What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?

[Anonymous]

A Little Life
Bridge to Terabithia
Marley and Me

[Anonymous]

The Time Traveler's Wife
A Place for Us

[Anonymous]

A Little Life for me, too. That book was brutal, ridiculously so.

[Anonymous]

Elegance of the Hedgehog

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The first time I read “The Kite Runner”, I was on an airplane and had to go in the bathroom so I could cry. I was affected for weeks by that book. It was so good but really hit me hard.

+1

The first one I thought of was The Kite Runner.

A Thousand Splendid Suns is also damn sad.

Year of Wonders by Geraldine Brooks
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A Little Life for me, too. That book was brutal, ridiculously so.

It really was!

[Anonymous]

Love You Forever

Haven’t gotten through it with my youngest without tearing up.

[Anonymous]

The Painted Bird

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:When Breath Becomes Air.

I have wanted to read this for so long, but I just can't bring myself to.

[Anonymous]

Suzanne’s diary for Nicholas

[Anonymous]

Some good ones already mentioned: Bridge to Terabithia, Where the Red Fern Grows, Flowers for Algernon, etc.

But also: Old Yeller, Love Story, Brian's Song, Terms of Endearment, Steel Magnolias

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Elegance of the Hedgehog

I read the book and agree it was damn sad. Did not know it was a movie.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A fine balance.

Yep. That ending . . .

[Anonymous]

The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace

[Anonymous]

Ethan Frome just about killed me. I can tear up just thinking about it. So bleak and tragic.