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The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,616,830 ratings — published 2012
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 87 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,896,868 ratings — published 2011
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 50 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,821,064 ratings — published 2005
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,781,958 ratings — published 1590
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.35 — 3,425,800 ratings — published 2003
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 42 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.29 — 879,313 ratings — published 2015
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 39 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,777,458 ratings — published 1925
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,103,451 ratings — published 1947
We Were Liars (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.65 — 1,340,015 ratings — published 2014
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,975,308 ratings — published 1847
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,772,196 ratings — published 1937
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
by (shelved 36 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,697,074 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 — 848,154 ratings — published 2017
If I Stay (If I Stay, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.91 — 958,863 ratings — published 2009
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,016,937 ratings — published 2007
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 32 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.09 — 4,456,973 ratings — published 2016
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,629,654 ratings — published 2010
If He Had Been With Me (If He Had Been with Me, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.79 — 550,702 ratings — published 2013
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,674,830 ratings — published 2008
Me Before You (Me Before You, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,772,319 ratings — published 2012
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.40 — 3,906,230 ratings — published 2017
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,788,883 ratings — published 1818
Looking for Alaska (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,724,569 ratings — published 2005
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 619,119 ratings — published 2015
Forbidden (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.96 — 75,620 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,341,426 ratings — published 1956
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,445,642 ratings — published 2002
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,287,466 ratings — published 1949
Macbeth (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 999,012 ratings — published 1623
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 21 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.35 — 4,052,172 ratings — published 2009
Hamlet (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,027,017 ratings — published 1601
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,806,782 ratings — published 1890
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,379,657 ratings — published 2022
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,689,197 ratings — published 1996
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.85 — 824,885 ratings — published 2005
A Walk to Remember (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.20 — 839,856 ratings — published 1999
The Boy in the Striped Pajamas (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.16 — 944,124 ratings — published 2006
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.10 — 913,112 ratings — published 1878
Ugly Love (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.00 — 2,238,788 ratings — published 2014
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.23 — 771,656 ratings — published 1966
Atonement (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.95 — 555,343 ratings — published 2001
The Time Traveler's Wife (ebook)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,847,237 ratings — published 2003
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,138,290 ratings — published 1954
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,406,022 ratings — published 1945
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,922,694 ratings — published 2014
My Sister's Keeper (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 1,267,205 ratings — published 2004
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.52 — 845,714 ratings — published 2025
If We Were Villains (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.11 — 383,154 ratings — published 2017
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 4.46 — 993,042 ratings — published 2017
Othello (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as tragic)
avg rating 3.89 — 430,179 ratings — published 1603
“Open your mind to new experiences, particularly to the study of other people. Nothing that happens to a writer – however happy, however tragic – is ever wasted.”
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“My phone rang, and although it wasn't a sinister time of night, and although nothing had happened that I would later see as foreshadowing, I knew, I knew.”
― A Little Life
― A Little Life
