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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,889,246 ratings — published 2012
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 22 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,014,059 ratings — published 2015
When Sadness is at Your Door (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.39 — 3,481 ratings — published 2018
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.11 — 644,434 ratings — published 2015
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,188,121 ratings — published 2011
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,075,953 ratings — published 1999
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,788,300 ratings — published 2005
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.75 — 909,663 ratings — published 2017
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,840,284 ratings — published 2016
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,485,699 ratings — published 2014
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,319,062 ratings — published 1963
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.78 — 636,524 ratings — published 2013
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,956,482 ratings — published 1937
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.34 — 297,543 ratings — published 2011
Everything I Never Told You (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.83 — 627,870 ratings — published 2014
Michael Rosen's Sad Book (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.48 — 3,551 ratings — published 2004
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,849,087 ratings — published 2012
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,283,026 ratings — published 2012
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.07 — 604,363 ratings — published 1977
A Shelter for Sadness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.36 — 758 ratings — published 2021
A Man Called Ove (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,283,953 ratings — published 2012
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,822,643 ratings — published 2007
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,615,937 ratings — published
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,982,671 ratings — published 2005
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,292,575 ratings — published 2004
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.91 — 980,728 ratings — published 2009
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,632,113 ratings — published 2020
You've Reached Sam (You've Reached Sam, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.61 — 186,446 ratings — published 2021
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,447,275 ratings — published 2017
The Way I Used to Be (The Way I Used to Be, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.14 — 255,155 ratings — published 2016
The Art of Racing in the Rain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.24 — 567,596 ratings — published 2008
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.85 — 916,009 ratings — published 2005
Maybe Tomorrow? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,026 ratings — published 2019
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.98 — 774,127 ratings — published 1987
Girl in Pieces (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.93 — 289,085 ratings — published 2016
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,007,351 ratings — published 2006
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,038,139 ratings — published 2007
The Things We Leave Unfinished (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.31 — 534,693 ratings — published 2021
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,472,132 ratings — published 2022
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,800,870 ratings — published 2018
A Thousand Boy Kisses (A Thousand Boy Kisses, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.03 — 490,140 ratings — published 2016
What's the Matter, Marlo? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.96 — 262 ratings — published 2021
Crooked Kingdom (Six of Crows, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.56 — 809,623 ratings — published 2016
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.99 — 445,089 ratings — published 2019
The Rabbit Listened (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.59 — 9,763 ratings — published 2018
I'm Sad (I'm Bored, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.10 — 933 ratings — published 2018
Milk and honey (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.95 — 840,882 ratings — published 2014
The Red Tree (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.50 — 6,768 ratings — published 2001
The Year of Magical Thinking (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 3.93 — 323,381 ratings — published 2005
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as sadness)
avg rating 4.25 — 846,064 ratings — published 1966
“Tears are words that need to be written.”
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“He awoke each morning with the desire to do right, to be a good and meaningful person, to be, as simple as it sounded and as impossible as it actually was, happy. And during the course of each day his heart would descend from his chest into his stomach. By early afternoon he was overcome by the feeling that nothing was right, or nothing was right for him, and by the desire to be alone. By evening he was fulfilled: alone in the magnitude of his grief, alone in his aimless guilt, alone even in his loneliness. I am not sad, he would repeat to himself over and over, I am not sad. As if he might one day convince himself. Or fool himself. Or convince others--the only thing worse than being sad is for others to know that you are sad. I am not sad. I am not sad. Because his life had unlimited potential for happiness, insofar as it was an empty white room. He would fall asleep with his heart at the foot of his bed, like some domesticated animal that was no part of him at all. And each morning he would wake with it again in the cupboard of his rib cage, having become a little heavier, a little weaker, but still pumping. And by the midafternoon he was again overcome with the desire to be somewhere else, someone else, someone else somewhere else. I am not sad.”
― Everything is Illuminated
― Everything is Illuminated
