1998

  Krauss, Nicole. The History of Love, 2005

  L' Heureux, John. The Shrine at Altamira, 1992

  Landvik, Lorna. Patty Jane's House of Curl, 1995

  Laurents, Arthur. The Way We Were, 1972

  Leahy, Syrell Rogovin. Love Affair, 1986

  Lee, Harper. To Kill a Mockingbird, 1960

  Llewellyn, Richard. How Green Was My Valley, 1940

  McCaffrey, Anne. Stitch in Snow, 1984

  McEwan, Ian. Atonement, 2002

  McFarland, Dennis. The Music Room, 1990

  McMurtry, Larry. Terms of Endearment, 1975

  Mapson, Jo-Ann. Hank and Chloe, 1993

  Maxwell, Evan. All the Winters That Have Been, 1995

  Miller, Sue. The Good Mother, 1986
• *Mikaelson, Ben. Petey, 1998
• Mitchard, Jacquelyn. A Theory of Relativity, 2001
• Morrison, Toni. Beloved, 1987
• **Myron, Vicki. Dewey: The Small-Town Library Cat Who Touched the World, 2008

  
  

  Niffenegger, Audrey. The Time Traveler's Wife, 2003

  Oates, Joyce Carol. Black Water, 1992

  Ondaatje, Michael. The English Patient, 1992

  
  

  *Paterson, Katherine. The Bridge to Terabithia, 1977

  Patterson, James. Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas, 2001

  Philipson, Morris. Secret Understandings, 1983

  Picoult, Jodi. Mercy, 1996

  Picoult, Jodi. My Sister's Keeper, 2004

  Pilcher, Rosamund. The Shell Seekers, 1987

  Popham, Melinda Worth. Skywater, 1990

  Proulx, E. Annie. The Shipping News, 1993

  
  

  Quindlen, Anna. One True Thing, 1994

  *Rawlings, Marjorie Kinnan. The Yearling, 1938

  *Rawls, Wilson. Where The Red Fern Grows, 1961

  Rice, Luanne. Crazy in Love, 1988

  Robertson, Don. The Greatest Thing That Almost Happened, 1970

  
  

• Schwartz, Lynee Sharon. Disturbances in the Field, 1983

• Sebold, Alice. The Lovely Bones, 2002

• Segal, Erich. Love Story, 1970

  Shreve, Anita. The Pilot's Wife, 1998

  Siddons, Anne Rivers. Fault Lines, 1995

  Smith, Betty. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, 1943

  Sparks, Nicholas. A Walk to Remember, 1999

  Sparks, Nicholas. The Notebook, 1996

  Spencer, LaVyrle. Family Blessings, 1993

  Steel, Danielle. The Gift, 1994

• Stein, Garth. The Art of Racing in the Rain, 2008

  Styron, William. Sophie's Choice, 1979

  Tan, Amy. The Joy Luck Club, 1989

  Thayer, Nancy. My Dearest Friend, 1989

  Tyler, Anne. Saint Maybe, 1991

  Walker, Alice. Possessing the Secret of Joy, 1992

  Waller, Robert James. The Bridges of Madison County, 1992

  Watson, Larry. Montana 1948, 1993

  Wilson, Susan. Beauty, 1996

• Wright, Camron. Letters for Emily, 2001  

• Yolen, Jane. Briar Rose, 1992  

  *Zusak, Markus. The Book Thief, 2006

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