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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 107 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,860,215 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 104 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,148,502 ratings — published 2011
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,881,736 ratings — published 1590
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,592,910 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,964,810 ratings — published 2005
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,110,140 ratings — published 1925
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.27 — 997,915 ratings — published 2015
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,276,352 ratings — published 1847
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,310,681 ratings — published 1947
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 40 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,805,764 ratings — published 2007
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,933,526 ratings — published 1937
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,987,444 ratings — published 1818
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,035,929 ratings — published 2007
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.66 — 1,472,713 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 — 903,002 ratings — published 2017
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 978,614 ratings — published 2009
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,804,638 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 — 628,585 ratings — published 2013
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,852,319 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,398,097 ratings — published 1956
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,382,673 ratings — published 2017
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,226,211 ratings — published 2008
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,781,413 ratings — published 2005
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.95 — 76,814 ratings — published 2010
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 642,049 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,840,858 ratings — published 2012
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,085,075 ratings — published 1601
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,983,350 ratings — published 1890
Macbeth: Moment by Moment (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,050,637 ratings — published 1623
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,717,977 ratings — published 1949
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,485,356 ratings — published 2002
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 20 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,307,888 ratings — published 2009
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,000,304 ratings — published 2006
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,602,570 ratings — published 2022
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.85 — 904,946 ratings — published 2005
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,299,130 ratings — published 1954
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.25 — 835,751 ratings — published 1966
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,803,756 ratings — published 1996
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 853,764 ratings — published 1999
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,776,518 ratings — published 1945
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,274,867 ratings — published 2025
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,875,590 ratings — published 2003
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 962,205 ratings — published 1878
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 576,307 ratings — published 2001
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.08 — 438,408 ratings — published 2017
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,057,900 ratings — published 2014
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,397,124 ratings — published 2014
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,532,012 ratings — published 1915
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 447,230 ratings — published 1603
The Last Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.47 — 698,431 ratings — published 2019
“It is often tragic to see how blatantly a man bungles his own life and the lives of others yet remains totally incapable of seeing how much the whole tragedy originates in himself, and how he continually feeds it and keeps it going. Not consciously, of course—for consciously he is engaged in bewailing and cursing a faithless world that recedes further and further into the distance. Rather, it is an unconscious factor which spins the illusions that veil his world. And what is being spun is a cocoon, which in the end will completely envelop him.”
― Aion
― Aion
“Love me, even if it’s a lie. Leave me yet never say goodbye.”
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