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The Running Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 179,689 ratings — published 1982
No Longer Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 283,369 ratings — published 1948
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
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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 — 612,679 ratings — published 2018
The Wall (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 44,404 ratings — published 1963
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.79 — 190,519 ratings — published 2022
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 255,101 ratings — published 1864
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 11,902 ratings — published 1973
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.17 — 6,126 ratings — published 1949
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 12,708 ratings — published 1849
A Reliable Wife (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.28 — 80,692 ratings — published 2009
God Help the Child (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 33,207 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 81,535 ratings — published 2008
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,300,736 ratings — published 1963
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 61,960 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,995,265 ratings — published 1951
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 417,972 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,035,991 ratings — published 2007
The Vet's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,601 ratings — published 1959
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
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avg rating 3.92 — 175,746 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,778,283 ratings — published 1945
A Single Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 38,889 ratings — published 1964
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 45,320 ratings — published 1940
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
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avg rating 3.92 — 47,014 ratings — published 2000
Severance (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 139,239 ratings — published 2018
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.71 — 62,776 ratings — published 2018
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.08 — 2,397 ratings — published 2024
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 31,596 ratings — published 1949
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 26,693 ratings — published 1956
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 5,550 ratings — published 1949
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 880,436 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.37 — 169,532 ratings — published 2019
Self-Portrait in Green (Paperback)
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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 — 27,344 ratings — published 1951
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.45 — 8,494 ratings — published 1945
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 145,985 ratings — published 1938
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 52,457 ratings — published 1998
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 398,956 ratings — published 2024
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 241,629 ratings — published 1985
Three Comrades (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.48 — 40,648 ratings — published 1936
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 292,012 ratings — published 1956
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 203,948 ratings — published 2020
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,347,809 ratings — published 2017
Kallocain (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 18,658 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)
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avg rating 4.18 — 49,682 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,145,831 ratings — published 1866
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 445,941 ratings — published 2007
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 383,480 ratings — published 1892
“The greatest hazard of all, losing one’s self, can occur very quietly in the world, as if it were nothing at all. No other loss can occur so quietly; any other loss - an arm, a leg, five dollars, a wife, etc. - is sure to be noticed.”
― The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
― The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening
“The bravest thing I ever did was continuing my life when I wanted to die.”
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