Up and down

A fearful joy by Joyce Cary
A Grief Observed by C S Lewis
Malignant Sadness by Louis Wolpert
The Architecture of Happiness by Alain de Botton
Mount Misery by Samuel Shem

Miss Happiness and Miss Flower by Rumer Godden
A Dismal Thing to Do by Alisa Craig
Died Laughing by Richard De'ath
The Pessimist's Guide to History by Stuart Flexner
An Optimist's Tour of the Future by Mark Stevenson

Happy Hypocrite and other pieces, by Max Beerbohm
Unhappy Far-off things, by Lord Dunsany
The Blues Ain't Nothin', by Tina L. Jens
The Joy of Cooking, by Irma S. Rombauer
Grief, by Andrew Holleran

Fortunately by Remy Charlip
A Series of Unfortunate Events by Lemony Snicket
The Best Day Ever! by Patricia l. Nederveld
The Worst Hard Time by Timothy Egan
Bye Bye, Baby: A Sad Story with a Happy Ending by Janet Ahlberg

Mr Loveday's little outing and other sad stories by Evelyn Waugh
Joy in the morning by P.G. Wodehouse
The vicar of sorrows by A.N. Wilson
Why be happy when you could be normal? by Jeanette Winterson
Don't cry for me, Aberystwyth by Malcolm Pryce

The Museum of Happiness
The Year of Magical Thinking (grief)
You Can Be Happy No Matter What
Sharpshooter Blues
Living with Grief

The Expedition of the Donner Party and its Tragic FateElizabeth Poor Donner Houghton
Bleak House Charles Dickens
The Agony and the Ecstasy Irving Stone
Why Be Happy When you Could be Normal? Jeanette Winterson
A Grief Observed by C.S. Lewis

Lost Sandstones and Lonely Skies
by Jesse Stuart

The Saga of lost Earths by Emil Petaja

Up the Down Staircase by Bel Kaufman

Lewis at Zenith* by Sinclair Lewis

Nadirs by Hertha Muller

*This contains Main Street, Arrowsmith and Babbitt of which only Babbitt has "Zenith",
Lewisʻs fictional city in the state of "Winomac"as its main setting.

The Joy Luck Club by Amy Tan
Beauty and Sadness by Yasunari Kawabata
Lonely Road by Nevil Shute
In the Company of Cheerful Ladies by Alexander McCall Smith
Only When I Laugh by Len Deighton

Been Down So Long It looks Like Up To Me by Richard Farina
Kissed a Sad Goodbye by Deborah Crombie
Blue Shoes and Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
Savannah Blues by Mary Kay Andrews
The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Singing the Sadness by Reginald Hill
A Fortunate Life by A. B. Facey
Misery by Stephen King
The Happiest Refugee by Anh Do
Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson

My Friend is Sad by Mo Willems
Sad Underwear by Judith Viorst
The Happy Hocky Family by Lane Smith
The Happy Lion by Louise Fatio
The Miserable Mill by Lemony Snickett

Christmas in Happy Forest: Love is the
Greatest Gift by Mary Hollingsworth

Hortus Inclusus: Messages from the Wood
to the Garden, sent in Happy Days to the
Sister Ladies of the Thwaite, Coniston
by John Ruskin

In Happy Hollow by Rutherford Montgomery

Our Feelings from Happy to Sad
by Monica Hughes

Mad, Bad, and Sad: a History of Women
and the Mind Doctors from 1800
by Lisa Appignanesi

Resisting Happiness by Matthew Kelly
Kneller's Happy Campers by Etgar Keret
The Happy Return by C.S. Forester
Sad Cypress by Agatha Christie
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender

Cheerfulness Breaks In by Angela Thirkell
Tears of the Giraffe and
The Novel Habits of Happiness by Alexander McCall Smith
The Joy of Eating ed. Jill Foulson
Watership Down by Richard Adams

Bush pilot with a briefcase: the happy-go-lucky
Story of Grant McConchie by Ronald Keith

Happy-go-Lucky by Miriam Coles Harris

Happy-go-Lucky Days by Takako Shimura

The Saddest Summer of Samuel S
by J. P. Donleavy

Sadder than Water by Samih al-Qasim