Most depressing books I've read this year...

[blu3wave]

- Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath
-The Outsider- Albert Camus
-A million pieces - james frey

I wouldn't recommend these books to anybody at this time of the year......
What depressing books have you read lately?

[JockSporran]

Fugue for a Darkening Island by Christopher Priest.

As a miserable barsteward, I enjoy a good depressing read. (Well, there's too much fun and happiness in life, isn't there?) But if you want a really depressing book, I mean REALLY REALLY depressing, try Breakfast in the Ruins by Michael Moorcock. Enjoy (not).

:-)

[China Doll]

The Outsider isn't depressing, it's wonderful.

I find The Lovely Bones really very sad.

[tickledtrout]

The last really sad book I read was The History of Love by Nicole Krauss. I cried for hours after finishing it

[oldgrape]

fear of the collar by patrick tou[her

[Ian b]

Was 'Fear of the collar' about the industrial school in Ireland? That was a sad book.
I started to read the life of Edith Piaff once, it was so sad I could'nt go on after the first chapter.
I read 'Love on the dole' recently and that was very sad (based on the people living through the depression in the north-east). However I think it's a book I think everybody should read.
Ian

[cole13uk]

The Bell Jar is fantastic and has a lot of humour in it