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Depressing literature can be ironically life affirming.
Sad depressing books. The 100 most depressing books of all time show list info. I can see how some people can think it was depressing but i didn t come away from it feeling that way personally. They read because they live in an often terrible world.
Best sad books ever so sad that it s great. You should add scars by cheryl reinfield anyway i really like this list depressing books are interesting even though it brakes me every time. Well the list goes on.
Kate middleton is said to be desperately sad after being betrayed by meghan markle s tell all book. Personally i think there s a huge difference between a depressing book and a sad book. In defense of depressing books.
Earlier this year abebooks asked you to identify your most depressing reads and you came up with some desperately bleak books. I love to read books about depression and cutting because it makes me think about what i have done to myself and makes me really think. I wouldn t call the road a sad book though.
We keep picking up those sad sad books and spending our evenings sobbing alone onto the page. As author sherman alexie writes there are millions of teens who read because they are sad and lonely and enraged. 5 786 books 4 833 voters most depressing book of all time.
Whatever problems you may have at least you aren t stuck in a concentration camp or a dystopian future. 1 197 books 3 593 voters. Books shelved as sad depressing.
All votes add books to this list. Tabitha suzuma goodreads author 4 03 avg rating 53 090 ratings. 1 593 and 16 people voted want to read saving want to read.
And that s because as bleak as these books may seem they re all so worth reading. If i stay by gayle forman the fault in our stars by john green the book thief by markus zusak the boy in the striped. Nor are you the ghost of a murdered child or a woman with sixteen personalities or.
05 21 2015 04 57 pm et updated may 21 2016. There was nuclear fallout the holocaust government oppression poverty mental illness and the savage nature of humanity itself and that was just the tip of the iceberg. They read because they believe despite the callow protestations of certain adults that.
The duke and duchess of sussex will release a biography called finding freedom next week. Tess of the d urbervilles has to be like five octillion times as depressing as either of those.
