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The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,311,130 ratings — published 1963
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,550,806 ratings — published 1915
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,983 ratings — published 1621
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.92 — 287,108 ratings — published 1948
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,154,674 ratings — published 1866
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.06 — 444,420 ratings — published 1848
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,521,070 ratings — published 1942
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.78 — 440,094 ratings — published 1993
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,947,025 ratings — published 1937
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.14 — 384,979 ratings — published 1989
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.98 — 770,660 ratings — published 1987
Darkness Visible: A Memoir of Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.99 — 32,369 ratings — published 1990
Black Sun (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,063 ratings — published 1987
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.38 — 40,043 ratings — published 1982
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.99 — 442,320 ratings — published 2019
Writers & Lovers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.96 — 235,651 ratings — published 2020
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.70 — 163,227 ratings — published 1774
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.59 — 619,483 ratings — published 2018
Circe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,466,516 ratings — published 2018
Play It As It Lays (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.90 — 99,678 ratings — published 1970
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,007,589 ratings — published 2015
An Unquiet Mind: A Memoir of Moods and Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.06 — 87,997 ratings — published 1995
The House of Mirth (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.98 — 109,161 ratings — published 1905
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.85 — 911,433 ratings — published 2005
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.36 — 300,989 ratings — published 1965
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,081,892 ratings — published 2013
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.14 — 322,306 ratings — published 1970
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.96 — 341,320 ratings — published 1997
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,289,217 ratings — published 1847
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,877,554 ratings — published 2012
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,134,219 ratings — published 1925
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.77 — 374,268 ratings — published 1925
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.34 — 298,727 ratings — published 1956
The Noonday Demon: An Atlas of Depression (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.19 — 16,212 ratings — published 2000
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.93 — 321,544 ratings — published 2005
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.93 — 146,867 ratings — published 1938
In the Dream House (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.37 — 170,321 ratings — published 2019
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,463,557 ratings — published 2022
Everything I Know About Love (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.92 — 547,743 ratings — published 2018
These Precious Days: Essays (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.42 — 50,938 ratings — published 2021
To the Lighthouse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.81 — 225,742 ratings — published 1927
Paulina 1880 (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.61 — 158 ratings — published 1925
Black Beauty (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.01 — 303,633 ratings — published 1877
The Woman Destroyed (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.01 — 49,999 ratings — published 1967
A Room of One’s Own (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.22 — 280,583 ratings — published 1929
Persuasion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.15 — 808,893 ratings — published 1817
Lie With Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.26 — 75,620 ratings — published 2017
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.30 — 205,916 ratings — published 2020
Blue Nights (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 3.95 — 51,901 ratings — published 2011
Brokeback Mountain (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as melancholia)
avg rating 4.03 — 56,727 ratings — published 1997
“Anyway, those things would not have lasted long.
The experience of the years shows it to me.
But Destiny arrived in some haste and stopped them.
The beautiful life was brief.
But how potent were the perfumes,
On how splendid a bed we lay,
To what sensual delight we gave our bodies.
An echo of the days of pleasure,
An echo of the days drew near me,
A little of the fire of the youth of both of us,
Again I took in my hands a letter,
And I read and reread till the light was gone.
And melancholy, I came out on the balcony
Came out to change my thoughts at least by looking at
A little of the city that I loved,
A little movement on the street and in the shops.
Translated by Rae Dalven”
―
The experience of the years shows it to me.
But Destiny arrived in some haste and stopped them.
The beautiful life was brief.
But how potent were the perfumes,
On how splendid a bed we lay,
To what sensual delight we gave our bodies.
An echo of the days of pleasure,
An echo of the days drew near me,
A little of the fire of the youth of both of us,
Again I took in my hands a letter,
And I read and reread till the light was gone.
And melancholy, I came out on the balcony
Came out to change my thoughts at least by looking at
A little of the city that I loved,
A little movement on the street and in the shops.
Translated by Rae Dalven”
―
“I was asleep almost before I could close the flap on the tent.
Sleeping all day. This must be one of the ways people hide from pain.”
― We Contain Multitudes
Sleeping all day. This must be one of the ways people hide from pain.”
― We Contain Multitudes
