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Melancholy Books
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Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.99 — 749,129 ratings — published 1987
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.85 — 882,343 ratings — published 2005
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,264,950 ratings — published 1963
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.27 — 966,902 ratings — published 2015
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.35 — 270,741 ratings — published 1965
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,798,350 ratings — published 2012
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.78 — 425,818 ratings — published 1993
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.14 — 371,820 ratings — published 1989
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,033,318 ratings — published 1999
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,928,548 ratings — published 2018
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,927,563 ratings — published 2005
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,947 ratings — published 1621
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.00 — 425,625 ratings — published 2019
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.07 — 389,324 ratings — published 1848
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.93 — 269,608 ratings — published 1948
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,224,534 ratings — published 1847
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.06 — 581,436 ratings — published 1995
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.59 — 589,891 ratings — published 2018
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,949,904 ratings — published 1951
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.10 — 609,865 ratings — published 2007
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,889,001 ratings — published 1937
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.89 — 134,113 ratings — published 1988
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,482,949 ratings — published 1915
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,022,333 ratings — published 2014
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.96 — 332,722 ratings — published 1997
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,475,212 ratings — published 2002
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.24 — 817,625 ratings — published 1966
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.34 — 272,392 ratings — published 1956
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,367,268 ratings — published 1847
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,537,647 ratings — published 1943
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,555,693 ratings — published 2020
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,948,855 ratings — published 1818
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.87 — 206,481 ratings — published 2013
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.79 — 56,171 ratings — published 2015
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,073,446 ratings — published 1992
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,547,652 ratings — published 2003
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,061,411 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,030,880 ratings — published 2007
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,606,606 ratings — published 1948
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,569,122 ratings — published 2020
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.11 — 636,281 ratings — published 2015
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,270,139 ratings — published 2012
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.10 — 555,448 ratings — published 1984
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.95 — 570,675 ratings — published 2001
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,766,658 ratings — published 2005
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.93 — 142,990 ratings — published 1938
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,076,876 ratings — published 2011
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.65 — 732,609 ratings — published 2015
All the Lovers in the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.67 — 54,292 ratings — published 2011
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.69 — 148,360 ratings — published 1994
“That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I
was weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More
scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a
harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not
remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I've never forgotten.”
― Never Let Me Go
was weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More
scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a
harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not
remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I've never forgotten.”
― Never Let Me Go
“A melancholy-looking man, he had the appearance of one who has searched for the leak in life's gas-pipe with a lighted candle.”
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
― The Man Upstairs and Other Stories
