What is the saddest book you've ever read?

[Mr Fatherland]

I've just read "The boy in striped pyjamas" and it has left me feeling horrible and very shitty.But what is the most depressing book you have ever read?

 

[EeveeElectro]

PS I love you and A child name 'it'
Both were extremely sad and left me in tears.

 

[Stringytank]

I guess it would be the Series of Unfortunate Events series, though they're not exactly sad and are quite witty.
Btw, don't mean to troll, but most saddest is bad grammar.

 

[Fox1789]

The Little Prince...

it actually made me cry

 

[Sloprano]

It also concerns you (Norwegian title: Det angår også deg) by Arnold Jacoby.
A book about the real-life experience of the Norwegian jew Herman Sachnowitz under the holocaust in world war 2.

 

[Neosage]

I dunno but galaxy in flames almost made me cry. (part of the Horus Heresy)

 

[PersianLlama]

Don't really read books I'd consider sad.

I guess I'll go with Brave New World.

 

[L.B. Jeffries]

I'd gotten to a point that I'd read so many books that tugged on the heart strings that I'd kinda given up on a book doing that. Then I read The Road by Cormac McCarthy last year. I have yet to meet someone that did not cry at the end.

Movie is coming out soon. Do yourself a favor and read it, it's about the apocalypse and we all know how that goes down.

 

[yt2005]

The Little Leaf [http://www.amazon.com/Little-Leaf-Chana-Zuber-Sharfstein/dp/0922613184/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228336460&sr=8-1]. Either that, or Oscar Wilde's Stories for Children [http://www.amazon.com/Oscar-Wilde-Stories-Children-Classic/dp/0340841710/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1228336664&sr=1-1] which was both sad and MESSED UP, man.

 

[Baby Tea]

*sigh* The Giving Tree.

I don't read a lot of non-fiction.

 

[SecretTacoNinja]

'Damaged' by Cathy Glass.

It's one of about 300 sob-stories about abused kids. And when I read about all the terrible things that had happened to this kid I think she would have been happier dead. Because she was so... horribly, horribly broken by her abusers with no hope of recovering...

I swear, this book should have been called: 'Broken Beyond Any Repair'...

 

[xitel]

Umm... let's see. I found the end of the Amber Spyglass to be particularly sad. I actually teared up a bit. Also, Teacher Man was pretty sad, along with Kite Runner.

 

[chimmers]

The saddest thing i have read in a book was the introduction to Carrie when Mr King is explaining where his ideas came from

 

[thebobmaster_v1legacy]

Two words: Fuck "Cujo".

 

[Hippobatman]

Umm... let's see. I found the end of the Amber Spyglass to be particularly sad. I actually teared up a bit. Also, Teacher Man was pretty sad, along with Kite Runner.

Saw the Kite Runner movie today at school. It made some impression on me, though not enough to move me emotionally. I may well believe the book is better.

I've never read any particularly sad book, but I was really bummed by the 6th(?) Harry Potter book.

Spoiler

The one where Dumbledore dies

 

[Aardvark]

Anyone who doesn't know that Dumbledore dies by now probably doesn't care. Spoiler tags really aren't necessary.

 

[I Stomp on Kittens]

I thinks its called "The Richest Man In Town" and its a true story and its very sad

 

[felltablet]

I read 'The Road' by McCarthy also. However, I thought the end was horrible, not sad, and didn't match the rest of the book at all. The kicker is that Cormac McCarthy knows it. You can watch an interview of him saying how being a new father changed his perspective.
Otherwise, it has been over a decade since I read it, but 'The Giver' still is pretty depressing for me.

 

[Supernovajake]

I dunno but galaxy in flames almost made me cry. (part of the Horus Heresy)

If you're referring to:

Spoiler

when Aximand gets killed

then I definately agree.