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Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.98 — 780,567 ratings — published 1987
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,334,498 ratings — published 1963
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.85 — 925,333 ratings — published 2005
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.36 — 316,403 ratings — published 1965
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,911,853 ratings — published 2012
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.78 — 445,182 ratings — published 1993
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,026,890 ratings — published 2015
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.05 — 473,215 ratings — published 1848
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.14 — 391,827 ratings — published 1989
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,025,008 ratings — published 2018
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,086,447 ratings — published 1999
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,998 ratings — published 1621
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,997,625 ratings — published 2005
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.99 — 450,309 ratings — published 2019
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.92 — 295,724 ratings — published 1948
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,316,853 ratings — published 1847
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.03 — 749,049 ratings — published 1995
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.58 — 633,034 ratings — published 2018
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,583,905 ratings — published 1915
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.10 — 634,464 ratings — published 2007
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.34 — 2,630,740 ratings — published 1943
Klara and the Sun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.73 — 496,966 ratings — published 2021
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,034,391 ratings — published 1951
Giovanni’s Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.34 — 312,819 ratings — published 1956
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,975,312 ratings — published 1937
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.89 — 141,470 ratings — published 1988
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.25 — 855,060 ratings — published 1966
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,148,099 ratings — published 1992
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,085,050 ratings — published 2014
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.96 — 345,368 ratings — published 1997
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,433,136 ratings — published 1847
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,719,003 ratings — published 2020
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.87 — 212,097 ratings — published 2013
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,493,968 ratings — published 2002
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,039,964 ratings — published 2007
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.37 — 1,295,764 ratings — published 2012
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,035,508 ratings — published 1818
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.78 — 59,497 ratings — published 2015
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,632,765 ratings — published 2003
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.10 — 573,879 ratings — published 1984
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,099,531 ratings — published 2006
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,794,481 ratings — published 2005
All the Lovers in the Night (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.66 — 60,375 ratings — published 2011
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,649,622 ratings — published 2020
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.11 — 646,448 ratings — published 2015
Men Without Women (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.73 — 134,174 ratings — published 2014
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,287,343 ratings — published 2012
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.96 — 581,599 ratings — published 2001
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.93 — 148,747 ratings — published 1938
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,822,476 ratings — published 1949
“I began to understand that suffering and disappointments and melancholy are there not to vex us or cheapen us or deprive us of our dignity but to mature and transfigure us.”
― Peter Camenzind
― Peter Camenzind
“I don’t know what’s worse: to not know what you are and be happy, or to become what you’ve always wanted to be, and feel alone.”
― Flowers for Algernon
― Flowers for Algernon
