Best Tear-Jerking Books of all time

Top 10 Best Tear-Jerking Books of all time : Old Yeller, The Elegance of the Hedgehog, The Thorn Birds, The Prince of Tides, Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows, Redeeming Love, Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish, Airman, Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet, White Oleander

Old Yeller

Author	Fred Gipson
ISBN	0060935472

At first, Travis couldn't stand the sight of Old Yeller.

The stray dog was ugly, and a thieving rascal, too. But he sure was clever, and a smart dog could be a big help on the wild Texas frontier, especially with Papa away on a long cattle drive up to Abilene.

Strong and courageous, Old Yeller...

The Elegance of the Hedgehog

Author	Muriel Barbery
ISBN	1933372605

A moving, funny, triumphant novel that exalts the quiet victories of the inconspicuous among us.

We are in the center of Paris, in an elegant apartment building inhabited by bourgeois families. Renée, the concierge, is witness to the lavish but vacuous lives of her numerous employers. Outwardly...

The Thorn Birds

Author

Colleen McCullough

Alternate Cover Edition ISBN 0380018179 (ISBN13: 9780380018178)
The Thorn Birds is a robust, romantic saga of a singular family, the Clearys. It begins in the early part of this century, when Paddy Cleary moves his wife, Fiona, and their seven children to Drogheda, the vast Australian sheep station...

The Prince of Tides

Author	Pat Conroy
ISBN	0553381547

PAT CONROY has created a huge, brash thunderstorm of a novel, stinging with honesty and resounding with drama. Spanning forty years, this is the story of turbulent Tom Wingo, his gifted and troubled twin sister Savannah, and their struggle to triumph over the dark and tragic legacy of the extraordinary...

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

Author	J.K. Rowling
ISBN	0545010225

Harry Potter is leaving Privet Drive for the last time. But as he climbs into the sidecar of Hagrid’s motorbike and they take to the skies, he knows Lord Voldemort and the Death Eaters will not be far behind.

The protective charm that has kept him safe until now is broken. But the Dark Lord is breathing...

Redeeming Love

Author	Francine Rivers
ISBN	1590525132

California’s gold country, 1850. A time when men sold their souls for a bag of gold and women sold their bodies for a place to sleep. Angel expects nothing from men but betrayal. Sold into prostitution as a child, she survives by keeping her hatred alive. And what she hates most are the men who use her,...

Rescuing Sprite: A Dog Lover's Story of Joy and Anguish

Author	Mark R. Levin
ISBN	1416559132

In Rescuing Sprite, Mark Levin tells of the joy and anguish of life with a rescue dog: the intimate and powerful story of his family and the dog they have for too short a time.

Although Mark Levin is known as a constitutional lawyer and a nationally syndicated broadcaster, he is, first and foremost,...

Airman

Author	Eoin Colfer
ISBN	0141383356

In the 1890s Conor and his family live on the sovereign Saltee Islands, off the Irish coast. Conor spends his days studying the science of flight with his tutor and exploring the castle with the king’s daughter, Princess Isabella. But the boy’s idyllic life changes forever the day he discovers a...

Sky Burial: An Epic Love Story of Tibet

Author	Xinran
ISBN	0385515480

It was 1994 when Xinran, a journalist and the author of The Good Women of China, received a telephone call asking her to travel four hours to meet an oddly dressed woman who had just crossed the border from Tibet into China. Xinran made the trip and met the woman, called Shu Wen, who recounted the story of...

White Oleander

Author	Janet Fitch
ISBN	0316182540

Everywhere hailed as a novel of rare beauty and power, White Oleander tells the unforgettable story of Ingrid, a brilliant poet imprisoned for murder, and her daughter, Astrid, whose odyssey through a series of Los Angeles foster homes--each its own universe, with its own laws, its own dangers, its...

An Indecent Obsession

Author	Colleen McCullough
ISBN	0751508365

Did the weak demand, or did the strong offer themselves unsolicited? Did strength beget weakness, or reinforce it, or negate it? What was strength, what weakness, for that matter?

World War II has been over for a matter of months and Ward X of Base Fifteen has gradually emptied until only five...