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Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 899 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,881,681 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 707 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,085,045 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 678 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,050,607 ratings — published 1623
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 463 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 447,220 ratings — published 1603
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 457 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,109,991 ratings — published 1925
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 376 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 242,847 ratings — published 1605
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,933,431 ratings — published 1937
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 297 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,276,249 ratings — published 1847
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 290 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.73 — 242,910 ratings — published -429
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 262 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.69 — 182,907 ratings — published -441
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 260 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,860,081 ratings — published 2012
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 254 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,964 ratings — published 1599
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 248 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,148,330 ratings — published 2011
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 166 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,987,382 ratings — published 1818
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 164 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 265,845 ratings — published 1949
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 157 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.85 — 308,362 ratings — published 1891
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,964,749 ratings — published 2005
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 146 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 90,465 ratings — published -431
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 129 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.11 — 962,178 ratings — published 1878
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 978,610 ratings — published 2009
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,592,812 ratings — published 2003
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 45,113 ratings — published 1606
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.02 — 48,315 ratings — published -458
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,310,577 ratings — published 1947
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 105 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 72,079 ratings — published -450
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,472,664 ratings — published 2014
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,035,922 ratings — published 2007
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.27 — 997,842 ratings — published 2015
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,485,340 ratings — published 2002
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 96 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,423 ratings — published 1594
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,983,223 ratings — published 1890
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.61 — 475,105 ratings — published 1953
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.95 — 26,396 ratings — published -405
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,781,392 ratings — published 2005
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 424,450 ratings — published 1958
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,398,081 ratings — published 1956
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 82 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,080,501 ratings — published 2006
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,299,069 ratings — published 1954
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 79 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,805,680 ratings — published 2007
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,109,282 ratings — published 1992
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 78 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 902,975 ratings — published 2017
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,840,822 ratings — published 2012
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.80 — 73,897 ratings — published 1588
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 601,887 ratings — published 1977
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,717,712 ratings — published 1949
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.22 — 860,314 ratings — published 1862
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 576,290 ratings — published 2001
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 67 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 17,140 ratings — published -401
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 387,644 ratings — published 1856
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,023 ratings — published 1593
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“Life is the tragedy,' she said bitterly. 'You know how they categorize Shakespeare's plays, right? If it ends with a wedding, it's a comedy. And if it ends with a funeral, it's a tragedy. So we're all living tragedies, because we all end the same way, and it isn't with a goddamn wedding.”
― The Beginning of Everything
― The Beginning of Everything
“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
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