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Depressing Books
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A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 131 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.28 — 912,062 ratings — published 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 116 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,679,335 ratings — published 2012
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.94 — 247,821 ratings — published 1948
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,400,287 ratings — published 1949
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,205,677 ratings — published 1963
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,028,629 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,022,111 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 84 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,857,501 ratings — published 2005
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 73 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,397,121 ratings — published 1985
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,812,340 ratings — published 1937
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 70 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,687,317 ratings — published 2010
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,405,066 ratings — published 1915
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,355,211 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,468,728 ratings — published 2003
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,456,293 ratings — published 2002
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,739,354 ratings — published 2005
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,499,382 ratings — published 1945
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,986,861 ratings — published 1999
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,158,702 ratings — published 1947
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,177,608 ratings — published 1954
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 625,148 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,722,733 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,868,911 ratings — published 1951
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.05 — 629,503 ratings — published 1999
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.60 — 555,519 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,954,544 ratings — published 2011
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 263,960 ratings — published 2016
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 44 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,816,106 ratings — published 2008
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 787,488 ratings — published 1966
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,023,619 ratings — published 1847
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.85 — 845,481 ratings — published 2005
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 517,056 ratings — published 1928
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.75 — 861,681 ratings — published 2017
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,862,058 ratings — published 1818
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,272,218 ratings — published 2004
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 964,119 ratings — published 2009
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,790,078 ratings — published 2012
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 958,409 ratings — published 2006
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,862,949 ratings — published 1925
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 961,745 ratings — published 2021
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,840,274 ratings — published 2018
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 608,557 ratings — published 2014
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,787,148 ratings — published 1993
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.06 — 587,566 ratings — published 1977
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,807,942 ratings — published 1590
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 257,786 ratings — published 1949
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.74 — 291,322 ratings — published 1971
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,263,894 ratings — published 2015
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,379,834 ratings — published 2014
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,434,657 ratings — published 2022
“Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die.”
― The Fault in Our Stars
― The Fault in Our Stars
“Now the standard cure for one who is sunk is to consider those in actual destitution or physical suffering—this is an all-weather beatitude for gloom in general and fairly salutary day-time advice for everyone. But at three o’clock in the morning, a forgotten package has the same tragic importance as a death sentence, and the cure doesn’t work—and in a real dark night of the soul it is always three o’clock in the morning, day after day.”
― The Crack-Up
― The Crack-Up
