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Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 314 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.77 — 459,850 ratings — published 2017
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 230 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.87 — 972,066 ratings — published 1955
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 201 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.80 — 378,061 ratings — published 1991
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 167 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,269,891 ratings — published 2006
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 157 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 447,245 ratings — published 2020
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 153 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 221,554 ratings — published 2003
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 150 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.91 — 59,333 ratings — published 1989
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 148 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.76 — 114,548 ratings — published 1984
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,293,049 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 144 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,534,127 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,701,473 ratings — published 1949
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 128 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,081,906 ratings — published 2018
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 788,380 ratings — published 1962
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 123 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.33 — 62,362 ratings — published 2013
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 121 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,078,108 ratings — published 2006
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 118 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,870 ratings — published 2005
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,535,229 ratings — published 2012
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 115 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.04 — 579,009 ratings — published 1985
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,011 ratings — published 1996
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 113 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.86 — 244,993 ratings — published 1979
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 111 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.60 — 110,147 ratings — published 2018
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 104 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 846,795 ratings — published 2010
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 98 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 780,821 ratings — published 2015
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 95 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 466,362 ratings — published 1995
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 94 times as disturbing)
avg rating 2.92 — 59,076 ratings — published 2021
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 94 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.65 — 441,412 ratings — published 2007
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.82 — 137,629 ratings — published 2014
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 862,613 ratings — published 2009
Brother (Paperback)
by (shelved 84 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.91 — 81,667 ratings — published 2015
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,373 ratings — published 1959
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 239,993 ratings — published 1985
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 76 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.27 — 993,315 ratings — published 2015
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,524,912 ratings — published 1915
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,396,316 ratings — published 1956
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 210,672 ratings — published 2000
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,484,007 ratings — published 2002
Cows (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as disturbing)
avg rating 2.67 — 15,749 ratings — published 1998
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,206,933 ratings — published 2008
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 660,084 ratings — published 1996
The Collector (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.97 — 100,534 ratings — published 1963
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 71 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.54 — 109,204 ratings — published 2022
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,511,283 ratings — published 2005
Living Dead Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 71 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.77 — 34,428 ratings — published 2008
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,456 ratings — published 1939
Gone to See the River Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 69 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,489 ratings — published 2020
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.50 — 213,360 ratings — published 2016
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 67 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 312,199 ratings — published 2016
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.44 — 363,272 ratings — published 2019
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 65 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 354,433 ratings — published 1995
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 850,937 ratings — published 1987
“Sleep looked peaceful from outside. It never felt peaceful from inside.”
― Scopophilia
― Scopophilia
“Within seconds of being bound,
everyone felt deathly;
yet they could not die,
death was not visible;
eternal was their God,
the one who cannot be heard.
Their eyes were carved out,
Their teeth were sawed off,
Their legs were amputated,
Their intestines were ripped out,
and they were nailed to the beams by their wrist.
After their formal lives in the world ended, the damned sang songs of tears; they were emptied of the memories of their loved ones, and they were tortured by demons in an indescribable sense of suffering.
Since the divine creator is actually dead, he lures them into believing in something that does not exist by making them believe that he is real and loving. In fact, he is the Devil himself.”
―
everyone felt deathly;
yet they could not die,
death was not visible;
eternal was their God,
the one who cannot be heard.
Their eyes were carved out,
Their teeth were sawed off,
Their legs were amputated,
Their intestines were ripped out,
and they were nailed to the beams by their wrist.
After their formal lives in the world ended, the damned sang songs of tears; they were emptied of the memories of their loved ones, and they were tortured by demons in an indescribable sense of suffering.
Since the divine creator is actually dead, he lures them into believing in something that does not exist by making them believe that he is real and loving. In fact, he is the Devil himself.”
―
