Most Depressing Books

Descrição
What are the books that just really brought you down?
1
The Good Earth
por Pearl S. Buck
13,845 membros
265 críticas
4
6 Members
dara85, roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
2
The Metamorphosis
por Franz Kafka
12,471 membros
220 críticas
3.9
6 Members
roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
3
Death of a Salesman
por Arthur Miller
12,208 membros
116 críticas
½ 3.6
6 Members
roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
4
The Diary of a Young Girl
por Anne Frank
28,342 membros
514 críticas
4.1
5 Members
sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, Tosta, Charon07
5
Heart of Darkness
por Joseph Conrad
23,596 membros
389 críticas
½ 3.6
5 Members
roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
6
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
por Thomas Hardy
19,190 membros
244 críticas
3.8
5 Members
roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
7
All Quiet on the Western Front
por Erich Maria Remarque
19,081 membros
403 críticas
4.1
5 Members
roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
8
Flowers for Algernon
por Daniel Keyes
15,813 membros
381 críticas
4.1
5 Members
merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, Tosta, Charon07
9
Wuthering Heights
por Emily Brontë
52,003 membros
704 críticas
3.9
4 Members
merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
10
The Handmaid's Tale
por Margaret Atwood
42,311 membros
1,140 críticas
4.1
4 Members
sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, Charon07
11
Of Mice and Men
por John Steinbeck
39,058 membros
665 críticas
3.9
4 Members
dara85, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
12
In Cold Blood
por Truman Capote
23,749 membros
467 críticas
4.1
4 Members
roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
13
The Plague
por Albert Camus
18,499 membros
249 críticas
4
4 Members
roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
14
Tender is the Night
por F. Scott Fitzgerald
12,923 membros
184 críticas
½ 3.7
4 Members
roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
15
A Streetcar Named Desire
por Tennessee Williams
8,035 membros
96 críticas
3.9
4 Members
roby72, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
16
1984
por George Orwell
81,993 membros
1,272 críticas
4.2
3 Members
sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
17
The Grapes of Wrath
por John Steinbeck
34,292 membros
472 críticas
4.1
3 Members
roby72, sturlington, thecoroner
18
The Bell Jar
por Sylvia Plath
28,094 membros
503 críticas
4
3 Members
sturlington, ahef1963, Tosta
Explicações
ahef1963: I can state without hestitation that The Bell Jar is the most depressing book I've ever read.
19
Madame Bovary
por Gustave Flaubert
26,230 membros
390 críticas
½ 3.7
3 Members
sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
20
The Pearl
por John Steinbeck
13,180 membros
204 críticas
½ 3.5
3 Members
sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda
21
Ensaio sobre a cegueira
por José Saramago
13,048 membros
390 críticas
4.1
3 Members
roby72, sturlington, ahef1963
Explicações
sturlington: Rivals The Road for showing humanity at its absolute worst.
22
Brideshead Revisited
por Evelyn Waugh
12,577 membros
265 críticas
4
3 Members
merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963
23
Notes from Underground
por Fyodor Dostoevsky
12,530 membros
156 críticas
4.1
3 Members
roby72, sturlington, thecoroner
24
A Canticle for Leibowitz
por Walter M. Miller Jr.
