Nostalgia in abundance! These are books quoted in "What the Dormouse Said: Lessons for Grown-ups from Children's Books" (Amy Gash, 1999).
A sample quote from the "Sadness" chapter of "What the Dormouse Said", and which may still have some relevance:
"Misery is when you heard on the radio that the neighborhood you live in is a slum but you always thought it was home."
————— Black Misery, Langston Hughes, 1969
Books are in order of first mention in the source book.
