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A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,000,716 ratings — published 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,865,212 ratings — published 2012
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.92 — 284,211 ratings — published 1948
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,727,601 ratings — published 1949
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,303,244 ratings — published 1963
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,082,088 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,036,294 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,967,843 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,536,244 ratings — published 1915
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,937,408 ratings — published 1937
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,545,511 ratings — published 1985
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,856,984 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,399,166 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,596,864 ratings — published 2003
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,064,558 ratings — published 1999
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,782,604 ratings — published 2005
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,486,202 ratings — published 2002
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,774,641 ratings — published 1945
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,302,757 ratings — published 1954
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 642,464 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 614,304 ratings — published 2018
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 286,243 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,315,181 ratings — published 1947
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,237,476 ratings — published 2008
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,998,407 ratings — published 1951
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.05 — 643,233 ratings — published 1999
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,808,659 ratings — published 2007
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,155,645 ratings — published 2011
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.25 — 837,441 ratings — published 1966
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,280,075 ratings — published 1847
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.85 — 906,805 ratings — published 2005
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.75 — 904,150 ratings — published 2017
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,990,580 ratings — published 1818
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 978,986 ratings — published 2009
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,117,192 ratings — published 1925
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 538,106 ratings — published 1928
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,001,481 ratings — published 2006
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,842,249 ratings — published 2012
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,290,071 ratings — published 2004
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,082,295 ratings — published 2021
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,983,510 ratings — published 2018
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,893,374 ratings — published 1993
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 266,089 ratings — published 1949
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 625,501 ratings — published 2014
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,475,145 ratings — published 2014
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.06 — 602,306 ratings — published 1977
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,512,283 ratings — published 1942
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.73 — 296,145 ratings — published 1971
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,972,016 ratings — published 1963
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,023,473 ratings — published 1939
“Pero, en general, la humanidad me pareció siempre detestable. No tengo inconvenientes en manifestar que a veces me impedía comer en todo el día o me impedía pintar durante una semana el haber observado un rasgo; es increíble hasta qué punto la codicia, la envidia, la petulancia, la grosería, la avidez y, en general, todo ese conjunto de atributos que forman la condición humana pueden verse en una cara, en una manera de caminar, en una mirada. Me parece natural que después de un encuentro así uno no tenga ganas de comer, de pintar, ni aun de vivir.”
― El túnel
― El túnel
“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
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