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Heartbreaking Books
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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,844,382 ratings — published 2012
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 198 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,784,036 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,126,025 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.27 — 989,503 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,836,454 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 126 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,955,267 ratings — published 2005
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 114 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,387,764 ratings — published 2014
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 113 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,580,878 ratings — published 2003
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.78 — 623,683 ratings — published 2013
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.03 — 482,838 ratings — published 2016
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,796,651 ratings — published 2007
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,345,530 ratings — published 2017
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.11 — 640,712 ratings — published 2015
Hopeless (Hopeless, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.22 — 699,106 ratings — published 2012
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 83 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.75 — 899,148 ratings — published 2017
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.34 — 295,612 ratings — published 2011
Archer's Voice (Pelion Lake, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 709,138 ratings — published 2014
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,318,292 ratings — published 2015
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 67 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,837,659 ratings — published 2010
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 66 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,252,485 ratings — published 2025
Reminders of Him (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,828,590 ratings — published 2022
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.91 — 977,574 ratings — published 2009
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,464,384 ratings — published 2014
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,054,083 ratings — published 1999
All Your Perfects (Hopeless, #3)
by (shelved 60 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.99 — 721,762 ratings — published 2018
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 58 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.14 — 249,044 ratings — published 2016
The Last Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.47 — 678,861 ratings — published 2019
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,276,731 ratings — published 2012
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,777,681 ratings — published 2005
Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)
by (shelved 56 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.55 — 484,457 ratings — published 2013
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,601,757 ratings — published 2020
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,160,658 ratings — published 2013
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.08 — 276,099 ratings — published 2016
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.95 — 76,774 ratings — published 2010
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,588,835 ratings — published 2022
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.93 — 283,596 ratings — published 2016
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.56 — 798,790 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,297,110 ratings — published 1947
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,036,275 ratings — published 2017
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,034,712 ratings — published 2007
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.61 — 183,659 ratings — published 2021
Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.44 — 701,526 ratings — published 2018
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 996,606 ratings — published 2006
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,921,341 ratings — published 1937
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 899,164 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,202,653 ratings — published 2007
Making Faces (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,193 ratings — published 2013
If Only I Had Told Her (If He Had Been with Me, #2)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 212,359 ratings — published 2024
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,965,387 ratings — published 2018
Maybe Someday (Maybe, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 677,917 ratings — published 2014
“I’m mistaken….
for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.”
―
for thinking you were someone with a heart worth breaking.”
―
“Like kids who only ever get socks for Christmas, but still believe with all their hearts in Santa.”
― The Poisonwood Bible
― The Poisonwood Bible
