The Saddest Book You Ever Read

[Silencia Roamadred]

Flowers for Algernon, for sure. I ugly-cried hard and ended up giving the book away because I'd get glassy-eyed just seeing it on my shelf.

Flowers for Algernon is heart wrenching. It made me question the way I viewed the world, speficially the moral judgements I placed on people and their intelligence. I wept reading sections of it.

This poem from Fellowship of the Ring has a lot of meaning to me, a friend of mine who tragically took his own life had it read at his funeral. Chokes me up every time.

I sit beside the fire and think
of all that I have seen
of meadow-flowers and butterflies
in summers that have been;

Of yellow leaves and gossamer
in autumns that there were,
with morning mist and silver sun
and wind upon my hair.

I sit beside the fire and think
of how the world will be
when winter comes without a spring
that I shall ever see.

For still there are so many things
that I have never seen:
in every wood in every spring
there is a different green.

I sit beside the fire and think
of people long ago
and people who will see a world
that I shall never know.

But all the while I sit and think
of times there were before,
I listen for returning feet
and voices at the door.

 

[Tobyas Cuendrelle]

Bridge to Terabithia. 0/10 hate it
{the book thief is a good answer tho. sobbed at that one. but like it's good and emotionally rich so.. there is more to it than the sadness}

 

[Jalahna Caldwynn]

The Shepherd's Crown by Terry Pratchett. It was his last Discworld novel before he died and it is a farewell to one of the greatest recurring characters within the Discworld universe (which I was hugely fond of), as well as a passing of the torch to another character.

 

[Jocasta Braithe]

I stopped reading the Fifth Season after like one chapter because it was too sad. That's probably a record for me.