What are some really sad stories/books?

Question

What are some really sad stories/books?

Answer 1

"D.P" is a short story by Kurt Vonnegut.  It's very sad, but kinda sweet.  Good luck.

Answer 2

Burned and Impulse by Ellen Hopkins both made me want to cry and were very moving. they are also written in a cool poem format

Answer 3

"The Virgin Suicides" by Jeffrey Eugenides. Sad but very beautiful. The movie is pretty good, too.

Answer 4

The Mill on the Floss by George Eliot

Answer 5

dont let me die

i heart you, you haunt me

i dont know the authors

Answer 6

One of my favorite sad stories, which I read in high school and stuck with me and I remember clearly twenty-five years later, is Flowers for Algernon.

Another I read in high school is Hiroshima, a sad, true story.

More recently, I read the "Red Tent" by Anita Diamant, which has moments of utter joy and moments of great sadness, but mostly, it's a moving, powerful book, one of the best books I've ever read, the (fictional) life story of a woman from the days of Genesis, from her birth and her upbringing in a family with four mothers, to her entry into the "Red Tent" (where "unclean" women had to go during their menstrual cycles) through her old age.

Another good "sad/happy" story I read recently was a book called "Wolf by the Ears," about Harriet Hemings, daughter of Sally Hemings and Thomas Jefferson, struggling with the idea of taking her freedom when she turns 21, knowing that when she does, she'll never see her family again, but if she doesn't, she's condeming herself to a life of slavery.

Then again, for sad, there's always Old Yeller.  Just thinking about it makes me want to cry.

Answer 7

A Summer to Die by Lois Lowry

Answer 8

Angela's Ashes is a heart breaker. Oherwise if you want soething totally depressing try The Jungle by Upton SinClaire

Answer 9

A Weekend in September- Historical Non-fiction about the 1900 Galveston Hurricane

Answer 10

The Road by Cormac McCarthy.  I cried for a good 15 minutes after I finished it.

Answer 11

"Night" by Elie Wiesel was incredibly heartwrenching for me.

It's a memoir of a Jewish man who was just a young boy when he and his family were torn apart and forced into concentration camps. I had to read it for a literature class during my senior year of high school and it was one of the few assigned books that REALLY kept my interest.

I would suggest it because not only is it very well written, it's all true.

Answer 12

Breaking Dawn

The Lovely Bones

Cut

Answer 13

If You Could See Me Now by Cecilia Ahern.

Elizabeth Egan's life is always well-defined until her family enters the picture. As Elizabeth deals with her traumatic past as a daughter deserted by her own mother, she looks after the other family members left behind. As history repeats itself and her sister runs away with her car, she is left to take care of her nephew and her nephew's new invisible friend, Ivan. However, Elizabeth starts seeing Ivan and through him, sees her world with renewed hope and excitement.

It's a beautiful book. :]