Ambiguous Ending Books
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The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,444,568 ratings — published 1985
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,822,249 ratings — published 1993
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.61 — 265,802 ratings — published 2024
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.07 — 363,070 ratings — published 1892
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,525,304 ratings — published 2020
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,886,249 ratings — published 2018
Conversations with Friends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.73 — 607,169 ratings — published 2017
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.27 — 950,258 ratings — published 1973
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,463,766 ratings — published 2012
Sea of Tranquility (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.05 — 299,487 ratings — published 2022
None of This Is True (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,114,776 ratings — published 2023
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.10 — 429,898 ratings — published 2020
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.21 — 484,950 ratings — published 2020
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,859,255 ratings — published 2018
To Be Taught, If Fortunate (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.19 — 57,368 ratings — published 2019
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.51 — 204,262 ratings — published 2016
Sadie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.03 — 130,963 ratings — published 2018
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.80 — 307,271 ratings — published 2014
The Stepford Wives (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,257 ratings — published 1972
Station Eleven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.07 — 618,653 ratings — published 2014
The Vanishing Act of Esme Lennox (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.94 — 54,764 ratings — published 2006
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.01 — 658,864 ratings — published 2013
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,909,199 ratings — published 1818
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.38 — 181,344 ratings — published 1898
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,051,583 ratings — published 2023
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.91 — 298,905 ratings — published 1962
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.66 — 445,689 ratings — published 2020
Graveyard Shift (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.10 — 50,711 ratings — published 2024
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.84 — 142,683 ratings — published 2022
The Harpy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.30 — 8,034 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.46 — 334,787 ratings — published 2019
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,372,591 ratings — published 2022
Recursion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.17 — 321,641 ratings — published 2019
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.09 — 416,865 ratings — published 2017
Horrorstör (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.65 — 125,978 ratings — published 2014
All Good People Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.82 — 339,374 ratings — published 2022
Anatomy: A Love Story (The Anatomy Duology, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.84 — 109,267 ratings — published 2022
The Shuddering (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.67 — 18,273 ratings — published 2013
The Cabin at the End of the World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.32 — 93,008 ratings — published 2018
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.24 — 138,414 ratings — published 2017
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.81 — 398,543 ratings — published 1959
Snow (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.66 — 5,303 ratings — published 2010
Daisy Jones & The Six (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.20 — 1,866,437 ratings — published 2019
The Good Sister (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 4.14 — 231,075 ratings — published 2020
The Sanatorium (Detective Elin Warner, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.36 — 203,515 ratings — published 2021
Catherine House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.11 — 29,176 ratings — published 2020
Leave the World Behind (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.14 — 168,862 ratings — published 2020
The Topeka School (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.51 — 28,420 ratings — published 2019
Black Hole (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.85 — 53,124 ratings — published 2005
Wilder Girls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as ambiguous-ending)
avg rating 3.45 — 100,563 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
