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A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,016,623 ratings — published 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,894,043 ratings — published 2012
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.92 — 290,971 ratings — published 1948
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,785,125 ratings — published 1949
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,322,096 ratings — published 1963
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,092,340 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,038,546 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,985,741 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,569,409 ratings — published 1915
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,960,300 ratings — published 1937
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,570,236 ratings — published 1985
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,885,896 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,406,231 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,619,403 ratings — published 2003
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,078,052 ratings — published 1999
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,789,504 ratings — published 2005
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,827,008 ratings — published 1945
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,491,008 ratings — published 2002
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,323,736 ratings — published 1954
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 644,859 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 626,023 ratings — published 2018
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 289,597 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,340,462 ratings — published 1947
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,194,017 ratings — published 2011
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,303,740 ratings — published 2008
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,020,871 ratings — published 1951
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.06 — 645,582 ratings — published 1999
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,825,290 ratings — published 2007
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.25 — 847,742 ratings — published 1966
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.85 — 917,886 ratings — published 2005
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,301,673 ratings — published 1847
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.75 — 910,774 ratings — published 2017
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,011,501 ratings — published 1818
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,156,877 ratings — published 1925
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 981,136 ratings — published 2009
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 542,179 ratings — published 1928
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,008,508 ratings — published 2006
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,850,502 ratings — published 2012
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,293,169 ratings — published 2004
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,102,443 ratings — published 2021
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,910,027 ratings — published 1993
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.60 — 267,337 ratings — published 1949
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.80 — 2,008,161 ratings — published 2018
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.07 — 604,798 ratings — published 1977
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,536,293 ratings — published 1942
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 628,323 ratings — published 2014
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,487,717 ratings — published 2014
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.73 — 296,870 ratings — published 1971
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,001,769 ratings — published 1963
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.14 — 468,091 ratings — published 1995
“That was another lesson I had learned perhaps too well: people meant pain.”
― The Name of the Wind
― The Name of the Wind
“why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened?
because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high.
(Night Streets of Madness)”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high.
(Night Streets of Madness)”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
