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Melancholy Books
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Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.99 — 731,237 ratings — published 1987
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.85 — 856,640 ratings — published 2005
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,225,603 ratings — published 1963
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.28 — 931,139 ratings — published 2015
Stoner (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.35 — 250,631 ratings — published 1965
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 16 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,732,270 ratings — published 2012
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.78 — 414,289 ratings — published 1993
The Remains of the Day (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.14 — 360,966 ratings — published 1989
Normal People (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,872,564 ratings — published 2018
The Anatomy of Melancholy (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,903 ratings — published 1621
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 12 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,883,953 ratings — published 2005
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,004,465 ratings — published 1999
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.01 — 407,731 ratings — published 2019
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.60 — 566,193 ratings — published 2018
Call Me By Your Name (Call Me By Your Name, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.10 — 597,269 ratings — published 2007
Kitchen (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.89 — 129,636 ratings — published 1988
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,433,033 ratings — published 1915
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.07 — 348,737 ratings — published 1848
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.94 — 255,143 ratings — published 1948
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.96 — 326,016 ratings — published 1997
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,841,214 ratings — published 1937
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.10 — 475,214 ratings — published 1995
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,980,321 ratings — published 2014
Jane Eyre (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,327,388 ratings — published 1847
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.33 — 2,484,160 ratings — published 1943
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,463,658 ratings — published 2002
The Midnight Library (The Midnight World, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,467,522 ratings — published 2020
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,899,284 ratings — published 1951
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.80 — 53,363 ratings — published 2015
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,032,430 ratings — published 1992
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,063,378 ratings — published 1847
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,025,590 ratings — published 2007
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,476,111 ratings — published 1949
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,509,912 ratings — published 2020
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,894,997 ratings — published 1818
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.24 — 796,801 ratings — published 1966
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.11 — 629,253 ratings — published 2015
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,260,703 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,498,819 ratings — published 2003
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,038,953 ratings — published 2006
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.95 — 564,069 ratings — published 2001
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,750,599 ratings — published 2005
Before the Coffee Gets Cold (Before the Coffee Gets Cold, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.66 — 695,562 ratings — published 2015
The Memory Police (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.70 — 139,631 ratings — published 1994
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,083,910 ratings — published 1866
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,216,142 ratings — published 2012
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,636,075 ratings — published 2018
Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholy)
avg rating 4.23 — 1,428,141 ratings — published 2017
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,315,538 ratings — published 1952
Colorless Tsukuru Tazaki and His Years of Pilgrimage (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as melancholy)
avg rating 3.87 — 203,301 ratings — published 2013
“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
“That's most interesting. But I was no more a mind-reader then than today. I
was weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More
scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a
harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not
remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I've never forgotten.”
― Never Let Me Go
was weeping for an altogether different reason. When I watched you dancing that day, I saw something else. I saw a new world coming rapidly. More
scientific, efficient, yes. More cures for the old sicknesses. Very good. But a
harsh, cruel world. And I saw a little girl, her eyes tightly closed, holding to her breast the old kind world, one that she knew in her heart could not
remain, and she was holding it and pleading, never to let her go. That is what I saw. It wasn't really you, what you were doing, I know that. But I saw you and it broke my heart. And I've never forgotten.”
― Never Let Me Go
