For me it'll always be Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom. I was so heart broken by this book as it was close to what I experienced with my grandfather. We were so close then. My Dad died when I was 3 years old and he's been a father figure to me ever since. I guess you could say he's been a major influence to who I've become today. Losing someone like that is something you can get over.

The Book Thief by MArkus Zusak. Didn't like Holocaust period books, but this one is just something different and special. Grabbed my heart and squeezed it and bloody tears poured out.

[Feronia]

I still remember my favorite book that I read when I was about 13-14 years old. Now avalible in english too. http://www.amazon.com/Bruises-Anke-Vrie ... e+De+Vries

I was eleven when I read an abridged edition of "To kill a mockingbird", by Harper Lee. I learned it almost by heart so that, when I saw the film a couple of years later, I spoke the lines before the actors, irritating my father.
I read the unabridged version a little later and it still stays with me. A really magical novel for me.

For me it has to be "The Book of Negroes" by Lawrence Hill.

I cried in Marley and Me and Hoping for a Home.

Enid Blyton lets me join other children in their adventures, sharing all the fun with me.

And I can always embark on a magical journey with Harry Potter and friends...

The Inda books by Sherwood Smith emotionally destroyed me and even now just thinking about them is enough to make me pause a moment to gather myself. It hit so many things I love, both in the context of stories and in general.

And I don't know if it can be counted as touching my heart so much as my entire personality, but Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker's Guide books have influenced my sense of humor and worldview, and are incredibly important to me.

I read Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Peter Pan every year, too. The (il)logic in Alice, especially, was and continues to be a source of fascination to me.

I haven't reread them in a while, but Tamora Pierce's Song of the Lioness series pretty much changed my life and how I saw the fantasy genre

oh, well, that would be Pride & Prejudice.

The Last Herald Mage series by Mercedes Lackey
To Kill A Mockingbird by Harper Lee
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows by J.K. Rowling
Where the Red Fern Growns by Wilsom Rawls
Acheron by Sherrilyn Kenyon

I still go back and re-read them whenever the mood strikes, even though I know they'll tear me apart.

[Fatima99]

Me before You - by Jojo Moyes - I can't believe how much I cried
The Book Thief - I was astonished by my tears and snot at the end (TMI)
Black Beauty - loved it and cried and cried
Time Traveller's Wife - for the sheer beauty of the writing
Us by David Nicholls - an amazing book
Accordion Crimes by Annie Proulx - for the most perfect writing
The Little Friend and The Secret History by Donna Tartt (sorry, hated The Goldfinch)

[Fatima99]

Of course, as soon as you hit "submit" you think of other wonderful books that should be mentioned

My Friend Flicka series
Heidi
What Katy Did

[Isak]

I really didn't even remember what I've read, in all I've read around 70-80 books (or less, and this is A LOT!!) and I'm in my early early twenties.
And I haven't read any book in last many many many months.


Persepolis-Marjane Satrapi
Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie
Let the Great World Spin-Colum Mccann
The Great Gatsby-F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Stranger-Albert Camus

Journey to the End of the Night-Louis Ferdinand Celine(My all-time fav.)


I didn't cry though.


Can I add engineering textbooks?

And ASOIAF, I can't believe I read this...

- Ulysses by James Joyce
- Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
- Sister Outsider by Audre Lorde
- The Rise by Sarah Lewis
- Hamlet
- Mahabharata
-Mimesis by Erich Auerbach
- Stitches by Anne Lamott
- Surviving a Borderline Parent by Kimberlee Roth

north and south by Elizabeth Gaskell!

oh, well, that would be Pride & Prejudice.

Same, there's something about that story. I can't let go