What is the saddest book you've ever read?

[Stray]

Recently I've concluded my reading of "Suzanne's Diary for Nicholas" by James Patterson, and I think that this is one of the saddest I've ever read. See, I made the mistake of reading it at work.... On a call, so I started welling up at the ending while I was talking with a customer. Yes, it was THAT sad.

Can anyone relate? :D

Anyone else read it? what other books would have said effect?

[Tali]

Chinese Cinderella. Only book I've ever cried at...badly. brilliant book though.
I once read another book where one of the characters died(this was when I was younger) so I stoppped reading the book I was so upset. i went back to read it when i was older and found out it turned out the character wasn't dead in the next chapter.

[La Sailor Luna]

It's a tie between Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix, To Kill a Mocking Bird, and Lord of the Flies.

[Lila]

this is so geek, but the only book I cried over was
"The Courtship of Princess Leia" by Dave Wolverton

she was on the verge of dumping Han for some prince from a distant planet. :(

[S.A.]

A child called it was sad. I'm not sure it's the saddest i've ever read. My reading list usually consists of manga, and lots of it.

[Jessica Adnee]

Well, I find most things sad and I cry VERY easily. Like seriously... I cried during Scooby Doo 2.... yea...

Hm... a sad book might be There Are No Children Here or Angela's Ashes. Those are both pretty sad.

[Taryn]

I have a rough time keeping track of everything I've read to accurately answer questions like this. ;) I note Guy Gavriel Kay as being an author who has made me bawl for most of his books.

[Cefaclor]

Does FFX count? XD. Hmm.. strangely, all the books I read have had happy or mystifying endings. Sept for Shakespeare, XD, nearly everyone dies in his books.

[Henageshi]

I'm a weirdo when it comes to books. I haven't read ANY of the classics hardly. I haven't read To Kill A Mockingbird (everyone wants to shoot me for that), I haven't read Lord of the Flies, The Scarlet Letter, The Jungle etc. The only classic I've read is The Great Gatsby. I guess it was sad. It just basically sucked the way it ended >P

Nicholas Sparks books are sad but they're also bittersweet. Like A Walk to Remember, The Notebook...

One book that I remember that's really sad is Year of Impossible Goodbyes. I must have read that like 12 times when I was in high school. Great book.

A CHILD CALLED IT! OMG THAT IS SOOO SADDD. I cried so much. =(

[cheetahd586]

Where the Red Fern Grows is the saddest book ever. I love it, but I can't read it without crying.

[SirGaryColeman]

I tend to read more "action/scifi" stuff, so none of it is very sad... The only one I can think of that could probably fit that description would be House of Sand and Fog by Andre Dubus... Especially the ending events.

[Charil]

"The House of Thirty Cats". In the very beginning, a girl goes to an old woman's house to adopt one of her many cats, and she sees a fluffy white cat and a tomcat fighting.

...

The white one died! ;; I think the other one died at the end, too T^T (I always read the ends of books first ^^; Well, more like just the last sentence, but sometimes I can't help myself and read more...)

I still haven't read the rest of that book u_u

...

Then again, I also cry very. Very. Easily :P

[Dee-chan]

Battle Royale. The novel, not the manga. Character death, and toooooons of it. :D 'Course, even if you only know the main concept of the book you already knew that. There was only one character I was really attached to, but I cried. D:

[Icypopcorn]

I've read some really sad books, but some of the saddest would be Where the Red Fern Grows, A Child Called "It" (Gaaah I was in tears), Chinese Cinderella was so sad at some parts ;o; I know there are a whole bunch more but I'm too lazy to think at the moment XD;

[greendaygoddess]

I've read A Walk To Remember by Nicholas Sparks i think 3 times..i know i have definetley read it 2 times..i cry everytime i read it

[Winterleaf]

Probably the only book I've actually bawled over is Harry Potter... I know, I'm a geek. But whatever. I felt like joining the conversation.

[Cheshire]

"Where the Red Fern Grows", "A Child Called It", and "HP:Order of the Phoenix"(joining the dork brigade here. X3). I think 'A CHild Called It" was the one that amde me cry the most, though, knowing the events had actually happened. o.o

[Komichi]

The Lonesome Gods.

