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Tragedies Books
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Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,046,268 ratings — published 1601
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,813,570 ratings — published 1590
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.73 — 236,708 ratings — published -429
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,016,128 ratings — published 1623
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.89 — 435,547 ratings — published 1603
Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 24 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.68 — 175,951 ratings — published -441
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.91 — 236,897 ratings — published 1605
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.95 — 86,939 ratings — published -431
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.71 — 218,839 ratings — published 1599
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,658 ratings — published -450
Prometheus Bound (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.94 — 21,494 ratings — published -480
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.02 — 46,667 ratings — published -458
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,883,960 ratings — published 1925
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,279 ratings — published -405
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,408 ratings — published -401
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.67 — 34,277 ratings — published 1594
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.71 — 43,687 ratings — published 1606
Agamemnon (Oresteia, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.84 — 22,559 ratings — published -472
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,964,857 ratings — published 2011
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,171,953 ratings — published 1947
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,226 ratings — published 1588
Electra (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.95 — 8,400 ratings — published -420
Electra (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.82 — 14,210 ratings — published -410
Ajax (Translations from Greek Drama)
by (shelved 9 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.92 — 7,021 ratings — published -440
The Persians (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.60 — 4,859 ratings — published -472
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,696,779 ratings — published 2012
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,872,372 ratings — published 1818
The Trojan Women (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.88 — 12,726 ratings — published -415
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,186,349 ratings — published 1954
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,864,254 ratings — published 1890
Eumenides (Oresteia, #3)
by (shelved 7 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.84 — 5,106 ratings — published -458
The Suppliants (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.43 — 1,950 ratings — published -463
The Seven Against Thebes (Dover Thrift Editions)
by (shelved 7 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.73 — 3,917 ratings — published -467
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,821,445 ratings — published 1937
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,032,670 ratings — published 1847
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,423,009 ratings — published 1949
The Libation Bearers (Oresteia, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.81 — 4,071 ratings — published -458
Prometheus Bound and Other Plays (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.99 — 8,831 ratings — published -470
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,018,053 ratings — published 1992
Coriolanus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.72 — 19,405 ratings — published 1608
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,865,625 ratings — published 2005
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.10 — 927,631 ratings — published 1878
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.98 — 333,883 ratings — published 1947
Philoctetes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.90 — 5,158 ratings — published -409
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.28 — 917,492 ratings — published 2015
The Hunchback of Notre-Dame (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.02 — 217,624 ratings — published 1831
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,406,559 ratings — published 1985
Troilus and Cressida (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.41 — 12,540 ratings — published 1601
Richard II (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tragedies)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,823 ratings — published 1595
Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as tragedies)
avg rating 4.42 — 18,105 ratings — published 1606
“Perhaps not having experienced any tragedy is also a kind of tragedy because tragedies are one of the important ways to understand life at the highest level!”
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“I imagined myself as a beautiful Cassandra, wandering vast and lonely halls, spilling prophecies that everyone laughed at, only to watch them come tragically true in the end. This feeling of mutedness, of injustice, was particularly strong in me, though I had no particular prophecies to tell, no clear-sighted warnings.”
― Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories
― Delicate Edible Birds and Other Stories











