Looking for suggestions on a sad book .......

[Star]

Might sound a bit depressing but I like books that don't always have a happy ending. I like to feel moved after and not be able to stop thinking about it. (Tends to be the sad ones for me)

 

Any suggestions on some good ones please?

 

For example on my wish list is .......

 

Mums List by St John Greene (about a dying mother leaving a list of things for her husband to teach their 2 boys to do and become as they grow up)

 

 

Thanks

 

x

[ian]

I can recommend "The Kite Runner" & "A Thousand, Splendid Suns", both by Khaled Hosseini. They are both incredibly sad, but uplifting at the same time.

[chesilbeach]

I thought The Girl from Chartreuse by Pierre Péju was a heartbreaking study of loneliness - very sad.

[AlysonofBathe]

Hi there,

 

A few suggestions:

 

- My Sister's Keeper, Jodi Picoult

- Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

- Of Mice and Men, John Steinbeck

 

Cheers,

Alyson

[RachelleVaughn]

How about Nicholas Sparks? His books are always tear-jerkers.

[frankie]

I would recommend

Charles Dickens: A Tale of Two Cities

Matt Haig: The Last Family in England (told from a dog's point-of-view)

John Boyne: The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

Margaret Mitchell: Gone With the Wind

Garth Stein: The Art of Racing in the Rain (told from a dog's point-of-view)

Stephen King: Cujo

Stephen King: Green Mile

Carlos Ruiz Zafón: The Shadow of the Wind

Elizabeth Flock: Me and Emma

Gavriil Troyepolsky: White Bim Black Ear

Susan Hill: I'm the King of the Castle

[Inver]

I can recommend "The Kite Runner" & "A Thousand, Splendid Suns", both by Khaled Hosseini. They are both incredibly sad, but uplifting at the same time.

I agree....just not long finished 'Suns'

[Arukiyomi]

I presume you're talking fiction (my non fiction recommendation would be Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee)...

 

let's see

Ethan Frome

Cry, the Beloved Country (probably the best novel I've ever read)

Anna Karenina

Half of a Yellow Sun

Never Let Me Go (chilling as well as sad)

Elegance of the Hedgehog

I'm Not Scared (this is truly gripping with a terrible twist at the end)

The Reader

Things Fall Apart

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

 

that should keep you busy... and depressed!

[Hayley]

I agree with:

The Green Mile

The Reader

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

and The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas

 

Also 'The Book Thief' by Markus Zusak, 'The Lovely Bones' by Alice Sebold and 'Nineteen-eighty-four' - George Orwell (or as the case may be...)