Dead dog books

Directly after reading The Little Stranger, I vowed to never again read books in which dogs die. It is just too sad. TOO SAD.

And within three months I was blindsided with pain and death. I had accidentally read two more books where dogs die/are murdered.

This has to stop. I've started a list. I'm taking one for the team and ripping out my heart every time a dog (or dog adjacent) is killed in a book I read, and then documenting it here. And every time I come across another dead dog book I am re-posting this post because THAT is how upsetting dead dog books are.

Your welcome.

Dead Dog Books:
Drood - Dan Simmons: Not one. Not two. THREE dead dogs.

The Imperfectionists - Tom Rachman: Don't read the last five pages. DON'T.

The Little Stranger - Sarah Waters: Euthanizing a dog when you are using it as a scapegoat for an evil ghost = WRONG.

The Story of Edgar Sawtelle - David Wroblewski: The dog thought the boy hated him and then he couldn't tell her he loved her...I'm gonna cry now just thinking about it.

Straight Man - Richard Russo: All you have to do is read the prologue to find a dead dog. PROLOGUE.

Where the Red Fern Grows - Wilson Rawls: Crying, seriously. Best friend dogs shouldn't die.

Dead Dog Adjacent:
A Game of Thrones - George R.R. Martin: Murdering wolves is not OK. Neither is throwing stones at them.

The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo - Stieg Larsson: The entire book is graphic, but really? Cat murder as a warning? Not cool.

The Red Pony - John Steinbeck: When the title character bites it in the first section? Devastating

Dead Dog Books I've Been Saved From
Marley & Me - John Grogan: This story is all the worse for its being TRUE. Below the belt.

Old Yeller - Fred Gipson: As E puts it...the dead dog book that started it all

"I should do this for movies as well.
There needs to be a warning on Eight Below.
Paul Walker: save those dogs!!"
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