For a bit of context I've never cried at a book before, and I really want to see of I can! Even if it won't make me cry I'm just feeling like reading a sad book at the moment and so thought I'd come here for suggestions.
Can be any genre, it can have one terribly sad moment somewhere in the book, or a sad ending or just sad throughout.
Not sure why but just feel in the mood for a sad book.
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A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara. I think this is the saddest book I’ve ever read. I don’t know if you have any off-limit topics though, if you do check them out just in case as it’s very dark.
Sword of Kaigen by ML Wang.
We are all completely beside ourselves- Karen Joy Fowler
A Man Called Ove by Frederick Bachman
When I Grow Up by Ken Krimstein
Sharks in the Time of Saviors by Kawai Strong Washburn
Digger by Ursula Vernon
The Last Unicorn by Peter S Beagle
The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula Leguin
Anger is a Gift by Mark Oshiro
The Kite Runner, or A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini
For a YA Romance, Eleanor and Park by Rainbow Rowell, always makes me cry
A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Walk Across the Sun
Both sad and thought provoking ..
As well as Hosseini who does this very well, I’d recommend Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men or East of Eden), Thomas Hardy (Jude the Obscure) or Old Goriot by Balzac. I read that one in French, and it was so sad and full of pathos. I hope the translation into English carries the same weight.
Giovanni’s Room by James Baldwin
Too Loud a Solitude by Bohumil Hrabal, A Personal Matter by Kenzaburō Ōe, Don Quixote by Cervantes
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius. It is a sad book without trying to make you cry, but it will.
Slumdog Millionaire by Vikas Swarup
Some books that have made me cry, usually at the end (and I don’t tend to cry at books)
– Mockingjay (hunger games 3)
– mark on my soul, like Simon Vs the homosapien agenda (Love Simon), but depressing
– The Martian, but not because I’m sad, because I’m just feeling emotional in general towards the end
Perla by Carolina De Robertis
Watership Down by Richard Adams.