Depressing


A Little Life
The Fault in Our Stars
No Longer Human
1984
The Bell Jar
The Road
Thirteen Reasons Why
The Book Thief
Of Mice and Men
The Handmaid's Tale
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
The Metamorphosis
Night
The Kite Runner
The Lovely Bones
The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank1984 by George OrwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboNight by Elie Wiesel
Most Depressing Book of All Time
1,232 books — 3,916 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyNot Okay by Brett Axel
Dark Literary Fiction
131 books — 51 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck1984 by George OrwellOthello by William Shakespeare
Most Tragic Endings in Literature
38 books — 12 voters
The Fault in Our Stars by John GreenThe Boy in the Striped Pajamas by John BoyneMe Before You by Jojo MoyesRoom by Emma DonoghueThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
So sad you're afraid to read it
48 books — 33 voters

The Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Meat Market by James ChalkDivergent by Veronica Roth1984 by George OrwellUglies by Scott Westerfeld
Wow, What a Crappy Future
62 books — 55 voters
1984 by George OrwellThe Lovely Bones by Alice SeboldThe Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank
What a Downer...
331 books — 117 voters

Antonia Michaelis
And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet. ...more
Antonia Michaelis, The Storyteller

Sally Rooney
Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.
Sally Rooney , Normal People

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My Heart And Other Black Holes If you love reading depressing books for no reason whatsoever, or if you read them for a reason,…more
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