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.

The best sad books are the ones you can’t put down because ... Six concentration camp survivors—five men and one teenaged girl, Eva—return to their small town in Hungary.

Sad, morose and poignant books resonate something inside and evoke ... Set in Nazi Germany, The Book Thief tells the story of a young girl's experiences of the terrifying regime, which takes ...