Most Depressing Books
- Description
- What are the books that just really brought you down?
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by Franz Kafka
15,308 members
281 reviews
3.9
Score 8
Added 2014-02-04, 03:27 PM
- 8 Members
- roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda, ngoomie, Easttexfarmer
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5
by Anne Frank
13,600 members
244 reviews
4.1
Score 6
Added 2015-05-22, 08:08 AM
- 6 Members
- sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, Tosta, Charon07, Easttexfarmer
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22,104 members
443 reviews
4.1
Score 5
Added 2014-02-04, 03:30 PM
- 5 Members
- roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
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by Thomas Hardy
21,774 members
266 reviews
3.8
Score 5
Added 2014-02-04, 03:22 PM
- 5 Members
- roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
10
94,801 members
1,454 reviews
4.2
Score 4
Added 2014-01-12, 11:33 AM
- 4 Members
- sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ngoomie
12
48,740 members
1,237 reviews
4.1
Score 4
Added 2014-01-12, 11:39 AM
- 4 Members
- sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, Charon07
16
14,631 members
195 reviews
½ 3.7
Score 4
Added 2014-02-04, 03:32 PM
- 4 Members
- roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
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9,272 members
114 reviews
3.9
Score 4
Added 2014-02-04, 03:31 PM
- 4 Members
- roby72, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
22
- 3 Members
- sturlington, ahef1963, Tosta
- Explanations
- ahef1963: I can state without hestitation that The Bell Jar is the most depressing book I've ever read.
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15,009 members
190 reviews
4.1
Score 3
Added 2014-02-04, 03:29 PM
- 3 Members
- roby72, sturlington, thecoroner
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- 3 Members
- roby72, sturlington, ahef1963
- Explanations
- sturlington: Rivals The Road for showing humanity at its absolute worst.
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13,529 members
137 reviews
½ 3.4
Score 3
Added 2015-05-22, 08:42 AM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
30
13,313 members
343 reviews
3.9
Score 3
Added 2016-04-10, 03:31 PM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, ahef1963, Charon07
31
12,036 members
272 reviews
4
Score 3
Added 2016-04-10, 03:31 PM
- 3 Members
- sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
34
6,937 members
86 reviews
4.2
Score 3
Added 2014-02-04, 03:26 PM
- 3 Members
- roby72, sturlington, thecoroner
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887 members
26 reviews
½ 3.6
Score 2
Added 2014-01-13, 04:41 PM
- 2 Members
- sturlington, bluepiano
- Explanations
- bluepiano: One chapter excepted, it's nightmarishly dystopian--yet it's non-fiction. A world in which cleverness + PR obviates art. Very deeply depressing.
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- 2 Members
- sturlington, bluepiano
- Explanations
- bluepiano: Oh lord this sort of thing happens to people. If I had a sense of honour I'd just curl up and die. Deeply depressing.
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- 2 Members
- sturlington, bluepiano
- Explanations
- bluepiano: Depiction of a neighbourhood in which extreme nastiness wins over kindness hands down. Depressing because it's credible.
