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Despair Books
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The Running Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 171,893 ratings — published 1982
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 3.94 — 263,724 ratings — published 1948
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 4.54 — 61,427 ratings — published 1993
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.60 — 579,779 ratings — published 2018
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.00 — 37,540 ratings — published 1963
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 179,006 ratings — published 2022
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.17 — 238,060 ratings — published 1864
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,396 ratings — published 1973
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,960 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 — 12,375 ratings — published 1849
A Reliable Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.28 — 80,451 ratings — published 2009
God Help the Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 32,657 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,972 ratings — published 2008
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.89 — 56,694 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,927,532 ratings — published 1951
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.94 — 403,137 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,028,552 ratings — published 2007
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 163,589 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,628,838 ratings — published 1945
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.05 — 38,016 ratings — published 1964
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,207 ratings — published 1940
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 46,166 ratings — published 2000
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 133,870 ratings — published 2018
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.72 — 60,751 ratings — published 2018
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 2,264 ratings — published 2024
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,020 ratings — published 1949
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,533 ratings — published 1956
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,393 ratings — published 1949
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.12 — 865,778 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.38 — 164,719 ratings — published 2019
Self-Portrait in Green (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,194 ratings — published 2005
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,664 ratings — published 1951
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.46 — 8,191 ratings — published 1945
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 141,648 ratings — published 1938
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 51,239 ratings — published 1998
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 364,127 ratings — published 2024
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.15 — 227,319 ratings — published 1985
Three Comrades (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.48 — 39,840 ratings — published 1936
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.34 — 265,074 ratings — published 1956
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,325,340 ratings — published 2017
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.72 — 17,511 ratings — published 1940
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,915 ratings — published 2011
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,479 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,103,073 ratings — published 1866
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.65 — 403,953 ratings — published 2007
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.09 — 264,342 ratings — published 2016
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 367,651 ratings — published 1892
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,018,887 ratings — published 2012
“This fall I think you're riding for—it's a special kind of fall, a horrible kind. The man falling isn't permitted to feel or hear himself hit bottom. He just keeps falling and falling. The whole arrangement's designed for men who, at some time or other in their lives, were looking for something their own environment couldn't supply them with. Or they thought their own environment couldn't supply them with. So they gave up looking. They gave it up before they ever really even got started.”
― The Catcher in the Rye
― The Catcher in the Rye
“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
― Hear the Wind Sing
― Hear the Wind Sing
