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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 103 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,741,773 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 95 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,005,705 ratings — published 2011
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,829,526 ratings — published 1590
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,505,416 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 49 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,889,836 ratings — published 2005
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.28 — 935,976 ratings — published 2015
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,940,531 ratings — published 1925
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,086,522 ratings — published 1847
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,206,272 ratings — published 1947
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 38 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,743,562 ratings — published 2007
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,408,520 ratings — published 2014
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,847,707 ratings — published 1937
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,026,273 ratings — published 2007
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.75 — 874,104 ratings — published 2017
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 969,285 ratings — published 2009
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,642,945 ratings — published 2016
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,736,500 ratings — published 2010
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,903,032 ratings — published 1818
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.78 — 588,835 ratings — published 2013
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,951,737 ratings — published 2008
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,131,052 ratings — published 2017
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,752,810 ratings — published 2005
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.95 — 76,174 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,368,367 ratings — published 1956
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 630,172 ratings — published 2015
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,807,033 ratings — published 2012
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,055,405 ratings — published 1601
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,494,623 ratings — published 1948
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,465,177 ratings — published 2002
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,024,175 ratings — published 1623
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,174,378 ratings — published 2009
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,891,662 ratings — published 1890
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.85 — 859,842 ratings — published 2005
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,483,475 ratings — published 2022
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,742,482 ratings — published 1996
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.16 — 971,413 ratings — published 2006
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 845,960 ratings — published 1999
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.24 — 799,365 ratings — published 1966
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,859,965 ratings — published 2003
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,211,482 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,578,964 ratings — published 1945
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.10 — 935,292 ratings — published 1878
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.95 — 564,878 ratings — published 2001
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,079,757 ratings — published 2025
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,985,830 ratings — published 2014
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,319,741 ratings — published 2014
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 437,909 ratings — published 1603
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,277,643 ratings — published 2004
Before I Fall (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.88 — 346,391 ratings — published 2010
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.09 — 415,145 ratings — published 2017
“To me there is no more tragic sight than the average missionary. …We have given so much, yet not the one thing that counts; we aspire so high, and fall so low; we suffer so much, but so seldom with Christ; we have done so much and so little will remain; we have known Christ in part, and have so effectively barricaded our hearts against His mighty love, which surely He must yearn to give His disciples above all people.”
― God's Missionary
― God's Missionary
“Oh, she doth teach the torches to burn bright!
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear,
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
―
It seems she hangs upon the cheek of night
Like a rich jewel in an Ethiope’s ear,
Beauty too rich for use, for earth too dear.
So shows a snowy dove trooping with crows
As yonder lady o'er her fellows shows.
The measure done, I’ll watch her place of stand,
And, touching hers, make blessèd my rude hand.
Did my heart love till now? Forswear it, sight!
For I ne'er saw true beauty till this night.”
―