[Rosette]

the saddest book I've ever read has to be Where the Red Fern Grows. My teacher read it out loud to us in fourth grade, and I cried for it then too. (Which is surprising, 'cause in fourth grade, I rarely cried ^^;) But yeah, I re-read the book in sixth grade and managed to hold back the tears (mostly because I knew the ending, so it technically doesn't have that initial tear-jerking surprise).

When Old Dan had that fight with the cougar, I was so sure that he was going to be okay...T__T

[KitsuneSqueak]

Chinese Cinderella. Only book I've ever cried at...badly. brilliant book though.


I agree. T.T

[Nikki Jones]

Oh the "Bridge to Terabithia" by Katherine Paterson...I just cried so much. I've read it a few times and I still cry and even when I think about it I want to cry.

and "Black Beauty" by by Anna Sewell so very sad at times.

[artxxisxxbang]

Do I have to answer this question? Yes? Okay then fine, I will.

The saddest books I've ever read has probably got to be one of the following:

Chinese Cinderella
Noughts and Crosses
Witch Child
Sorceress
You guys are probably thinking: "How the hell is Witch Child and Sorceress emotional?" JAY D*** FOR HEAVEN'S SAKE! HOW IS THAT NOT SAD?!

Anyway, yeah, there ya go.

[fukkatsu]

Where the Red Fern Grows. Seriously guys, I balled my eyes out reading that book and the movie... forget about it.

[Josh Miller]

"The True and Outstanding Adventures of the Hunt Sisters" By Elisabeth Robinson. This wasn't going to be the saddest book I ever read, I didn't even want to finish it was so frustrating. I actually physically through this book across the room half way through and waited a month before picking it up. The ending makes it worth it.

[Bjorn]

Um... probably Ferenheit 451 cause I lost it half way through and didn't find it for a month. But the book itself isint very sad so.... BACH!

[McCorvic Sucks]

Back in Highschool I thought The Perks of Being a Wallflower was really sad. I don't know how'd I feel about it these days though.

[LemonPearl]

The Lion, the witch and the wardobe (the lion part)

[-Tsuki-]

Not the saddEST, but one of the sadder ones, the Golden Unicorn by uhmm... uhhhmmmmmm................... I don't remember xD But Tanaquil's lover gets married to her sister!!! That sucks!

[Kagami]

The Lovely Bones was pretty sad, but I loved it.

[Cristina]

As of late, Flowers for Algernon. ;.;

[Josh Miller]

Cristina...this has nothing to do with the topic, but that was the first book I was ever given by a friend (that and it may be up there in the top ten saddest books)

[Pretty Kunoichi]

Definitely 'Of Mice and Men'. I bawled myself to sleep over that one in around seventh grade.

[Nessy]

For me it's a tie: either The Lorax by Dr Seuss or Queer by William S. Burroughs.

Also, the sixth Harry Potter book made me cry so hard I almost threw up. :( :( :( So I guess it is a candidate as well.

[KITA]

The ending to Lord of the Rings (the third book, though I'm looking at the three as a whole, since without having read all of them it wouldn't have had the same effect) actually had a profound effect on me. I'm not one to get teary at most things, but it almost had me crying.

[M.ichi]

The third Book of the Bartimaeus trilogy...I was crying at the end when the second main character killed himself, I was in the caribbean and I was walking around the pool when I was reading it, and well, The second I read the last page I didn't see what I was doing and walked into a tree ^^;;...anywho, the ending was sad, and Nate's death was really sad because he wasted his entire childhood (he was only 17 or so) in the english government and never had a chance to have a real life, so yeah...I cried...

[Kathryn]

Probably The Lovely Bones. It's about a girl who gets murdered and looks down at her mourning family from heaven. Watching her family struggle through her death was SO SAD....I didn't just cry, I had one of those GASPGASPsobsobsobGASPGASP cries. Hilarious. But despite that, its a hell of a good book!

Hahaha and Nessy, I cried in the 6th Harry Potter book too : ( (And the 5th..)

