What are some really good, sad books?

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold

My Sister's Keeper

Atonement by Ian McEwan

Of Mice and Men by John Steinbeck

The Night of the Burning by Linda Press Wulf

The Diary of Anne Frank

Remembrance by Theresa Breslin

Noughts and Crosses by Malorie Blackman

The Shadow in the North by Philip Pullman (2nd in the Sally Lockhart series)

On the Beach by Nevil Shute

The Book Thief by Markus Zusak

Life of Pi by Yann Martel

I hope this helps

happy reading :)

I really enjoyed Blindness, which was mentioned earlier, so I second that one. The Road by Cormac McCarthy was fairly depressing as well. If you can get over the pedophilia, Lolita by Nabokov was a pretty sad book as well. (But I guess that counts as "romancy".) One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest is both sad and related to mental disorders, so there's that. 1984 by George Orwell is a sad classic, as is Huxley's Brave New World. A Clockwork Orange is good and sad too, but reading that takes a bit of patience due to the vocabulary. :)

I'd suggest Blindness by Jose Saramago, or The Alchimist by Paolo Coelho... Erich Maria Remarque has some good classics too, like Arch of Triumph or Three Comrades. Anyways, if I knew your age, I'd give better suggestions, sorry... :)

The Diary of Anne Frank

If you'd like a classic, I cried my eyes out on "The Old Curiosity Shop" by Charles Dickens.

Angel's Game by Carlos Ruiz Zafon

Dear God This is Anna

Man, Woman, Child - Erich Segal

Tess of the D'Ubervilles - Thomas Hardy

I just read Dear John and The Last Song. Those made me teary eyed, though its more romancy.

Any thing by Jodi Picoult...

Her books are amazing.