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Tragedy Books
Showing 1-50 of 23,512
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 900 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,868,470 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 711 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,078,176 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 675 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,044,881 ratings — published 1623
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 461 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 445,227 ratings — published 1603
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 455 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,064,643 ratings — published 1925
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 376 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 241,816 ratings — published 1605
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 305 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,909,583 ratings — published 1937
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 293 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,251,166 ratings — published 1847
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 291 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.73 — 241,755 ratings — published -429
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 262 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.69 — 181,630 ratings — published -441
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 259 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,827,476 ratings — published 2012
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 253 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 223,843 ratings — published 1599
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 247 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,107,332 ratings — published 2011
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 165 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,967,055 ratings — published 1818
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 264,391 ratings — published 1949
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 156 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 306,958 ratings — published 1891
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,945,428 ratings — published 2005
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 89,793 ratings — published -431
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.11 — 955,164 ratings — published 1878
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 976,260 ratings — published 2009
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 123 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,568,712 ratings — published 2003
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 44,862 ratings — published 1606
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,976 ratings — published -458
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,282,440 ratings — published 1947
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,763 ratings — published -450
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,454,905 ratings — published 2014
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,033,420 ratings — published 2007
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.27 — 981,328 ratings — published 2015
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,480,227 ratings — published 2002
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,276 ratings — published 1594
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,957,687 ratings — published 1890
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 91 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.61 — 472,870 ratings — published 1953
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.94 — 26,201 ratings — published -405
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,773,792 ratings — published 2005
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 85 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 421,810 ratings — published 1958
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 83 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,391,193 ratings — published 1956
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 82 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,070,666 ratings — published 2006
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,275,938 ratings — published 1954
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,090,504 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 — 894,885 ratings — published 2017
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 78 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,787,807 ratings — published 2007
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,831,795 ratings — published 2012
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.80 — 73,643 ratings — published 1588
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,658,431 ratings — published 1948
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 73 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 599,404 ratings — published 1977
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.21 — 856,397 ratings — published 1862
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 573,401 ratings — published 2001
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 67 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,991 ratings — published -401
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 59,777 ratings — published 1593
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 384,588 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
“The human race is unimportant. It is the self that must not be betrayed."
"I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."
"You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
― The Magus
"I suppose one could say that Hitler didn't betray his self."
"You are right. He did not. But millions of Germans did betray their selves. That was the tragedy. Not that one man had the courage to be evil. But that millions had not the courage to be good.”
― The Magus
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