Reader_333is looking for a Book in Tearjerker Tales

Are there any well-known books that will make you devastated? Not in a sobbing, dramatic, everyone dies way... But a damning, traumatic, hopeless, lie in your bed contemplating society and start crying 5 hours after reading kinda way. (I just read Streetcar named Desire and How to Kill a Mockingbird and I need more)

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Of Mice and Men

by Of Mice and Men

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Suggested byMB and upvoted by 5 others

Fahrenheit 451

by Ray Bradbury

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The Outsiders

by S. E. Hinton

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The Book Thief

by Markus Zusak

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1984

by George Orwell

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The Road

by Cormac McCarthy

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Bridge to Terabithia

by Katherine Paterson

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Flowers for Algernon

by Daniel Keyes

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Suggested byMB and upvoted by 2 others

Brave New World

by Aldous Huxley

Liked by 38.9K

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The Handmaid's Tale

by Margaret Atwood

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Suggested byJosephine and upvoted by 2 others

Hunger Games Trilogy – Hunger Games

by Suzanne Collins

Liked by 149.0K

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Jam DiGiorgioThis whole series, and also the new book ‘Sunrise on the Reaping’. Took me a bit to recover

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Suggested byAlessandro Rosborough and upvoted by 1 other

No Longer Human

by Osamu Dazai

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The Grapes of Wrath

by John Steinbeck

Liked by 415

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Atonement

by Ian McEwan

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Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Beloved

by Toni Morrison

Liked by 34.7K

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Feed

by M. T. Anderson

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My Year of Rest and Relaxation

by Ottessa Moshfegh

Liked by 6.3K

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The Trial

by Franz Kafka

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Good Kings Bad Kings

by Susan Nussbaum

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Caitlin VIt's fiction but the systemic harms described are all too real in the real world.

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Tender Is the Flesh

by Agustina Bazterrica

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I Who Have Never Known Men

by Jacqueline Harpman

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Waiting for Godot

by Samuel Beckett

Liked by 382

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Endgame

by Samuel Beckett

Liked by 13