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Thirteen Reasons Why
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Speak
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4.06 avg rating — 645,122 ratings
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The Lovely Bones
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3.86 avg rating — 2,490,015 ratings
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If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
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3.91 avg rating — 980,638 ratings
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The Fault in Our Stars
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4.12 avg rating — 5,887,697 ratings
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Before I Fall
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3.88 avg rating — 348,781 ratings
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The Bell Jar
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4.04 avg rating — 1,317,998 ratings
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Night
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4.38 avg rating — 1,404,210 ratings
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The Book Thief
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4.39 avg rating — 2,981,690 ratings
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My Sister's Keeper
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4.11 avg rating — 1,292,379 ratings
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Willow
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3.90 avg rating — 32,889 ratings
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Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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4.13 avg rating — 3,878,780 ratings
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Bridge to Terabithia
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4.07 avg rating — 604,190 ratings
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Wintergirls
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3.96 avg rating — 127,674 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
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3.80 avg rating — 4,015,984 ratings
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Flowers for Algernon
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4.25 avg rating — 845,458 ratings
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Cutters Don't Cry (SoCal, #1)
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4.03 avg rating — 707 ratings
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Hold Still
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3.99 avg rating — 28,336 ratings
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1984
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4.21 avg rating — 5,772,756 ratings
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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas
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4.16 avg rating — 1,006,987 ratings
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The Kite Runner
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4.36 avg rating — 3,614,711 ratings
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By the Time You Read This, I'll Be Dead
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3.84 avg rating — 24,274 ratings
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Tuck Everlasting
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3.91 avg rating — 302,721 ratings
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The Host
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3.87 avg rating — 1,059,062 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
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4.29 avg rating — 1,160,565 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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3.98 avg rating — 129,134 ratings
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The Last Song
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4.16 avg rating — 577,376 ratings
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The Road
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,089,779 ratings
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Les Misérables
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4.22 avg rating — 866,179 ratings
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Where the Red Fern Grows
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If I Wake
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3.91 avg rating — 762 ratings
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A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
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4.14 avg rating — 467,798 ratings
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Scars
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4.15 avg rating — 15,674 ratings
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A Thousand Splendid Suns
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4.46 avg rating — 1,821,749 ratings
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New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
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3.63 avg rating — 2,182,700 ratings
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The Virgin Suicides
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3.78 avg rating — 441,798 ratings
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Cut
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3.76 avg rating — 60,796 ratings
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The Hours
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3.96 avg rating — 151,890 ratings
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I Never Promised You a Rose Garden
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3.90 avg rating — 36,994 ratings
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Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)
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3.96 avg rating — 307,917 ratings
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Tender Is the Night
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3.76 avg rating — 154,220 ratings
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The Tenth Circle
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3.54 avg rating — 139,924 ratings
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Between Shades of Gray
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4.36 avg rating — 287,970 ratings
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Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
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Angela's Ashes
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4.16 avg rating — 669,660 ratings
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Bastard Out of Carolina
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The Reader
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3.79 avg rating — 238,422 ratings
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Midnight Cowboy
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4.05 avg rating — 3,502 ratings
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The Day We Are Born (an Elements novel)
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In The Name Of Blasphemy
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4.16 avg rating — 50 ratings
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What Happened to Goodbye
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3.94 avg rating — 91,229 ratings
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Because of Winn-Dixie
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Before I Die
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Sarah's Key
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The Best Little Girl in the World
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Deep and Dark and Dangerous
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4.19 avg rating — 23,930 ratings
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The Rules of Survival
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3.98 avg rating — 11,914 ratings
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The Trial
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3.93 avg rating — 422,859 ratings
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Anna Karenina
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4.11 avg rating — 969,220 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
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3.86 avg rating — 201,855 ratings
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Love You Hate You Miss You
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The Grapes of Wrath
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Chains (Seeds of America, #1)
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Into the Wild
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Seven Cuts
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The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
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The Luckiest Girl in the World
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This Is Not a Test
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A Day No Pigs Would Die
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
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Change of Heart
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The Little Match Girl
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Story of a Girl
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Blindness
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Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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Forbidden
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The Color Purple
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I Am Her... (I Am Her..., #1)
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3.95 avg rating — 842 ratings
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34 Pieces of You
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Dark Places
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She’s Come Undone
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Going Bovine
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Dream Boy
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Revolutionary Road
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3.94 avg rating — 95,827 ratings
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I Am the Cheese
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3.78 avg rating — 17,800 ratings
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The Bridge of San Luis Rey
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3.79 avg rating — 39,874 ratings
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A Fine Balance
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4.38 avg rating — 165,254 ratings
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Death in Venice and Other Tales
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3.92 avg rating — 16,316 ratings
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Under the Volcano
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3.76 avg rating — 27,667 ratings
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Handle with Care
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4.01 avg rating — 141,807 ratings
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Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
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3.86 avg rating — 246,927 ratings
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A Streetcar Named Desire
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3.98 avg rating — 341,806 ratings
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
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Living Dead Girl
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3.77 avg rating — 34,483 ratings
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I Am Legend and Other Stories
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really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 138,151 ratings
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A Reliable Wife
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3.28 avg rating — 80,749 ratings
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Kaylee: The "What If?" Game
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Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
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4.26 avg rating — 1,848,611 ratings
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Darkness at Noon
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4.12 avg rating — 35,117 ratings
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My Perfect Imperfections
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i love depressing books :)
Was very surprised to see A Fine Balance wasn't on here. One of the most depressing books I have ever read.
you should add Scars by Cheryl Reinfield anyway i really like this list depressing books are interesting even though it brakes me every time!
I love to read books about depression and cutting because it makes me think about what i have done to myself and makes me really think about how it hurts my family and friends:/
Gosh people. I have read depresing books before, but they just made me cry. Do you ever get happy crying over a book? I cried over that last Maximum ride book (Never More)at the end where max said she died. but then i cried cause she was alive. Reading those books for the first time really sparked some emotion throught the book. I swear I had serious mood swings.
Barry Lyndon and Pere Goriot are not on the list. The nun who who taught my Lit class made us read both of them.
