Books: List of Books That Left Me Misty-Eyed

Posted 6 August, 2012 by Lianne in Lists / 0 Comments

Haha, nice title, eh? Anyways, this discussion was floating around a bit on my Twitter today so I thought to put a list of my own of which books left me close to (if not) ;_; while reading.

Before I proceed, super MASSIVE spoilers if you haven’t read the book. If you’re reading this on my LJ, I will put spoiler tags so that you won’t be spoiled if you haven’t read it. If you’re reading this here on my website…well, how about I use the white font and you highlight over it, yeah? Maybe that will work ^_~ Edit: I’ve installed a spoiler plugin recently so it’s all hidden now 😉

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak — Ahh, The Book Thief.

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Clever thing about this book, it tells you from the beginning what’s going to happen to some of the characters thanks to the fact that Death is the one narrating. And yet when you finally get to the part, you still end up tearing up. That’s what happened to me, the fore-knowledge did not help whatsoever when I read the ending. So sad =((( Still a good book though, lol.

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman (review) — A coming-of-age novel in full Gaiman-style. It’s wonderful, it’s eerie and it caught me off-guard at the end.

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I mean, it made sense at the end that Nobody would leave the graveyard; he was growing up and he should be out there amongst the living instead of with the dead. But that last scene with Mrs. Owens almost reduced me to a puddle of tears, it was so bittersweet.

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling — There’s been deaths in the previous installments of the Harry Potter books and some really sad moments but the part that got my eyes welling was

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when Harry used the Resurrection Stone and saw his parents, Sirius and Remus. The part that really got to me was he asked his parents “You’ll stay with me?” and his dad replied “Until the very end.” (ugh, am I tearing up just remembering that? Oh my)

The Time Traveller’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger (review) — I read the book a few years ago but I remember choking up a bit

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towards the end, especially when Clare read the letter. I had a dreaded feeling heading towards the last third of the novel and things started falling to place as to Henry’s fate but the ending is just so sad.

Sarah’s Key by Tatiana de Rosnay (review) — The fact that half of this novel is set during the Second World War and more specifically during the Holocaust is enough to make me rather =( But what especially got to me was

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the whole story with Sarah hiding her brother in the cupboard when people come to take her away and her journey to get back to their house and get him out. The details about the Hippodrome was shocking (I can’t read the word hippodrome anymore without remembering the details from this book) but the climax of the novel when Sarah gets back and she finds out what happens to her brother…I had to stop reading for a while, I was so upset. As someone who has a younger brother, yeah, it got to me.

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Atonement by Ian McEwan (review) — Okay, I didn’t cry or tear up per se but when the revelation hit that

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the entire Part 3 was just a construct from Briony’s imagination and that Cecilia and Robbie died without a reunion? Yeah, I was left rather DDD= It makes the whole thing just so tragic

Wish by CLAMP — Not a book but a 4-volume manga. To date this is the only manga that reduced me to tears at an unexpected moment:

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everything finally worked out in the final volume, enabling Shuichiro and the angel Kohaku to finally be together happily, only to have Shuichiro have a sudden heart attack and Kohaku can’t do anything to help him. CLAMP is notorious at times for slipping in some really sad stuff in their stories but this knocks everything out of the list. Things work out in a way at the end but it wasn’t enough to ease the gutted feeling I felt from that scene.

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