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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,705,001 ratings — published 2012
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.28 — 919,737 ratings — published 2015
When Sadness is at Your Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,249 ratings — published 2018
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.11 — 626,787 ratings — published 2015
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,969,354 ratings — published 2011
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,744,545 ratings — published 2005
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,390,306 ratings — published 2014
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.78 — 576,772 ratings — published 2013
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,584,235 ratings — published 2016
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,213,493 ratings — published 1963
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,994,390 ratings — published 1999
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.83 — 609,874 ratings — published 2014
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.75 — 865,823 ratings — published 2017
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,825,334 ratings — published 1937
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.34 — 289,489 ratings — published 2011
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,207,105 ratings — published 2012
Michael Rosen's Sad Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,416 ratings — published 2004
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,796,487 ratings — published 2012
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,257,152 ratings — published 2012
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.06 — 589,046 ratings — published 1977
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.17 — 1,490,428 ratings — published 2020
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,061,634 ratings — published 2017
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,728,574 ratings — published 2007
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.14 — 226,242 ratings — published 2016
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,869,136 ratings — published 2005
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,274,051 ratings — published 2004
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.91 — 966,166 ratings — published 2009
A Shelter for Sadness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.36 — 710 ratings — published 2021
Maybe Tomorrow? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.44 — 994 ratings — published 2019
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,481,836 ratings — published 2003
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.23 — 553,258 ratings — published 2008
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.61 — 173,622 ratings — published 2021
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,890 ratings — published 2016
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.99 — 725,930 ratings — published 1987
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.16 — 963,244 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,023,731 ratings — published 2007
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.85 — 849,779 ratings — published 2005
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,341,817 ratings — published 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,607,157 ratings — published 2018
What's the Matter, Marlo? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.95 — 261 ratings — published 2021
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.57 — 766,016 ratings — published 2016
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.01 — 402,128 ratings — published 2019
Orbiting Jupiter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.23 — 57,898 ratings — published 2015
The Rabbit Listened (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.59 — 9,114 ratings — published 2018
I'm Sad (I'm Bored, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.11 — 918 ratings — published 2018
Milk and honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.96 — 803,914 ratings — published 2014
The Red Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,663 ratings — published 2001
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.93 — 298,862 ratings — published 2005
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.24 — 791,014 ratings — published 1966
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,876,121 ratings — published 1818
“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others--the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
“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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