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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,700,402 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 93 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,966,615 ratings — published 2011
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,814,695 ratings — published 1590
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,479,377 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,867,110 ratings — published 2005
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.28 — 918,401 ratings — published 2015
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,174,546 ratings — published 1947
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,887,897 ratings — published 1925
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,034,188 ratings — published 1847
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,388,441 ratings — published 2014
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,727,446 ratings — published 2007
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,823,156 ratings — published 1937
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,023,425 ratings — published 2007
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.75 — 865,143 ratings — published 2017
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 965,781 ratings — published 2009
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,577,020 ratings — published 2016
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.78 — 575,859 ratings — published 2013
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,701,272 ratings — published 2010
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,873,932 ratings — published 1818
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,860,280 ratings — published 2008
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,054,812 ratings — published 2017
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,743,634 ratings — published 2005
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,795,304 ratings — published 2012
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 76,018 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,359,306 ratings — published 1956
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 626,505 ratings — published 2015
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,427,196 ratings — published 1949
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,459,023 ratings — published 2002
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,016,590 ratings — published 1623
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,046,740 ratings — published 1601
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,865,788 ratings — published 1890
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,133,795 ratings — published 2009
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.85 — 849,073 ratings — published 2005
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,446,482 ratings — published 2022
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,725,848 ratings — published 1996
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.16 — 962,378 ratings — published 2006
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 843,955 ratings — published 1999
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.24 — 790,450 ratings — published 1966
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,855,675 ratings — published 2003
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,187,940 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,522,837 ratings — published 1945
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.51 — 1,008,866 ratings — published 2025
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.10 — 928,042 ratings — published 1878
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,290,283 ratings — published 2014
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.95 — 562,150 ratings — published 2001
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,964,505 ratings — published 2014
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,212,206 ratings — published 1963
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,007,875 ratings — published 2017
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.04 — 454,322 ratings — published 2016
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 435,655 ratings — published 1603
“She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness.”
― Revolution
― Revolution
“Love, he told himself, was open to interpretation like any other abstract indulgence but followed the same principles everywhere, irrespective of everything else. One, either won or lost in love, there was no bridge in between, and he decided he had lost, lost to himself, if not to her.”
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