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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 109 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,913,509 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,218,121 ratings — published 2011
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,634,111 ratings — published 2003
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,903,039 ratings — published 1590
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 51 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,998,697 ratings — published 2005
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.92 — 6,185,405 ratings — published 1925
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,027,882 ratings — published 2015
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,318,226 ratings — published 1847
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.21 — 4,357,780 ratings — published 1947
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,976,873 ratings — published 1937
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,037,604 ratings — published 1818
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,837,244 ratings — published 2007
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,040,080 ratings — published 2007
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,496,166 ratings — published 2014
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.75 — 915,850 ratings — published 2017
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 982,658 ratings — published 2009
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.78 — 643,659 ratings — published 2013
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,913,231 ratings — published 2010
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,872,135 ratings — published 2016
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,358,377 ratings — published 2008
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,412,090 ratings — published 2012
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,500,824 ratings — published 2017
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,795,002 ratings — published 2005
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.95 — 77,059 ratings — published 2010
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,397,746 ratings — published 2025
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,098,062 ratings — published 1601
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,033,027 ratings — published 1890
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 646,602 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,855,781 ratings — published 2012
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,062,680 ratings — published 1623
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,494,232 ratings — published 2002
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,826,052 ratings — published 1949
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.37 — 4,375,916 ratings — published 2009
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.25 — 855,778 ratings — published 1966
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,013,173 ratings — published 2006
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,339,078 ratings — published 1954
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,649,377 ratings — published 2022
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,834,713 ratings — published 1996
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.85 — 926,086 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,585,498 ratings — published 1915
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 857,167 ratings — published 1999
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,861,967 ratings — published 1945
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 451,383 ratings — published 1603
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,882,247 ratings — published 2003
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,705,621 ratings — published 1967
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 976,092 ratings — published 1878
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,085,882 ratings — published 2014
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 581,769 ratings — published 2001
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.29 — 393,496 ratings — published 2025
The Last Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.46 — 758,249 ratings — published 2019
“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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“When I was twelve, my sixth-grade English class went on a field trip to see Franco Zeffirelli’s film adaptation of Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet. From that moment forward I dreamed that someday I’d meet my own Juliet. I’d marry her and I would love her with the same passion and intensity as Romeo. The fact
that their marriage lasted fewer than three days before they both were dead
didn’t seem to affect my fantasy. Even if they had lived, I don’t think their
relationship could have survived. Let’s face it, being that emotionally aflame, sexually charged, and transcendentally eloquent every single second can really start to grate on a person’s nerves. However, if I could find someone to love just a fraction of the way that Montague loved his Capulet, then marrying her would be worth it.”
― You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story
that their marriage lasted fewer than three days before they both were dead
didn’t seem to affect my fantasy. Even if they had lived, I don’t think their
relationship could have survived. Let’s face it, being that emotionally aflame, sexually charged, and transcendentally eloquent every single second can really start to grate on a person’s nerves. However, if I could find someone to love just a fraction of the way that Montague loved his Capulet, then marrying her would be worth it.”
― You Say Tomato, I Say Shut Up: A Love Story
