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

do you specifically pick out sad books or you just stumble on them?
books affect my mood, so i make sure i read reviews before picking them up
don't want my mood swing to get worse!

heard UGLY is a very sad book too

Dis Guy:

do you specifically pick out sad books or you just stumble on them?

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

For me it is VC Andrews' Dollanganger Series, especially FLOWERS IN THE ATTIC. I weep buckets every time I get to the part where Cory dies

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.

Push by Sapphire but then I didn't finish it.

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

Let's see:
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult is kind of sad too. Used to read Danielle Steel when i was younger, i've given up on her though. She took a blood oath with misery

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

How could I forget,
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
yeah its fiction, but till now- i was maybe 13 when i read it -thinking bout the book casts a pall.
Where is my man Ichabod crane?

Suzanne84:

Let's see:
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold, A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult is kind of sad too. Used to read Danielle Steel when i was younger, i've given up on her though. She took a blood oath with misery

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.

message from Nam and flowers in the Attic.

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.

wel, i ve read countless sad books but d one i can readily remember n wich s'prised me is Dean Koontz, 'the golden retreiver' cheers!

oyinda.:

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.

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

The saddest book I ever read is My Sweet Audrina, written by V.C Andrews. That book is terrific and yet, so haunting.

les misrerables by victor hugo, especially where jean val jean died, I cried buckets, infact thinking of it now ìs bringing tears out...









...jst kiddin

The saddest book I've read is Sidney Sheldon's Rage of Angels and aalsoDanielle Steele's kaleidoscope. Could I please get some good sites to download eBooks? Mucho gracias!

"The River Between" pass as the most depressing book I ever read. It is the only book that left me sympathetic for the protagonist.