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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 217 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,844,413 ratings — published 2012
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 198 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,784,111 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,126,098 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.27 — 989,528 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 127 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,836,467 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 126 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,955,292 ratings — published 2005
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,580,917 ratings — published 2003
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 114 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,387,795 ratings — published 2014
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 109 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.78 — 623,701 ratings — published 2013
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 108 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,796,681 ratings — published 2007
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 107 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.03 — 482,849 ratings — published 2016
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,345,623 ratings — published 2017
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.11 — 640,715 ratings — published 2015
Hopeless (Hopeless, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.22 — 699,117 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 — 899,160 ratings — published 2017
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.34 — 295,613 ratings — published 2011
Archer's Voice (Pelion Lake, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 709,150 ratings — published 2014
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,318,360 ratings — published 2015
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 67 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,837,687 ratings — published 2010
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 66 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,252,564 ratings — published 2025
Reminders of Him (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,828,624 ratings — published 2022
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.91 — 977,576 ratings — published 2009
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,464,399 ratings — published 2014
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 61 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,054,113 ratings — published 1999
All Your Perfects (Hopeless, #3)
by (shelved 60 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.99 — 721,772 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 — 249,051 ratings — published 2016
The Last Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.47 — 678,915 ratings — published 2019
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 57 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,276,734 ratings — published 2012
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,777,682 ratings — published 2005
Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)
by (shelved 56 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.55 — 484,459 ratings — published 2013
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,601,777 ratings — published 2020
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,160,660 ratings — published 2013
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 53 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.08 — 276,105 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 — 1,588,872 ratings — published 2022
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.93 — 283,599 ratings — published 2016
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.56 — 798,794 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,297,143 ratings — published 1947
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,036,277 ratings — published 2017
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,034,715 ratings — published 2007
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.61 — 183,662 ratings — published 2021
Binding 13 (Boys of Tommen, #1)
by (shelved 47 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.44 — 701,564 ratings — published 2018
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 996,612 ratings — published 2006
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,921,385 ratings — published 1937
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 899,178 ratings — published 2005
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,202,698 ratings — published 2007
Making Faces (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,194 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 — 212,365 ratings — published 2024
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,965,424 ratings — published 2018
Maybe Someday (Maybe, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 677,921 ratings — published 2014
“But all he could think of was Inej. She had to live. She had to have made it out of the Ice Court. And if she hadn't, then he had to live to rescue her.
The ache in his lungs was unbearable. He needed to tell her... what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Six of Crows
The ache in his lungs was unbearable. He needed to tell her... what? That she was lovely and brave and better than anything he deserved. That he was twisted, crooked, wrong, but not so broken that he couldn't pull himself together into some semblance of a man for her. That without meaning to, he'd begun to lean on her, to look for her, to need her near. He needed to thank her for his new hat.”
― Six of Crows
