15 Day Book Blogging Challenge, Day 5: Tear Jerkers

Okay, so I'm late boarding this train, but I want to be part of the fun too. I asked on Twitter for buddies, so that I wouldn't be alone in taking this epic journey. Thankfully, bloggers are awesome people, so I quickly found three friends to travel with me through the book blogger challenge: Lili of Lili's Reflections, Mickey of I'm a Book Shark and Jessie of Ageless Pages Reviews, so make sure you check out their responses too! We'll be doing one challenge a week every Friday for fifteen weeks. For more information on the challenge itself, go visit Good Books and Good Wine's explanation post here.

When I was a teen, one of the main reasons I avoided teen novels was because I was stolidly anti-tear jerker. I mean, why would a want a book to make me cry? UGH. Also, the offerings at the time that were supposedly requiring of tissues were like Lurlene McDaniel and Nicholas Sparks. Let me just say right now: these things will not make me cry; they will either result in rage, unintended naps, or hysterical laughter.

Tobias, however, finds these books quite moving.

However, in recent years, I have come to appreciate the value of a book that will make me feel so strongly that I weep tears for people who do not exist. It's certainly a better reason to cry than because I'm freaking out about something. Usually tear jerkers, which I would classify as books intended to make you cry, do not actually result in tears from me. One of the rare exceptions is Me Before You by Jojo Moyes. I ALMOST made it through without tears, but Moyes, that brutal genius, got me in the end. So. Many. Feels.

So, dear friends, what book melted the ice in your tear ducts enough to cause condensation on your face?