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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,862,802 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,152,091 ratings — published 2011
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,882,765 ratings — published 1590
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,594,931 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,966,367 ratings — published 2005
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,113,677 ratings — published 1925
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.27 — 999,291 ratings — published 2015
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,278,188 ratings — published 1847
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,312,888 ratings — published 1947
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,807,261 ratings — published 2007
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,935,537 ratings — published 1937
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,989,039 ratings — published 1818
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,036,110 ratings — published 2007
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,473,944 ratings — published 2014
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.75 — 903,606 ratings — published 2017
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 978,792 ratings — published 2009
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,807,960 ratings — published 2016
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.78 — 629,376 ratings — published 2013
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,854,776 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,398,644 ratings — published 1956
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,388,303 ratings — published 2017
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,231,985 ratings — published 2008
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,782,034 ratings — published 2005
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.95 — 76,824 ratings — published 2010
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 642,264 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,841,508 ratings — published 2012
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,085,677 ratings — published 1601
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,985,433 ratings — published 1890
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,485,806 ratings — published 2002
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,051,552 ratings — published 1623
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,722,802 ratings — published 1949
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,310,755 ratings — published 2009
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,000,929 ratings — published 2006
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,604,753 ratings — published 2022
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.85 — 905,908 ratings — published 2005
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,300,954 ratings — published 1954
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.25 — 836,606 ratings — published 1966
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,805,167 ratings — published 1996
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 854,005 ratings — published 1999
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,769,516 ratings — published 1945
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,278,613 ratings — published 2025
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,875,904 ratings — published 2003
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 962,797 ratings — published 1878
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 576,532 ratings — published 2001
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.08 — 438,832 ratings — published 2017
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,059,240 ratings — published 2014
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,398,587 ratings — published 2014
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,534,230 ratings — published 1915
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 447,385 ratings — published 1603
The Last Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.47 — 701,253 ratings — published 2019
“Most nights, her body was commerce. She traded vacuous affection for survival. Her wounded soul, bandaged by the deceptive nature of the
Zone had served no purpose in aiding her.”
― Down and Rising
Zone had served no purpose in aiding her.”
― Down and Rising
“You must save yourself," Tairn demands. "I chose you not as my next but as my last, and should you fall, then I will follow.”
― Iron Flame
― Iron Flame
