What's the saddest book you've ever read?

What's the saddest book you've ever read?

Molloy by Samuel Beckett, I hear the rest of the trilogy is even darker and more depressing. Hope I'll be able to get through it because his prose is so great.

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Kite Runner by Hallafahadykahlediwani bin Sawlamdurkanimahaledinulah. That poor, poor Afghan anus.

Narziß and Goldmund made me pretty sad

>Hallafahadykahlediwani bin Sawlamdurkanimahaledinulah
mfw

Molloy, Malone dies, The Nameless One, How it is are all good pics to make you feel low

Your diary desu

Wut Beckett is hilarious

for me it was always kinda depressing

Professor Sad's Book of Sadness

Nots from the Underground was funny, desu

Johnny Got His Gun and All Quiet on the Western Front.

All Quiet On the Western Front, or Poetry by Wilfred Owen.

When the BBC filmed their series on Auschwitz there was a book published which followed it up, chapter by chapter. Very graphic, harrowing.

The holocaust never happened though, so it's basically like reading fictional horror.

Journey to the end of the night
Sad but also funny

It's fiction.

>no mention of Suicide by Leve

Guys. Come on.

Jude the obscure
The tartar steppe

Chuck Tingle

>dude antisemitism lmao

The Road was pretty fucking soul crushing desu

Claude Gueux, Victor Hugo.

game of thrones

A Handful of Dust by Evelyn Waugh. The protagonist of that book just does not catch a break

The House of Mirth. It's about romantic regret, misunderstanding, and abandonment. The ending is brutal....

Bump

Of Mice and Men. Steinbeck is probably my favorite author, funnily enough because I'm french and we have some of the best litterature written in a very rich language. But Steinbeck just does it for me. I lived in the US deep south when I was a kid, maybe it's why I feel a connection to his works.

Are you french or "muh heritage" american

This, senpai

Same. Oddly enough I find it more depressing than Blood Meridian.

>The tartar steppe
>sad

Remains of the Day

Flowers for Algernon
Where the Red Fern Grows

That shit was melancholic indeed.

my diary tbf

desu stoner made me cry but its not really designed to be sad

The ending of Hemingway's 'A Farewell to Arms' was really rough for me.

A lot of Ray Carver's stories are incredibly depresssing, too.

It's incredibly sad.

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Flowers for Algernon

The Idiot

JR by William Gaddis. but I also haven't read much hard lit

Kokoro was up there.

The Book of Disquiet
and
L'Etranger (sad in a lonely existential kinda way)

Parable of the Sower
Flowers for Algernon

The Host by Stephenie Meyer
I cry erytiem

The Road was like a stab in the hearth man.

I legit cried a few times when I read Oblomov. Not many books made me cry.

I had to read this back in highschool, absolutely nothing in this story touched me, maybe it'll be different if I went back and read it but it seemed so boring and it's prose was horrible.

try reading them aloud, it'll rustle your jimmies

Lord Horror, Baptised in the Blood of Millions, the Auschwitz of Oz, (Savoy Books)

The Wedding by Yann Queffelec

The Communist Manifesto. It's sad that it's not a reality yet.

Fernando Pessoa's books.
Try that.

Where'd you get that feels guy? I'm pretty sure I made that like a couple years ago.

nevermind this is what i made. maybe i did make that wojak too i don't know, it looks like something i might've made.

i just want to die having made one meme

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unironically

Sarah Plain and Tall

also some book whose title i forget where a war torn korean kid is about to die of starvation so he starts stuffing leaves and dirt into his mouth, and then his equally deprived sister weakly tells him to not do that with what little strength she has left

>tfw I made a thread on Veeky Forums around two years ago
>tfw because of circumstances I made a meme and saw it get used a few times on here
Felt good, a shame it's pretty much dead

almost cry at the end

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