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A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 139 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.27 — 951,956 ratings — published 2015
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,771,144 ratings — published 2012
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,553,808 ratings — published 1948
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.94 — 263,565 ratings — published 1948
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,248,642 ratings — published 1963
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,051,890 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 87 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,028,506 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 82 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,909,373 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,869,111 ratings — published 1937
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,465,325 ratings — published 1985
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 71 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,766,737 ratings — published 2010
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,462,151 ratings — published 1915
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,376,486 ratings — published 1956
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,527,013 ratings — published 2003
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,759,853 ratings — published 2005
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,627,718 ratings — published 1945
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,470,412 ratings — published 2002
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,021,309 ratings — published 1999
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,232,710 ratings — published 1954
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,232,443 ratings — published 1947
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 48 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 633,228 ratings — published 2015
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.60 — 579,516 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,046,110 ratings — published 2011
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,021,329 ratings — published 2008
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 274,171 ratings — published 2016
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.05 — 635,085 ratings — published 1999
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,759,091 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,927,064 ratings — published 1951
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,188,000 ratings — published 1847
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.85 — 871,352 ratings — published 2005
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.24 — 808,566 ratings — published 1966
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.75 — 881,588 ratings — published 2017
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,928,658 ratings — published 1818
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 525,540 ratings — published 1928
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.91 — 971,599 ratings — published 2009
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,983,650 ratings — published 1925
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,815,745 ratings — published 2012
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,281,046 ratings — published 2004
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.16 — 978,920 ratings — published 2006
The Four Winds (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,017,600 ratings — published 2021
The Giver (The Giver, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,836,059 ratings — published 1993
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 33 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.59 — 261,308 ratings — published 1949
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,905,493 ratings — published 2018
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.83 — 615,950 ratings — published 2014
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 32 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.06 — 594,247 ratings — published 1977
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,882,287 ratings — published 1953
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,518,697 ratings — published 2022
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,318,881 ratings — published 2015
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,424,128 ratings — published 2014
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as depressing)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,843,082 ratings — published 1590
“After all, suicide is contagious.”
― The Program
― The Program
“why don't we go back out there and tell them what happened?
because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high.
(Night Streets of Madness)”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
because nothing happened except that everybody has been driven insane and stupid by life. in this society there are only two things that count: don't be caught without money and don't get caught high on any kind of high.
(Night Streets of Madness)”
― Tales of Ordinary Madness
