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Tragedy Books
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Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 886 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,854,789 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 706 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,071,294 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 670 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,037,965 ratings — published 1623
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 462 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 442,398 ratings — published 1603
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 451 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,020,376 ratings — published 1925
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 240,638 ratings — published 1605
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 299 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,887,731 ratings — published 1937
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 295 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,222,698 ratings — published 1847
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 288 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.73 — 240,607 ratings — published -429
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 260 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.69 — 180,368 ratings — published -441
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 258 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,796,745 ratings — published 2012
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 222,568 ratings — published 1599
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,075,118 ratings — published 2011
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 262,755 ratings — published 1949
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,947,668 ratings — published 1818
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 305,652 ratings — published 1891
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,926,495 ratings — published 2005
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 89,145 ratings — published -431
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.11 — 948,233 ratings — published 1878
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 973,765 ratings — published 2009
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,546,383 ratings — published 2003
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 44,562 ratings — published 1606
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,660 ratings — published -458
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,255,664 ratings — published 1947
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,473 ratings — published -450
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,030,754 ratings — published 2007
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,437,408 ratings — published 2014
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.27 — 965,965 ratings — published 2015
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,474,925 ratings — published 2002
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,048 ratings — published 1594
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.61 — 470,397 ratings — published 1953
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,935,482 ratings — published 1890
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,991 ratings — published -405
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,766,270 ratings — published 2005
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,162 ratings — published 1958
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,060,882 ratings — published 2006
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,383,575 ratings — published 1956
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,251,730 ratings — published 1954
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,072,396 ratings — published 1992
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,772,610 ratings — published 2007
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 887,695 ratings — published 2017
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,823,174 ratings — published 2012
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.80 — 73,316 ratings — published 1588
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.21 — 852,706 ratings — published 1862
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,603,315 ratings — published 1948
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 596,643 ratings — published 1977
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.95 — 570,459 ratings — published 2001
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 65 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,820 ratings — published -401
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 381,779 ratings — published 1856
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.18 — 498,570 ratings — published 2006
“If we climb high enough, we will reach a height from which tragedy ceases to look tragic.”
― When Nietzsche Wept
― When Nietzsche Wept
“Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.”
― The Beginning of Everything
― The Beginning of Everything
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