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A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,007,893 ratings — published 2015
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,155,027 ratings — published 1866
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.99 — 442,438 ratings — published 2019
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,551,378 ratings — published 1915
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 440,207 ratings — published 1993
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 287,232 ratings — published 1948
A Million Little Pieces (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 266,535 ratings — published 2003
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 467,352 ratings — published 1995
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 258,845 ratings — published 1864
The Death of Ivan Ilych (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.14 — 258,042 ratings — published 1886
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.85 — 911,647 ratings — published 2005
Grief Is the Thing with Feathers (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.78 — 58,366 ratings — published 2015
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.30 — 205,989 ratings — published 2020
Angela's Ashes (Frank McCourt, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 668,855 ratings — published 1996
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,970,079 ratings — published 2018
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.83 — 696,561 ratings — published 1886
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.22 — 858,064 ratings — published 1987
My Friends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.31 — 606,033 ratings — published 2025
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,998,780 ratings — published 1818
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.71 — 45,264 ratings — published 1606
The Complete Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 17,255 ratings — published 1831
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,521,636 ratings — published 1942
Devdas (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,597 ratings — published 1917
One Hundred Years of Solitude (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,148,543 ratings — published 1967
White Nights (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.06 — 444,890 ratings — published 1848
Another Brooklyn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.86 — 42,464 ratings — published 2016
The Kid (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,418 ratings — published
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,623,912 ratings — published 2020
Betty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 66,517 ratings — published 2020
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.18 — 296,671 ratings — published 1993
The Sorrows of Young Werther (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.70 — 163,273 ratings — published 1774
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,089,342 ratings — published 1601
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.89 — 448,474 ratings — published 1603
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,888,746 ratings — published 1590
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The Setting Sun[SETTING SUN][Paperback] (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 325 ratings — published
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.09 — 731,967 ratings — published 1983
Girl A (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.63 — 93,968 ratings — published 2021
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.28 — 772,450 ratings — published 1982
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.19 — 363,273 ratings — published 1995
Vidas Secas (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.25 — 21,557 ratings — published 1938
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,618,471 ratings — published 2022
Know My Name (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.67 — 274,182 ratings — published 2019
Into the Abyss: How a Deadly Plane Crash Changed the Lives of a Pilot, a Politician, a Criminal and a Cop (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.95 — 9,805 ratings — published 2012
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,975,654 ratings — published 2005
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,372,462 ratings — published 2015
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,607,091 ratings — published 2003
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,070,675 ratings — published 1999
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 3.93 — 321,651 ratings — published 2005
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.58 — 264,748 ratings — published
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misery-lit)
avg rating 4.27 — 590,041 ratings — published 1997