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A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,004,419 ratings — published 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 120 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,871,907 ratings — published 2012
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.92 — 285,787 ratings — published 1948
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,741,186 ratings — published 1949
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,307,466 ratings — published 1963
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,084,258 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,036,773 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,971,871 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,545,838 ratings — published 1915
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,942,615 ratings — published 1937
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,550,958 ratings — published 1985
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,863,292 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,400,415 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,602,087 ratings — published 2003
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,067,658 ratings — published 1999
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,784,133 ratings — published 2005
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,487,326 ratings — published 2002
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,785,120 ratings — published 1945
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,307,459 ratings — published 1954
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 642,961 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 617,142 ratings — published 2018
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 287,041 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,320,957 ratings — published 1947
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,252,830 ratings — published 2008
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,003,698 ratings — published 1951
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.05 — 643,800 ratings — published 1999
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,812,546 ratings — published 2007
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,165,106 ratings — published 2011
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.25 — 839,720 ratings — published 1966
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,285,053 ratings — published 1847
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,994,678 ratings — published 1818
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.85 — 909,278 ratings — published 2005
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.75 — 905,610 ratings — published 2017
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 979,439 ratings — published 2009
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,126,475 ratings — published 1925
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 538,999 ratings — published 1928
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,844,011 ratings — published 2012
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,003,099 ratings — published 2006
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,290,675 ratings — published 2004
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,086,720 ratings — published 2021
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.60 — 266,365 ratings — published 1949
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,989,440 ratings — published 2018
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,897,332 ratings — published 1993
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 626,125 ratings — published 2014
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,478,166 ratings — published 2014
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.07 — 602,786 ratings — published 1977
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,517,139 ratings — published 1942
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.73 — 296,323 ratings — published 1971
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,978,916 ratings — published 1963
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,025,058 ratings — published 1939
“And then something invisible snapped insider her, and that which had come together commenced to fall apart.”
― Looking for Alaska
― Looking for Alaska
“And the snow that fell onto the roof in winter... it fell softly... softly... and it covered the house, the armchair, the books, the children's voices. It covered Anna and Abel, covered their parallel world, and everything was finally, very, very quiet.”
― The Storyteller
― The Storyteller
