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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 995 times as sad)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,686,858 ratings — published 2012
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 825 times as sad)
avg rating 4.28 — 915,041 ratings — published 2015
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 730 times as sad)
avg rating 3.78 — 573,352 ratings — published 2013
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 684 times as sad)
avg rating 3.75 — 863,259 ratings — published 2017
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 666 times as sad)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,959,886 ratings — published 2011
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 535 times as sad)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,861,238 ratings — published 2005
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 534 times as sad)
avg rating 3.93 — 264,649 ratings — published 2016
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 530 times as sad)
avg rating 4.04 — 452,768 ratings — published 2016
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 515 times as sad)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,556,789 ratings — published 2016
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 510 times as sad)
avg rating 4.11 — 625,712 ratings — published 2015
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
by (shelved 454 times as sad)
avg rating 3.61 — 173,014 ratings — published 2021
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 446 times as sad)
avg rating 4.14 — 224,559 ratings — published 2016
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 368 times as sad)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,791,959 ratings — published 2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 339 times as sad)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,989,530 ratings — published 1999
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 331 times as sad)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,383,333 ratings — published 2014
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 329 times as sad)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,036,460 ratings — published 2017
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 329 times as sad)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,472,846 ratings — published 2003
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 318 times as sad)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,022,599 ratings — published 2007
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as sad)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,740,977 ratings — published 2005
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 280 times as sad)
avg rating 3.91 — 964,692 ratings — published 2009
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 279 times as sad)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,724,864 ratings — published 2007
If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me, #2)
by (shelved 244 times as sad)
avg rating 3.86 — 184,778 ratings — published 2024
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 240 times as sad)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,282,478 ratings — published 2014
Archer's Voice (ebook)
by (shelved 224 times as sad)
avg rating 4.17 — 666,688 ratings — published 2014
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 221 times as sad)
avg rating 4.16 — 959,969 ratings — published 2006
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as sad)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,208,791 ratings — published 1963
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as sad)
avg rating 4.35 — 289,135 ratings — published 2011
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as sad)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,816,618 ratings — published 1937
I Fell in Love With Hope (Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as sad)
avg rating 3.82 — 32,709 ratings — published 2022
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 202 times as sad)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,457,175 ratings — published 2002
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 197 times as sad)
avg rating 4.24 — 788,924 ratings — published 1966
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 195 times as sad)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,693,263 ratings — published 2010
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 194 times as sad)
avg rating 4.06 — 588,044 ratings — published 1977
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 193 times as sad)
avg rating 4.18 — 256,464 ratings — published 2018
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 189 times as sad)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,958,726 ratings — published 2014
Reminders of Him (Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as sad)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,591,629 ratings — published 2022
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 188 times as sad)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,164,608 ratings — published 1947
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 186 times as sad)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,482,895 ratings — published 2020
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as sad)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,059,810 ratings — published 2015
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 184 times as sad)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,272,686 ratings — published 2004
Every Last Word (Hardcover)
by (shelved 179 times as sad)
avg rating 4.20 — 126,602 ratings — published 2015
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 177 times as sad)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,439,487 ratings — published 2022
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as sad)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,845,115 ratings — published 2018
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 172 times as sad)
avg rating 4.10 — 421,762 ratings — published 2020
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 169 times as sad)
avg rating 4.01 — 400,173 ratings — published 2019
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 163 times as sad)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,832,634 ratings — published 2008
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as sad)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,203,385 ratings — published 2012
The Things We Leave Unfinished (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as sad)
avg rating 4.31 — 414,242 ratings — published 2021
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 159 times as sad)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,587,614 ratings — published 1967
“All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone.”
― Pensées
― Pensées
“People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.”
― High Fidelity
― High Fidelity













