40 books
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8 voters
Tragic Books
Showing 1-50 of 7,364
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 105 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,679,396 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 92 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.30 — 1,954,588 ratings — published 2011
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,807,951 ratings — published 1590
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.36 — 3,468,758 ratings — published 2003
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,857,534 ratings — published 2005
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 43 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.28 — 912,094 ratings — published 2015
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,158,736 ratings — published 1947
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,863,014 ratings — published 1925
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,023,669 ratings — published 1847
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,379,853 ratings — published 2014
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,812,361 ratings — published 1937
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,722,749 ratings — published 2007
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.75 — 861,692 ratings — published 2017
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,022,116 ratings — published 2007
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 964,123 ratings — published 2009
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.08 — 4,545,744 ratings — published 2016
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.78 — 571,390 ratings — published 2013
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,687,351 ratings — published 2010
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,862,096 ratings — published 1818
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,816,191 ratings — published 2008
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 4,024,811 ratings — published 2017
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,790,094 ratings — published 2012
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,739,372 ratings — published 2005
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,972 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,355,224 ratings — published 1956
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 625,152 ratings — published 2015
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,456,301 ratings — published 2002
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,400,384 ratings — published 1949
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,855,703 ratings — published 1890
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,013,515 ratings — published 1623
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,043,309 ratings — published 1601
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,117,854 ratings — published 2009
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.85 — 845,496 ratings — published 2005
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,434,700 ratings — published 2022
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,718,887 ratings — published 1996
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.16 — 958,425 ratings — published 2006
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 843,184 ratings — published 1999
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.24 — 787,500 ratings — published 1966
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,854,138 ratings — published 2003
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,177,636 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.02 — 4,499,452 ratings — published 1945
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.51 — 979,832 ratings — published 2025
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.10 — 925,272 ratings — published 1878
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,277,902 ratings — published 2014
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.95 — 561,225 ratings — published 2001
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,955,475 ratings — published 2014
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,272,219 ratings — published 2004
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,584,498 ratings — published 1967
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,205,706 ratings — published 1963
Five Feet Apart (ebook)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.18 — 256,171 ratings — published 2018
“There was more to say, but for once we did not say it. There would be other times for speaking, tonight and tomorrow and all the days after that. He let go of my hand.”
― The Song of Achilles
― The Song of Achilles
“Look...at...me..." he whispered. The green eyes found the black, but after a second, something in the depths of the dark pair seemed to vanish, leaving them fixed, blank, and empty. The hand holding Harry thudded to the floor, and Snape moved no more.”
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
― Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows












