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Best Answer - Chosen by Asker: For me there are two: The first one is the saddest book on the personal point of view The Sorrows of Young Werther, by Goethe (Original title: Die Leiden des jungen Werthers) A classical broken heart written by the great Goethe!. It is a story about a young artist of an highly sensitive and passionate temperament who is deeply in love with an already engaged girl!. The second one is the saddest book on the global point of view: It is a children book, called The Giving Tree (written by Shel Silverstein), telling the story of a generous tree which always provides a boy whatever he wants: branches to swing from, shade to sit under, apples to snack on, branches to build a house!. As the boy grows older and older he requires more and more of the tree, until!.!.!. It is an outstandingly sad allegory to the humankind destructive relationship with nature: We keep asking for more, and nature continue giving us, until there will be nothing left to ask for!. http://www!.telalit!.comWww@QuestionHome@Com Looking for Alibrandi (Melina Marchetta) - it's one of my favourites and I still cry nearly every time I read it!. There is one really sad bit but often I cry at the end too (just because it's over!) The Time Traveller's Wife (Audrey someone) - I cried at the end, this book left me a bit stunned afterwards, it's really emotional!. Bridge to Terabithia - has already been said, but I totally agree!. If you've seen the movie you'll know the sad part but the book is really worth reading, it's beautifully written!. Firebringer - it's about a deer!. I haven't read it in ages but I remember it's really sad!. There are heaps more but those are the ones that come to mind!.Www@QuestionHome@Com all of the Dave Pelzer books , and did you know that his brother wrote a book about living with Dave and how it was tough on him the author is Richard Pelzer, but i cannot for the life of me remember what the actual book is called!.!.!.!. they are all sad throughout, and in some of his books its actually reallty hard to comprehend the cruelty of some people!.Www@QuestionHome@Com As The Red Fern Grows!. The whole book was sad!. =/ Almost in every chapter, something sad would happen!. I'm not sure how I can give reasons without spoilers, but it's about a boy who saves up to buy puppies, and he worked for the money for years!. It basically just tells you how he raised them and other stories along the way!. Very sad though, it made me cry!. ='|Www@QuestionHome@Com i would suggest "Z for Zachariah", it's quite a classic!. A first person perspective view of a 17 year old child, facing the age of nuclear fallout!. in the form of a diary, sadness comes beginning and end!.Www@QuestionHome@Com the Gathering!. Its sad in the pathetic sense of the word!. Its also sad that anyone would publish it!. Or give it an award!. Or make it a school text!. Some parts i think are meant to be sad but they are almost laughably pathetic!. But not quite laughable!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Love Story, by Ray Kluun!. It's a Dutch author!. It's a true story of a man (Ray himself) who finds out that his wife has cancer, and how they deal with that!. Every person I know that read this book cried, it's definitely worth reading!.Www@QuestionHome@Com My Sisters Keeper by Jodi Picoult!. Sad the whole way through, huge twist at the end!. I cried!. also a true story about how women in china used to be treated, even though its a true story its a good read!. It's calle Wild Swans i think!.Www@QuestionHome@Com Sophie's Choice by William Styron!. You can read reviews and such on the internet!. Judge for yourself!. Styron can sure write though!. Www@QuestionHome@Com Cry the Beloved Country - Sadness throughout most of the book, but especially at the end!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The notebook!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The Lovely Bones was a pretty sad book!.Www@QuestionHome@Com The saddest so far is "The Diary of Anne Frank"!.Www@QuestionHome@Com bridge to terabithia Www@QuestionHome@Com the boy called itWww@QuestionHome@Com |