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The Running Man (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 181,639 ratings — published 1982
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 289,943 ratings — published 1948
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 4.54 — 61,843 ratings — published 1993
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.59 — 624,263 ratings — published 2018
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 46,769 ratings — published 1963
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.79 — 194,209 ratings — published 2022
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.16 — 261,446 ratings — published 1864
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 12,086 ratings — published 1973
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.16 — 6,208 ratings — published 1949
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.08 — 12,813 ratings — published 1849
A Reliable Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.28 — 80,755 ratings — published 2009
God Help the Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.79 — 33,424 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 82,033 ratings — published 2008
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,565,464 ratings — published 1915
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,319,264 ratings — published 1963
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 63,423 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,017,484 ratings — published 1951
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 423,357 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,038,160 ratings — published 2007
The Vet's Daughter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.85 — 5,828 ratings — published 1959
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 179,700 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,819,669 ratings — published 1945
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.05 — 39,190 ratings — published 1964
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.99 — 45,741 ratings — published 1940
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 47,323 ratings — published 2000
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.87 — 140,894 ratings — published 2018
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.71 — 63,372 ratings — published 2018
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 2,440 ratings — published 2024
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,790 ratings — published 1949
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 27,106 ratings — published 1956
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 5,594 ratings — published 1949
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.11 — 885,115 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.37 — 171,060 ratings — published 2019
Self-Portrait in Green (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,250 ratings — published 2005
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.77 — 27,593 ratings — published 1951
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.45 — 8,613 ratings — published 1945
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 147,588 ratings — published 1938
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 52,931 ratings — published 1998
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 408,809 ratings — published 2024
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.14 — 246,697 ratings — published 1985
Three Comrades (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.48 — 40,971 ratings — published 1936
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.34 — 303,828 ratings — published 1956
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.30 — 207,388 ratings — published 2020
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,355,650 ratings — published 2017
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,057 ratings — published 1940
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,966 ratings — published 2011
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 50,141 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,161,671 ratings — published 1866
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.65 — 460,934 ratings — published 2007
“The road that is built in hope is more pleasant to the traveler than the road built in despair, even though they both lead to the same destination.”
― The Fall of Atlantis
― The Fall of Atlantis
“I wish I could tell you how lonely I am. How cold and harsh it is here. Everywhere there is conflict and unkindness. I think God has forsaken this place. I believe I have seen hell and it's white, it's snow-white.”
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