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Heartbreaking Books
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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 218 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,736,886 ratings — published 2012
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 197 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,635,087 ratings — published 2016
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,999,352 ratings — published 2011
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 150 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.28 — 933,437 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 125 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,805,584 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 119 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,886,826 ratings — published 2005
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 113 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,316,062 ratings — published 2014
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 105 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.78 — 586,962 ratings — published 2013
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,501,950 ratings — published 2003
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 102 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.04 — 460,710 ratings — published 2016
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,120,898 ratings — published 2017
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,741,124 ratings — published 2007
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.11 — 629,650 ratings — published 2015
Hopeless (Hopeless, #1)
by (shelved 87 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.22 — 683,953 ratings — published 2012
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 82 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.75 — 872,858 ratings — published 2017
Archer's Voice (ebook)
by (shelved 78 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 677,277 ratings — published 2014
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.34 — 290,488 ratings — published 2011
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 67 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,731,473 ratings — published 2010
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.91 — 968,915 ratings — published 2009
Reminders of Him (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,649,104 ratings — published 2022
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 64 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,128,065 ratings — published 2015
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 61 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,070,240 ratings — published 2025
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,405,895 ratings — published 2014
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 59 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,006,337 ratings — published 1999
All Your Perfects (Hopeless, #3)
by (shelved 58 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.99 — 706,194 ratings — published 2018
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 56 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,261,331 ratings — published 2012
Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)
by (shelved 55 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.55 — 477,716 ratings — published 2013
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,514,167 ratings — published 2020
Allegiant (Divergent, #3)
by (shelved 54 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.60 — 1,143,510 ratings — published 2013
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 53 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.14 — 230,811 ratings — published 2016
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,751,705 ratings — published 2005
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.95 — 76,148 ratings — published 2010
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.57 — 771,923 ratings — published 2016
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 52 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.09 — 259,435 ratings — published 2016
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 51 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,477,870 ratings — published 2022
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 50 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.93 — 269,457 ratings — published 2016
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,201,897 ratings — published 1947
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 49 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,025,896 ratings — published 2007
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.61 — 175,517 ratings — published 2021
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,013,915 ratings — published 2017
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.16 — 970,173 ratings — published 2006
The Last Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.50 — 480,572 ratings — published 2019
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (Harry Potter, #7)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.62 — 4,118,286 ratings — published 2007
Making Faces (ebook)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.29 — 81,006 ratings — published 2013
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,844,394 ratings — published 1937
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.24 — 798,029 ratings — published 1966
Maybe Someday (Maybe, #1)
by (shelved 43 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.96 — 661,025 ratings — published 2014
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,876,178 ratings — published 2018
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 42 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,212,338 ratings — published 2016
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as heartbreaking)
avg rating 3.85 — 858,108 ratings — published 2005
“When I looked at him, I understood, for the first time since Jacob died, what people meant when they said someone was heartbreaking, that something could break your heart. I had always thought it mawkish, but in that moment I realized that it might have been mawkish, but it was also true.
And that, I suppose, was when I knew.”
― A Little Life
And that, I suppose, was when I knew.”
― A Little Life
“She smirks."Are you attempting to stop me, little one?"
"Excuse me? Did you just call me 'little one'? What are you? Like, four feet tall?" I ask.”
― Captivate
"Excuse me? Did you just call me 'little one'? What are you? Like, four feet tall?" I ask.”
― Captivate
