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The Running Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 179,733 ratings — published 1982
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 283,513 ratings — published 1948
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 4.54 — 61,672 ratings — published 1993
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.59 — 612,942 ratings — published 2018
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,450 ratings — published 1963
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.79 — 190,581 ratings — published 2022
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.16 — 255,241 ratings — published 1864
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,902 ratings — published 1973
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,126 ratings — published 1949
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,709 ratings — published 1849
A Reliable Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.28 — 80,696 ratings — published 2009
God Help the Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.79 — 33,208 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 81,540 ratings — published 2008
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,301,176 ratings — published 1963
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 61,990 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,995,772 ratings — published 1951
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 418,089 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,036,067 ratings — published 2007
The Vet's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,608 ratings — published 1959
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 175,827 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,777,652 ratings — published 1945
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.05 — 38,893 ratings — published 1964
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.99 — 45,331 ratings — published 1940
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 47,017 ratings — published 2000
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.87 — 139,273 ratings — published 2018
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.71 — 62,785 ratings — published 2018
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 2,398 ratings — published 2024
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,601 ratings — published 1949
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 26,701 ratings — published 1956
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,551 ratings — published 1949
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.11 — 880,540 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.37 — 169,565 ratings — published 2019
Self-Portrait in Green (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,238 ratings — published 2005
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,352 ratings — published 1951
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.45 — 8,495 ratings — published 1945
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 146,015 ratings — published 1938
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 52,464 ratings — published 1998
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 399,198 ratings — published 2024
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.14 — 241,718 ratings — published 1985
Three Comrades (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.48 — 40,653 ratings — published 1936
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.34 — 292,277 ratings — published 1956
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.30 — 204,024 ratings — published 2020
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,347,987 ratings — published 2017
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.72 — 18,672 ratings — published 1940
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,951 ratings — published 2011
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,698 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,146,179 ratings — published 1866
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.65 — 446,276 ratings — published 2007
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 383,593 ratings — published 1892
“This is the way the world ends
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
―
Not with a bang but a whimper.”
―
“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King
