862 books
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44 voters
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The Running Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 177,397 ratings — published 1982
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 276,027 ratings — published 1948
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 4.54 — 61,594 ratings — published 1993
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.59 — 600,125 ratings — published 2018
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.99 — 41,950 ratings — published 1963
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.79 — 186,400 ratings — published 2022
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.16 — 248,786 ratings — published 1864
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,731 ratings — published 1973
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,083 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 — 12,607 ratings — published 1849
A Reliable Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.28 — 80,635 ratings — published 2009
God Help the Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,009 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 81,058 ratings — published 2008
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 60,340 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,971,381 ratings — published 1951
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 412,661 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,033,505 ratings — published 2007
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 171,757 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,720,610 ratings — published 1945
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.05 — 38,594 ratings — published 1964
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,891 ratings — published 1940
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 46,699 ratings — published 2000
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.87 — 137,519 ratings — published 2018
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.71 — 62,065 ratings — published 2018
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 2,343 ratings — published 2024
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,386 ratings — published 1949
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 26,273 ratings — published 1956
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,489 ratings — published 1949
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.12 — 875,800 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.37 — 167,934 ratings — published 2019
Self-Portrait in Green (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,227 ratings — published 2005
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,090 ratings — published 1951
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.46 — 8,399 ratings — published 1945
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 144,478 ratings — published 1938
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 52,011 ratings — published 1998
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.79 — 387,676 ratings — published 2024
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.15 — 236,369 ratings — published 1985
Three Comrades (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.48 — 40,328 ratings — published 1936
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.34 — 280,801 ratings — published 1956
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.30 — 200,447 ratings — published 2020
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,339,046 ratings — published 2017
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,218 ratings — published 1940
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,942 ratings — published 2011
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,255 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,129,814 ratings — published 1866
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.65 — 431,152 ratings — published 2007
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 378,285 ratings — published 1892
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,028,001 ratings — published 2012
“There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.”
― Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
― Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
“Oft hope is born when all is forlorn.”
― The Return of the King
― The Return of the King














