Books that punch life and happiness in the gut, and make the reader want to go to the nearest bridge over water and jump (but they don't, because that would be horrible)

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Massive Black Hole
Massive Black Hole 4.13 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Hunting the Devil
Hunting the Devil 4.80 avg rating — 59 ratings
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Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3)
Clockwork Princess (The Infernal Devices, #3) 4.55 avg rating — 470,143 ratings
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Memoir: The Cathartic Night
Memoir: The Cathartic Night 3.80 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Inside, I am Surviving (To Silence Me No More Book 1)
Inside, I am Surviving (To Silence Me No More Book 1) it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 3 ratings
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Loose Gravel
Loose Gravel 4.15 avg rating — 13 ratings
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A Sky of Flowers
A Sky of Flowers 3.79 avg rating — 14 ratings
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Maxine
Maxine 4.17 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Nightbird
Nightbird 4.60 avg rating — 62 ratings
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Terminally Beautiful
Terminally Beautiful 3.56 avg rating — 85 ratings
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Perfect Lie
Perfect Lie 3.70 avg rating — 2,042 ratings
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The Exception
The Exception 3.81 avg rating — 2,727 ratings
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Kinder Than Solitude
Kinder Than Solitude
by: Yiyun Li
3.40 avg rating — 2,963 ratings
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Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic
Osler's Web: Inside the Labyrinth of the Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Epidemic 4.16 avg rating — 118 ratings
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Thomas (The Deptford Histories, #3)
Thomas (The Deptford Histories, #3) 4.12 avg rating — 389 ratings
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The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1) 3.84 avg rating — 23,051 ratings
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December Boys (Jay Porter, #2)
December Boys (Jay Porter, #2) 3.95 avg rating — 372 ratings
110.
This Is Not a Love Story
This Is Not a Love Story 4.12 avg rating — 1,051 ratings
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Born This Way
Born This Way 4.41 avg rating — 64 ratings
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Love Marriage
Love Marriage 3.89 avg rating — 18,861 ratings
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MAXINE
MAXINE 4.17 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Crime and Punishment
Crime and Punishment 4.28 avg rating — 1,024,546 ratings
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Fury
Fury 3.62 avg rating — 1,190 ratings
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Never Eighteen
Never Eighteen 3.79 avg rating — 2,148 ratings
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Shella
Shella 4.05 avg rating — 1,830 ratings
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Duane's Depressed
Duane's Depressed 3.81 avg rating — 3,030 ratings
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Revolutionary Road
Revolutionary Road 3.93 avg rating — 92,049 ratings
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The Final Reckoning (The Deptford Mice, #3)
The Final Reckoning (The Deptford Mice, #3) 4.11 avg rating — 1,255 ratings
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Beneath the Skin
Beneath the Skin 4.20 avg rating — 1,068 ratings
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Neuropath
Neuropath 3.52 avg rating — 1,717 ratings
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Leaving Time
Leaving Time really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 198,171 ratings
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Taming the Beast
Taming the Beast 3.43 avg rating — 2,168 ratings
132.
It Ain't Me, Babe (Hades Hangmen, #1)
It Ain't Me, Babe (Hades Hangmen, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 55,615 ratings
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The Casual Vacancy
The Casual Vacancy 3.31 avg rating — 335,334 ratings
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Tricks (Tricks, #1)
Tricks (Tricks, #1) 4.27 avg rating — 40,955 ratings
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The Last Picture Show
The Last Picture Show really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 20,483 ratings
132.
War in Hagwood (The Hagwood Trilogy Book 3)
War in Hagwood (The Hagwood Trilogy Book 3) 4.17 avg rating — 41 ratings
132.
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
Blindsight (Firefall, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 50,883 ratings
132.
The Heavenly Table
The Heavenly Table 4.09 avg rating — 6,961 ratings
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Breakwater
Breakwater 3.67 avg rating — 407 ratings
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My Year of Rest and Relaxation
My Year of Rest and Relaxation 3.61 avg rating — 524,626 ratings
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The 120 Days of Sodom
The 120 Days of Sodom 3.07 avg rating — 14,380 ratings
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Lessons from a Dead Girl
Lessons from a Dead Girl 3.84 avg rating — 7,391 ratings
142.
Bleak House
Bleak House 4.02 avg rating — 112,456 ratings
142.
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
The Conspiracy Against the Human Race 4.03 avg rating — 8,879 ratings
142.
The Bonfire of the Vanities
The Bonfire of the Vanities
by: Tom Wolfe
3.92 avg rating — 85,397 ratings
142.
Heaven
Heaven 3.79 avg rating — 80,558 ratings
142.
Yellowface
Yellowface 3.74 avg rating — 900,432 ratings
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For One More Day
For One More Day 4.13 avg rating — 157,479 ratings
149.
Flawed
Flawed 3.70 avg rating — 5,901 ratings
149.
