Unlike the Angry Young Men, who exercised their spleens against a rotten and unjust world, the Sad Young Girls find the world deliciously sad—and despairing about it is a jolly good way to enjoy it.

Here, we gathered up some of the best sad books according to devoted readers ... Louisa Clark, an ordinary girl who has never ...

Hardly a one-size-fits-all template. And yet, last summer, there was even a book published called Sad Girl Novel by Pip ...