Just as the title indicates, I LOVE sad and depressing books, however I love them even more when I know little to nothing going in. I love tragedies, slow existential stories, depressing tales about childhood and nostalgia, the works. Any genre is fine also, except maybe YA fiction. Stories about children and teenagers are great, love them. I need the perspective of the writing to be mature.
Please recommend high quality emotionally affecting books and tell me literally nothing about them!
by Inkoko
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Omg you should read Behind the Screen: The Silent Battle with Online Gambling. It’s a character-driven, true-to-life story that digs into mental health, anxiety, and how digital addiction can slowly consume someone’s life. I can’t put this book down!
Kurt Vonnegut’s The Sirens of Titan
“All the Futures that Never Happened” by Jim Stallings. I mean, the title alone is haunting.
The History of Love by Nicole Krauss
“Never let me go” by Kazuo Ishiguru
*atonement* ripped my heart out
Our Wives Under the Sea
Probably not as sad as other titles but Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka. Quite terrifying sometimes.
The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
flowers for algernon
The women
Bastard out of Carolina.
unhooking the moon by gregory hughes. read that one Once. only book that’s ever made me properly cry.
The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, A Little Life
– The Great Believers
– Heart the Lover
– A Little Life
The Four Winds by Kristen Hannah
Chris Whitaker’s We Begin at the End
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy
Rose Code by Kate Quinn. Historical fiction. It had me crying.
Anna Karenina by Tolstoy, and anything that Charles Dickens wrote