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Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as misery)
avg rating 4.22 — 860,260 ratings — published 1987
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as misery)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,012,052 ratings — published 2015
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as misery)
avg rating 4.16 — 669,491 ratings — published 1996
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as misery)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,561,988 ratings — published 1915
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as misery)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,411,522 ratings — published 2005
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as misery)
avg rating 3.92 — 289,005 ratings — published 1948
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as misery)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,980,288 ratings — published 2005
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as misery)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,625,075 ratings — published 2022
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as misery)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,159,322 ratings — published 1866
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as misery)
avg rating 3.99 — 444,164 ratings — published 2019
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as misery)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,316,530 ratings — published 1963
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as misery)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,787,346 ratings — published 2005
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as misery)
avg rating 4.14 — 467,712 ratings — published 1995
Everything Is Tuberculosis: The History and Persistence of Our Deadliest Infection (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.31 — 299,709 ratings — published 2025
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.16 — 260,502 ratings — published 1864
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呪術廻戦 14 [Jujutsu Kaisen 14] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.65 — 17,488 ratings — published 2021
Manacled (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.62 — 170,741 ratings — published 2019
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.90 — 319,410 ratings — published 1962
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,391 ratings — published 1989
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.53 — 111,811 ratings — published 2022
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,768,642 ratings — published 1949
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.59 — 622,734 ratings — published 2018
Lie With Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.26 — 76,102 ratings — published 2017
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.25 — 844,735 ratings — published 1966
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.08 — 223,431 ratings — published 2003
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.09 — 451,602 ratings — published 2020
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.93 — 288,661 ratings — published 2016
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,820,585 ratings — published 2007
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呪術廻戦 16 [Jujutsu Kaisen 16] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.58 — 17,902 ratings — published 2021
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呪術廻戦 15 [Jujutsu Kaisen 15] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.58 — 16,473 ratings — published 2021
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呪術廻戦 12 [Jujutsu Kaisen 12] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.51 — 18,006 ratings — published 2020
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呪術廻戦 11 [Jujutsu Kaisen 11] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.62 — 19,681 ratings — published 2020
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,005,159 ratings — published 2001
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,892,196 ratings — published 1590
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.28 — 773,454 ratings — published 1982
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,489,656 ratings — published 2002
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,391,754 ratings — published 2015
The Slippery Slope (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #10)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.05 — 138,697 ratings — published 2003
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.20 — 796,164 ratings — published 1962
The Vile Village (A Series of Unfortunate Events, #7)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.97 — 157,446 ratings — published 2001
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,336,024 ratings — published 2009
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.78 — 441,465 ratings — published 1993
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,885,607 ratings — published 2012
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,292,122 ratings — published 2004
The Lightning Thief (Percy Jackson and the Olympians, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.31 — 3,564,388 ratings — published 2005
Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 4.38 — 83,663 ratings — published 1978
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery)
avg rating 3.73 — 296,642 ratings — published 1971
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,005,304 ratings — published 1890
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery)
avg rating 3.95 — 292,810 ratings — published 1993
“Life is not an easy matter…. You cannot live through it without falling into frustration and cynicism unless you have before you a great idea which raises you above personal misery, above weakness, above all kinds of perfidy and baseness.”
― Diary in Exile, 1935
― Diary in Exile, 1935
“It is a strange world, a sad world, a world full of miseries, and woes, and troubles. And yet when King Laugh come, he make them all dance to the tune he play. Bleeding hearts, and dry bones of the churchyard, and tears that burn as they fall, all dance together to the music that he make with that smileless mouth of him. Ah, we men and women are like ropes drawn tight with strain that pull us different ways. Then tears come, and like the rain on the ropes, they brace us up, until perhaps the strain become too great, and we break. But King Laugh he come like the sunshine, and he ease off the strain again, and we bear to go on with our labor, what it may be.”
― Dracula
― Dracula
