Hey, I am someone who doesn't like overtly happy books. Al though I do like books with a happy ending, I don't especially enjoy books that are all sunshine and butterfly. I finished A Man called Ove and Anxious People and loved it. Now I'm looking for some sad books to read. Got any suggestions?
by Isabelle_Alan
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YA, Flowers for Algernon, Adult would be Future Home of the Living God
Ethan Frome
Under the Dome – Stephen King
Same – I prefer books that really tug at my heart and expose the dark realities of being human. I appreciated both of the books you listed, and found Shuggie Bain by Douglas Stewart to be very well written, sad, and moving. I listened to the audiobook version and also really appreciated the narrator and his Scottish accent.
Kite Runner.
BETWEEN SHADES OF GREY
The Road by Cormac McCarthy. The book is a masterpiece but I’ll never read the damn thing again. Maybe the book isn’t just sad but it just gives such a sense of hopelessness – when that is couple with a dad trying to survive with his young son in a post application setting it’s incredibly sad.
The book theif ,flowers for Algernon and A thousand splendid suns.