Sick of Happy Endings!!

[The Original Jbird]

I want a book that ends sadly, but it seems like every book I've ever read has to end happily. Oh, and I'd rather not have a romance book >.< Any suggestions??

 

[eccentricanomaly]

Skinny by I forget her name, but it has a lime green popsicle on the cover.
I didn't really like the book, but yeah.

Skin by Adrienne something that starts with a V.

Kind of sad endings.
Both about eating disorders, though.

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck ends sadly, too.  

[Tangerine_Monster]

The Chocolate War by Robert Cormier. I don't think there are even any girls in the book at all.

Wicked by Gregory Maguire (there is, well, there's love in there, but I wouldn't exactly call it romance)

For a comic book, V for Vendetta was pretty sad, but again, it's got some romance in there  

[Artemis Moon Child]

The Child Thief By Brom  

[Ready-Set-Broken]

Luna by Julie Anne Peters ends sorta sadly. It's not really a love story, but its not an action book either.  

[Blue Eyed Wallflower]

Stoner and Spaz by Ron Koertge
Beloved by Toni Morrison
Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut
Like Water For Chocolate by Laura Esquivel
White Oleander by Janet Fitch
Hanging On To Max by Margaret Beecher Stowe

There are little hints of romance here and there, but the books focus on much more than that.  

[AThousandLullabies]

Looking For Alaska by John Green and just about anything by Ellen Hopkins.
great books. not so happy endings
the first book i mentioned will wow you
it's so great
it's my favorite  

[faretheewell]

Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson

Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket- 13 whole books that end badly! (These might not be what you are looking for.)

Any Shakespearean or contemporary tragedy.

The Handmaiden's Tale by Margaret Atwood  

[Zephyrkitty]

TV Tropes is pretty fun.

Downer Ending (scroll down to the literature section)
Death by Newbery Medal  

[Lunar Okami Rose]

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

and

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald  

[Kaiyle Brightblade]

Yes any Shakespearian tradgedy. Maybe Julius Ceasar, minimal romance and a nice sad ending.  

[Hermes Rose]

Hermes Rose is speaking...

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak
It made my cry and it's not a romance, it's set in World War 2 and is a story of a German girl.

 

[xViolet_Demisex]

Something with a sad ending...hmm...any Shakespearian Tragedy such as Hamlet (tons of people die and there is romance in the plot) or Macbeth. As for novels....you could try the complete volume of all the original Grimm Brothers Faery tales...they're always beautifully tragic...anything by Edgar Allan Poe, Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller (although this play is frightfully dull to some), My Sister's Keeper (I forget the author)...Currently..the last book in the House of Night series, Dracula by Bram Stoker.  

[.Vindicated.Of.Sanity.]

My Sister's Keeper by Jodi Picoult made me cry.

Ahh...
The Kiterunner by Khaled Hosseini was very upsetting, too. It wasn't a terribly sad ending or anything, but it definitely wasn't happily ever after.