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Saddest Books of All Time

Set down a box of tissues, because this list is packed with books that had either sad endings or had your eyes watering the whole way. If there's an upsetting book that isn't on this list, you're welcome to go onto the comments and make more requests.
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To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
To Kill a Mockingbird (Harper Lee)
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Of Mice and Men
Of Mice and Men
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Flowers for Algernon
Flowers for Algernon
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Where the Red Fern Grows
Where the Red Fern Grows
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The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
The Color Purple (Alice Walker)
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A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)
A Little Life (Hanya Yanagihara)
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The Kite Runner (Khalid Hosseini)
The Kite Runner (Khalid Hosseini)
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
A Thousand Splendid Suns
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The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
The Road (Cormac McCarthy)
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Atonement (Ian McEwan)
Atonement (Ian McEwan)
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A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
A Fine Balance (Rohinton Mistry)
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Angela's Ashes
Angela's Ashes
13
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
Jude the Obscure (Thomas Hardy)
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
Anna Karenina (Leo Tolstoy)
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The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
The Book Thief (Markus Zusak)
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The Fault in Our Stars
The Fault in Our Stars
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The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
The Outsiders (S.E. Hinton)
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The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
The Time Traveler's Wife (Audrey Niffenegger)
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Night (Elie Wiesel)
Night (Elie Wiesel)
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Old Yeller (Fred Gipson)
Old Yeller (Fred Gipson)
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Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
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The Green Mile (Stephen King)
The Green Mile (Stephen King)
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The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)
The Chocolate War (Robert Cormier)
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I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings (Maya Angelou)
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon
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Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
Lolita (Vladimir Nabokov)
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Speak
Speak
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All Quiet on the Western Front
All Quiet on the Western Front
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
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Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
Life of Pi (Yann Martel)
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The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
The Things They Carried (Tim O'Brien)
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Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
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The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
The Great Gatsby (F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
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Things Fall Apart
Things Fall Apart
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Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
Anne Frank: the Diary of a Young Girl (Anne Frank)
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One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Marquez)
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Gabriel García Marquez)
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The Hunchback of Notre Dame
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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