Saddest Book

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Anything by Thomas Hardy, god, that man knows how to make me cry :'(
A lot of stuff by Charles Dickens makes me cry.
Okay, I am one of the most emotional people you'll ever meet.
At the start of Tess of the D'Urbervilles her father is on his way back, and the girls in the field at the dancing class, or whatever you'd like to call it, when he embarrassed his daughter, that made me cry. Not for Tess, but for her father. I get very emotional. Let's see, for school we had to read The curious incident of the dog in the night time, there's a part where Christopher goes to the old woman neighbour's house for some cake and lemonade, he left without telling her and that made me cry for the old woman. God I sound so emotional, but I really am. So now, you'll possibly see why me answering this question is rather pointless. I can find some reason to cry in every book.
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I know I've read a lot of books that have made me cry but these are just a few I can remember:

The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins (one of those death scenes just really got to me, not telling which one though)

Silver is for Secrets by Laurie Faria Stolarz (cried for the last like 3 pages, so sad)

Red is for Remembrance by Laurie Faria Stolarz (tears of happiness)

Those are just of the books I've read recently.
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Bridge to Teribithia

Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson (first book to ever make me cry)

Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes

I don't read all that many sad books so those were all I could think of.
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I can't decide. Anyway, I'll just put the only book that has ever made me cry.

Where the Red Fern Grows

Poor Old Dan and Lil Ann.
There once was a cat.
He wasn’t particularly fat.
Fuzzy was his favorite mat.
And really, that was that.

Oh, but did you really think so?
Keep reading, it’s just the start of the show!
And as for how far this tale will go…
Well, even the cat doesn’t know.




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I don't really read sad books but three I have read would have to be

3. Harry Potter and the Half-blood Prince
2. My Sisters Keeper
1 Looking for Alaska

Looking for Alaska is so sad and it's written in a strange way as well which make it quite interesting. Great book!

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The Outsiders and Living Dead Girl <- I cried at the end, and I usually don't cry over books.




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I cry a lot.

The books I've cried the most in were...

1984. I was in the middle of the library and I actually screamed "NO, WINSTON!"

Harry Potter books 5-7.

Bridge to Terebithia. I knew the ending and I still cried!

So B. It

Where the Red Fern Grows

Death Note (anime, but whatever)

Lord of the Flies

And there are a lot more...

Wow. I am way too sensitive ^^
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The book that made me cry the most was Ever After by Karen Kingsbury. The book hit a certain point (maybe half way through?) and I didn't stop crying until about ten minutes after I had finished the book. I must have dehydrated myself from crying so much.
I think the end of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows made me cry the hardest I've ever cried over a book, but squished into a shorter period of time. I just sobbed for about three or four minutes.
I also thought that Rules of Road and Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer were both pretty heart-wrenching at the end. Gone With the Wind made me cry too.




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I absolutely bawled my eyes out when I read The Book Thief.

Pathetic, I know. But it was so sad.
How am I not myself?




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There aren't many; I don't read a lot of sad books. Here are some that made me cry:

Snow Flower and the Secret Fan (One of the best books ever. Really sad at parts)

Marley and Me (I was in fifth grade and I cried for about ten minutes straight at the end)

The Boleyn Inheritance (Poor Katherine Howard!)
Mamillius: Merry or sad shall’t be?
Hermione: As merry as you will.
Mamillius: A sad tale’s best for winter. I have one
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1. The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
2. The Little Girl Who Was Forgotten By Absolutely Everyone (Even The Postman) by Katy Towell
3. The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe

Don't know if that last one counts as a book but those are the saddest things I have ever read. Sadness is a very pretty emotion. Awfully confusing too. Can't get enough of it o: We are all so masochistic.




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MaryJane Harper Cried Last Night by??? i forgot the author sorry
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Where the Red Fern Grows. That was the only book where I cried.
There once was a cat.
He wasn’t particularly fat.
Fuzzy was his favorite mat.
And really, that was that.

Oh, but did you really think so?
Keep reading, it’s just the start of the show!
And as for how far this tale will go…
Well, even the cat doesn’t know.




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Why did no one mention this? The Return of the King.

I am not talking about The Lord of the Rings; I'm talking about the last book. Frodo is parted from Sam; Eyown is parted from Aragorn; Aragorn dies after nearly a hundred years of governing Middle Earth.




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I don't read sad stories
I'm to of a happy person!
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