"Stardust" by Neil Gaiman. the guy and the girl get together, he dies after a normal lifetime, she lives forever with a limp to remind her of him.
The Outsiders and HBP probably were the two books that got me to actually cry. And yeah... One for the Morning Glory (John Barnes, GOOD BOOK!) I could go on and on... But I digress.
Just read the new Jim Butcher Dresden Files book, Harry loses EVERYTHING! His ***, his *****, his ******, even his freaking ***. Then at the end he ends up getting ****. When Butcher said Changes he meant Changes.
I think 'P.S I love you' is the saddest book I have read, I think I cried every time I picked it up. And then the film came out and it was Gerard Butler as Gerry, the guy who died and it just like who in their right mind would want to kill off Gerard Butler and that just made it sadder.
A hundred years of solitude made me incredibly sad, knowing the only relationship based on true love would end up destroying the lineage, as well as the destruction of the town made me cry like a hungry baby
How about "the Happy Prince" by Oscar Wilde (the cartoon was narrated by Christopher Plummer or "The Gentle Giant". Just thinking about those cartoons/Books makes me well up.. ''Little sparrow...?!" :'(
While a bit inaccurate with the whole "the children in the camps aren't sent to their deaths along with the elderly and the rest part," it's a really good read. The movie did justice to things too.
How Many Miles To Babylon by Jennifer Johnston. Fecking Masterpiece. No one else likes it as much as I do though. Supposedly the main character isn't demonstrative enough. *rage-face*
I thought the ending to Stephen King's The Shining and Carrie was really sad. More mainstream-ish/literature-ish would be The Lotus Eater, Oscar Wilde's The Nightingale and the Rose and CD's The Great Expectations.
H.G. Well's "The Invisible Man" It was a "grotesque romance" so to speak. The scientist had many ways of going about himself, it's just that he could not find the cure to his own demise. Imagine not to be able to be seen ever again by anyone, while you have to live with the fact that you will die unknown or unseen in this case.
The entire Twilight saga has a sad ending. I mean, Bella didn't get ate, she just got bit. I wanted her to die! Dumb betch......
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie had a sad ending. They All died. No one survived, the never found out who the killer was and the killer committed suicide. So Yeah pretty depressing if you think about it.
I've got a whole bloody list of books with depressing endings. Spoiler The Last Summer of the Death Warriors - Francisco X. Stork (About a boy with cancer, he doesn't die at the end but you get the feeling that he eventually does) Caught in the Crossfire - Alan Gibbons (The main character dies at the end for no real reason) Small Steps - Louis Sachar (The main character's pop-singer pseudo-girlfriend has her career ruined by an evil uncle/manager and a whole bunch of other bad stuff happens) The Book Thief - Marcus Zusak (Everyone dies) And I agree that the His Dark Materials trilogy had a depressing ending too.
