Sadness is an emotion most people avoid. Yet stories of tragedy and human suffering are as popular today as they ever were. So if you’re looking for a new book to tug at your heartstrings, our selection of books will make you cry or at least make you really, really sad.
Wave
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An Uncommon Woman
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Last Diary of Tsaritsa Alexandra
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Spoiler alert: the hero dies : a memoir of love, loss, and other four-letter words
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Lucky
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Chinese Cinderella : the true story of an unwanted daughter
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Stiches
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I Kill Giants
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Romeo and Juliet (graphic novel)
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The Deliverance of Dancing Bears
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Tell the wolves I'm home : a novel
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The Invisible Life of Ivan Isaenko
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Thirteen Reasons Why
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Walk two mooons
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Guess How Much I Love You
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A Monster Calls
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The giving tree
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Between Shades of Gray
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The Velveteen Rabbit
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Charlotte's Web
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The Fault in Our Stars
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The Ugly Duckling
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The Happy Prince and Other Stories
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Hooper Humperdink... ? Not Him!
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This life I live : one man's extraordinary, ordinary life and the woman who changed it forever
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Laird Cregar: a Hollywood tragedy
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Killing and Dying
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A Palace in the Old Village
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The temporary gentleman
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The remains of the day
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A Boy in Winter
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Me before you
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The toss of a lemon
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The god of small things
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Home fire
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The Light Between Oceans
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Of Mice and Men
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The year of magical thinking
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I still dream about you : a novel
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The Known World
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Interpreter of Maladies
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The Ninth Hour
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A Tale for the Time Being
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The Stars are Fire
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Before We Were Yours
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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Lily's ghost
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The Twelve Mile Straight
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The secret life of bees
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The Leavers
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The Twelve Tribes of Hattie
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After Anatevka : a novel inspired by Fiddler on the roof
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Tell everyone I said hi
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Half broke horses : a true-life novel
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
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Men We Reaped
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A Little Life: a novel
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Out Stealing Horses
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Beartown : a novel
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We Were Liars
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Sadness is an emotion most people avoid. Yet stories of tragedy and human suffering are as popular today as they ever were. So if you’re looking for a new book to tug at your heartstrings, our selection of books will make you cry or at least make you really, really sad.