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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A Long Fatal Love Chase
A Long Fatal Love Chase 3.68 avg rating — 7,200 ratings
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Anna Karenina
Anna Karenina 4.10 avg rating — 906,266 ratings
203.
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1)
Assassin's Apprentice (Farseer Trilogy, #1) 4.19 avg rating — 378,357 ratings
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Almost Paradise
Almost Paradise 3.75 avg rating — 1,676 ratings
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A Death in the Family
A Death in the Family 3.89 avg rating — 17,372 ratings
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The Cask of Amontillado
The Cask of Amontillado 4.08 avg rating — 85,822 ratings
206.
The Eleventh Plague
The Eleventh Plague 3.50 avg rating — 14,389 ratings
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Gone With the Wind
Gone With the Wind 4.31 avg rating — 1,258,018 ratings
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The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne
The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne 3.98 avg rating — 3,486 ratings
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The Time Machine
The Time Machine 3.89 avg rating — 552,929 ratings
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One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women, #1)
One Thousand White Women: The Journals of May Dodd (One Thousand White Women, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 134,721 ratings
210.
Black Narcissus
Black Narcissus 3.82 avg rating — 3,228 ratings
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The Passage (The Passage, #1)
The Passage (The Passage, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 220,296 ratings
213.
The World I Made for Her
The World I Made for Her 4.08 avg rating — 226 ratings
213.
The Greengage Summer
The Greengage Summer 4.04 avg rating — 3,269 ratings
216.
Oryx and Crake
Oryx and Crake really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 281,943 ratings
216.
The Leisure Seeker
The Leisure Seeker 3.94 avg rating — 7,351 ratings
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The River
The River 3.97 avg rating — 946 ratings
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The Shell Seekers
The Shell Seekers 4.20 avg rating — 118,245 ratings
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The Battle of the Villa Fiorita
The Battle of the Villa Fiorita 3.90 avg rating — 785 ratings
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Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1)
Lord Foul's Bane (The Chronicles of Thomas Covenant the Unbeliever, #1) 3.72 avg rating — 49,456 ratings
221.
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1)
The 5th Wave (The 5th Wave, #1) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 474,652 ratings
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Bel Canto
Bel Canto 3.94 avg rating — 312,382 ratings
221.
An Episode of Sparrows
An Episode of Sparrows 4.23 avg rating — 1,620 ratings
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Doctor Nine
Doctor Nine 3.57 avg rating — 145 ratings
225.
The Peacock Spring
The Peacock Spring 3.92 avg rating — 859 ratings
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Like Part of the Family
Like Part of the Family 4.15 avg rating — 333 ratings
227.
In This House of Brede
In This House of Brede 4.36 avg rating — 6,626 ratings
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Mummy Knew
Mummy Knew 4.24 avg rating — 2,940 ratings
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The Painted Veil
The Painted Veil 3.97 avg rating — 50,327 ratings
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Jerusalem
Jerusalem 3.88 avg rating — 396 ratings
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The Summer of the Barshinskeys
The Summer of the Barshinskeys 3.94 avg rating — 302 ratings
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Into the Wild
Into the Wild 4.02 avg rating — 1,165,634 ratings
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