Most Depressing Books

1

The Good Earth

por Pearl S. Buck

13,829 membros

265 críticas

4

6 Members: dara85, roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

2

The Metamorphosis

por Franz Kafka

12,456 membros

219 críticas

3.9

6 Members: roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

Death of a Salesman

por Arthur Miller

12,190 membros

116 críticas

½ 3.6

6 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, cej1027, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

The Diary of a Young Girl

por Anne Frank

28,305 membros

513 críticas

4.1

5 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, Tosta, Charon07

5

Heart of Darkness

por Joseph Conrad

23,570 membros

387 críticas

½ 3.6

5 Members: roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

6

Tess of the D'Urbervilles

por Thomas Hardy

19,164 membros

244 críticas

3.8

5 Members: roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

7

All Quiet on the Western Front

por Erich Maria Remarque

19,057 membros

403 críticas

4.1

5 Members: roby72, merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

8

Flowers for Algernon

por Daniel Keyes

15,779 membros

381 críticas

4.1

5 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963, Tosta, Charon07

9

Wuthering Heights

por Emily Brontë

51,937 membros

702 críticas

3.9

4 Members: merrystar, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

10

The Handmaid's Tale

por Margaret Atwood

42,239 membros

1,138 críticas

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, cej1027, ahef1963, Charon07

11

Of Mice and Men

por John Steinbeck

39,026 membros

662 críticas

3.9

4 Members: dara85, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

12

In Cold Blood

por Truman Capote

23,714 membros

466 críticas

4.1

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

13

The Plague

por Albert Camus

18,469 membros

249 críticas

4

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

14

Tender is the Night

por F. Scott Fitzgerald

12,910 membros

184 críticas

½ 3.7

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

15

A Streetcar Named Desire

por Tennessee Williams

8,027 membros

95 críticas

3.9

4 Members: roby72, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

1984

por George Orwell

81,902 membros

1,270 críticas

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

17

The Grapes of Wrath

por John Steinbeck

34,272 membros

471 críticas

4.1

3 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner

18

The Bell Jar

por Sylvia Plath

28,083 membros

501 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

26,208 membros

390 críticas

½ 3.7

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

20

The Pearl

por John Steinbeck

13,154 membros

204 críticas

½ 3.5

3 Members: sturlington, cej1027, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Ensaio sobre a cegueira

por José Saramago

13,036 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

12,570 membros

265 críticas

4

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963

23

Notes from Underground

por Fyodor Dostoevsky

12,513 membros

155 críticas

4.1

3 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner

24

A Canticle for Leibowitz

por Walter M. Miller Jr.

11,738 membros

308 críticas

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, Charon07

25

The Red Badge of Courage

por Stephen Crane

11,142 membros

128 críticas

½ 3.4

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

26

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

por Carson McCullers

10,711 membros

243 críticas

4

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

27

Jude the Obscure

por Thomas Hardy

10,154 membros

141 críticas

3.9

3 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner

28

Ethan Frome

por Edith Wharton

9,492 membros

214 críticas

½ 3.6

3 Members: merrystar, sturlington, ahef1963

29

Journey to the End of the Night

por Louis-Ferdinand Céline

6,011 membros

82 críticas

4.2

3 Members: roby72, sturlington, thecoroner

30

On the Beach

por Nevil Shute

4,882 membros

177 críticas

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, Charon07

31

O Triunfo dos Porcos

por George Orwell

59,968 membros

882 críticas

4

2 Members: ahef1963, Charon07

32

Lord of the Flies

por William Golding

49,561 membros

745 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

33

Great Expectations

por Charles Dickens

38,441 membros

435 críticas

3.9

2 Members: merrystar, ahef1963

34

The Road

por Cormac McCarthy

34,394 membros

1,405 críticas

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, Tosta

35

Mrs. Dalloway

por Virginia Woolf

20,619 membros

329 críticas

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

36

The Trial

por Franz Kafka

19,871 membros

237 críticas

4

2 Members: sturlington, thecoroner

37

The God of Small Things

por Arundhati Roy

19,624 membros

372 críticas

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

38

The Time Machine

por H. G. Wells

17,675 membros

338 críticas

½ 3.7

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

39

The Things They Carried

por Tim O'Brien

14,329 membros

393 críticas

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, Tosta

40

The Hours

por Michael Cunningham

12,700 membros

232 críticas

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

41

Interpreter of Maladies: Stories

por Jhumpa Lahiri

12,105 membros

266 críticas

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

42

The House of Mirth

por Edith Wharton

9,696 membros

202 críticas

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

43

A paixão do jovem Werther

por Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

8,061 membros

127 críticas

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, thecoroner

44

Harriet the Spy

por Louise Fitzhugh

6,974 membros

121 críticas

4

2 Members: cej1027, ahef1963

45

The Children of Men

por P. D. James

5,788 membros

200 críticas

½ 3.6

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

46

Germinal

por Émile Zola

5,362 membros

79 críticas

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, thecoroner

47

Bastard Out of Carolina

por Dorothy Allison

5,184 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

2,776 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

2,423 membros

46 críticas

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, thecoroner

51

Seven Days in the Art World

por Sarah Thornton

785 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

774 membros

33 críticas

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

53

Fraulein Else

por Arthur Schnitzler

407 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

63 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