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Depressing Books
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A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 141 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.27 — 967,277 ratings — published 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 118 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,799,038 ratings — published 2012
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,607,999 ratings — published 1948
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 269,766 ratings — published 1948
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,265,340 ratings — published 1963
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,061,669 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,030,944 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,927,964 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,889,532 ratings — published 1937
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,489,938 ratings — published 1985
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,795,777 ratings — published 2010
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,483,439 ratings — published 1915
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,384,250 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,548,161 ratings — published 2003
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,766,865 ratings — published 2005
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,673,540 ratings — published 1945
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,475,341 ratings — published 2002
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,033,636 ratings — published 1999
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,253,734 ratings — published 1954
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,257,821 ratings — published 1947
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 636,332 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 590,175 ratings — published 2018
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,088,120 ratings — published 2008
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 277,855 ratings — published 2016
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,950,428 ratings — published 1951
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.05 — 637,382 ratings — published 1999
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,773,848 ratings — published 2007
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,077,694 ratings — published 2011
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,225,241 ratings — published 1847
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.85 — 882,631 ratings — published 2005
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 817,845 ratings — published 1966
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.75 — 888,269 ratings — published 2017
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,949,353 ratings — published 1818
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,023,985 ratings — published 1925
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 529,915 ratings — published 1928
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 973,955 ratings — published 2009
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,823,861 ratings — published 2012
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 986,062 ratings — published 2006
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,283,918 ratings — published 2004
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,853,053 ratings — published 1993
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 262,894 ratings — published 1949
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,038,802 ratings — published 2021
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,929,103 ratings — published 2018
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 619,029 ratings — published 2014
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.06 — 596,873 ratings — published 1977
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,910,638 ratings — published 1953
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,438,631 ratings — published 2014
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,457,985 ratings — published 1942
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,855,889 ratings — published 1590
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.73 — 294,252 ratings — published 1971
“People aren't born sad; we make them that way.”
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“Most people go through their whole lives, without ever really feeling that close with anyone.”
― Normal People
― Normal People
