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A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,019,287 ratings — published 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 124 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,898,795 ratings — published 2012
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.92 — 292,173 ratings — published 1948
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,794,429 ratings — published 1949
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,325,202 ratings — published 1963
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,094,121 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,038,986 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,988,771 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,964,335 ratings — published 1937
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,573,626 ratings — published 1915
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,574,451 ratings — published 1985
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,891,564 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,407,744 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,622,804 ratings — published 2003
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 58 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,080,336 ratings — published 1999
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,491,653 ratings — published 2002
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,790,815 ratings — published 2005
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,835,125 ratings — published 1945
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,327,265 ratings — published 1954
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 627,766 ratings — published 2018
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 645,303 ratings — published 2015
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 290,248 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,344,451 ratings — published 1947
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,200,060 ratings — published 2011
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,315,696 ratings — published 2008
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,024,323 ratings — published 1951
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.06 — 646,003 ratings — published 1999
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,828,027 ratings — published 2007
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.25 — 849,558 ratings — published 1966
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.85 — 919,792 ratings — published 2005
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,305,428 ratings — published 1847
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.75 — 911,993 ratings — published 2017
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.92 — 2,016,806 ratings — published 1818
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,163,574 ratings — published 1925
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 981,493 ratings — published 2009
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 542,909 ratings — published 1928
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,009,656 ratings — published 2006
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,851,727 ratings — published 2012
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,293,810 ratings — published 2004
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,105,669 ratings — published 2021
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,912,582 ratings — published 1993
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,540,745 ratings — published 1942
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.60 — 267,554 ratings — published 1949
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,012,329 ratings — published 2018
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.07 — 605,212 ratings — published 1977
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 628,716 ratings — published 2014
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,489,862 ratings — published 2014
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.73 — 296,989 ratings — published 1971
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.97 — 3,006,529 ratings — published 1963
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.14 — 468,312 ratings — published 1995
“But I didn't understand then. That I could hurt somebody so badly she would never recover. That a person can, just by living, damage another human being beyond repair.”
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“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
