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Despair Books
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The Running Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 169,016 ratings — published 1982
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 3.94 — 257,304 ratings — published 1948
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,903 ratings — published 1949
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 4.54 — 61,346 ratings — published 1993
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.60 — 569,351 ratings — published 2018
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.01 — 35,368 ratings — published 1963
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 175,456 ratings — published 2022
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.17 — 232,192 ratings — published 1864
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.08 — 11,222 ratings — published 1973
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,247 ratings — published 1849
A Reliable Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.28 — 80,365 ratings — published 2009
God Help the Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 32,452 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 79,297 ratings — published 2008
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.89 — 54,887 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,906,297 ratings — published 1951
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.94 — 398,012 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,026,303 ratings — published 2007
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.94 — 158,083 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,580,345 ratings — published 1945
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 37,767 ratings — published 1964
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,834 ratings — published 1940
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 45,915 ratings — published 2000
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 132,055 ratings — published 2018
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.72 — 59,980 ratings — published 2018
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 2,212 ratings — published 2024
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 30,851 ratings — published 1949
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,134 ratings — published 1956
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,337 ratings — published 1949
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.12 — 858,751 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.38 — 162,730 ratings — published 2019
Self-Portrait in Green (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,168 ratings — published 2005
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,470 ratings — published 1951
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.47 — 8,078 ratings — published 1945
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 140,346 ratings — published 1938
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 50,798 ratings — published 1998
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.81 — 349,329 ratings — published 2024
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.15 — 222,747 ratings — published 1985
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.34 — 256,586 ratings — published 1956
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,317,673 ratings — published 2017
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.72 — 17,141 ratings — published 1940
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,884 ratings — published 2011
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 48,079 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,088,824 ratings — published 1866
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.65 — 389,412 ratings — published 2007
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.09 — 260,176 ratings — published 2016
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 361,858 ratings — published 1892
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,014,275 ratings — published 2012
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,559 ratings — published 2005
“Does anything in nature despair except man? An animal with a foot caught in a trap does not seem to despair. It is too busy trying to survive. It is all closed in, to a kind of still, intense waiting. Is this a key? Keep busy with survival. Imitate the trees. Learn to lose in order to recover, and remember that nothing stays the same for long, not even pain, psychic pain. Sit it out. Let it all pass. Let it go.”
― Journal of a Solitude
― Journal of a Solitude
“But what we call our despair is often only the painful eagerness of unfed hope.”
― Middlemarch
― Middlemarch
