I’m talking about ones that will have me clutching my chest and bawling while also cussing out the author for putting me in such wretched state. As much as I love a happy ending, I probably love sad endings even more because of how rare (in my opinion) it is to write an amazing unhappy ending.
I’m pretty open to fiction and non-fiction, as well as any genre of the sort. A few titles that I love that have stayed with me throughout the years: When Breath Becomes Air, Atonement, and Flowers for Algernon. I’ve read Never Let Me Go but it didn’t have much of an impact on me, but I’m open to giving it another read if anyone insists.
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The Both Die at the End by Adam Silvera
*The Transit of Venus* by Shirley Hazzard
A Farewell to Arms
Flowers for Algernon
Me Before You by Jojo Moyes
*Euphoria* by Lily King. Not related to the show.
One Day
Of Mice and Men, In Dubious Battle, The Winter of Our Discon— okay anything by John Steinbeck really.
The Meaning Of Night. This book is SO good, and the author ❤️
*The Ice Storm* by Rick Moody.
The Elegance of the Hedgehog
I don’t know about sobbing but I did want to throw this book across the room after I finished. I stick with romances and cosy mysteries and this book was categorized as romance which it certainly is not.
{Always, in December by Emily Stone}
East Lynne if you’re okay with trashy victorian lit. I love it.
Sooley, by John Grisham. I loved it until I hated it.
Believe Like a Child – Paige Dearth 😭💔😡
A Farewell to Arms
For whom the Bell Tolls
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
Bless the Beasts and the Children
Ethan Frome
All so tragic. Best wishes on crying your eyes out ❤️
Book of Dreams by Nina George tho I thought is was the way it had to be, it’s still heart breaking.
Merle’s Door… dunno if it qualifies but I stopped before the ending and it took me months to read the final chapters. The whole book felt like a warm embrace… didn’t want it to end.
*When Breath Becomes Air* by Paul Kalanithi
*And Every Morning the Way Home Gets Longer* by Frederik Backman
*I Who Have Never Known Men* by Jacqueline Harpman
*The Heart’s Invisible Furies* by John Boyne
This was hunger games for me. I didn’t cry, but I was like damn….
A Fault in Our Stars -John Green