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 Posted: Tue Jun 23, 2009 11:47 pm
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??
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Posted: Wed Jun 24, 2009 11:18 am
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.
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Posted: Tue Jul 07, 2009 10:49 am
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
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Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2009 6:05 pm
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Posted: Sun Oct 04, 2009 7:54 am
Luna by Julie Anne Peters ends sorta sadly. It's not really a love story, but its not an action book either.
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Posted: Tue Oct 06, 2009 6:19 pm
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.
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 1:49 pm
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
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Posted: Fri Nov 27, 2009 2:07 pm
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
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Posted: Sun Nov 29, 2009 9:33 pm
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Posted: Mon Nov 30, 2009 12:57 am
Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck
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The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald
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Posted: Wed Dec 09, 2009 1:41 am
Yes any Shakespearian tradgedy. Maybe Julius Ceasar, minimal romance and a nice sad ending.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:56 am
 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.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 10:03 am
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.
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Posted: Wed Dec 23, 2009 9:12 pm
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.
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