Diarios
Diarios 4.65 avg rating — 1,599 ratings
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The Face of Twilight
The Face of Twilight 3.81 avg rating — 108 ratings
149.
Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6)
Martin the Warrior (Redwall, #6) 4.17 avg rating — 44,752 ratings
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I'm Glad My Mom Died
I'm Glad My Mom Died 4.44 avg rating — 1,350,266 ratings
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Come with Me to Babylon
Come with Me to Babylon 3.16 avg rating — 37 ratings
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Notebooks, 1956-1978
Notebooks, 1956-1978 4.41 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Lullaby
Lullaby 3.74 avg rating — 102,489 ratings
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A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown
A Thousand Lives: The Untold Story of Hope, Deception, and Survival at Jonestown 4.01 avg rating — 5,116 ratings
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Milk Fed
Milk Fed 3.56 avg rating — 74,721 ratings
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Love You Hate You Miss You
Love You Hate You Miss You 3.75 avg rating — 7,900 ratings
160.
Unspeakable (Freedom, #1)
Unspeakable (Freedom, #1) 3.77 avg rating — 1,195 ratings
160.
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by: Ken Kesey
4.20 avg rating — 767,631 ratings
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Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town
Glass House: The 1% Economy and the Shattering of the All-American Town 3.91 avg rating — 1,852 ratings
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When the Wind Blows
When the Wind Blows 4.29 avg rating — 3,960 ratings
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Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow 4.13 avg rating — 1,251,676 ratings
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Going Down
Going Down 3.40 avg rating — 1,046 ratings
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Nine Minutes (Nine Minutes, #1)
Nine Minutes (Nine Minutes, #1) 4.35 avg rating — 19,332 ratings
166.
Trespass
Trespass liked it 3.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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Defiance
Defiance 3.72 avg rating — 240 ratings
169.
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction
Heart of Darkness and Selected Short Fiction 3.77 avg rating — 23,577 ratings
171.
From Fatigued to Fantastic!
From Fatigued to Fantastic! 3.76 avg rating — 667 ratings
171.
Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1)
Ship of Magic (Liveship Traders, #1) 4.23 avg rating — 98,554 ratings
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Fight Club
Fight Club 4.18 avg rating — 629,418 ratings
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Family Circle: Incestuous Fun and Games
Family Circle: Incestuous Fun and Games
by: Unknown
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
175.
The Pilgrim's Progress
The Pilgrim's Progress 4.07 avg rating — 154,132 ratings
176.
To Heaven and Back
To Heaven and Back 3.96 avg rating — 12,012 ratings
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Three Days
Three Days 3.56 avg rating — 1,055 ratings
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The Rooms of Heaven
The Rooms of Heaven 3.67 avg rating — 122 ratings
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Pamela
Pamela 2.76 avg rating — 13,354 ratings
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White Fur
White Fur 3.30 avg rating — 5,912 ratings
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The Song of Bernadette
The Song of Bernadette 4.22 avg rating — 1,265 ratings
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Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back
Heaven is for Real: A Little Boy's Astounding Story of His Trip to Heaven and Back 4.04 avg rating — 334,253 ratings
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The Illearth War (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #2)
The Illearth War (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #2) 4.02 avg rating — 28,398 ratings
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Tess of the D'Urbervilles
Tess of the D'Urbervilles 3.84 avg rating — 297,800 ratings
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Voyage in the Dark
Voyage in the Dark
by: Jean Rhys
3.78 avg rating — 5,880 ratings
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Far from the Madding Crowd
Far from the Madding Crowd 3.97 avg rating — 162,863 ratings
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Texasville
Texasville 3.74 avg rating — 5,088 ratings
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The Secret History
The Secret History 4.16 avg rating — 950,463 ratings
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White Hell of Pity
White Hell of Pity 3.81 avg rating — 53 ratings
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Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie
Giants in the Earth: A Saga of the Prairie 4.04 avg rating — 6,051 ratings
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Sing, Unburied, Sing
Sing, Unburied, Sing really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 145,369 ratings
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The Monk
The Monk 3.85 avg rating — 31,710 ratings
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Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1)
Fool's Errand (Tawny Man, #1) 4.38 avg rating — 102,042 ratings
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A Walk With Love and Death
A Walk With Love and Death 4.02 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3)
Assassin's Quest (Farseer Trilogy, #3) 4.21 avg rating — 183,889 ratings
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Foreign Affairs
Foreign Affairs 3.76 avg rating — 12,823 ratings
195.
Charlotte’s Web
Charlotte’s Web 4.21 avg rating — 1,994,063 ratings
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Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2)
Royal Assassin (Farseer Trilogy, #2) 4.28 avg rating — 228,852 ratings
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The Life She Was Given
The Life She Was Given 4.10 avg rating — 50,855 ratings
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A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis (Peter T. Flawn Series in Natural Resource, 9)
A Thirsty Land: The Making of an American Water Crisis (Peter T. Flawn Series in Natural Resource, 9) 4.11 avg rating — 44 ratings
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