46 books
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28 voters
Disturbing Books
Showing 1-50 of 15,362
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 306 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.77 — 417,887 ratings — published 2017
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 225 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.87 — 954,428 ratings — published 1955
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 198 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.80 — 367,196 ratings — published 1991
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 168 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,238,601 ratings — published 2006
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 154 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.10 — 433,112 ratings — published 2020
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 215,728 ratings — published 2003
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.76 — 110,910 ratings — published 1984
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 144 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,228,501 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,460,230 ratings — published 1985
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 142 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.92 — 56,562 ratings — published 1989
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 127 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,895,483 ratings — published 2018
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,542,509 ratings — published 1948
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 125 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 775,929 ratings — published 1962
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 120 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,771 ratings — published 2005
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 116 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.34 — 59,781 ratings — published 2013
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,475,356 ratings — published 2012
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.04 — 562,041 ratings — published 1985
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.79 — 26,572 ratings — published 1996
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,049,929 ratings — published 2006
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.86 — 240,352 ratings — published 1979
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 102 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 839,471 ratings — published 2010
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 735,946 ratings — published 2015
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 93 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.60 — 102,952 ratings — published 2018
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 93 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 462,665 ratings — published 1995
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 91 times as disturbing)
avg rating 2.93 — 57,897 ratings — published 2021
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 91 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 846,515 ratings — published 2009
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 89 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.65 — 400,920 ratings — published 2007
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 88 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.83 — 129,496 ratings — published 2014
Brother (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.91 — 75,203 ratings — published 2015
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.46 — 99,189 ratings — published 1959
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,374,852 ratings — published 1956
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,469,391 ratings — published 2002
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,007,790 ratings — published 2008
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,457,908 ratings — published 1915
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 648,304 ratings — published 1996
Living Dead Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 72 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.77 — 34,195 ratings — published 2008
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 203,588 ratings — published 2000
The Collector (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.97 — 96,123 ratings — published 1963
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.15 — 226,297 ratings — published 1985
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,469,020 ratings — published 2005
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 69 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.27 — 948,941 ratings — published 2015
Cows (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as disturbing)
avg rating 2.68 — 14,684 ratings — published 1998
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 66 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.54 — 102,869 ratings — published 2022
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.21 — 49,213 ratings — published 1939
Gone to See the River Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.64 — 24,925 ratings — published 2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.50 — 205,825 ratings — published 2016
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 343,523 ratings — published 1995
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.45 — 339,894 ratings — published 2019
Unwind (Unwind, #1)
by (shelved 62 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.17 — 250,825 ratings — published 2007
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.23 — 842,033 ratings — published 1987
“Consider how money is only truly worth anything in the moment of transaction, the sinner said. So it is with power, as well. Power only has meaning when it is exerted on somebody.”
― No One Came For Me
― No One Came For Me
“Everyone knows it’s not the hardest thing in the world to paint a woman as unstable. There are road maps. Centuries of examples of best practice by gentlemen such as myself who are willing to indulge their heinous tendencies”
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