"Empire of the Sun" by J.G. Ballard when the young kamizaze pilot who gives Jamie a mango bleeds to death in the marsh and jamie tries to rescuscitate him
Any book with no happy ending and lost opportunity. The right people end up with the wrong ones or no-one at all.
They don't quite make me cry, but they're sad (Good, but sad) books- Pet Sematery (Spelling mistake included ) and The Dead Zone both by Stephen King. I won't spoil the plots but I really recommend them.
The Stoning of Soroya M. by Freidoune Sahebjam its a true story the author went and talked to a village of people who took part in the stoning of a young women, these included her own family, her elderly father her husband her two sons and all the people of her village people who had known her all her life . if youve ever seen a stoning its very slow and painfull the stones they use are ones that cant kill you with one hit , if your a women they bury you up to your waist in a pit you cant run you just sit there with your upper body as a target . she was stoned for adultery but most likely even that was a set up job by her husband , she offered no defence because she knew she didnt have a chance , the story isnt that unusual whats unusual is someone was bothered enough to write a book about it . there is a extract of some of the book here http://www.geocities.com/hammihanirani/soraya.html a video of stoning from iran http://www.apostatesofislam.com/media/stoning.htm Freidoune Sahebjam had to leave iran after writing the book I think he now lives in france
The Silmarillion by J.r.r.Tolkien: Of Beren and Luthien always gets me teary. I know this is really sad... but Harry Potter and the half blood Prince made me cry. Last few pages i was a waterfall. And to be a complete cliche, The Alchemist made me cry as well as Don Qioxte (what Ive got through) and Chekhov's the Cherry Orchard