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Bleak Books
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The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,070,386 ratings — published 2006
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,656,810 ratings — published 1948
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.05 — 619,484 ratings — published 1995
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.15 — 236,075 ratings — published 1985
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,479,823 ratings — published 1942
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,513,489 ratings — published 1985
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.93 — 275,670 ratings — published 1948
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,280,438 ratings — published 1963
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.85 — 892,729 ratings — published 2005
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.77 — 447,394 ratings — published 2017
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.27 — 980,884 ratings — published 2015
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,505,907 ratings — published 1915
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.54 — 107,415 ratings — published 2022
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.00 — 292,712 ratings — published 2003
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,275,288 ratings — published 1954
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,944,885 ratings — published 2005
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.03 — 122,882 ratings — published 2004
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,250,433 ratings — published 1847
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,126,284 ratings — published 1932
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.24 — 825,824 ratings — published 1966
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.19 — 284,928 ratings — published 1993
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.30 — 200,233 ratings — published 2020
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.94 — 412,365 ratings — published 1925
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,511,633 ratings — published 1969
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.65 — 430,326 ratings — published 2007
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.82 — 135,158 ratings — published 2014
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.12 — 533,435 ratings — published 1928
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,908,941 ratings — published 1937
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.99 — 50,996 ratings — published 1957
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.02 — 326,032 ratings — published 1947
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,717,528 ratings — published 1945
Roadside Picnic (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.12 — 92,462 ratings — published 1972
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.69 — 69,838 ratings — published 2006
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.99 — 505,736 ratings — published 1987
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,518,327 ratings — published 2012
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.46 — 140,906 ratings — published 1911
Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.04 — 127,963 ratings — published 2013
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,390,992 ratings — published 1956
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,128,865 ratings — published 1866
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.94 — 858,149 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,150,625 ratings — published 2008
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.18 — 351,227 ratings — published 1995
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,015,058 ratings — published 1939
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,227,886 ratings — published 2025
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.00 — 57,186 ratings — published 2006
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.59 — 599,459 ratings — published 2018
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.14 — 91,271 ratings — published 2011
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.83 — 55,791 ratings — published 1963
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.72 — 191,659 ratings — published 1930
“We're nothing. We're dust.”
― The Fallen Boys
― The Fallen Boys
“The bleakness weighed heavy on her, yet Awa consoled herself with the knowledge that above the clouds, somewhere the sun still shone”
― A Tudor Turk
― A Tudor Turk