[Hotaruzuki]

"searchlight" i think. (or something like it) I read it in 3rd grade and started crying in class. It was a about a kid who was trying to get money (for somereason) and entered a dog sledding race with his dog "searchlight" (i think thats the right name but im not sure.). Just as they are about to win, the dog's heart bursts and he dies. The big indian man in second place sees that, stops the other racers (treatens to shoot them) and the kid carries his dog over the finish line. TT_TT I cried so much..it was so unexspected....

The Harry potter books made me cry too

[Ada]

In grade 7 we had to read "where the red fern grows" by the time we finished everyone (and I mean EVERYONE) was crying. It was such a sad book.

[Gabi Star]

The Color Purple. (sob) I bawled.

[JamaicanPolarBear]

Battle Royale. The novel, not the manga. Character death, and toooooons of it. :D 'Course, even if you only know the main concept of the book you already knew that. There was only one character I was really attached to, but I cried. D:

I cried at the end of that book. The characters were so well described, you felt attached to them. With a situation like that, you could atleast find one character you related with.

[SatansLittlePenguin]

I have a rough time keeping track of everything I've read to accurately answer questions like this. ;) I note Guy Gavriel Kay as being an author who has made me bawl for most of his books.

Holly Crap, Some one Not of Canadian dissent reads Guy Gavriel Key?! Finally he's getting the recognition he disserves! And I totally understand what you mean; I was shocked with what happened to Kevin in The Fionavar Tapestry!

Oh and as far as saddest book I have read? I would have to say Othello.

[Sachibelle]

Oh man...I've read quite a few of them. XD I'm obsessed with depressing stuff...but right now, one of the saddest books I've ever read was Go Ask Alice. Though that might not count, since it was actually a diary of someone..

Mick Harte was Here is also another really sad book. One of my absolute favorites. It's very short, but VERY good.

[yukie]

I Am Morgan Le Fay by Nancy Springer.

Morgan couldn't save herself from the destiny she was fated to have, and she just wanted to be a normal human being, but couldn't help but turn evil in the end.

[Kelly]

The Hiding Place by Corrie ten Boom was a pretty sad book. It's about the Holocaust and how Corrie lived through camps and things like that.

[Tom]

Of Mice and Men or The Giving Tree.

[StarvingWriter]

"Of Mice and Men" was very sad...but I always cry at character death. (In example: Harry Potter, The Lion the Whitch and the Wardrobe with Aslan's death) but certainly top on my list is (This is gonna sound REALLY stupid) the Black Caldron and King Arthur and his Knights. (I HATE the ending to King Arthur! I'm not sure if I got the title 100% correct, but it's something along those lines.)

[Sadako]

I finally got a chance to read through "Socrates in Love" and found myself bawling from the first til the last sentence. I was amazed it started on such a sad note and I felt so comfortable giving myself so fully to this character. I really want to watch the J-Drama now...

[rikuXharada]

Of Mice and Men wasn't too sad, i just thought it was sad that George had to kill his best friend.

Personally I thought Kira Kira was pretty sad, or maybe Girl with the Pearl Earring was a little sad

[Utada]

The notebook T_T that book was so sad it made it even worse when it was made into a really good movie because I read it again and it almost seemed to make me cry more.

[lilmenchi]

My Story: The Diary of Charlotte Mckenzie
I think thats it, I cried when I read this book. Sure I was reading it late at night and that was a couple of years ago but its really sad considering that it is based on real events in Australian history.

[Tali]

Traitor by some German guy- can't remember his name. It has the saddest ending in the world. i was utterly devastated.

[Seibei Mifune]

mines Anne Frank's Diary...

[Yahikochan]

The saddest book? Gosh, I don't know... I do remember a short story I read once that made me cry so hard that my mom was concerned. I can't remember the title for it was two years ago since I read it, and it was about this boy and his older brother, and this boy had major problems, right? And his brother was always really close to him, but one day, his brother ran off ahead of him and wouldn't wait up for him, and the boy died alone... Killed me inside.

I know it's weird, but a lot of Rock Lee's story in the Naruto manga was majorly sad for me too.