What is the saddest book you've ever read?

Question

What is the saddest book you've ever read?

Answer 1

when rabbit howls

a child called it.

Answer 2

Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood. I can't imagine life becoming what it is in that book. I would have to kill myself.  

Answer 3

My sisters Keeper, I cried and cried and cried.

Answer 4

Of all the books I've read, I'd have to say the book that affected me most was A Tale of Two Cities. If you haven't read it, I won't tell you why it's so sad. Aside from that, Marley and Me is so heartbreakingly amazing!

Answer 5

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak.

Answer 6

I have read a lot of sad stories. But I am going to say Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows. DEPRESSING! Brilliant, but depressing. I also found Walk Two Moons sad and I heard A Child Called It was extremely sad. Where the Red Fern Grows was also a tear jerker.

But yeah, I'd definitley say HP 7. I never cried so hard for so long. Everytime I even thought about the seventh book, even months after I read it, I weeped, sobbed, flew down on my bed with my face in my pillow and cried my eyes out. I couldn't watch the third movie because I would run away crying thinking of the terrible fate to meet Lupin in only a few years to come.  It was only till about a week ago I found the strength to read it again. The second time I read it I still cried even though I knew it was coming. I guess I hoped Death decided to not come and haunt the pages as he had done the first time. But after I read it, I realized how brilliant Rowling was. If she could make me feel that deeply about a character for me to act the way I did when she killed them (Snape, Sirius, Dumbledore, Lupin, Dobby, Fred, and Tonks) off then she was a true wizard.

Answer 7

A Child Called It is very depressing. I cried for 75% of it.

Answer 8

"A Child Called It"

Answer 9

Perks of being a wallflower.

Answer 10

the Painted Bird if you want to go into a depression, or flowers for Algernon if you just want to be really sad

Answer 11

Where the Red Fern Grows :'(

Answer 12

Hii.

Uhm I cried alot during parts of the Harry Potter series. Especially the last one.

I've read alotttt of sad online stories though that had me crying for like an hour.  

Answer 13

A thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini

Answer 14

There are alot of depressing books ive read but Id have to say the saddest was where the red fern grows, just how after lodes of hard work and bonding dan dies and then little anne dies of depression and then the red fern grows over their graves. It makes me wonder why someone would wright a great book just to permanently scar everyone who reads it. I do think that it was a great and well written book by a great author, but it was so depressing I cried till my eyes where dry.

Another good but sad story was girl with a pearl earring, I cried through  the end of thet book when they sent her away, and then a couple days later she gets a ackage with the pearl earring in it, Youd have to read it it is a great book and the movie was pretty good too.

And of course the 7th harry potter. I was a little upset when all the great characters died. 6 and a half books getting attached to all these wonderful characters, and then they get blasted to little pieces in the 7th. I totlally agree with pheonix fire. we spent an hour on the phone just talking about how sad and great at the same time the book was

Answer 15

paolo coelio "on river piyeddra i sat down and wept" not that i wept, I SAID I DIDN'T WHY DON'T YOU BELIEVE ME!

also micael bolgakov, "the teacher and margarita", and august strendberg's "the road to dimascous" no there is leo tolstoy's "light in the darkness" too, ghassan kanafani's stories, naji al ali's cartoons, no seriously cartoon book about palestine, there is another with big picture about the victems of sabra and shatila's massacare, god lady, you are depressing me, stop that!

Answer 16

the bible ... everyone dies at the end

Answer 17

Well I wouldn't call it crying. It was filled with emotion, happiness, courage, and well a lot more other things. That book would have to be "I, Tina: My Life Story" It was sad to know that she'd get beaten up by Ike almost every day bases, that moron even SLAPPED HER ACROSS THE FACE BECAUSE SHE LOOKED SAD! She had to perform with broken ribs. She even got tuberculosis. I feel bad for her. At least she survived and has a new loving Boyfriend in Switzerland. And his name is Erwin Bach. They even got groovy together... i saw pics. which were very disturbing and disgusting for a HEROINE to do that. Oh well??

Answer 18

I have cried and been emotionally touched by so many books that it is difficult to recall just one. But what I can say is that the first time I truly cried while reading a book was when I was in the fifth grade. The book was Bridge to Terrabithia. If you have seen the movie it is nowhere as near as sad as the book. It is a wonderful story.      

Answer 19

The Painted Bird.

Answer 20

the original Little Mermaid...oh it kills you!

and les miserablesis was really sad too!!!

Answer 21

Breakfast at Tiffany's and A Christmas Memory by Truman Capote

Answer 22

clay marble

Answer 23

"The Last Lecture" by Randy Pausch.  Absolutely phenomenal book!

Answer 24

These are three of the saddest:

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt

A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer

Where The Red Fern Grows  by Wilson Rawls