Okay, I was making a list of all the books you lot put forward so I could read some sad books, and it is one big list!! So, just in the order that they were mentioned, here they are (the three in bold at the bottom are my 3 choices!)
Time of the Twins/Ptolmey's Gate/Summer Flame
Bridge to Terabithia
Where the red fern grows.
The Outsiders
Odd Thomas
Blood Red Rose
Such a Pretty Girl
Impulse
Fool's Fate by Robin Hobb
Fifteen Hours by Mitchel Scanlon
Flowers in the attic by Virgina Andrews
The Pact by Jodi Picoult
My Sister's Keeper.
Tamar
Private Peaceful
Ode To Billy Joe
To Kill A Mocking Bird
Sisterhood Of The Traveling Pants
Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince
The Butterfly Tattoo
Tina Come Home
The Amber Spyglass
Little Women
The Endless Knot by Stephen Lawhead
The Debt by Angela Hunt
Royal Assassin and Assassin's Quest by Robin Hobb
Tahn by LA Kelly
The Amethyst Heart
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
To Kill a Mockingbird
Of Mice and Men
Staying Fat for Sarah Byrnes
Ellen Foster
The Time Traveller's Wife
Stargirl, by Jerry Spinelli
A Walk To Remember
Message In a Bottle
The Notebook
A time for dancing
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins
Silver is for Secrets by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Red is for Remembrance by Laurie Faria Stolarz
Fever 1793 by Laurie Halse Anderson
Flowers For Algernon by Daniel Keyes
Looking for Alaska
Living Dead Girl
1984
So B. It
Death Note (anime)
Lord of the Flies
Ever After by Karen Kingsbury
Rules of Road and Hope Was Here by Joan Bauer
Gone With the Wind
The Book Thief
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
Marley and Me
The Boleyn Inheritance
The Little Prince by Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
The Little Girl Who Was Forgotten By Absolutely Everyone (Even The Postman) by Katy Towell
The Tell-Tale Heart by Edgar Allan Poe
MaryJane Harper Cried Last Night
The Return of the King
notes from the midnight driver
this is what i did
drums, girls, and dangerous pie
jane eyre
Sammy Keyes and The Lost Elf by Wendelin Van Draanen Mattimeo by Brian Jacques (tears of joy at the end) The Ghost Next Door by R. L. Stein (seems random, but the scene where she finds out how alone she is, oh it's heartbreaking)
A really depressing book I was reading was just an introduction about these proud French women who were arrested and sent to Birkenau. After a brief introduction talking about the lives they had to live (one water pump for 500,000 women; standing out in the snow for hours on role call; forcing their friends to stand up for role call, even though their friends were deathly ill and would have died anyway; having to eat their food from buckets that were filthy from diarrhea, since they were not allowed to go at night and, since their diet was so foul, they had diarrhea all the time and needed to let it out somehow; etc.) it then went in and described the women's lives before the war and then how they died (usually in the concentration camps) or how their lives were severely affected after the war (constant exhaustion, difficult pregnancies, etc.) and such. At one point, the women writing the collection said that frequently they were asked by the deceased families about the last words of their daughters, wives, lovers, etc., and they were forced to tell them that at the time they died, they were hallucinating and gone out of their minds from a combination of the cold, exhaustion, starvation, disease, and physical beatings. Mind you, the book didn't try to be emotional or dramatic or anything (after all, these were Frenchwomen... the Jews had it soooo much harder and they knew it, so they never complained), but that might have made things worse. And, of course, it was nonfiction. It was awfully depressing.
I forget the name of the book off the top of my head.
Ubi caritas est vera, Deus ibi est.
"The mark of your ignorance is the depth of your belief in injustice and tragedy. What the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the Master calls the butterfly." ~ Richard Bach
"Spud" by John van de Ruit. I totally saw the ending coming, and even though the writing wasn't that sad, I was just bawling at the end. Xl Jeez, I'm tearing up just thinking about it...
Awww, I cried so hard when I read Bridge to Terabithia. I felt so bad because it was his only friend and...okay done with that book but the movie got me too.
Marley and Me: That was so sad. I loved that dog LOVED it.
Where the Red Fern Grows: I had to read that for school in a small group and everybody laughed when I started crying.
I cried during one of the Private Novels I felt bad when Thomas died. He was my favorite.
I've read plenty of books that were "sad" in the sense that they were feeble, but I can't say I've ever been brought to tears from a book. Or a movie, for that matter. Unless you count when I saw Jurassic Park as a child, but I was only sobbing from terror.
Am I a one eyed hunter of unicorns or a hunter of one eyed unicorns? The world may never know.
Where the Red Fern Grows. I've read the book several times and it still makes me sad.
The Eyes of a King. It was a good book but it was horrible!
Bridge to Taribithia. I really want to read the book but I've seen the movie and I got teary eyed. Now I know what happens in the book *sniff*
I still hate sad stories. I don't like feeling sad.
Meadow
Purple light in the canyon that is where I long to be With my three good companions just my rifle, pony and me --- "My Rifle My Pony and Me"
Hmm... two books I've cried the most during are The Book Thief and I Am The Messenger, both by Markus Zusak. I Am The Messenger isn't even that sad, so I don't really get it...
Little Women by Louisa May Alcott. It's so sad...
The prize for most depressing book has got to go to Tess (of the D'Urbervilles, by Thomas Hardy). Poor thing. It just got worse and worse, and I was waiting for Angel to come back and take her away and then, well, those of you who have read it know the ending. I didn't cry, but I was miserable the rest of the day. I loved that book but jeez, it really puts a damper on life. Tess didn't have a very good time of it, did she?
Uh... Private Peaceful by Michael Morpurgo. Cried both times I read it.
The last Harry Potter. Dobby dies! That's just... horrible...
Uh... The Sisterhood of the Travelling Pants really was quite sad, even though it doesn't sound it...
I Capture the Castle! How has this not been mentioned yet? It's really sad. I love it, but it's sad. I always wonder what happens after she runs out of pages...
"Stella. You were in my dream the other night. And everyone called you Princess." -Lauren2010
Bridge to Teribithia is denfinitely the saddest book I've read, but Life As We Knew It is sad too. I've never read Where the Red Ferns Grow all the way through, but I've heard that it's way sad at the end.
There is nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and bleed. -Ernest Hemingway
Black Beauty has got to be the saddest book I have ever read. I love it. It's one of my favourite books but I hate it so much because of all what happens.
*sighs* Sad books. Yes.
Meadow
Purple light in the canyon that is where I long to be With my three good companions just my rifle, pony and me --- "My Rifle My Pony and Me"
A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it. — Roald Dahl
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