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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,878,348 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,607,233 ratings — published 2003
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,845,837 ratings — published 2012
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 297,005 ratings — published 2011
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,037,310 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,975,783 ratings — published 2005
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,869,320 ratings — published 2010
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,947,647 ratings — published 1937
Before I Fall (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 348,685 ratings — published 2010
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,004,732 ratings — published 2006
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 979,948 ratings — published 2009
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.45 — 1,042,483 ratings — published 2017
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,827,187 ratings — published 2016
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 643,483 ratings — published 2015
We Were Liars (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 1,481,018 ratings — published 2014
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 603,313 ratings — published 1977
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 467,358 ratings — published 1995
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 911,731 ratings — published 2005
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,267,422 ratings — published 2008
Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 307,802 ratings — published 2011
Speak (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 644,308 ratings — published 1999
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 6,135,550 ratings — published 1925
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
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avg rating 3.61 — 185,802 ratings — published 2021
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,120,911 ratings — published 1992
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 907,079 ratings — published 2017
The Giver (Giver, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,901,162 ratings — published 1993
We Are Okay (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 102,787 ratings — published 2017
The Dark Light of Day (The Dark Light of Day, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 21,118 ratings — published 2013
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 770,895 ratings — published 1987
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,406,981 ratings — published 2014
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,067,412 ratings — published 2014
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,281,390 ratings — published 2012
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,888,803 ratings — published 1590
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,816,234 ratings — published 2007
The Outsiders (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,687,005 ratings — published 1967
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,291,327 ratings — published 2004
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 695,945 ratings — published 1995
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 2,602,713 ratings — published 1943
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,007,985 ratings — published 2015
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 400,038 ratings — published 2018
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 842,119 ratings — published 1966
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 253,829 ratings — published 2016
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,217,333 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,173,917 ratings — published 2011
Reason to Breathe (Breathing, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 96,106 ratings — published 2011
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.65 — 2,372,759 ratings — published 2015
My Heart and Other Black Holes (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 63,570 ratings — published 2015
One Child (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 16,509 ratings — published 1980
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.44 — 941,342 ratings — published 1850
The Scarlet Ibis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 8,477 ratings — published 1960
“That's the kind of stories I know. Sad ones. Anyway, taken to it's logical conclusion, every story is sad, because at the end everyone dies.”
― The Blind Assassin
― The Blind Assassin
“Ever two seconds, somewhere in the world, a child dies of starvation. That means every two seconds there is a story where the main character dies. That's a lot of horrible stories. So if my death looks like a sad story to someone else, I hope those people will use their imagination to think of all the children who don't get special deaths.”
― Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 9
― Bokurano: Ours, Vol. 9
