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The Running Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 181,640 ratings — published 1982
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 289,951 ratings — published 1948
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 4.54 — 61,843 ratings — published 1993
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.59 — 624,279 ratings — published 2018
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 46,770 ratings — published 1963
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.79 — 194,212 ratings — published 2022
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.16 — 261,446 ratings — published 1864
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,086 ratings — published 1973
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,208 ratings — published 1949
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,813 ratings — published 1849
A Reliable Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.28 — 80,755 ratings — published 2009
God Help the Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.79 — 33,424 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 82,033 ratings — published 2008
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,565,479 ratings — published 1915
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,319,278 ratings — published 1963
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 63,425 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,017,496 ratings — published 1951
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 423,360 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,038,164 ratings — published 2007
The Vet's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,828 ratings — published 1959
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 179,702 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,819,712 ratings — published 1945
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.05 — 39,190 ratings — published 1964
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.99 — 45,742 ratings — published 1940
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 47,323 ratings — published 2000
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.87 — 140,895 ratings — published 2018
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.71 — 63,372 ratings — published 2018
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 2,440 ratings — published 2024
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,790 ratings — published 1949
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 27,106 ratings — published 1956
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,594 ratings — published 1949
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.11 — 885,118 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.37 — 171,063 ratings — published 2019
Self-Portrait in Green (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,250 ratings — published 2005
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,593 ratings — published 1951
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.45 — 8,613 ratings — published 1945
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 147,588 ratings — published 1938
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 52,931 ratings — published 1998
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 408,813 ratings — published 2024
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.14 — 246,698 ratings — published 1985
Three Comrades (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.48 — 40,971 ratings — published 1936
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.34 — 303,836 ratings — published 1956
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.30 — 207,391 ratings — published 2020
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,355,650 ratings — published 2017
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,057 ratings — published 1940
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,966 ratings — published 2011
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 50,141 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,161,690 ratings — published 1866
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.65 — 460,944 ratings — published 2007
“My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.”
― Anne of Green Gables
― Anne of Green Gables
“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”
― Journal of a Solitude
― Journal of a Solitude
