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Human Suffering Books
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Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,345,911 ratings — published 1956
Man's Search for Meaning (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.37 — 850,877 ratings — published 1946
The Painted Bird (Kosinski, Jerzy)
by (shelved 2 times as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.90 — 28,093 ratings — published 1965
The Plantation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,047 ratings — published 2010
The Girl from Purple Mountain: Love, Honor, War, and One Family's Journey from China to America (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.87 — 143 ratings — published 2001
Kate Hannigan's Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.92 — 934 ratings — published 2000
The Whitest Flower (Ellen O'Malley #1)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.14 — 519 ratings — published 1999
My Place (An Australian Classic)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.99 — 6,717 ratings — published 1987
Saree (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.11 — 346 ratings — published 2014
The Toy Maker (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.68 — 1,418 ratings — published 2016
Green Island (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,397 ratings — published 2016
Jam and Roses (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,279 ratings — published 2014
Three Daughters (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.02 — 11,905 ratings — published 1988
Coolie Woman: The Odyssey of Indenture (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.10 — 620 ratings — published 2013
10 Minutes 38 Seconds in This Strange World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.09 — 80,302 ratings — published 2019
Songs of Willow Frost (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.68 — 21,674 ratings — published 2013
Home Fires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,272 ratings — published 2019
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.21 — 836,379 ratings — published 1862
Children of Sugarcane (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,413 ratings — published
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.54 — 94,460 ratings — published 2022
Bless the Daughter Raised by a Voice in Her Head (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.20 — 9,274 ratings — published 2022
The Dream of a Ridiculous Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.03 — 39,154 ratings — published 1877
الطنطورية (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.36 — 28,782 ratings — published 2010
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.13 — 293,639 ratings — published 1970
Blood Over Bright Haven (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.36 — 97,169 ratings — published 2023
The Wild Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.93 — 4,256 ratings — published 2013
Veronika Decides to Die (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.74 — 239,555 ratings — published 1998
Autobiography of a Face (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.97 — 29,806 ratings — published 1994
Manacled (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.63 — 145,779 ratings — published 2019
Rabbit-Proof Fence (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.69 — 8,791 ratings — published 1996
The Shadow King (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.66 — 14,796 ratings — published 2019
Silence of the Chagos (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.94 — 170 ratings — published 2005
Honor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.35 — 71,698 ratings — published 2022
Under the Udala Trees (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.03 — 14,504 ratings — published 2015
A Tale of Two Cities (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,003,228 ratings — published 1859
Dracula (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.02 — 1,437,563 ratings — published 1897
A Long Way From Heaven (Feeney Family #1)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.32 — 1,121 ratings — published 1985
If This Is a Man • The Truce (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.54 — 22,038 ratings — published 1987
A Year to Live: How to Live This Year as If It Were Your Last (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,691 ratings — published 1997
With Ash on Their Faces: Yezidi Women and the Islamic State (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.30 — 79 ratings — published 2017
Country of My Skull: Guilt, Sorrow, and the Limits of Forgiveness in the New South Africa (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.09 — 3,257 ratings — published 1998
The Cry of the Dove (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.34 — 1,492 ratings — published 2007
Lietuviai prie Laptevų jūros (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.36 — 1,200 ratings — published 1997
The Latehomecomer: A Hmong Family Memoir (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.18 — 8,489 ratings — published 2008
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.22 — 85,390 ratings — published 2021
The White Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.08 — 6,819 ratings — published 2019
Falling Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.91 — 29,043 ratings — published 1997
Mao's Last Dancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.14 — 32,353 ratings — published 2003
The Summer Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 3.86 — 6,610 ratings — published 2019
Pachinko (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as human-suffering)
avg rating 4.34 — 601,282 ratings — published 2017
“On the ward there was hurt and pain so big and so deep that speech could not express it. I had been interested in philosophy, and suddenly philosophy came alive for me, for here the basic questions of human existence were not abstractions: they were embodied in human suffering”
― Unusual Associates: A Festschrift for Frank Barron
― Unusual Associates: A Festschrift for Frank Barron
“I was a good lawyer , and most days that was enough. I was aware, however, that I took refuge in my profession, as unlikely as that seemed considering the amount of human suffering I dealt with. It offered me a role to escape into, from what I no longer knew; perhaps nothing more significant than my own little ration of suffering.”
― The Little Death
― The Little Death
