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Heartbreaking Books
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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 213 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,623,970 ratings — published 2012
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 198 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,467,821 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 164 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,904,035 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.29 — 883,394 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,774,632 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 116 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,825,424 ratings — published 2005
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 114 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,243,454 ratings — published 2014
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.79 — 553,199 ratings — published 2013
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,920,817 ratings — published 2017
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,430,808 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.04 — 441,272 ratings — published 2016
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,700,162 ratings — published 2007
Hopeless (Hopeless, #1)
by (shelved 88 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.22 — 668,720 ratings — published 2012
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.11 — 619,851 ratings — published 2015
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.75 — 849,665 ratings — published 2017
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.35 — 286,077 ratings — published 2011
Archer's Voice (ebook)
by (shelved 77 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.17 — 650,835 ratings — published 2014
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 67 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,636,398 ratings — published 2010
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.91 — 959,490 ratings — published 2009
Reminders of Him (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 62 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.34 — 1,531,270 ratings — published 2022
All Your Perfects (Hopeless, #3)
by (shelved 59 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.00 — 690,640 ratings — published 2018
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,345,861 ratings — published 2014
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.64 — 1,963,856 ratings — published 2015
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,964,726 ratings — published 2009
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 56 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.52 — 862,802 ratings — published 2025
Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)
by (shelved 55 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.55 — 472,627 ratings — published 2013
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,128,901 ratings — published 2013
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.09 — 248,002 ratings — published 2016
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,726,276 ratings — published 2005
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,246,472 ratings — published 2012
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,676 ratings — published 2010
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,385,744 ratings — published 2022
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.57 — 749,234 ratings — published 2016
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 52 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.14 — 216,636 ratings — published 2016
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,428,312 ratings — published 2020
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.94 — 256,888 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,110,352 ratings — published 1947
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.61 — 168,240 ratings — published 2021
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.45 — 994,357 ratings — published 2017
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,017,578 ratings — published 2007
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 945,813 ratings — published 2006
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,040,823 ratings — published 2007
Making Faces (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.29 — 80,186 ratings — published 2013
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.23 — 773,442 ratings — published 1966
Maybe Someday (Maybe, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.97 — 641,288 ratings — published 2014
If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.86 — 173,834 ratings — published 2024
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.64 — 3,033,789 ratings — published 2016
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,776,463 ratings — published 1937
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 827,208 ratings — published 2005
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 41 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,524,697 ratings — published 2018
“But all he could think of was Inej. She had to live. She had to have made it out of the Ice Court. And if she hadn't, then he had to live to rescue her.
The ache in his lungs was unbearable. He needed to tell her... what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Six of Crows
The ache in his lungs was unbearable. He needed to tell her... what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Six of Crows
