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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,814,570 ratings — published 2012
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 196 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,744,880 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,093,234 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.27 — 974,808 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 128 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,828,170 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 124 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,937,487 ratings — published 2005
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 113 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,368,303 ratings — published 2014
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.78 — 614,316 ratings — published 2013
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,559,385 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 106 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.03 — 477,329 ratings — published 2016
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 106 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,781,365 ratings — published 2007
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,275,000 ratings — published 2017
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.11 — 638,022 ratings — published 2015
Hopeless (Hopeless, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.22 — 695,279 ratings — published 2012
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.75 — 891,702 ratings — published 2017
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.34 — 294,234 ratings — published 2011
Archer's Voice (Pelion Lake, #1)
by (shelved 79 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 700,855 ratings — published 2014
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,269,931 ratings — published 2015
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 67 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,810,413 ratings — published 2010
Reminders of Him (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,802,643 ratings — published 2022
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.91 — 975,185 ratings — published 2009
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 64 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,210,105 ratings — published 2025
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,447,380 ratings — published 2014
All Your Perfects (Hopeless, #3)
by (shelved 59 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.99 — 717,832 ratings — published 2018
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,040,098 ratings — published 1999
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,272,416 ratings — published 2012
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.14 — 244,117 ratings — published 2016
Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)
by (shelved 56 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.55 — 482,733 ratings — published 2013
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,770,624 ratings — published 2005
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,580,614 ratings — published 2020
The Last Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.48 — 634,390 ratings — published 2019
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,155,940 ratings — published 2013
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.95 — 76,604 ratings — published 2010
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.08 — 270,907 ratings — published 2016
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,562,813 ratings — published 2022
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.93 — 279,755 ratings — published 2016
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.56 — 791,359 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,271,029 ratings — published 1947
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,032,241 ratings — published 2007
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.61 — 181,522 ratings — published 2021
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,030,484 ratings — published 2017
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 989,642 ratings — published 2006
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,900,447 ratings — published 1937
Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
by (shelved 45 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.44 — 668,487 ratings — published 2018
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 45 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,180,231 ratings — published 2007
Making Faces (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,938 ratings — published 2013
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 888,300 ratings — published 2005
If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me, #2)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 207,267 ratings — published 2024
Maybe Someday (Maybe, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 673,866 ratings — published 2014
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.24 — 822,307 ratings — published 1966
“Sleep, my love," He whispered, smoothing her long hair, lifting the damp locks away from the back of her neck. "I'll be here to watch over you."
"You sleep too," she said groggily, her hand creeping to the center of his chest.
"No." McKenna smiled and pressed a soft kiss against her temple. His voice was husky with wonder. "Not when staying awake is better than anything I could find in a dream.”
― Again the Magic
"You sleep too," she said groggily, her hand creeping to the center of his chest.
"No." McKenna smiled and pressed a soft kiss against her temple. His voice was husky with wonder. "Not when staying awake is better than anything I could find in a dream.”
― Again the Magic
“When I looked at him, I understood, for the first time since Jacob died, what people meant when they said someone was heartbreaking, that something could break your heart. I had always thought it mawkish, but in that moment I realized that it might have been mawkish, but it was also true.
And that, I suppose, was when I knew.”
― A Little Life
And that, I suppose, was when I knew.”
― A Little Life
