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Books that make you cry 03/02/26(Mon)07:43:44 No.25116936

Books that make you cry Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)07:43:44 No.25116936 [Reply]▶

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I've started to read more books in the past year. To keep my motivation up, I'd like to read something sad.
Any recommendations?

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Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)08:32:57 No.25116984

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)08:32:57 No.25116984▶

>sad
Iliad
Stoner
Madame Bovary
Don Quixote p2
Metamorphosis
>depressing
Gravity's Rainbow (not recommended for a beginner)
Berlin Alexanderplatz (see above)
Crime & Punishment + Brothers Karamazov
Tartar Steppe
Metamorphoses
>actually made me tear up
Aeneid
Doctor Faustus
Against Nature

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Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)10:20:43 No.25117054

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)10:20:43 No.25117054▶

Still Water by Zhang Ran in Clarkesworld is a nice scifi novelette about a mother taking care of a crippled son.

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Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)10:50:55 No.25117082

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)10:50:55 No.25117082▶

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>>25116936
no joke i legitimately cried at the ending when i was 11 because the bullies were mean to her

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Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)14:21:30 No.25117256

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Children of Hurin

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Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)14:49:28 No.25117291

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)14:49:28 No.25117291▶

>>25116984
Crying isn’t enough for me, I don’t want to cry, I want to feel empty

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Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)16:14:14 No.25117412

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)16:14:14 No.25117412▶

>>25116936
A little Princess
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Shiokari Pass

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Anonymous
03/02/26(Mon)16:15:15 No.25117414

Anonymous 03/02/26(Mon)16:15:15 No.25117414▶

>>25117291
À rebours
On Elegance While Sleeping

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