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The Running Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 177,392 ratings — published 1982
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 276,005 ratings — published 1948
The Sandman, Vol. 7: Brief Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as despair)
avg rating 4.54 — 61,595 ratings — published 1993
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.59 — 600,106 ratings — published 2018
The Wall (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.99 — 41,947 ratings — published 1963
Trust (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.79 — 186,385 ratings — published 2022
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.16 — 248,769 ratings — published 1864
The Trouble With Being Born (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 11,730 ratings — published 1973
A Short History of Decay (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.17 — 6,083 ratings — published 1949
The Sickness Unto Death: A Christian Psychological Exposition for Upbuilding and Awakening (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 4.09 — 12,605 ratings — published 1849
A Reliable Wife (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.28 — 80,632 ratings — published 2009
God Help the Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,006 ratings — published 2015
Nothing to Lose (Jack Reacher, #12)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 81,051 ratings — published 2008
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 60,329 ratings — published 1967
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,971,301 ratings — published 1951
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 412,651 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as despair)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,033,492 ratings — published 2007
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead (Audible Audio)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 171,755 ratings — published 2009
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,720,458 ratings — published 1945
A Single Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.05 — 38,594 ratings — published 1964
The Power and the Glory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.98 — 44,891 ratings — published 1940
The Human Stain (The American Trilogy, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.92 — 46,696 ratings — published 2000
Severance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.87 — 137,512 ratings — published 2018
The Friend (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.71 — 62,062 ratings — published 2018
How Does That Make You Feel, Magda Eklund? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.08 — 2,342 ratings — published 2024
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.88 — 31,383 ratings — published 1949
The Temple of the Golden Pavilion (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.97 — 26,271 ratings — published 1956
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,489 ratings — published 1949
The Vanishing Half (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.12 — 875,781 ratings — published 2020
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.37 — 167,932 ratings — published 2019
Self-Portrait in Green (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,227 ratings — published 2005
The Ballad of the Sad Café and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,089 ratings — published 1951
By Grand Central Station I Sat Down and Wept (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.46 — 8,398 ratings — published 1945
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.93 — 144,477 ratings — published 1938
The Elementary Particles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.80 — 52,010 ratings — published 1998
Intermezzo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.79 — 387,649 ratings — published 2024
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.15 — 236,355 ratings — published 1985
Three Comrades (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.48 — 40,328 ratings — published 1936
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.34 — 280,757 ratings — published 1956
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.30 — 200,440 ratings — published 2020
Little Fires Everywhere (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.07 — 1,339,011 ratings — published 2017
Kallocain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.73 — 18,217 ratings — published 1940
In the Dust of This Planet (Horror of Philosophy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.68 — 2,940 ratings — published 2011
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.18 — 49,253 ratings — published 1932
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,129,753 ratings — published 1866
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 3.65 — 431,110 ratings — published 2007
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.06 — 378,259 ratings — published 1892
Cinder (The Lunar Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as despair)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,027,979 ratings — published 2012
“Depression is the flaw in love. To be creatures who love, we must be creatures who can despair at what we lose, and depression is the mechanism of that despair.”
― The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
― The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression
“There's no such thing as perfect writing, just like there's no such thing as perfect despair.”
― Hear the Wind Sing
― Hear the Wind Sing
