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Best novels about loss, regret

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Beware of Pity by Stefan Zweig
 

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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.
 

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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).
 

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The Great Gatsby
 

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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
 

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Milan Kundera, The Unbearable Lightness of Being
 

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Silk is quite good.
 

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

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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.
 

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