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Listopia > Silverfast's votes on the list Almost Happy Endings: Speculative Fiction With A Bittersweet Ending (48 Books)
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The Road
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Animal Farm
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Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
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The Lord of the Rings (The Lord of the Rings, #1-3)
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""While victorious, the ending of the War of the Ring is notoriously bittersweet, emphasizing the theme that "things can never be quite the way they were before".""
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How High We Go in the Dark
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
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The Godspeaker Trilogy
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Mockingbird
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The Book of Strange New Things
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The Gap Into Ruin: This Day All Gods Die (Gap, #5)
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Daughter of Eden (Dark Eden, #3)
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The Darkest Road (The Fionavar Tapestry, #3)
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The Children of Men
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The Underground Railroad
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Womb City
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Who Fears Death
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The Old Drift
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The Broken Earth Trilogy (The Broken Earth, #1-3)
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Borne (Borne, #1)
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The Strange Bird: A Borne Story (Borne, #1.5)
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Things We Didn't See Coming
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Assassin's Fate (The Fitz and the Fool, #3)
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A Scientific Romance
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Shipwreck
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Exit West
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Grass (Arbai, #1)
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Titan
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City of Miracles (The Divine Cities, #3)
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Klara and the Sun
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The Lovely Bones
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Kindred
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The War of the Worlds
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The Song of Achilles
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What the Wind Knows
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The Deep
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Pilgermann
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Wizard of the Pigeons: The 35th Anniversary Illustrated Edition
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The Red Magician
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""...concludes on a bittersweet note, balancing the magical elements of the narrative with the harsh, undeniable reality of the historical period...""
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Resurrection Man
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All Hallows' Eve
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The Place of the Lion
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Brightly Burning (Valdemar Book 1150)
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A Song for Nero
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Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
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""...a cynical, bittersweet, or "un-fairy tale" conclusion where characters achieve their goals but end up trapped or in worse situations.""
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The Swords Trilogy (Corum, #1-3)
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Beren and Lúthien
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""...never changed, is the fate that shadowed the love of Beren and Lúthien: for Beren was a mortal man,""
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The Complete Book of Swords (Books of Swords, #1-3)
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""By the end, the swords are largely gone, and the era of their chaotic influence on the world comes to a sentimental, bittersweet close.""
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