I’ve read quite a few of the sad recommendations on here, and while I love a lot of them- they just didn’t stick with me emotionally.
Something I’m working on in therapy is letting myself feel emotions and letting them out in healthy ways. Childhood abuse kind of messed up my ability to express anything but being totally neutral, so I never cry- even when I am very sad.
The only book to really make me sob was Song of Achilles and I had been chasing that high ever since.
Other sad books I have read that didn’t quite do it for me. I enjoyed them, they just didn’t stick with me emotionally:
– Never Let Me Go
– The Book Thief
– A Thousand Splendid Suns
– Me Before You
– When Breath Becomes Air
– The Road
– All Quiet on the Western Front
– The Things They Carried (I teach this one)
– Flowers for Algernon (I also teach this one)
– They Both Die at the End
– Time Travelers Wife
– Lovely Bones
– Ethan Frome
I’d like to avoid YA if possible but I’m open to any other genre. I’m a middle school teacher and I’ve read them all and it starts to feel like work rather than reading for pleasure!
by MizGinger