Since Of Mice and Men is usually read in English classes around the country, it may be one of the first sad books that teens ...

Award-winning author Elif Shafak's novel There Are Rivers in the Sky is set to be the best book of 2025 so far and it's a ...

Full of moments both tragic and beautiful, Sheff’s book is best consumed with a box of tissues nearby. (For what it’s worth, Nic’s companion book, Tweak , is also worth a read.) $11 at amazon ...

SAD and depressing pictures of poverty in England are drawn for us in M. Loane's book, "An Englishman's Castle," (Longmans, Green Co. $2.) They are pictures of the home life of the underpaid and ...

BLIND MAN'S YEAR—Warwick Deeping —Knopf ($2.50). Tears mixed with ink often result in a sticky substance resembling treacle. Though the formula would not be recognized by a chemist, it ...

The books in Peter Brown’s “Wild Robot” trilogy were the first to wallop my son with the mix of tragedy and joy that define great art and also real life. “It made me sad that Roz had to ...