I sat here and thought, can you suggest a novel that has such a sad ending (Something like Lord of the Flies, only even stronger) that even such a dry person like me will be left in tears, can you? Thank you!
P.S. I love classic novels more than modern ones, so it’s better to offer classics.
by Some-Glove-3629
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*Love Story* by Erich Segal?
Song of Achilles by Madeline Miller, has a “classical” subject and feel
flowers for algernon by daniel keyes
The Giver by Lois Lowry
Where the Red Fern Grows.
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow really got me.
The Kite Runner, Bridge to Terabithia, House of Sand and Fog.
Not a classic but- Before We Were Yours by Lisa Wingate had me sobbing by the end.
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai. very depressing, very sad ending but it’s great. My favorite piece of literature, ever.
Lonesome Dove…….what a ride!
Classics:
– A Tale of Two Cities
– Anna Karenina
– The Bell Jar
– King Lear
Contemporary:
– A Little Life
Angela’s Ashes
Not a classic but a Little Life. Yeah, prepare yourself.
‘Me before you’ always has me bawling at the end. Also ‘Twelve Patients’ by Eric Manheimer. Cried through most of that one
Atonement
Horns by Joe Hill
‘Census’ by Jesse Ball. Make sure to read the foreword and afterword.
Terms of Endearment by Larry McMurtry
Of mice and men by John Steinbeck
The lovely bones
The Green Mile by Stephen King. That book had me sobbing.
East of Eden had me crying pretty good. Just kind of feeling empty but in awe at the same time.
A Woman is No Man by Etaf Rum. Literally cracked my heart in 2. One of the best books I’ve ever read.
The Long Goodbye By Raymond Chandler
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
It’s not a classic but it made me ugly cry.
And the Mountains Echoed by Khaled Hosseini
The knife of never letting go by Patrick Ness
That book kicked my ass
Wings of the Dove by Henry James, The House of Mirth and The Age of Innocence— both by Edith Wharton, Revolutionary Road by Richard Yates, Never Let Me Go and The Remains of thevDay— both by Kazuo Ishiguro, Atonement by Ian McEwan, Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy and The End of the Affair by Graham Greene
….so I uh…wrote a book that reads more classical and definitely has an unhappy ending. Would you be interested?
Not a classic, but The Great Believers by Rebecca Makkai will make you cry
Pachinko by Min Jin Lee
The Green Mile. I SOBBED when I read this one.
The Art of Racing in the Rain. Just finished it tonight and legit sobbed for sec.
lie with me by philippe besson oh my god. its a modern but feels like a classic. I’ve literally read it twice the read, so beautiful, so sad and also really short.
The Nightingale
kite runner.
A thousand splendid suns
They both die in the end by Adam Silvera
the red pony and old yeller
A Fine Balance
I cried at the book thief which suprised me as I always thought I was a bit ice cold
The Hunchback of Notre Dame.
Trollope, He Knew He Was Right.
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Not a classic but the end of the divergent series.
The Secret Life of Bees