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The Husband's Secret (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.94 — 742,662 ratings — published 2013
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.96 — 579,163 ratings — published 2001
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,161,502 ratings — published 1866
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 32 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,038,142 ratings — published 2007
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,615,945 ratings — published
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.34 — 297,546 ratings — published 2011
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.44 — 942,918 ratings — published 1850
The Reader (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.79 — 238,512 ratings — published 1995
Lost in the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.05 — 7,575 ratings — published 2015
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,057,616 ratings — published 1623
Penny and Her Marble (Penny, #3)
by (shelved 11 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,258 ratings — published 2013
Ketchup Clouds (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.73 — 15,510 ratings — published 2012
Faithful (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.01 — 40,149 ratings — published 2017
Because of Mr. Terupt (Mr. Terupt, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.35 — 47,104 ratings — published 2010
The Storyteller (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.30 — 287,636 ratings — published 2013
Amy & Roger's Epic Detour (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.97 — 94,892 ratings — published 2010
The Correspondent (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.43 — 919,953 ratings — published 2025
The Ethan I Was Before (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.28 — 3,071 ratings — published 2017
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (Harold Fry, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.94 — 200,727 ratings — published 2012
Please Look After Mom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.92 — 50,613 ratings — published 2008
Sophie’s Choice (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.16 — 95,622 ratings — published 1979
Cracked Up to Be (ebook)
by (shelved 7 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,730 ratings — published 2008
Broken Country (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.26 — 737,251 ratings — published 2025
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,044,476 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,128,656 ratings — published 1992
Half a Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.58 — 5,003 ratings — published 2010
Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.07 — 889,815 ratings — published 2012
Carry the One (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.12 — 10,146 ratings — published 2012
Wintergirls (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.96 — 127,696 ratings — published 2009
The Berry Pickers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.07 — 369,335 ratings — published 2023
The Life Impossible (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.47 — 183,730 ratings — published 2024
The Survivors (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.76 — 113,177 ratings — published 2020
The Glass Hotel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.69 — 203,643 ratings — published 2020
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,715,873 ratings — published 1939
The Goldfish Boy (Goldfish Boy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.08 — 10,142 ratings — published 2017
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,497,060 ratings — published 2017
The Tell-Tale Heart (Library Binding)
by (shelved 5 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.24 — 132,009 ratings — published 1843
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.18 — 502,562 ratings — published 2006
I Was Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.73 — 69,154 ratings — published 2015
On My Honor (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,756 ratings — published 1986
A Vintage Affair (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.83 — 16,934 ratings — published 2009
The Griffin Sisters' Greatest Hits (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.82 — 52,389 ratings — published 2025
Check & Mate (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.93 — 396,627 ratings — published 2023
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.71 — 1,173,562 ratings — published 2023
All the Broken Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as guilt)
avg rating 4.49 — 111,921 ratings — published 2022
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as guilt)
avg rating 3.93 — 423,266 ratings — published 1925
“My guiding principle is this: Guilt is never to be doubted.”
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“[T]his readiness to assume the guilt for the threats to our environment is deceptively reassuring: We like to be guilty since, if we are guilty, it all depends on us. We pull the strings of the catastrophe, so we can also save ourselves simply by changing our lives. What is really hard for us (at least in the West) to accept is that we are reduced to the role of a passive observer who sits and watches what our fate will be. To avoid this impotence, we engage in frantic, obsessive activities. We recycle old paper, we buy organic food, we install long-lasting light bulbs—whatever—just so we can be sure that we are doing something. We make our individual contribution like the soccer fan who supports his team in front of a TV screen at home, shouting and jumping from his seat, in the belief that this will somehow influence the game's outcome.”
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