31 books
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Tragicomedy Books
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Waiting for Godot (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 223,443 ratings — published 1951
The Casual Vacancy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.31 — 337,652 ratings — published 2012
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.87 — 951,559 ratings — published 1955
Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.04 — 93,291 ratings — published 1967
Der Besuch der alten Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.67 — 38,555 ratings — published 1956
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 299,812 ratings — published 1980
The Tempest (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.78 — 228,507 ratings — published 1611
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.25 — 102,099 ratings — published 1996
The Merchant of Venice (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.77 — 203,709 ratings — published 1596
The Bee Sting (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.88 — 137,437 ratings — published 2023
Lessons in Chemistry (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,804,698 ratings — published 2022
The Winter's Tale (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 36,859 ratings — published 1623
Philaster (Arden Early Modern Drama)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.46 — 158 ratings — published 1620
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.15 — 439,094 ratings — published 1963
Less (Arthur Less, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.62 — 225,054 ratings — published 2017
Empire Falls (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.95 — 126,351 ratings — published 2001
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,490,382 ratings — published 1969
The Cherry Orchard (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.69 — 45,662 ratings — published 1903
Mother Courage and Her Children (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.62 — 22,882 ratings — published 1941
The World According to Garp (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.11 — 239,439 ratings — published 1978
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 782,811 ratings — published 1962
Cymbeline (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.60 — 11,982 ratings — published 1610
Where'd You Go, Bernadette (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.87 — 600,758 ratings — published 2012
Candide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.76 — 303,150 ratings — published 1759
Endgame (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,463 ratings — published 1957
No One Is Talking About This (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.55 — 55,924 ratings — published 2021
Someone Who Will Love You in All Your Damaged Glory (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.99 — 49,309 ratings — published 2019
Death and the Penguin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.78 — 22,600 ratings — published 1996
The Witch (The New Mermaids)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.26 — 175 ratings — published 1616
The Two Noble Kinsmen (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.40 — 2,707 ratings — published 1614
The Idiot (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.21 — 219,827 ratings — published 1869
Fire & Blood (A Targaryen History, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.05 — 145,952 ratings — published 2018
Fear: Trump in the White House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.87 — 65,482 ratings — published 2018
The Three Sisters (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 24,506 ratings — published 1900
The Seagull (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 38,490 ratings — published 1895
The Decameron (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.88 — 43,786 ratings — published 1349
The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.73 — 22,991 ratings — published 1767
Measure for Measure (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.67 — 31,495 ratings — published 1604
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,218,999 ratings — published 1954
East of Eden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.44 — 648,445 ratings — published 1952
Arcadia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.13 — 24,292 ratings — published 1993
Washington Square (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 25,986 ratings — published 1880
The Hotel New Hampshire (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 69,136 ratings — published 1981
Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.23 — 22,184 ratings — published 1965
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.16 — 49,957 ratings — published 1955
Straight Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 30,465 ratings — published 1997
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,752,180 ratings — published 2012
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,032,104 ratings — published 1844
Far From the Madding Crowd (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.97 — 167,057 ratings — published 1874
The History Boys (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as tragicomedy)
avg rating 3.95 — 11,585 ratings — published 2004
“The shabbiness, even embarrassment, of Hazel Scott playing 'concert boogie woogie' before thousands of white middle-class music lovers, who all assumed that this music was Miss Scott's invention, is finally no more hideous than the spectacle of an urban, college-trained Negro musician pretending, perhaps in all sincerity, that he has the same field of emotional reference as his great-grandfather. the Mississippi slave”
― Blues People: Negro Music in White America
― Blues People: Negro Music in White America
“Before long the world will be cloven with a war between the telescopists and the microscopists. The first study large things and live in a small world; the second study small things and live in a large world”
― Heretics
― Heretics












