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Sadness Books
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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,742,216 ratings — published 2012
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.28 — 936,201 ratings — published 2015
When Sadness is at Your Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,264 ratings — published 2018
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.11 — 630,214 ratings — published 2015
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,006,236 ratings — published 2011
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,752,906 ratings — published 2005
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,408,744 ratings — published 2014
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.78 — 588,991 ratings — published 2013
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,231,147 ratings — published 1963
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,008,531 ratings — published 1999
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.83 — 612,900 ratings — published 2014
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.75 — 874,220 ratings — published 2017
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,643,593 ratings — published 2016
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,848,018 ratings — published 1937
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.34 — 290,730 ratings — published 2011
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,220,265 ratings — published 2012
Michael Rosen's Sad Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.49 — 3,438 ratings — published 2004
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,807,180 ratings — published 2012
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,261,980 ratings — published 2012
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.06 — 591,712 ratings — published 1977
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,519,054 ratings — published 2020
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,131,940 ratings — published 2017
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,743,751 ratings — published 2007
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.14 — 231,731 ratings — published 2016
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,890,097 ratings — published 2005
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,277,685 ratings — published 2004
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.91 — 969,324 ratings — published 2009
A Shelter for Sadness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.36 — 717 ratings — published 2021
Maybe Tomorrow? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,000 ratings — published 2019
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,691 ratings — published 2003
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.23 — 555,369 ratings — published 2008
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.61 — 175,931 ratings — published 2021
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.04 — 461,966 ratings — published 2016
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.99 — 733,642 ratings — published 1987
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.16 — 971,536 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,026,286 ratings — published 2007
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.85 — 859,991 ratings — published 2005
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,367,185 ratings — published 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,647,378 ratings — published 2018
What's the Matter, Marlo? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.95 — 262 ratings — published 2021
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.57 — 773,210 ratings — published 2016
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.01 — 410,446 ratings — published 2019
Orbiting Jupiter (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.23 — 58,599 ratings — published 2015
The Rabbit Listened (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.59 — 9,203 ratings — published 2018
I'm Sad (I'm Bored, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.11 — 918 ratings — published 2018
Milk and honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.96 — 811,695 ratings — published 2014
The Red Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,690 ratings — published 2001
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.93 — 302,973 ratings — published 2005
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.24 — 799,466 ratings — published 1966
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,903,409 ratings — published 1818
“What, if some day or night a demon were to steal after you into your loneliest loneliness and say to you: 'This life as you now live it and have lived it, you will have to live once more and innumerable times more' ... Would you not throw yourself down and gnash your teeth and curse the demon who spoke thus? Or have you once experienced a tremendous moment when you would have answered him: 'You are a god and never have I heard anything more divine.”
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
― The Gay Science: With a Prelude in Rhymes and an Appendix of Songs
“She was a genius of sadness, immersing herself in it, separating its numerous strands, appreciating its subtle nuances. She was a prism through which sadness could be divided into its infinite spectrum.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