11,755 membros
308 críticas
3.9
3 Members
sturlington, ahef1963, Charon07
25
The Red Badge of Courage
por Stephen Crane
11,164 membros
128 críticas
½ 3.4
3 Members
sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963
26
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
por Carson McCullers
10,726 membros
243 críticas
4
3 Members
sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda
27
Jude the Obscure
por Thomas Hardy
10,169 membros
141 críticas
3.9
3 Members
roby72, sturlington, thecoroner
28
Ethan Frome
por Edith Wharton
9,498 membros
214 críticas
½ 3.6
3 Members
merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963
29
Journey to the End of the Night
por Louis-Ferdinand Céline
6,012 membros
82 críticas
4.2
3 Members
roby72, sturlington, thecoroner
30
On the Beach
por Nevil Shute
4,888 membros
177 críticas
3.9
3 Members
sturlington, ahef1963, Charon07
31
O Triunfo dos Porcos
por George Orwell
60,052 membros
885 críticas
4
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
32
Lord of the Flies
por William Golding
49,609 membros
746 críticas
½ 3.7
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
33
Great Expectations
por Charles Dickens
38,497 membros
435 críticas
3.9
2 Members
merrystar, ahef1963
34
The Road
por Cormac McCarthy
34,438 membros
1,406 críticas
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, Tosta
35
Mrs. Dalloway
por Virginia Woolf
20,640 membros
330 críticas
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
36
The Trial
por Franz Kafka
19,900 membros
237 críticas
4
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
37
The God of Small Things
por Arundhati Roy
19,649 membros
372 críticas
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
38
The Time Machine
por H. G. Wells
17,700 membros
338 críticas
½ 3.7
2 Members
cej1027, ahef1963
39
The Things They Carried
por Tim O'Brien
14,352 membros
393 críticas
4.2
2 Members
sturlington, Tosta
40
The Hours
por Michael Cunningham
12,711 membros
232 críticas
3.9
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
41
Interpreter of Maladies: Stories
por Jhumpa Lahiri
12,118 membros
268 críticas
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
42
The House of Mirth
por Edith Wharton
9,700 membros
202 críticas
4
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
43
A paixão do jovem Werther
por Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
8,064 membros
127 críticas
½ 3.6
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
44
Harriet the Spy
por Louise Fitzhugh
6,988 membros
121 críticas
4
2 Members
cej1027, ahef1963
45
The Children of Men
por P. D. James
5,800 membros
200 críticas
½ 3.6
2 Members
sturlington, ahef1963
46
Germinal
por Émile Zola
5,370 membros
79 críticas
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
47
Bastard Out of Carolina
por Dorothy Allison
5,187 membros
119 críticas
4
2 Members
sturlington, Tosta
48
Johnny Got His Gun
por Dalton Trumbo
3,697 membros
75 críticas
4.2
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
49
Seeing
por José Saramago
2,781 membros
63 críticas
½ 3.7
2 Members
ahef1963, Charon07
Explicações
Charon07: If you thought Blindness was depressing, this is so much worse.
50
L'Assommoir
por Émile Zola
2,421 membros
46 críticas
4.1
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
51
Seven Days in the Art World
por Sarah Thornton
788 membros
23 críticas
½ 3.6
2 Members
sturlington, bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: One chapter excepted, it's nightmarishly dystopian--yet it's non-fiction. A world in which cleverness + PR obviates art. Very deeply depressing.
52
Miss Lonelyhearts
por Nathanael West
775 membros
33 críticas
½ 3.4
2 Members
sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda
53
Fraulein Else
por Arthur Schnitzler
408 membros
7 críticas
3.8
2 Members
sturlington, thecoroner
54
Suspicious River
por Laura Kasischke
116 membros
4 críticas
½ 3.6
2 Members
sturlington, bluepiano
Explicações
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.
55
The Immaculate Conception
por Gaétan Soucy
65 membros
3 críticas
½ 3.7
2 Members
sturlington, bluepiano
Explicações
bluepiano: Depiction of a neighbourhood in which extreme nastiness wins over kindness hands down. Depressing because it's credible.
56
Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
por Lisa See
11,259 membros
442 críticas
4
Member
sturlington
57
The Bonfire of the Vanities
por Tom Wolfe
8,945 membros
132 críticas
3.8
Member
merrystar
58
Parable of the Sower
por Octavia E. Butler
8,119 membros
239 críticas
4.1
Member
sturlington
59
Herzog
por Saul Bellow
5,206 membros
62 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
60
Só a Terra Permanece
por George R. Stewart
3,633 membros
115 críticas
3.9
Member
sturlington
61
Barney's Version
por Mordecai Richler
1,830 membros
40 críticas
4
Member
sturlington
62
Veronica
por Mary Gaitskill
1,164 membros
27 críticas
½ 3.3
Member
sturlington
63
Mister Sandman
por Barbara Gowdy
412 membros
17 críticas
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington