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Melancholic Books
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Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.99 — 750,871 ratings — published 1987
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.07 — 392,892 ratings — published 1848
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,268,735 ratings — published 1963
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,231,426 ratings — published 1847
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,933,853 ratings — published 2018
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.85 — 884,879 ratings — published 2005
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,954,752 ratings — published 1951
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.93 — 271,007 ratings — published 1948
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,248,638 ratings — published 2012
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,118,997 ratings — published 1866
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,032,809 ratings — published 1925
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,487,738 ratings — published 1915
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,564,199 ratings — published 2020
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.27 — 970,306 ratings — published 2015
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.14 — 372,930 ratings — published 1989
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,036,182 ratings — published 1999
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.10 — 556,457 ratings — published 1984
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.00 — 427,123 ratings — published 2019
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,768,390 ratings — published 2005
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,462,877 ratings — published 1942
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,953,279 ratings — published 1818
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.39 — 38,951 ratings — published 1982
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.68 — 137,605 ratings — published 2022
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.36 — 273,305 ratings — published 1965
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,077,499 ratings — published 1992
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.11 — 637,039 ratings — published 2015
Sputnik Sweetheart (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.83 — 185,076 ratings — published 1999
Cleopatra and Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.68 — 247,020 ratings — published 2022
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.65 — 735,754 ratings — published 2015
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,083,770 ratings — published 2011
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,542,516 ratings — published 1943
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.16 — 244,311 ratings — published 1864
The Light Between Oceans (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.05 — 486,196 ratings — published 2012
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,574,044 ratings — published 2020
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,552,546 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,931,691 ratings — published 2005
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,893,866 ratings — published 1937
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.97 — 437,824 ratings — published 2005
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.34 — 274,074 ratings — published 1956
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,062,723 ratings — published 2013
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.34 — 293,817 ratings — published 2011
Olive Kitteridge (Olive Kitteridge, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.86 — 274,164 ratings — published 2008
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,495,258 ratings — published 1985
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,271,120 ratings — published 2012
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.84 — 306,034 ratings — published 1891
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.77 — 365,900 ratings — published 1925
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,031,442 ratings — published 2007
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,343,851 ratings — published 1952
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 4.01 — 662,221 ratings — published 2013
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as melancholic)
avg rating 3.89 — 134,566 ratings — published 1988
“I don't know if I'm extremely sensitive or life is unbearable.”
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“Maybe it is selfish of me to want the sea for myself, to want the waves rushing only for me, to want every word strung into jagged loops of poetry to flow from my only tongue, but the world has emptied me out ; what is more filling than the sea who continues to drown itself”
― Dolphins: Voices in the Ocean
― Dolphins: Voices in the Ocean
