78 books
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112 voters
Tragedy Books
Showing 1-50 of 22,855
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 878 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,829,453 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 696 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,055,340 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 662 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,024,122 ratings — published 1623
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 462 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 437,886 ratings — published 1603
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 439 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,940,232 ratings — published 1925
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 373 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 238,067 ratings — published 1605
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 292 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,847,546 ratings — published 1937
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 286 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.73 — 238,084 ratings — published -429
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 279 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,085,668 ratings — published 1847
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 260 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.68 — 177,582 ratings — published -441
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 254 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,741,577 ratings — published 2012
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 249 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 219,933 ratings — published 1599
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 227 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,005,412 ratings — published 2011
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 167 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 259,739 ratings — published 1949
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,902,825 ratings — published 1818
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 303,277 ratings — published 1891
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 146 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,889,718 ratings — published 2005
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.95 — 87,723 ratings — published -431
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 124 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.10 — 935,235 ratings — published 1878
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 969,273 ratings — published 2009
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,273 ratings — published 2003
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 43,958 ratings — published 1606
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,031 ratings — published -458
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,206,077 ratings — published 1947
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,026,252 ratings — published 2007
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 70,927 ratings — published -450
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,408,417 ratings — published 2014
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.28 — 935,832 ratings — published 2015
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,465,135 ratings — published 2002
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.67 — 34,529 ratings — published 1594
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,752,763 ratings — published 2005
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.61 — 465,534 ratings — published 1953
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,506 ratings — published -405
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,891,483 ratings — published 1890
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 413,909 ratings — published 1958
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,368,316 ratings — published 1956
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,211,334 ratings — published 1954
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,041,802 ratings — published 2006
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,037,667 ratings — published 1992
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,806,971 ratings — published 2012
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,743,437 ratings — published 2007
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 874,048 ratings — published 2017
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.21 — 845,631 ratings — published 1862
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 591,651 ratings — published 1977
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.80 — 72,567 ratings — published 1588
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,494,177 ratings — published 1948
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.95 — 564,855 ratings — published 2001
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 63 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,554 ratings — published -401
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 58,729 ratings — published 1593
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 376,337 ratings — published 1856
“Life is a drama full of tragedy and comedy. You should learn to enjoy the comic episodes a little more.”
― The Glass Castle
― The Glass Castle
“But that is how a tragedy like ours or King Lear breaks your heart—by making you believe that the ending might still be happy, until the very last minute.”
― If We Were Villains
― If We Were Villains
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