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The Most Read Books of the 2025 Reading Challenge So Far
Genres

Depressing


Depressing Books

A Little Life
The Fault in Our Stars
1984
No Longer Human
The Bell Jar
The Road
Thirteen Reasons Why
The Book Thief
Of Mice and Men
The Handmaid's Tale
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
The Metamorphosis
Night
The Kite Runner
The Lovely Bones
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Lists

American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyNot Okay by Brett Axel
Dark Literary Fiction
128 books — 50 voters
Norwegian Wood by Haruki MurakamiDoctor Zhivago by Boris PasternakStoner by John WilliamsOne Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezThe Corrections by Jonathan Franzen
Crying Over Spilled Milk
6 books — 2 voters

Hamlet by William ShakespeareRomeo and Juliet by William ShakespeareOf Mice and Men by John Steinbeck1984 by George OrwellOthello by William Shakespeare
Most Tragic Endings in Literature
38 books — 12 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Masters Of Misery
407 books — 99 voters

Quotes Tagged “Depressing�

Nikita Gill
“ People aren't born sad; we make them that way. ...more ”
― Nikita Gill
158 likes

John Green
“ Y'all smoke to enjoy it. I smoke to die. ...more ”
― John Green, Looking for Alaska
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Videos Tagged “Depressing�

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Groups Tagged "Depressing"

My Heart And Other Black Holes If you love reading depressing books for no reason whatsoever, or if you read them for a reason,…more
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