57 books
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Tragic Books
Showing 1-50 of 7,744
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 104 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,827,661 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,107,506 ratings — published 2011
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,868,556 ratings — published 1590
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 53 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,568,821 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,945,540 ratings — published 2005
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,251,309 ratings — published 1847
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.27 — 981,394 ratings — published 2015
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,064,883 ratings — published 1925
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,282,580 ratings — published 1947
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,909,703 ratings — published 1937
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 39 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,787,884 ratings — published 2007
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,967,141 ratings — published 1818
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,033,426 ratings — published 2007
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,455,004 ratings — published 2014
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.75 — 894,917 ratings — published 2017
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 976,270 ratings — published 2009
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,762,516 ratings — published 2016
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.78 — 618,493 ratings — published 2013
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,822,390 ratings — published 2010
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,304,660 ratings — published 2017
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,153,139 ratings — published 2008
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,391,224 ratings — published 1956
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,773,825 ratings — published 2005
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.95 — 76,680 ratings — published 2010
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 639,218 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,831,838 ratings — published 2012
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,078,195 ratings — published 1601
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,044,913 ratings — published 1623
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,658,729 ratings — published 1948
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,957,803 ratings — published 1890
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,480,254 ratings — published 2002
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,273,215 ratings — published 2009
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,574,617 ratings — published 2022
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.85 — 893,113 ratings — published 2005
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.16 — 992,680 ratings — published 2006
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,276,050 ratings — published 1954
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.24 — 826,146 ratings — published 1966
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,786,752 ratings — published 1996
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 850,940 ratings — published 1999
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,719,225 ratings — published 1945
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,229,363 ratings — published 2025
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,872,013 ratings — published 2003
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 955,203 ratings — published 1878
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 573,408 ratings — published 2001
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.31 — 2,040,109 ratings — published 2014
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,377,222 ratings — published 2014
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,506,626 ratings — published 1915
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 445,239 ratings — published 1603
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.08 — 433,083 ratings — published 2017
Heartless (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.08 — 273,192 ratings — published 2016
“Who would have listened to his tales of woe when his love was the flickering lamp over his own decaying tomb?”
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“She smells of her cooking and the perfume Eau d'Hadrien. My mother wore it, too. She used to cook, like Lili. Our house smelled of garlic and thyme instead of sadness.”
― Revolution
― Revolution









