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Pessimistic Books
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Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.17 — 238,869 ratings — published 1864
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,466,068 ratings — published 1915
Essays and Aphorisms (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.16 — 9,155 ratings — published 1851
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,102,099 ratings — published 1932
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.94 — 403,906 ratings — published 1925
They Shoot Horses, Don't They? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.86 — 11,886 ratings — published 1935
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.01 — 9,607 ratings — published 2011
Studies in Pessimism: The Essays (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.88 — 2,237 ratings — published 1890
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,497,081 ratings — published 1969
Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.10 — 13,289 ratings — published 2021
The End is Always Near: Apocalyptic Moments, from the Bronze Age Collapse to Nuclear Near Misses (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,044 ratings — published 2019
On Suicide (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.20 — 5 ratings — published 2015
On the Suffering of the World (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.86 — 3,259 ratings — published 1850
The Setting Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.97 — 44,752 ratings — published 1947
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,053,555 ratings — published 2006
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.09 — 519,964 ratings — published 1968
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.72 — 189,227 ratings — published 1930
Η λοταρία και άλλες ιστορίες (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.73 — 59 ratings — published
The Birth of Tragedy (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.98 — 21,676 ratings — published 1871
The Crossing (The Border Trilogy, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.17 — 48,419 ratings — published 1994
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,418 ratings — published 1973
Blumfeld, an Elderly Bachelor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.41 — 337 ratings — published 1915
The Warden Of The Tomb (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.06 — 155 ratings — published 1936
The Hunter Gracchus (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.27 — 314 ratings — published 2011
Letter to His Father (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.03 — 64,961 ratings — published 1919
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.60 — 581,419 ratings — published 2018
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,635,977 ratings — published 1945
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.07 — 376,486 ratings — published 1848
How to Stand Up to a Dictator (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.36 — 7,437 ratings — published 2022
Paradis: Clef en main (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.51 — 658 ratings — published 2009
Songs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.95 — 6,324 ratings — published 2015
The Last Messiah (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,637 ratings — published 1933
A Canticle for Leibowitz (St. Leibowitz, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,832 ratings — published 1959
The Dreams in the Witch House and Other Weird Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,679 ratings — published 1933
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.96 — 88,604 ratings — published -431
Teatro Grottesco (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.09 — 5,991 ratings — published 2006
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.15 — 228,034 ratings — published 1985
The Cares of a Family Man (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.62 — 111 ratings — published
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.93 — 264,746 ratings — published 1948
El árbol de la ciencia (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.67 — 14,791 ratings — published 1911
Akbaba (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.68 — 585 ratings — published 1920
In the Penal Colony (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.92 — 33,749 ratings — published 1918
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,105,179 ratings — published 1866
The Jungle (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.78 — 155,760 ratings — published 1906
A Country Doctor (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.68 — 7,936 ratings — published 1918
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,563,642 ratings — published 1948
A Hunger Artist (Short Prose of Franz Kafka)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.09 — 23,605 ratings — published 1924
Ethan Frome (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 3.46 — 139,618 ratings — published 1911
California Burning: The Fall of Pacific Gas and Electric--and What It Means for America's Power Grid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as pessimistic)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,611 ratings — published 2022
“I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots.”
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
― The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
“Every breath you take is because something has died. Something or someone lived and died so you could have this life. This mountain of dead, they lift you into daylight.
“Will the effort and energy and momentum of their lives
. . .”
How will it find you? How will you enjoy their gift?”
― Haunted
“Will the effort and energy and momentum of their lives
. . .”
How will it find you? How will you enjoy their gift?”
― Haunted
