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The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,013,427 ratings — published 2006
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,306,220 ratings — published 1949
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.16 — 210,010 ratings — published 1985
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.13 — 364,176 ratings — published 1995
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,343,867 ratings — published 1942
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,357,679 ratings — published 1985
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.78 — 357,829 ratings — published 2017
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,178,465 ratings — published 1963
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 11 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.54 — 93,642 ratings — published 2022
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.85 — 828,412 ratings — published 2005
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.95 — 237,316 ratings — published 1948
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.29 — 885,305 ratings — published 2015
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,144,719 ratings — published 1954
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,827,305 ratings — published 2005
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,983,277 ratings — published 1847
Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.00 — 283,842 ratings — published 2003
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,038,090 ratings — published 1932
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.23 — 774,347 ratings — published 1966
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.30 — 185,140 ratings — published 2020
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,778,704 ratings — published 1937
On the Beach (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.98 — 48,734 ratings — published 1957
The Plague (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.02 — 305,460 ratings — published 1947
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,698,365 ratings — published 2008
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,421,343 ratings — published 1945
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,368,091 ratings — published 1915
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.69 — 64,602 ratings — published 2006
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.65 — 344,731 ratings — published 2007
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.97 — 481,562 ratings — published 1987
Let the Right One In (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.04 — 119,105 ratings — published 2004
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.83 — 118,476 ratings — published 2014
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,388,073 ratings — published 2012
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.11 — 510,385 ratings — published 1928
Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.04 — 122,202 ratings — published 2013
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,343,705 ratings — published 1956
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,043,519 ratings — published 1866
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.94 — 825,306 ratings — published 2009
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,639,645 ratings — published 2010
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.01 — 52,021 ratings — published 2006
A Short Stay in Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.17 — 49,639 ratings — published 2011
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.20 — 248,182 ratings — published 1993
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.94 — 382,837 ratings — published 1925
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,462,369 ratings — published 1969
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.08 — 678,618 ratings — published 1983
In the Woods (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.78 — 433,134 ratings — published 2007
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,194,937 ratings — published 2006
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.60 — 96,342 ratings — published 1985
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 3.46 — 135,879 ratings — published 1911
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.18 — 329,813 ratings — published 1995
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 4 times as bleak)
avg rating 4.52 — 870,766 ratings — published 2025
“It's a lonely life.”
― Homesick for Another World
― Homesick for Another World
“We share this moment not through touch but our eyes, yours brilliant, shining, willing, wanting to know feel the pain, understand, mine dead to the world, a bleak history of empty files”
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