97 books
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137 voters
Adversity Books
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Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,194,272 ratings — published 2012
The Boys in the Boat: Nine Americans and Their Epic Quest for Gold at the 1936 Berlin Olympics (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.39 — 361,408 ratings — published 2013
David and Goliath: Underdogs, Misfits, and the Art of Battling Giants (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as adversity)
avg rating 3.97 — 191,695 ratings — published 2013
Little Bee (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as adversity)
avg rating 3.72 — 248,512 ratings — published 2008
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.28 — 751,896 ratings — published 1982
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.49 — 806,243 ratings — published 2016
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,010,907 ratings — published 2017
Fish in a Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.26 — 84,793 ratings — published 2015
The Martian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,284,265 ratings — published 2011
The Obstacle Is the Way: The Timeless Art of Turning Trials into Triumph (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.15 — 99,666 ratings — published 2014
Out of My Mind (Out of My Mind, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.34 — 188,340 ratings — published 2010
Angela’s Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.15 — 658,361 ratings — published 1996
The Running Dream (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.29 — 32,521 ratings — published 2011
Project Hail Mary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,110,471 ratings — published 2021
When Stars Are Scattered (Audio CD)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.60 — 32,518 ratings — published 2020
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,857,896 ratings — published 2018
Option B: Facing Adversity, Building Resilience, and Finding Joy (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 3.84 — 56,900 ratings — published 2017
Wish (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.32 — 22,213 ratings — published 2016
Ghost (Track, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.18 — 52,111 ratings — published 2016
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.34 — 623,648 ratings — published 2017
Hillbilly Elegy: A Memoir of a Family and Culture in Crisis (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 3.84 — 504,042 ratings — published 2016
Salt to the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.35 — 255,368 ratings — published 2016
When Breath Becomes Air (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.41 — 805,700 ratings — published 2016
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.49 — 115,338 ratings — published 2015
The Short and Tragic Life of Robert Peace: A Brilliant Young Man Who Left Newark for the Ivy League (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.14 — 28,671 ratings — published 2014
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.37 — 876,430 ratings — published 1946
A Long Walk to Water (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.25 — 103,420 ratings — published 2010
I Am Malala: The Story of the Girl Who Stood Up for Education and Was Shot by the Taliban (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.16 — 623,234 ratings — published 2012
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.14 — 460,601 ratings — published 1995
Half Broke Horses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.09 — 173,260 ratings — published 2009
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.07 — 867,247 ratings — published 2012
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,189,880 ratings — published 1947
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.05 — 631,408 ratings — published 1999
James (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.44 — 490,810 ratings — published 2024
Demon Copperhead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.47 — 791,114 ratings — published 2022
Between Two Kingdoms: A Memoir of a Life Interrupted (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.42 — 126,407 ratings — published 2021
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.30 — 979,106 ratings — published 2021
Can't Hurt Me: Master Your Mind and Defy the Odds (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.30 — 312,962 ratings — published 2018
The Henna Artist (The Jaipur Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.18 — 215,938 ratings — published 2020
I Talk Like a River (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.48 — 4,119 ratings — published 2020
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,361,549 ratings — published 2005
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.46 — 165,141 ratings — published 1959
They Called Us Enemy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.42 — 52,747 ratings — published 2019
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,622,985 ratings — published 2018
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,420,486 ratings — published 1985
Refugee (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.36 — 82,137 ratings — published 2017
The Radium Girls: The Dark Story of America’s Shining Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.16 — 185,591 ratings — published 2016
Insignificant Events in the Life of a Cactus (Life of a Cactus #1)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.28 — 37,154 ratings — published 2017
The Heart's Invisible Furies (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.51 — 210,710 ratings — published 2017
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as adversity)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,423,305 ratings — published 2017
“I suppose sooner or later in the life of everyone comes a moment of trial. We all of us have our particular devil who rides us and torments us, and we must give battle in the end.”
― Rebecca
― Rebecca
“Hardships make or break people.”
― Gone with the Wind
― Gone with the Wind












