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Depressing Books
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A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 142 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.27 — 986,804 ratings — published 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 119 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,838,895 ratings — published 2012
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 278,387 ratings — published 1948
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,678,002 ratings — published 1948
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,287,245 ratings — published 1963
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,074,115 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,034,304 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 83 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,952,135 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,917,351 ratings — published 1937
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,514,992 ratings — published 1915
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,523,477 ratings — published 1985
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,832,811 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,393,696 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,576,884 ratings — published 2003
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,776,403 ratings — published 2005
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 55 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,051,248 ratings — published 1999
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,482,052 ratings — published 2002
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,741,835 ratings — published 1945
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,283,892 ratings — published 1954
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 640,239 ratings — published 2015
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,292,493 ratings — published 1947
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 603,738 ratings — published 2018
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 282,885 ratings — published 2016
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,178,196 ratings — published 2008
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,119,725 ratings — published 2011
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,978,525 ratings — published 1951
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.05 — 640,692 ratings — published 1999
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,793,670 ratings — published 2007
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 829,363 ratings — published 1966
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,260,160 ratings — published 1847
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.75 — 897,757 ratings — published 2017
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.85 — 897,105 ratings — published 2005
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,974,512 ratings — published 1818
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 40 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 977,174 ratings — published 2009
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,080,044 ratings — published 1925
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 534,910 ratings — published 1928
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,834,940 ratings — published 2012
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 995,376 ratings — published 2006
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,287,710 ratings — published 2004
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,065,405 ratings — published 2021
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,960,942 ratings — published 2018
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,877,216 ratings — published 1993
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 264,869 ratings — published 1949
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 622,991 ratings — published 2014
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,461,411 ratings — published 2014
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.06 — 600,336 ratings — published 1977
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.73 — 295,500 ratings — published 1971
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,946,868 ratings — published 1963
The Grapes of Wrath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,017,603 ratings — published 1939
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.34 — 295,363 ratings — published 2011
“I can’t think of anything more disheartening than living a life without a clear purpose.”
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“...whether the people are happy or not in their lives, they have learned to keep steadily moving, moving all the time.”
― Gesture Life
― Gesture Life
