Devastating Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,497
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.28 — 909,043 ratings — published 2015
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,948,978 ratings — published 2011
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,720,327 ratings — published 2007
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
by (shelved 16 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.51 — 965,838 ratings — published 2025
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,464,522 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,853,784 ratings — published 2005
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.01 — 397,187 ratings — published 2019
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as devastating)
avg rating 3.85 — 843,532 ratings — published 2005
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,428,896 ratings — published 2022
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as devastating)
avg rating 3.78 — 569,364 ratings — published 2013
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.09 — 403,275 ratings — published 2017
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as devastating)
avg rating 3.75 — 860,075 ratings — published 2017
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as devastating)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,835,399 ratings — published 2018
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.11 — 624,584 ratings — published 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,672,966 ratings — published 2012
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as devastating)
avg rating 3.94 — 246,494 ratings — published 1948
If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as devastating)
avg rating 3.86 — 182,547 ratings — published 2024
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.11 — 421,462 ratings — published 1995
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.15 — 453,868 ratings — published 2022
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.16 — 466,720 ratings — published 2018
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,801,334 ratings — published 2008
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,681,417 ratings — published 2010
Manacled (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.62 — 153,408 ratings — published 2019
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.35 — 211,899 ratings — published 2019
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.10 — 419,599 ratings — published 2020
The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)
by (shelved 6 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.28 — 163,516 ratings — published 2020
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.24 — 785,779 ratings — published 1966
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,202,305 ratings — published 1963
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as devastating)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,455,308 ratings — published 2002
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.35 — 288,614 ratings — published 2011
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,353,693 ratings — published 1956
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.08 — 325,029 ratings — published 1848
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,111,121 ratings — published 2009
The First to Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #0)
by (shelved 5 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.00 — 121,877 ratings — published 2022
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as devastating)
avg rating 3.94 — 263,213 ratings — published 2016
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,327,124 ratings — published 2022
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,952,373 ratings — published 2014
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,834,458 ratings — published 2018
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,537,305 ratings — published 2016
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,043,092 ratings — published 2015
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,984,289 ratings — published 1999
Heaven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as devastating)
avg rating 3.78 — 86,487 ratings — published 2009
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,026,933 ratings — published 2006
Beloved (Beloved Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as devastating)
avg rating 3.98 — 486,982 ratings — published 1987
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 4 times as devastating)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,147,316 ratings — published 2020
Crying in H Mart (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.23 — 587,122 ratings — published 2021
Lie With Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.26 — 63,589 ratings — published 2017
This Is How You Lose the Time War (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as devastating)
avg rating 3.85 — 327,516 ratings — published 2019
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.40 — 4,013,603 ratings — published 2017
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as devastating)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,328,985 ratings — published 2018
“I cross the street without an arm to hold me back.”
― They Both Die at the End
― They Both Die at the End
“It’s quite a dangerous act you know, to be in love… Especially in such a devastating existence.”
― Strings of Fate
― Strings of Fate
