Favourite books with a sad ending?

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Mine are:
One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey
Z for Zachariah by Robert C O'Brien
The Green Mile by Stephen King
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
Roll of Thunder, Hear My Cry by Mildred D Taylor

You Before Me.

Mine would be 84 Charing Cross Road.

Maggot Moon by Sally Gardner. YA perfection.

Charlotte's Web. Although someone had ripped out the last few pages of the copy I read!

The Amber Spyglass in the His Dark Materials trilogy

All the light we cannot see

One Day by David Nicholls

Assassins Fate by Robin Hobb.
You really need to read the other 15 books in the series first though.

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay.

Requiem For A Wren - Nevil Shute

Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy

A little life, can't remember the author!

The Time Traveler's Wife. It's my go-to when I need a bit of a sob.

Or the later Harry Potter books 😁

Almost forgot.

End of the Tether by Joseph Conrad.

A Thousand Splendid Suns......a real tearjerker.

Stoner by John Williams

Small Pleasures by Clare Chambers

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Assassins Fate by Robin Hobb. You really need to read the other 15 books in the series first though.

Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay.

ANY Guy Gavriel Kay really @Snugglepumpkin.

The bit at the end of the Fionavar Tapestry - "Only each other, at the last..." oh goodness I'm getting snivelly just thinking about it.
And Tanith Lee's "The Silver Metal Lover" - my bestie bought me that for my birthday and oh my god I cried. He was mortified, poor bugger.

Madame Bovary by Flaubert.

Time Traveller’ Wife again. So beautiful and so sad.

The Reader Bernhard Shlink (whoever he may be) . Makes me well up just thinking about it

The Real Charlotte by Somerville & Ross.

The Go Between by LP Hartley
A Single Man by Christopher Isherwood

Another vote for “The Time Traveller’s Wife”. A brilliant book.

TheTurn - yes, definitely The Go Between.
Brilliant book.

Sunnidayz - Makes me so annoyed when people damage books. I keep considering getting the Kindle app as my paperbacks will end up dog-eared eventually, but then again I love the feeling of a real book as well.