What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?

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[Post New]03/07/2019 08:25
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The Red Pony by Steinbeck for a children's book.

Recently, Beneath a Scarlet Sky was heartbreaking.
[Post New]03/07/2019 08:28
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The Thornbirds
[Post New]03/07/2019 08:32
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Anonymous wrote:The Thornbirds


Also as an ode to literature 1984.

"Under the spreading chestnut tree
I sold you and you sold me."
[Post New]03/07/2019 08:45
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The Lost (a Holocaust book, AMAZING but very, very sad)
https://www.amazon.com/Lost-Search-Six-Million-P-S/dp/0062277774

An Exact Replica of a FIgment of my Imagination - about losing a baby at the end of a pregnancy.
https://www.amazon.com/Exact-Replica-Figment-My-Imagination-ebook/dp/B001DR7K02/ref=sr_1_3?crid=1S34E4T858YGW&keywords=elizabeth+mccracken&qid=1551966200&s=gateway&sprefix=elizabeth+mcc%2Caps%2C120&sr=8-3
[Post New]03/07/2019 08:50
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Anonymous wrote:The memoir Education by Tara Westover. I guess it ends OK -- she gets out of an abusive home -- but jeez, it made me so sad to read about how abusive and willfully oblivious her family was, and then how she struggled with basic tasks as a young adult because she hadn't been taught anything.


+1!
[Post New]03/07/2019 08:51
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My Sister’s Keeper



I threw that book across the room when I finished. I was so pissed.

I did the same thing! And I let it sit there for a long time.


The movie handles the end a lot better.
[Post New]03/07/2019 08:52
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Anonymous wrote:
Anonymous wrote:The memoir Education by Tara Westover. I guess it ends OK -- she gets out of an abusive home -- but jeez, it made me so sad to read about how abusive and willfully oblivious her family was, and then how she struggled with basic tasks as a young adult because she hadn't been taught anything.


+1!


I'm sorry, but that's not even remotely on the level as some of the other books listed here.
[Post New]03/07/2019 08:58
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Anonymous wrote:Saving this thread so that I never ever read these books LOL


LOL saving for the opposite reason.. I Love sad
[Post New]03/07/2019 08:59
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Anonymous wrote:The Thornbirds


Omg YES. I was a teenage girl when I read this and made me cry for days.
[Post New]03/07/2019 09:01
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Anonymous wrote:The memoir Education by Tara Westover. I guess it ends OK -- she gets out of an abusive home -- but jeez, it made me so sad to read about how abusive and willfully oblivious her family was, and then how she struggled with basic tasks as a young adult because she hadn't been taught anything.


Please people. List your book and how impacted you but don’t give spoilers
[Post New]03/07/2019 09:08
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Every Note Played.
Still Alice
[Post New]03/07/2019 09:09
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Anonymous wrote:Saving this thread so that I never ever read these books LOL


LOL saving for the opposite reason.. I Love sad

Sometimes you just need a weeper!
[Post New]03/07/2019 09:13
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Can those of you who read a lot of extremely sad books explain why? Truly curious, as I really avoid them like the plague. I don't like sacharrine romance novels, but I don't purposely pick books that I know will make me cry through the whole thing either.
[Post New]03/07/2019 10:02
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Anonymous wrote:Can those of you who read a lot of extremely sad books explain why? Truly curious, as I really avoid them like the plague. I don't like sacharrine romance novels, but I don't purposely pick books that I know will make me cry through the whole thing either.


I only read them by accident or coercion by well-meaning literature teachers.
[Post New]03/07/2019 11:06
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a thousand splendid suns
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