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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,905,418 ratings — published 2012
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,627,724 ratings — published 2003
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,853,537 ratings — published 2012
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.34 — 298,591 ratings — published 2011
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,039,482 ratings — published 2007
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,993,154 ratings — published 2005
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,900,028 ratings — published 2010
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,969,600 ratings — published 1937
Before I Fall (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 349,084 ratings — published 2010
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.16 — 1,011,126 ratings — published 2006
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
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avg rating 3.91 — 982,062 ratings — published 2009
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.44 — 1,047,795 ratings — published 2017
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
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avg rating 4.06 — 4,861,335 ratings — published 2016
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.11 — 645,870 ratings — published 2015
We Were Liars (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 1,492,530 ratings — published 2014
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.07 — 605,897 ratings — published 1977
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 468,598 ratings — published 1995
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 922,496 ratings — published 2005
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,333,311 ratings — published 2008
Where She Went (If I Stay, #2)
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avg rating 3.96 — 308,267 ratings — published 2011
Speak (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 646,622 ratings — published 1999
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 6,173,118 ratings — published 1925
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
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avg rating 3.61 — 187,559 ratings — published 2021
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,141,827 ratings — published 1992
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 913,735 ratings — published 2017
The Giver (Giver, #1)
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avg rating 4.12 — 2,916,366 ratings — published 1993
We Are Okay (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 103,098 ratings — published 2017
The Dark Light of Day (The Dark Light of Day, #1)
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avg rating 4.22 — 21,113 ratings — published 2013
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 778,822 ratings — published 1987
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,424,222 ratings — published 2014
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,081,431 ratings — published 2014
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,285,608 ratings — published 2012
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,899,941 ratings — published 1590
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,832,136 ratings — published 2007
The Outsiders (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,700,927 ratings — published 1967
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 1,294,832 ratings — published 2004
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 738,176 ratings — published 1995
The Little Prince (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 2,626,150 ratings — published 1943
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,022,960 ratings — published 2015
An American Marriage (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 404,228 ratings — published 2018
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 852,247 ratings — published 1966
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
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avg rating 4.14 — 257,289 ratings — published 2016
The Tattooist of Auschwitz (The Tattooist of Auschwitz, #1)
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avg rating 4.32 — 1,225,952 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.30 — 2,207,971 ratings — published 2011
Reason to Breathe (Breathing, #1)
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avg rating 4.20 — 96,241 ratings — published 2011
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.65 — 2,418,514 ratings — published 2015
My Heart and Other Black Holes (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 63,672 ratings — published 2015
One Child (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 16,573 ratings — published 1980
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.44 — 945,270 ratings — published 1850
The Scarlet Ibis (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 8,547 ratings — published 1960
“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
“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
