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What is a good, sad book that you would recommend?

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Fee

https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/30971090-the-orphan-s-tale

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Ellie

The Vegas Random By Ellie Gerrard (Me oh and its on KU) and Steven Evans has a new book out called Burden Of Guilt. Willow Winters will also make you cry.

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Hayley

The Road – Cormac McCarthy

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Amanda

Eleanor Oliphant is Completely Fine – Gail Honeyman

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Stacey

Little Bee, Chris Cleave

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Courtney

Hate List by Jennifer Brown

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Marna

Sophie’s Choice

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Rosalba

The diary of a good neighbour, by Doris Lessing. Great book, and made me cry my eyes out.

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Wendy

The Pact, from Jodi Picoult. I cried for days afterwards.

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Patricia

The Life I Never Asked for by Kira Adams

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Don

With Christmas coming up soon, William Wharton’s A Midnight Clear.

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Jess

P.s. I love you by Cecelia ahern, I cried by page 30

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Ashley

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Susan

@Ashley I’m reading it now

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Ashley

it was amazing!

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Susan

@Ashley it breaks my heart as I read

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Ashley

It does, I love WW2 era and this book was so well written. I read this in one day. I immediately gave it to my father in law to read because I needed to talk to someone about it.

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Susan

@Ashley I read Holacaust sporadically, very hard to take.

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Michele

Just Breathe by Nicholas Sparks

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Michelle

Heartless by Marissa Meyer

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Tracey

Before I Let You Go by Kelly Rimmer

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StephQuestion author

I LOVED that book!

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Tracey

One of the best books I’ve read.

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StephQuestion author

I agree. have you read any others by her?

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Tracey

Not yet but I plan to next year.

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Cari

Did you ever have a family by Bill Clegg and the art of racing in the rain by Garth Stein.

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Roxanne

Books by Adam silvera. More happy than not. They both die at the end. History is all you left me. What if it’s us co written with Becky albertalli

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Tracey

Night Road by Kristin Hannah

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Susan

Dancing on Broken Glass, A Little Life, The Promise of Stardust

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StephQuestion author

who is the author for Dancing on Broken Glass?.

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Susan

@Steph Ka Hancock

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StephQuestion author

Thx!

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Susan

@Steph no prob…you need a box of tissues for this one

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Jillian

The boy in the striped pajamas

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Wendy

@Jillian just finished that, I completely agree.

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Jillian

@Wendy have you seen the movie? It’s just as good

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Jerry

“Beach Music” by Pat Conroy is a sad book.

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Dawn

A Little Life – Hanya Yanagihara

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Andrea

A Monster Calls

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Lily

The Book Thief

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Kathleen

Almost all animal books!

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Kelly

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

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Mark

Watership Down – Richard Adams.

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Mark

Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck.

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Mark

The Green Mile – Stephen King.

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Marc

One True Thing – Anna Quindlen

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Tracy

Remembering Raquel by Vivian Vande Velde or The Mailbox By Audrey Shafer. Both made me cry so hard.

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Philip

Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron

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Patricia

All the Light We Cannot See

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Amanda

The Art of Racing In The Rain by Garth Stein

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Jenny

A Man Called Ove
The Notebook
The Book Thief

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Andrea

Me Before You

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Melissa

An Untamed State.

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Melodie

All our perfects by colleen hoover

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Alicia

The book thief

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Alicia

I loved the book thief but the book thief made me sad in the end

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Deborah

The Promise of Stardust.

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Amber

Marley and Me, The Art of Racing in the Rain, The Memory Keeper’s Daughter

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Kristine

Schindler’s list.
Boy in the striped pajamas
Me before you
The green mile

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Amber

I never read The Boy in the Striped Pajamas, but I seen the movie. At the end I was so upset.

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Zineb

“The Boy in the Striped Pajamas” destroyed me!

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Tiffany

Do They Hear You When You Cry
Night
The Help

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Samantha

The House Called Mbabati

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Judy

Heaven Scent by Rebecca Cornish Talley

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Lori

Into the wild,the fault in our stars.

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Ja

http://store.bookbaby.com/book/Eye-of-the-storm3

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Hincu

Amazing sad books that made me openly cry – The Gift of Rain by Tan Twan Eng (WWII story), Heaven’s Coast by Mark Doty (AIDS memoir), The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini..

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Rebecca

Notes From An Exhibition by Patrick Gale.

Sycamore by Bryn Chancellor.

Tess of the d’Urbervilles by Thomas Hardy.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck.

Villette by Charlotte Brontë upset me although it wasn’t sad all the way through. Love that book.

The Tenderness of Wolves by Stef Penney had a sad scene in it which made me cry. Great book.

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Alma

The saddest book I’ve ever read was ‘A child called it’ by Dave Pelzer. Just thinking about that book makes me feel a lump in my throat! ?

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Tara

“Last Watch Of The Night” by Paul Monette, “Grace and Grit” by Ken Wilbur.

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Alex

Message in a bottle-Nicholas sparks

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TimJenni

Bridge to Terabithia

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Emily

All the Bright Places

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Courtney

The Hiding Place by Corie Tenboom

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Tiffani

Of Mice and Men

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Robert

Looking for Alaska.

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Danièl

Seconding this.

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Danièl

The Book Thief

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Linda

Before we were yours

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Hanna

Love Story by Erich Segal

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Susan

@Hanna my original tear jerker!

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Hanna

I also always cry at the end of The Marriages Between Zones Three, Four, and Five by Doris Lessing

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Karen

The Fault in our Stars

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Annelies

Fractured by Dani Atkins!! I blubbered like a baby!

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Tanela

Silent Waters

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Misty

Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas ???

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Gretchen

Merle’s Door

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Roxie

My very best friend by @Cathy

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Kristin

Suzanne’s Diary for Nicholas by James Patterson

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Ellen

Nonfiction – Just Mercy.

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Dannie

A monster calls

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Jammie

The Hiding place by corrie ten boom

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Sophie

Ps I love you

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Ruby

Me Before You

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Ted

Musty, leathery, like the attic air in an old suitcase.

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