38 books
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17 voters
Disappointment Books
Showing 1-50 of 10,939
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child: Parts One and Two (Harry Potter, #8)
by (shelved 44 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.47 — 1,149,749 ratings — published 2016
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 44 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,148,892 ratings — published 2013
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 40 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,767,068 ratings — published 2010
Matched (Matched, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.62 — 816,825 ratings — published 2010
Red Queen (Red Queen, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.98 — 1,185,802 ratings — published 2015
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,490,394 ratings — published 2012
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,632,525 ratings — published 2012
Requiem (Delirium, #3)
by (shelved 25 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.73 — 155,268 ratings — published 2013
Paper Towns (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.70 — 1,500,211 ratings — published 2008
Ruin and Rising (Shadow and Bone, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.97 — 596,255 ratings — published 2014
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,109,556 ratings — published 2011
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,771,510 ratings — published 2012
Siege and Storm (The Shadow and Bone Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 22 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.80 — 689,408 ratings — published 2013
Shadow and Bone (Shadow and Bone, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,120,306 ratings — published 2012
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.67 — 2,885,245 ratings — published 2011
Shatter Me (Shatter Me, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,249,952 ratings — published 2011
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.09 — 264,303 ratings — published 2016
Caraval (Caraval, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.97 — 907,006 ratings — published 2016
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 21 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,266,004 ratings — published 2012
Twilight (The Twilight Saga, #1)
by (shelved 21 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,373,355 ratings — published 2005
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,666,627 ratings — published 2023
Daughter of Smoke & Bone (Daughter of Smoke & Bone, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.99 — 385,864 ratings — published 2011
The Death Cure (The Maze Runner, #3)
by (shelved 20 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.78 — 505,325 ratings — published 2011
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,424,341 ratings — published 2014
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
by (shelved 19 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,770,727 ratings — published 2017
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,321,440 ratings — published 2015
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,364,339 ratings — published 2011
Fallen (Fallen, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.72 — 620,275 ratings — published 2009
End of Days (Penryn & the End of Days, #3)
by (shelved 18 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.05 — 74,026 ratings — published 2015
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,412,137 ratings — published 2011
The Elite (The Selection, #2)
by (shelved 18 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.94 — 879,223 ratings — published 2013
Hush, Hush (Hush, Hush, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.92 — 746,763 ratings — published 2009
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,771,208 ratings — published 2018
Darkfever (Fever, #1)
by (shelved 17 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.05 — 190,855 ratings — published 2006
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,927,322 ratings — published 1951
City of Fallen Angels (The Mortal Instruments, #4)
by (shelved 17 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.07 — 643,587 ratings — published 2011
Kingdom of the Wicked (Kingdom of the Wicked, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.86 — 364,112 ratings — published 2020
A Court of Frost and Starlight (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.71 — 2,191,455 ratings — published 2018
The Heir (The Selection, #4)
by (shelved 16 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.62 — 406,646 ratings — published 2015
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.24 — 352,573 ratings — published 2015
Powerless (The Powerless Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.15 — 993,935 ratings — published 2023
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 15 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,218,632 ratings — published 2020
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.06 — 2,183,656 ratings — published 2007
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,759,931 ratings — published 2005
The Selection (The Selection, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,779,443 ratings — published 2012
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
by (shelved 15 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,886,753 ratings — published 2008
From Blood and Ash (Blood and Ash, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.21 — 868,463 ratings — published 2020
The Raven King (The Raven Cycle, #4)
by (shelved 14 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.25 — 161,261 ratings — published 2016
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as disappointment)
avg rating 4.05 — 404,703 ratings — published 2012
Delirium (Delirium, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as disappointment)
avg rating 3.95 — 480,006 ratings — published 2011
“You really didn't see the sadness or the longing unless you already knew it was there. But that was the trick, wasn't it? Everyone had their disappointment and their baggage; only, some people carried it in their inside pockets and not on their backs.”
― The Dream Thieves
― The Dream Thieves
“There's an epigram tacked to my office bulletin board, pinched from a magazine -- "Wanting to meet an author because you like his work is like wanting to meet a duck because you like pâté.”
― Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing
― Negotiating with the Dead: A Writer on Writing









