Ambiguous Ending Books
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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,510,546 ratings — published 1985
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,867,272 ratings — published 1993
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.59 — 304,779 ratings — published 2024
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.06 — 377,256 ratings — published 1892
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,024,913 ratings — published 2018
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,586,670 ratings — published 2020
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,948,319 ratings — published 2018
Conversations with Friends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.73 — 622,036 ratings — published 2017
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.27 — 958,252 ratings — published 1973
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,515,919 ratings — published 2012
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.05 — 308,885 ratings — published 2022
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,172,008 ratings — published 2023
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.09 — 443,344 ratings — published 2020
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.20 — 533,451 ratings — published 2020
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.19 — 59,826 ratings — published 2019
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.50 — 211,134 ratings — published 2016
Sadie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.02 — 132,923 ratings — published 2018
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.80 — 322,197 ratings — published 2014
The Stepford Wives (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.89 — 58,986 ratings — published 1972
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.06 — 635,614 ratings — published 2014
The Kind Worth Killing (Henry Kimball/Lily Kintner, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.96 — 251,090 ratings — published 2015
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.95 — 57,929 ratings — published 2006
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.01 — 663,280 ratings — published 2013
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,964,290 ratings — published 1818
Dracul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,494 ratings — published 2018
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.38 — 185,062 ratings — published 1898
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,118,678 ratings — published 2023
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.91 — 309,868 ratings — published 1962
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.05 — 614,619 ratings — published 1995
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.66 — 456,680 ratings — published 2020
Graveyard Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.09 — 54,059 ratings — published 2024
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.84 — 152,715 ratings — published 2022
The Harpy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.30 — 8,238 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.45 — 356,043 ratings — published 2019
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,428,264 ratings — published 2022
Recursion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.16 — 339,904 ratings — published 2019
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.08 — 432,224 ratings — published 2017
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.64 — 131,215 ratings — published 2014
All Good People Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.82 — 351,566 ratings — published 2022
Anatomy: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.84 — 112,344 ratings — published 2022
The Shuddering (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.67 — 19,190 ratings — published 2013
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.24 — 141,555 ratings — published 2017
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.81 — 412,171 ratings — published 1959
Snow (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,512 ratings — published 2010
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.19 — 1,915,393 ratings — published 2019
The Good Sister (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.14 — 240,654 ratings — published 2020
The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.36 — 207,329 ratings — published 2021
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.11 — 29,559 ratings — published 2020
Leave the World Behind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.14 — 172,237 ratings — published 2020
The Topeka School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.51 — 29,071 ratings — published 2019
“~ In the realm of Ambiguous Loss, the absence persists, the closure eludes. A narrative without an ending, where the lines between presence and absence blur, where endings are but distant mirages. Its chronic presence perpetuates a narrative of loss, a loss that remains unclear and without resolution. It has no closure or finality because the loss is ongoing...”
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“Like the moon shining bright
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
And hide half of my face.”
― Pierrot & Columbine
Up high with all its grace,
I can only show you at night
And hide half of my face.”
― Pierrot & Columbine
