Saddest Books Read?

Hello all, I apologize if this topic has been posted already.  What are the saddest novels you've read?
I have read some terribly sad books like a child called it, a teenager jouney, My Sister's Keeper One Hundred Years of Solitude The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank, Where the Red Fern Grows, but the saddest of all have been, it happened to nancy man that book was sad I mean really depressing

lol very funny I read all sort of books yes sometimes I pick up the sad ones because sad books usually have great lesson in it to learn from

Hmmm i have read quite a number of sad books but cant really say which is the saddest but i give the saddest author to Danielle Steele. Most of her books twist my insides with sadness.

I remember that as a teenager, books by Danielle Steele were mostly tearjerkers.

One of the books that evoked strong emotions in me was Lynda La Plante's "Entwined" about the lives and ordeals 2 women (identical twins) suffered as children in a Nazi concentration camp. I read this book almost 15 years ago and I still remember it vividly. It was a profound book and I will recommend it to everyone.

I am not a La Plante fan and this is [I believe] the only book of hers that I have read. Also, it has been said that this book deviates substantially from her usual writing style and genre. I guess it was something she felt she had to write.

Get all the old Danielle Steel novels,i can promise you that you'll cry from the beginning to the end.

Fiction has never been able to really sadden me- for the one obvious reason.
'Angela's Ashes' by frank mcCourt. some bits were

Lovely Bones and My Sister's Keeper were quite sad  .

Khaled Hosseini's first book, the kite runner was also a sad book. I haven't gotten around reading thousand splendid suns yet but i bet it'll be a really good book.

 

1   Flowers in the Attic( V.C.Andrews) - 4 children are locked up in an attic by their grandma with the consent of their mother.

2  Malice(Danielle Steel) - A girl suffers sexual abuse from her father for years.

3   The keeper of the walls(Monique Raphel High) - Sufferings of the Jews under Nazi rule.

I think lord of the flies did the trick. Hey, apart from that, a tale of two cities had it coming too.

You're right. The Kite Runner is sad. But A Thousand Splendid Suns is even better - sadder, i mean