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Disturbing Books
Showing 1-50 of 14,767
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 296 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.77 — 369,121 ratings — published 2017
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 224 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.87 — 932,484 ratings — published 1955
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 199 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.80 — 355,826 ratings — published 1991
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,201,524 ratings — published 2006
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 153 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.10 — 413,094 ratings — published 2020
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.75 — 106,954 ratings — published 1984
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 149 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 209,916 ratings — published 2003
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 145 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,156,313 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 143 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,371,779 ratings — published 1985
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 140 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.92 — 54,169 ratings — published 1989
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 128 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.30 — 3,663,052 ratings — published 2018
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 128 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,339,879 ratings — published 1949
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 761,530 ratings — published 1962
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 119 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.59 — 110,551 ratings — published 2005
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 117 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.33 — 56,485 ratings — published 2013
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,400,403 ratings — published 2012
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 114 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.04 — 541,897 ratings — published 1985
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 110 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.85 — 235,281 ratings — published 1979
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 110 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.79 — 25,085 ratings — published 1996
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 110 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,018,955 ratings — published 2006
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 103 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 830,222 ratings — published 2010
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 99 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.01 — 673,706 ratings — published 2015
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 95 times as disturbing)
avg rating 2.93 — 56,525 ratings — published 2021
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 92 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.60 — 96,295 ratings — published 2018
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 92 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 457,928 ratings — published 1995
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 829,044 ratings — published 2009
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 86 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.83 — 121,093 ratings — published 2014
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 83 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.65 — 354,069 ratings — published 2007
Brother (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.91 — 69,114 ratings — published 2015
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.46 — 97,755 ratings — published 1959
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,347,609 ratings — published 1956
Living Dead Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 74 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.78 — 33,929 ratings — published 2008
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,450,771 ratings — published 2002
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 196,074 ratings — published 2000
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,739,082 ratings — published 2008
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 72 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,412,567 ratings — published 2005
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,380,884 ratings — published 1915
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 71 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 636,085 ratings — published 1996
The Collector (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.97 — 91,538 ratings — published 1963
Cows (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as disturbing)
avg rating 2.70 — 13,532 ratings — published 1998
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.15 — 212,646 ratings — published 1985
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 68 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.28 — 895,280 ratings — published 2015
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.23 — 832,024 ratings — published 1987
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 68 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.21 — 48,131 ratings — published 1939
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 64 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.51 — 195,537 ratings — published 2016
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.53 — 95,278 ratings — published 2022
Gone to See the River Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.65 — 23,349 ratings — published 2020
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.47 — 308,817 ratings — published 2019
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 63 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 272,830 ratings — published 2016
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 63 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 331,814 ratings — published 1995
“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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“I don't laugh very much," he said, realizing the truth of the statement as he made it, this sudden bit of knowledge disturbing him.”
― Tenderness
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