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Despair Books
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The Running Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as despair)
avg rating 3.89 — 152,697 ratings — published 1982
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 3.95 — 234,923 ratings — published 1948
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,717 ratings — published 1949
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 4.54 — 60,968 ratings — published 1993
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.61 — 535,751 ratings — published 2018
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.02 — 29,329 ratings — published 1963
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.81 — 158,702 ratings — published 2022
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.17 — 214,137 ratings — published 1864
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,600 ratings — published 1973
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.09 — 11,863 ratings — published 1849
A Reliable Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.28 — 80,099 ratings — published 2009
God Help the Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 31,882 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 77,311 ratings — published 2008
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.89 — 49,350 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,823,989 ratings — published 1951
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.94 — 380,808 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,016,831 ratings — published 2007
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.94 — 141,769 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,404,055 ratings — published 1945
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 36,875 ratings — published 1964
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.98 — 42,853 ratings — published 1940
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.89 — 125,361 ratings — published 2018
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.73 — 56,780 ratings — published 2018
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 2,019 ratings — published 2024
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.89 — 30,249 ratings — published 1949
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 23,883 ratings — published 1956
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,155 ratings — published 1949
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.13 — 838,090 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.40 — 155,077 ratings — published 2019
Self-Portrait in Green (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,108 ratings — published 2005
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.79 — 25,695 ratings — published 1951
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.47 — 7,647 ratings — published 1945
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 135,648 ratings — published 1938
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 49,299 ratings — published 1998
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.83 — 287,988 ratings — published 2024
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.16 — 208,428 ratings — published 1985
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.34 — 233,304 ratings — published 1956
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.30 — 183,995 ratings — published 2020
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,289,991 ratings — published 2017
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.72 — 15,953 ratings — published 1940
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,842 ratings — published 2011
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 46,707 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,038,314 ratings — published 1866
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.65 — 338,312 ratings — published 2007
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.09 — 247,057 ratings — published 2016
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 342,925 ratings — published 1892
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.13 — 997,893 ratings — published 2012
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,397 ratings — published 2005
“Despair is the price one pays for self-awareness. Look deeply into life, and you'll always find despair.”
― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
“I need to be alone. I need to ponder my shame and my despair in seclusion; I need the sunshine and the paving stones of the streets without companions, without conversation, face to face with myself, with only the music of my heart for company.”
― Tropic of Cancer
― Tropic of Cancer
