Best novels about loss, regret

[whodini]

Originally Posted by DocHolliday

"The Sun Also Rises." That last sentence ...
+1. I clicked this thread just to write in this book. What could be worse than losing an erection?

 

[pscolari]

Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig

 

[audiophilia]

Originally Posted by darkoak

Kazuo Ishiguro, The Remains of the Day.


^^^

Masterful book.

For a bit of popular culture, Prince of Tides was a good, summer read.

 

[King Francis]

Originally Posted by aportnoy

Bronte "Wuthering Heights"

+1 "I am Heathcliff!"


As for Where the Red Fern Grows, I remember my mother reading that aloud to me when I was very little. Near the end I ran into the bathroom to cry where she couldn't see me (as if she didn't know what I was doing).

 

[eg1]

The Great Gatsby

 

[merkur]

..

 

[James Gatz]

Originally Posted by eg1

The Great Gatsby

+1


Samuel Beckett's trilogy (Maloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable)
David Foster Wallace's Infinite Jest, to a certain extent
The novels of Andrew Vachss

 

[Bird's One View]

Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being

 

[grimslade]

Silk is quite good.

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

Wuthering Heights hands down.

Sorrows of Young Werther by Goethe should be in here.

 

[Connemara]

Thanks for all the suggestions guys.

Originally Posted by TheIdler

I just finished Everyman, by Philip Roth, which was pretty good. But the first thing I thought of when I saw your thread title was Brideshead Revisted, by Evelyn Waugh. Atonement, by Ian McEwan, is also excellent.
I read McEwan's On Chesil Beach and thought it was good but not great. Atonement seems to have received more raves so maybe I'll get that. Why haven't I read Brideshead Revisited yet?

 

[Dedalus]

Candide features a lot of loss, although probably not as the OP intended.

 

[denimdestroyedmylife]

Norwegian Wood, too, by Haruki Murakami.

 

[horndog]

Bridge to Terabithia

 

[grimslade]

Originally Posted by denimdestroyedmylife

Norwegian Wood, too, by Haruki Murakami.

Bridge to Terabithia isn't bad.

The Little Prince, of course, deserves mention. Last time I read that to my kids, I got choked up.

But Murakami reminds me that South of the Border, West of the Sun is a very good book in this vein too.