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Tragedy Books
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Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 887 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,855,103 ratings — published 1590
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 706 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,071,443 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 671 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,038,142 ratings — published 1623
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 462 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 442,438 ratings — published 1603
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 451 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,021,334 ratings — published 1925
King Lear (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 374 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 240,665 ratings — published 1605
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 300 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,888,219 ratings — published 1937
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,223,412 ratings — published 1847
Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
by (shelved 288 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.73 — 240,631 ratings — published -429
Antigone (Theban Plays, #3)
by (shelved 260 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.69 — 180,414 ratings — published -441
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 258 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,797,336 ratings — published 2012
Julius Caesar (Paperback)
by (shelved 251 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 222,604 ratings — published 1599
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 241 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,075,813 ratings — published 2011
Death of a Salesman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 163 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.59 — 262,788 ratings — published 1949
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 161 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,948,139 ratings — published 1818
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 155 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 305,683 ratings — published 1891
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 153 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,926,936 ratings — published 2005
Medea (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 89,166 ratings — published -431
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.11 — 948,384 ratings — published 1878
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 124 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 973,819 ratings — published 2009
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,546,899 ratings — published 2003
Antony and Cleopatra (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 44,563 ratings — published 1606
The Oresteia: Agamemnon, The Libation Bearers, The Eumenides (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.02 — 47,666 ratings — published -458
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,256,251 ratings — published 1947
The Oedipus Cycle: Oedipus Rex, Oedipus at Colonus, Antigone (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 71,481 ratings — published -450
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,030,805 ratings — published 2007
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,437,717 ratings — published 2014
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 99 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.27 — 966,329 ratings — published 2015
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,475,024 ratings — published 2002
Titus Andronicus (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 97 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.67 — 35,058 ratings — published 1594
The Crucible (Paperback)
by (shelved 90 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.61 — 470,463 ratings — published 1953
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,935,957 ratings — published 1890
The Bacchae (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.94 — 25,994 ratings — published -405
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 88 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,766,404 ratings — published 2005
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 84 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 419,230 ratings — published 1958
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 81 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,061,087 ratings — published 2006
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,383,759 ratings — published 1956
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,252,269 ratings — published 1954
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,072,778 ratings — published 1992
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,772,965 ratings — published 2007
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 887,848 ratings — published 2017
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 75 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,823,374 ratings — published 2012
Dr. Faustus (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.80 — 73,327 ratings — published 1588
Les Misérables (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.21 — 852,843 ratings — published 1862
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,604,597 ratings — published 1948
Bridge to Terabithia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as tragedy)
avg rating 4.06 — 596,697 ratings — published 1977
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.95 — 570,550 ratings — published 2001
Oedipus at Colonus (The Theban Plays, #2)
by (shelved 65 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.75 — 16,824 ratings — published -401
Richard III (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.91 — 59,470 ratings — published 1593
Madame Bovary (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as tragedy)
avg rating 3.71 — 381,830 ratings — published 1856
“It often happens that the real tragedies of life occur in such
an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their
absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack
of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give us
an impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that.
Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements of
beauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, the
whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly
we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the
play. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder
of the spectacle enthralls us.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
an inartistic manner that they hurt us by their crude violence, their
absolute incoherence, their absurd want of meaning, their entire lack
of style. They affect us just as vulgarity affects us. They give us
an impression of sheer brute force, and we revolt against that.
Sometimes, however, a tragedy that possesses artistic elements of
beauty crosses our lives. If these elements of beauty are real, the
whole thing simply appeals to our sense of dramatic effect. Suddenly
we find that we are no longer the actors, but the spectators of the
play. Or rather we are both. We watch ourselves, and the mere wonder
of the spectacle enthralls us.”
― The Picture of Dorian Gray
“The tragedy of this world is that no one is happy, whether stuck in a time of pain or of joy. The tragedy of this world is that everyone is alone. For a life in the past cannot be shared with the present. Each person who gets stuck in time gets stuck alone.”
― Einstein’s Dreams
― Einstein’s Dreams
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