I just watched the “Where The Red Fern Grows” movie (the original edition) a few months ago. Yes, I cried at the end.
Haven’t read “The Memory Palace” but I did read Immaculee Ilibagiza’s “Left To Tell” in one sitting. This is a woman who escaped the Rwandan holocaust by hiding in a bathroom for 3 months with 8 other women. :eek:
Memory Palace is beautifully written and I highly recommend it. But I’ll never read it again.
Weird story: as a kid, I hated the Red Fern book (and film) because the dog deaths ripped my soul. Guess what I won as the spelling bee champ of my elementary school?
That’s right: a copy of the book autographed by Wilson Rawls!
Sinclair Lewis’ “It Can’t Happen Here” was scary enough when I read it a few months ago.
It appears to indeed be happening here. 
The Belly of the Bow by K J Parker (a pseudonym of Tom Holt).
The protagonist kills his nephew to make into a bow for his brother, as revenge for an earlier betrayal.
I also quit on ASOIAF, after I picked up the 4th book while looking for the 3rd, and realised that the only character I still liked at that stage was dead (the Red Wedding). I noped.
Good suggestion: “This Is The Way The World Ends” was pretty glum.
For me, definitely Orwell’s 1984 and Animal Farm.
One that really upset me was Bridge to Terabithia by Katherine Paterson. I was in grade 5 when it was released and we had a teacher who assigned it to read without any warning.
Do plays count? Miller’s *Death of a Salesman * is depressing and then some…
Why spoiler tag one spoiler but not the other?
I hated that book when I read it first in the late 60’s early 70’s. Decided to read it again in the 80’s when everyone was on about it, hated it again. Bit the bullet and read it again 20 years later because for sure I hadn’t realized how awesome it was. Nope still hate it. BLEH.
Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy.
I have a First Edition of that book. I’ll have to re-read it, in light of current events.