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Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as misery)
avg rating 4.22 — 860,540 ratings — published 1987
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as misery)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,012,549 ratings — published 2015
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as misery)
avg rating 4.16 — 669,569 ratings — published 1996
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as misery)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,562,843 ratings — published 1915
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as misery)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,411,820 ratings — published 2005
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as misery)
avg rating 3.92 — 289,232 ratings — published 1948
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as misery)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,980,899 ratings — published 2005
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as misery)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,625,900 ratings — published 2022
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as misery)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,159,866 ratings — published 1866
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as misery)
avg rating 3.99 — 444,408 ratings — published 2019
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as misery)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,317,170 ratings — published 1963
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as misery)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,787,571 ratings — published 2005
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as misery)
avg rating 4.14 — 467,751 ratings — published 1995
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.31 — 300,164 ratings — published 2025
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.16 — 260,739 ratings — published 1864
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呪術廻戦 14 [Jujutsu Kaisen 14] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.65 — 17,493 ratings — published 2021
Manacled (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.62 — 170,791 ratings — published 2019
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.90 — 319,621 ratings — published 1962
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,421 ratings — published 1989
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.53 — 111,887 ratings — published 2022
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,770,443 ratings — published 1949
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.59 — 623,094 ratings — published 2018
Lie With Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.26 — 76,162 ratings — published 2017
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.25 — 845,014 ratings — published 1966
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.08 — 223,486 ratings — published 2003
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.09 — 451,715 ratings — published 2020
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.93 — 288,764 ratings — published 2016
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,821,094 ratings — published 2007
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呪術廻戦 16 [Jujutsu Kaisen 16] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.58 — 17,907 ratings — published 2021
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呪術廻戦 15 [Jujutsu Kaisen 15] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.58 — 16,478 ratings — published 2021
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呪術廻戦 12 [Jujutsu Kaisen 12] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.51 — 18,012 ratings — published 2020
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呪術廻戦 11 [Jujutsu Kaisen 11] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.62 — 19,690 ratings — published 2020
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,005,273 ratings — published 2001
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,892,547 ratings — published 1590
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.28 — 773,578 ratings — published 1982
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,489,797 ratings — published 2002
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,392,368 ratings — published 2015
The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.05 — 138,724 ratings — published 2003
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.20 — 796,255 ratings — published 1962
The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.97 — 157,469 ratings — published 2001
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,337,105 ratings — published 2009
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.78 — 441,622 ratings — published 1993
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,886,543 ratings — published 2012
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,292,230 ratings — published 2004
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,565,120 ratings — published 2005
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.38 — 83,689 ratings — published 1978
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.73 — 296,668 ratings — published 1971
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,006,106 ratings — published 1890
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery)
avg rating 3.95 — 292,887 ratings — published 1993
“Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
― Diary in Exile, 1935
― Diary in Exile, 1935
“Why do you want to shut out of your life any uneasiness, any misery, any depression, since after all you don't know what work these conditions are doing inside you? Why do you want to persecute yourself with the question of where all this is coming from and where it is going? Since you know, after all, that you are in the midst of transitions and you wished for nothing so much as to change. If there is anything unhealthy in your reactions, just bear in mind that sickness is the means by which an organism frees itself from what is alien; so one must simply help it to be sick, to have its whole sickness and to break out with it, since that is the way it gets better.”
― Letters to a Young Poet
― Letters to a Young Poet
