186 books
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138 voters
Sad Books
Showing 1-50 of 29,816
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 996 times as sad)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,760,768 ratings — published 2012
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 846 times as sad)
avg rating 4.28 — 946,364 ratings — published 2015
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 744 times as sad)
avg rating 3.78 — 596,236 ratings — published 2013
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 694 times as sad)
avg rating 3.75 — 878,935 ratings — published 2017
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 673 times as sad)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,031,729 ratings — published 2011
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 547 times as sad)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,902,361 ratings — published 2005
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 545 times as sad)
avg rating 3.93 — 272,729 ratings — published 2016
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 532 times as sad)
avg rating 4.03 — 466,317 ratings — published 2016
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 517 times as sad)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,671,255 ratings — published 2016
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 508 times as sad)
avg rating 4.11 — 632,142 ratings — published 2015
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
by (shelved 461 times as sad)
avg rating 3.61 — 177,304 ratings — published 2021
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 454 times as sad)
avg rating 4.14 — 235,041 ratings — published 2016
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 371 times as sad)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,812,794 ratings — published 2012
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 348 times as sad)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,016,453 ratings — published 1999
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 335 times as sad)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,418,462 ratings — published 2014
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 334 times as sad)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,170,197 ratings — published 2017
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 334 times as sad)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,519,310 ratings — published 2003
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 320 times as sad)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,027,649 ratings — published 2007
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 291 times as sad)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,757,284 ratings — published 2005
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 286 times as sad)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,753,496 ratings — published 2007
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 279 times as sad)
avg rating 3.91 — 970,740 ratings — published 2009
If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me, #2)
by (shelved 254 times as sad)
avg rating 3.86 — 197,035 ratings — published 2024
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 238 times as sad)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,333,050 ratings — published 2014
Archer's Voice (Pelion Lake, #1)
by (shelved 228 times as sad)
avg rating 4.16 — 684,873 ratings — published 2014
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 223 times as sad)
avg rating 4.16 — 976,305 ratings — published 2006
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 217 times as sad)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,242,196 ratings — published 1963
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 208 times as sad)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,861,401 ratings — published 1937
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as sad)
avg rating 4.24 — 805,262 ratings — published 1966
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 207 times as sad)
avg rating 4.34 — 291,597 ratings — published 2011
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 201 times as sad)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,756,073 ratings — published 2010
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as sad)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,468,499 ratings — published 2002
I Fell in Love With Hope (Paperback)
by (shelved 200 times as sad)
avg rating 3.81 — 33,492 ratings — published 2022
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 195 times as sad)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,174,229 ratings — published 2015
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 195 times as sad)
avg rating 4.06 — 593,297 ratings — published 1977
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 192 times as sad)
avg rating 4.17 — 259,807 ratings — published 2018
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 192 times as sad)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,997,615 ratings — published 2014
Reminders of Him (Paperback)
by (shelved 191 times as sad)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,699,492 ratings — published 2022
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 189 times as sad)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,279,839 ratings — published 2004
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 187 times as sad)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,536,938 ratings — published 2020
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 187 times as sad)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,223,134 ratings — published 1947
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 185 times as sad)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,506,326 ratings — published 2022
Every Last Word (Hardcover)
by (shelved 181 times as sad)
avg rating 4.20 — 129,391 ratings — published 2015
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as sad)
avg rating 4.10 — 432,184 ratings — published 2020
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as sad)
avg rating 4.00 — 415,770 ratings — published 2019
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 174 times as sad)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,896,670 ratings — published 2018
The Things We Leave Unfinished (Paperback)
by (shelved 170 times as sad)
avg rating 4.31 — 454,106 ratings — published 2021
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 168 times as sad)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,996,575 ratings — published 2008
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as sad)
avg rating 3.85 — 867,148 ratings — published 2005
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as sad)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,228,359 ratings — published 2012
“He does something to me, that boy. Every time. It’s his only detriment. He steps on my heart. He makes me cry.”
― The Book Thief
― The Book Thief
“Every man has his secret sorrows which the world knows not; and often times we call a man cold when he is only sad.”
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