What’s the saddest book you’ve ever read?
What’s the saddest book you’ve ever read?
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Boy called it
Old man and the sea by Ernest Hemingway
Girl in Pieces, Go Ask Alice
Bright Side (Kim Holden)
Or Lost and Found (Lori Otto).
Elechi Amadi’s The Concubine
The fault in our stars ?
The Road.
Of mice and men
Jonathan Livingston Seagull. I wished I could get all that wasted time back.
A Monster Calls, oh i ugly cried reading that recently. I was in pieces
The Art of Racing in the Rain.
So true.
Dorp Dead
A boy called it
” Sans famille” – Hector Malot
we were liars
the bridge to terabitha
all the bright places
How Trump Won The Election
Wonder why Grapes of Wrath isn’t making it yet… if 180 degree departure from the classics is the thing, A Stone for Danny Fisher (Harold Robbins) is worth checking out.
Because they keep going.
Mill on the Floss
TFIOS
Dog Boy.
A little hero by Fyodor Dostoevsky
the Art of racing in the rain.. and when a monster calls
Coming Up For Air.
Song of Achilles- you know what’s coming if you know the myth but it still hits hard
One Thousand White Women- the unfairness of this one made me do that frustrated type crying
The Man Who Warned America- this one had me doing that pissed off crying
When it rains by Lisa Dejong by far ??
The Housekeeper and the professor , Yoko Ogawa
Child called it
The kite runner
The Red Magician by Lisa Goldstein- I was crying at the end. Beautiful book ?
Red Dog
The Fault in our Stars by John Green
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid suns
A little Life
The guardian of nicholas sparks
Walking Dead Girl
Angela’s Ashes by Frank McCourt. I was ready for prescription meds after that one! Also, One True Thing by Anna Quinlan.
Oh yes I can second frank McCourt
The People in the Trees by Hanya Yanagihara
Jenin
On the beach
Trail of tears by Gloria Jahoda
the lovely bones
A Monster Calls, All the Bright Places, Me Before You
Following
The Mayor of Casterbridge
11-22-63 Stephen King. The ending just pulls at the heart.
The Grapes of Wrath
Mornings in Jenin
A Child Called It
The most profound book that left an impact on me is “Before We Were Yours” by Lisa Wingate. Cannot say enough of this book.
A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Glass Castle were two of the hardest books for me to get through because it was so difficult to live their lives. Both books have stayed in my thoughts for years and have given me a different perspective on the world.
Couldn’t finish either, the horrible tragedy part of my brain is full and I can’t bear anymore.
Night.
Nurse. First book that ever made me cry and it was the ugly cry at that!
Lily and the octopus. I finished it on a flight last year and tears were streaming down my face. It was little embarrassing but I couldn’t stop crying.
A Thousand Splendid Suns. That one tore me up. ?
If I Stay…
The Kite Runner. So beautifully written, and absolutely heart breaking.
50 Shades was given to me written so poorly it was sad
that’s a book I’ve had no desire to read.. or see the movie..
Didn’t finish first chapter good campfire starter
Lily and the Octopus
Sophie’s Choice
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A monster calls _ can relate 🙁
also, there is a movie now. Highly recommended
Sarah’s Key
The Yearling, about 55 years ago
The book I would most like to ban.
A Fine Balance
Sophie’s Choice
I bawled reading “The Killer Angels” by Michael Shaara 1975, a Civil War historical novel.
Sophie’s Choice
Nevile Shute’s On the Beach.
The Kite Runner/A Thousand Splendid Suns and The Lovely Bones.
The boy called it
My Sisters Keeper. I re-read the ending 3 times my husband said it’s not going to change.
Heading Out to Wonderful. Such a great book but makes me sad just remembering the story. So beautifully done.
She comes undone
Kite runner I think
The Little Way of Ruthie Leming by Rod Dreher. It’s so sad that I can’t go through the pain by reading it twice.
If thats meant emotionally.. then the book thief..and if sarcastic then quite a few actually
The Notebook and The Wild
1. The Binding Chair: Or a Visit from the Foot Emancipation Society by Kathryn Harrison. 2. The Mask Carver’s Son by Alyson Richman.
Ethan Frome
A little life
Yes A Little Life for me too….
Cat who went to Heaven — a beautiful story, but I could only read it once — the cat dies of happiness …. ?
And the Buddha puts her under his own hand. Oh, the sobbing!
@Mari exactly!
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. Honorable mentions to Of Mice and Men, and The Bridge to Terabithia
Yes to all of these! The boy in the striped pajamas punched me in the gut so hard at the end…its a pretty good movie too if I remember right! And the ending to the other two books also made me really sad.
The Birds’ Christmas Carol
A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry
The Good Wife by Stewart O’Nan. The story is of a woman with such bad luck and life circumstances. When I was about 3/4 of the way through, I said to my partner: if this doesn’t have a happy ending, I just cannot bear it. I still remember that book and I read it years ago. He’s a marvelous writer.
Just read the news in the journals and this is the saddest text you will read!!
A Stolen Life by Jaycee Dugard (I cried through the entire book)
I really thought the time travelers wife and the lovely bones were both very sad reads! They were crap movies though, unfortunately!
When I was a kid, “Where the red fern grows” hit me hard in the feels
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas. The movie adaptation was well done, but very sad.
Sonia I was going to say the same. I got the book and thatwas really sad as well. Another one was Goodnight Mr. Tom. I read the book of that after watching it on the television. It was about a young boy from London being an evacuee in the country during WW11.
That book hit me like a ton of bricks ?
I never read the book. I saw the movie and I always say it was the saddest movie I have ever seen.
Blackbird
Winter Garden by Kristin Hannah
This is why I check the end of every book first.
Two by two by Nicholas it open my eyes to what my dad went through.
The five people you meet in heaven dad and very thought provoking.
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
Sophie’s Choice
Sophie’s Choice
The boy in the stripped pajamas.
Sophie’s Choice
Push by Sapphire.
The Bluest Eye. Toni Morrison
The Christmas Shoes
The Gadfly
A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khalid Hosseini
A Prayer for Owen Meany
Old Yeller
1000%
Poisonwood Bible
Can’t remember the title of the book but it was about China’s one child policy ?
Ordinary People
The notebook
A Dog’s Purpose
Agree with Sophie’s Choice
I am going with the book that made me cry the most, A Monster Calls. If you want the most tragic book, I’d go another direction
The Kite Runner
The Book Thief by Markus Zuzak is the first that came to mind.
A Boy Called It is just heart breaking and I agree also with The Kite Runner and wow I guess there are a lot of books that can make you cry
Fiction: The Fault in Our Stars by John Green. Nonfiction: A Child Called It. Major tears.
Me Before You
Still get teary eyed just thinking about this beautiful story: https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/8621462-a-monster-calls?ac=1&from_search=true
Of Mice and Men and A Little Life.
Of Mice and Men and most Steinbeck for sure
House of Sand and Fog