Name: Thirteen Reasons Why
Rating: 3.617149098853086 (1831 reviews)
ISBN: 9780739356500

Jay Asher

Joel Johnstone

Debra Wiseman

Thirteen Reasons Why

THE #1 NEW YORK TIMES AND INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER **THE BOOK THAT STARTED IT ALL, NOW A NETFLIX ORIGINAL SERIES** “Eerie, beautiful, and devastating.” —Chicago Tribune “A stealthy hit with staying power. . . . thriller-like pacing.” —The New York Times “Thirteen Reasons Why will leave you with chills long after you have finished reading.” —Amber Gibson, NPR’s “All Things Considered” You can’t stop the future. You can’t rewind the past. The only way to learn the secret . . . is to press play. Clay Jensen returns home from school to find a strange package with his name on it lying on his porch. Inside he discovers several cassette tapes recorded by Hannah Baker—his classmate and crush—who committed suicide two weeks earlier. Hannah's voice tells him that there are thirteen reasons why she decided to end her life. Clay is one of them. If he listens, he'll find out why. Clay spends the night crisscrossing his town with Hannah as his guide. He becomes a firsthand witness to Hannah's pain, and as he follows Hannah’s recorded words throughout his town, what he discovers changes his life forever. Need to talk? Call 1-800-273-TALK (8255) anytime if you are in the United States. It’s free and confidential. Find more resources at 13reasonswhy.info. Find out how you can help someone in crisis at bethe1to.com.

Despite the fact that nobody ever made the correct choice literally ever, I thoroughly enjoyed this read and found it to be captivating.

Jess

"Now a Netflix original series-- photos and exclusive interviews inside"--Cover.

13 Reasons Why

This book really made me reflect on the immense impact our words and actions can have on somebody. Definitely an important and thought-provoking read.

Hajer

Includes an introduction by the author, alternate ending, early notes and ideas, deleted scenes, discussion guide, and town map on reverse side of jacket.

Thirteen Reasons why

Milan Joseph

if you didn't watch the series read this book, if you watched the series still read the book. the book is much more fast paced than the series (which was like a snail dragging for the first 6-7 episodes) but this is just sooo much better. clay feels so much more connected to hannah than the series. the book is not very informative or anything about suicide, i don't why is there so much things like suicide help number in this book, but yes it tells you something.<br />

most of the book is just clay jensen blaming hannah for doing what she did. this is fucking trash… 

I had no idea what was going on in this book 

ShannonT

★★★★☆
4.00 STARS 

"No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people"

The very first time I read this about five years ago, I know I felt a tugged in my heart as I make my way through this. But at that time, I overlooked a lot of important things. I just simply read it and get over and done with it. I just didn't knew then how this story has way a lot deeper emotions rooted into it than I let mysef noticed. 

Now that I re-read this, the things that I overlooked slapped me right in the face. I cried then, thinking the sympathy I have had for Hannah. But now, I cried even more thinking how other people think less of the pain a person was forced to encounter in his/her everyday life.


   "Hannah just wanted an excuse to kill herself" 


Imagine the anger I felt re-reading that line all over again. Victim-blaming, a very common disease spreading in the society. She was not trying to seek for an excuse to kill herself, she was trying to look for a reason to continue holding on. To know that someone cared. But all she received were reasons to keep coming back to the wrong side of her battles. Reasons to continue thinking about an awful idea she was trying to pushed her mind off. Reasons to think of just letting go of the little hope she once had. 

I was glad to read this book again. I am now seeing this in another light, apart from the way I saw this then-- a book with shallow messages and meaning that I thought were the only things the author wanted me, us, to see. I liked it now better, to be honest. I can feel the emotions a hundred times more than I used to, undestand each lines better than I did. I'd probably pick this book up again someday.

chloe rae

This is one of those books that after you read it, AND LOVE IT, you'll give it to all your friends (even the non-reading ones) and make them read it too. IT'S SO GOOD. It's on my list of Top 10 Most Favorite Books of All Time. I don't quite know what number it'd be, but it's up there. It's just so...captivating. And INTERESTING. The concept is so cool and different and even now, years after I've read (and re-read) this novel, I've never found a book quite like it. It does deal with a few heavy topics but I first read this when I was pretty young and I barely noticed. It's just so heart-breaking and inspiring at the same. Stop what you're doing right now and go buy this book. It's stunning.

★★★★★ // the book is honestly influential for my high school self. if i read it again, i probably wouldn’t like it, much less agree with its message. if anything, the tv series adaptation ruined whatever good memory i have of this novel. but the 5-star rating stays, if only for the memories.

changed my initial rating from 4 stars to 2 and a half. it was suspenseful, but i was expecting so much more from the ending. 

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I had no business reading this book when I was 11 years old

Corn Dawg

Libertad Aguilar

** spoiler alert **
           I liked this book. It gave insight to real bullying cases and teen society. However, I found Clay's character to be cheesy at times. He was your typical "brooding-unknowingly handsome- quiet-sensitive-deep" guy. Twilight has paved many many roads and this is just another devastating romance. Oh and I don't think I'm alone when I say that suicide isn't a solution. Some kids can't see through this.

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