82 books
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33 voters
Tragedy Books
Showing 1-50 of 23,502
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 896 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,867,635 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 711 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,077,748 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 674 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,044,497 ratings — published 1623
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 461 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 445,087 ratings — published 1603
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 455 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,061,695 ratings — published 1925
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 376 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 241,740 ratings — published 1605
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 304 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,908,117 ratings — published 1937
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,249,499 ratings — published 1847
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 291 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.73 — 241,689 ratings — published -429
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 262 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.69 — 181,563 ratings — published -441
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,825,478 ratings — published 2012
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 223,777 ratings — published 1599
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,105,171 ratings — published 2011
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,965,829 ratings — published 1818
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 264,307 ratings — published 1949
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 306,867 ratings — published 1891
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,944,209 ratings — published 2005
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 89,759 ratings — published -431
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 130 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.11 — 954,726 ratings — published 1878
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 976,079 ratings — published 2009
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,567,233 ratings — published 2003
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 44,844 ratings — published 1606
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,958 ratings — published -458
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,280,651 ratings — published 1947
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,744 ratings — published -450
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,453,660 ratings — published 2014
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,033,233 ratings — published 2007
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 100 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.27 — 980,306 ratings — published 2015
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,479,868 ratings — published 2002
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,265 ratings — published 1594
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,956,181 ratings — published 1890
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.61 — 472,709 ratings — published 1953
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.94 — 26,193 ratings — published -405
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,773,287 ratings — published 2005
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 421,648 ratings — published 1958
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,390,745 ratings — published 1956
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,070,024 ratings — published 2006
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,274,504 ratings — published 1954
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,089,340 ratings — published 1992
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 894,364 ratings — published 2017
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,786,746 ratings — published 2007
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,831,244 ratings — published 2012
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.80 — 73,617 ratings — published 1588
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,654,756 ratings — published 1948
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 72 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 599,222 ratings — published 1977
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.21 — 856,174 ratings — published 1862
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 573,226 ratings — published 2001
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 67 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,980 ratings — published -401
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 59,761 ratings — published 1593
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 384,396 ratings — published 1856
“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
“The whole world can become the enemy when you lose what you love.”
― Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
― Bridge of Scarlet Leaves
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