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Depressing Books
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A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 136 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.28 — 935,644 ratings — published 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,741,205 ratings — published 2012
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.94 — 256,957 ratings — published 1948
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,493,460 ratings — published 1948
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,230,560 ratings — published 1963
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,041,688 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,026,217 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,889,501 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,847,293 ratings — published 1937
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,437,305 ratings — published 1985
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,735,933 ratings — published 2010
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,438,964 ratings — published 1915
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,368,248 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,039 ratings — published 2003
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,465,099 ratings — published 2002
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,577,935 ratings — published 1945
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,752,673 ratings — published 2005
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,008,097 ratings — published 1999
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,211,104 ratings — published 1954
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,205,714 ratings — published 1947
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 630,112 ratings — published 2015
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,950,418 ratings — published 2008
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,743,259 ratings — published 2007
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,004,930 ratings — published 2011
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,905,255 ratings — published 1951
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.05 — 632,777 ratings — published 1999
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.60 — 568,888 ratings — published 2018
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 270,003 ratings — published 2016
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,084,520 ratings — published 1847
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.85 — 859,612 ratings — published 2005
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 799,166 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 — 873,950 ratings — published 2017
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 522,039 ratings — published 1928
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,902,504 ratings — published 1818
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 969,254 ratings — published 2009
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,277,590 ratings — published 2004
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,806,860 ratings — published 2012
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 971,266 ratings — published 2006
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,939,726 ratings — published 1925
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 993,923 ratings — published 2021
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 259,717 ratings — published 1949
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,879,753 ratings — published 2018
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 612,802 ratings — published 2014
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,817,747 ratings — published 1993
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,300,363 ratings — published 2015
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.06 — 591,621 ratings — published 1977
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,829,295 ratings — published 1590
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.73 — 292,546 ratings — published 1971
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,408,223 ratings — published 2014
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,852,951 ratings — published 1953
“Some people avoid thinking deeply in public, only because they are afraid of coming across as suicidal.”
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“I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.”
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