A Decade of Hit Books
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Sad Ending


Sad Ending Books

The Fault in Our Stars
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
The Song of Achilles
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
We Were Liars
All the Bright Places
Heartless
Of Mice and Men
Powerful (The Powerless Trilogy, #1.5)
The Book Thief
Romeo and Juliet
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Lists

The Last Syllable by Valeriano DiviacchiGrendel by John GardnerThe Martian Chronicles by Ray BradburyThe Book of Sorrows by Walter Wangerin Jr.Quincas Borba by Machado de Assis
Unhappy Endings: Speculative Fiction With A Tragic Ending Part II
35 books — 2 voters
Saikano by Shin TakahashiPride of Baghdad by Brian K. VaughanFrom Hell by Alan MooreCerebus, Vol. 16 by Dave SimBatman by Alan Moore
Unhappy Endings: Comics With A Tragic Ending
50 books — 2 voters

The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret AtwoodEnder's Game by Orson Scott CardFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley1984 by George OrwellThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Unhappy Endings: Speculative Fiction With A Tragic Ending Part I
101 books — 4 voters
Forbidden by Tabitha SuzumaWe Were Liars by E. LockhartThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThirteen Reasons Why by Jay AsherThe Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
Books that punch life and happiness in the gut, and make the reader want to go to the nearest bridge over water and jump (but they don't, because that would be horrible)
229 books — 163 voters

Quotes Tagged “Sad Ending”

Charlotte Stein
“ Mostly because Lydia said after a long silence, "Holy shit. We are living in a Nicholas Sparks novel." "Exactly," she said from between her knees. "And I'm so not okay with that. ...more ”
― Charlotte Stein, Never Sweeter
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B.L. Brunnemer
“ The dead still come to me every now and then. But the lulls between are getting smaller. They are finding me somehow. I tell them why they can’t move on. I listen to their lives and talk to them if they need it. I still draw their portraits in my sketchbook, with their stories. I put Mary Summer in there too. Someone should remember. ”
― B.L. Brunnemer, Trying to Live With the Dead
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