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A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.27 — 951,998 ratings — published 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,771,209 ratings — published 2012
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,553,934 ratings — published 1948
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.94 — 263,594 ratings — published 1948
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,248,696 ratings — published 1963
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,051,911 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,028,509 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,909,413 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,869,167 ratings — published 1937
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,465,393 ratings — published 1985
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,766,805 ratings — published 2010
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,462,206 ratings — published 1915
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,376,507 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,527,067 ratings — published 2003
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,759,857 ratings — published 2005
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,627,822 ratings — published 1945
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,470,416 ratings — published 2002
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,021,336 ratings — published 1999
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,232,761 ratings — published 1954
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,232,521 ratings — published 1947
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 633,233 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.60 — 579,544 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,046,232 ratings — published 2011
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,021,483 ratings — published 2008
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 274,181 ratings — published 2016
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.05 — 635,088 ratings — published 1999
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,759,138 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,927,126 ratings — published 1951
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,188,160 ratings — published 1847
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.85 — 871,383 ratings — published 2005
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 808,592 ratings — published 1966
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.75 — 881,607 ratings — published 2017
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,928,711 ratings — published 1818
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 525,549 ratings — published 1928
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 971,598 ratings — published 2009
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,983,754 ratings — published 1925
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,815,756 ratings — published 2012
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,281,049 ratings — published 2004
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 978,944 ratings — published 2006
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,017,638 ratings — published 2021
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,836,086 ratings — published 1993
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 261,312 ratings — published 1949
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,905,554 ratings — published 2018
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 615,959 ratings — published 2014
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.06 — 594,247 ratings — published 1977
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,882,352 ratings — published 1953
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,518,781 ratings — published 2022
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,318,919 ratings — published 2015
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,424,161 ratings — published 2014
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,843,112 ratings — published 1590
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“From the moment we are born, we begin to die.”
― Nothing
― Nothing
