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Heartbreaking Books
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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,784,555 ratings — published 2012
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 196 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,705,021 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,062,196 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.27 — 959,360 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,819,622 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 120 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,918,285 ratings — published 2005
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 113 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,349,515 ratings — published 2014
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 108 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.78 — 605,030 ratings — published 2013
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,537,170 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 104 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.03 — 471,519 ratings — published 2016
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,217,943 ratings — published 2017
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,766,268 ratings — published 2007
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.11 — 634,755 ratings — published 2015
Hopeless (Hopeless, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.22 — 691,104 ratings — published 2012
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 81 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.75 — 884,949 ratings — published 2017
Archer's Voice (Pelion Lake, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 691,704 ratings — published 2014
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.34 — 292,778 ratings — published 2011
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 67 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,780,397 ratings — published 2010
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,218,905 ratings — published 2015
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.91 — 972,657 ratings — published 2009
Reminders of Him (Paperback)
by (shelved 65 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,766,723 ratings — published 2022
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 63 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,156,510 ratings — published 2025
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,431,392 ratings — published 2014
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,027,431 ratings — published 1999
All Your Perfects (Hopeless, #3)
by (shelved 58 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.99 — 713,782 ratings — published 2018
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,267,912 ratings — published 2012
Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)
by (shelved 56 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.55 — 480,751 ratings — published 2013
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 55 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.14 — 239,449 ratings — published 2016
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,763,237 ratings — published 2005
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,557,875 ratings — published 2020
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,150,910 ratings — published 2013
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.95 — 76,404 ratings — published 2010
The Last Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.49 — 579,609 ratings — published 2019
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.56 — 784,146 ratings — published 2016
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.09 — 266,254 ratings — published 2016
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,533,788 ratings — published 2022
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.93 — 276,081 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,244,410 ratings — published 1947
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,029,638 ratings — published 2007
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.61 — 179,332 ratings — published 2021
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,024,292 ratings — published 2017
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 982,370 ratings — published 2006
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,878,798 ratings — published 1937
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,156,619 ratings — published 2007
Making Faces (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,589 ratings — published 2013
Maybe Someday (Maybe, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 669,473 ratings — published 2014
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 876,900 ratings — published 2005
If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.86 — 202,015 ratings — published 2024
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,917,108 ratings — published 2018
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,306,543 ratings — published 2016
“The place in her, though, where her tears should have come from, was rough and dry. No, she didn't find any tears in herself to cry for the storyteller.
The storyteller didn't exist anymore.”
― The Storyteller
The storyteller didn't exist anymore.”
― The Storyteller
“But a part of me lies buried in lace and roses on a riverbank in France-a part of me is broken off forever. A part of me will be unflyable, stuck in the climb.”
― Code Name Verity
― Code Name Verity
