Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 23:59     Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Ethan Frome just about killed me. I can tear up just thinking about it. So bleak and tragic.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 23:44     Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 23:36     Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Anonymous wrote:A fine balance.



Yep. That ending . . .
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 23:34     Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Anonymous wrote:Elegance of the Hedgehog


I read the book and agree it was damn sad. Did not know it was a movie.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 23:33     Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
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
Post 03/03/2019 23:26     Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Suzanne’s diary for Nicholas
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 23:18     Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Anonymous wrote:When Breath Becomes Air.


I have wanted to read this for so long, but I just can't bring myself to.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 23:18     Subject: Re:What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
The Painted Bird
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 23:13     Subject: Re:What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Love You Forever

Haven’t gotten through it with my youngest without tearing up.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 23:12     Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Anonymous wrote:A Little Life for me, too. That book was brutal, ridiculously so.


It really was!
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 23:09     Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
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
Post 03/03/2019 23:04     Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
Elegance of the Hedgehog
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 23:02     Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
A Little Life for me, too. That book was brutal, ridiculously so.
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 22:44     Subject: Re:What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
The Time Traveler's Wife
A Place for Us
Anonymous
Post 03/03/2019 22:42     Subject: What is the saddest book you’ve ever read?
A Little Life
Bridge to Terabithia
Marley and Me