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The Running Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as despair)
avg rating 3.89 — 163,604 ratings — published 1982
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 3.94 — 247,977 ratings — published 1948
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 5,830 ratings — published 1949
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 4.54 — 61,207 ratings — published 1993
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.60 — 555,680 ratings — published 2018
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.01 — 32,927 ratings — published 1963
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 170,079 ratings — published 2022
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.17 — 224,610 ratings — published 1864
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,979 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 — 12,063 ratings — published 1849
A Reliable Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.28 — 80,273 ratings — published 2009
God Help the Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 32,227 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 78,533 ratings — published 2008
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.89 — 52,820 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,869,364 ratings — published 1951
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.94 — 391,364 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,022,140 ratings — published 2007
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.94 — 151,064 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,500,283 ratings — published 1945
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 37,403 ratings — published 1964
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.98 — 43,454 ratings — published 1940
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 45,552 ratings — published 2000
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 129,497 ratings — published 2018
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.72 — 58,928 ratings — published 2018
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 2,146 ratings — published 2024
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.89 — 30,647 ratings — published 1949
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 24,680 ratings — published 1956
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,268 ratings — published 1949
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.12 — 850,086 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.39 — 160,346 ratings — published 2019
Self-Portrait in Green (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.64 — 1,148 ratings — published 2005
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,215 ratings — published 1951
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,912 ratings — published 1945
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 138,499 ratings — published 1938
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 50,277 ratings — published 1998
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.81 — 326,092 ratings — published 2024
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.15 — 217,098 ratings — published 1985
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.34 — 247,055 ratings — published 1956
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,305,333 ratings — published 2017
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.72 — 16,675 ratings — published 1940
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,873 ratings — published 2011
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 47,579 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,067,774 ratings — published 1866
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.65 — 369,185 ratings — published 2007
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.09 — 254,722 ratings — published 2016
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 353,921 ratings — published 1892
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,007,517 ratings — published 2012
The Last Days of Judas Iscariot (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.22 — 4,498 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
“There are far too many silent sufferers. Not because they don't yearn to reach out, but because they've tried and found no one who cares.”
― Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
― Smile Anyway: Quotes, Verse, & Grumblings for Every Day of the Year
