25 books
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6 voters
Grim Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,431
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as grim)
avg rating 4.22 — 313,192 ratings — published 2006
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as grim)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,740,061 ratings — published 1996
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
by (shelved 14 times as grim)
avg rating 4.36 — 201,102 ratings — published 2008
Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as grim)
avg rating 4.36 — 217,954 ratings — published 2007
Best Served Cold (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grim)
avg rating 4.25 — 111,836 ratings — published 2009
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as grim)
avg rating 4.55 — 847,530 ratings — published 2000
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as grim)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,022,648 ratings — published 1998
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as grim)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,040,321 ratings — published 2006
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as grim)
avg rating 3.83 — 123,679 ratings — published 2011
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
by (shelved 10 times as grim)
avg rating 4.34 — 739,459 ratings — published 2011
Red Country (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as grim)
avg rating 4.32 — 65,792 ratings — published 2012
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as grim)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,848,926 ratings — published 1953
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as grim)
avg rating 4.17 — 793,293 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as grim)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,082,826 ratings — published 1932
Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusions, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as grim)
avg rating 4.01 — 3,984 ratings — published 2015
The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as grim)
avg rating 4.15 — 176,979 ratings — published 2008
A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as grim)
avg rating 4.45 — 60,489 ratings — published 2019
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as grim)
avg rating 4.16 — 486,871 ratings — published 2018
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as grim)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,940,283 ratings — published 2008
Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as grim)
avg rating 4.28 — 84,129 ratings — published 2000
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as grim)
avg rating 3.84 — 23,715 ratings — published 2003
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as grim)
avg rating 3.93 — 137,860 ratings — published 1999
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as grim)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,168,694 ratings — published 2009
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grim)
avg rating 3.77 — 403,290 ratings — published 2017
The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as grim)
avg rating 4.60 — 40,287 ratings — published 2021
The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as grim)
avg rating 4.60 — 45,318 ratings — published 2020
Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as grim)
avg rating 3.97 — 74,596 ratings — published 2014
The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as grim)
avg rating 3.93 — 54,836 ratings — published 1984
King of Thorns (Broken Empire, #2)
by (shelved 5 times as grim)
avg rating 4.18 — 70,770 ratings — published 2012
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grim)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,208,372 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grim)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,433,660 ratings — published 1985
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as grim)
avg rating 4.08 — 702,168 ratings — published 1983
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.23 — 56,222 ratings — published 2025
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.21 — 48,881 ratings — published 1939
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 3.93 — 222,380 ratings — published 2020
The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.19 — 44,519 ratings — published 2021
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.33 — 34,806 ratings — published 1973
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.15 — 221,984 ratings — published 1985
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.19 — 184,007 ratings — published 2019
The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.28 — 170,623 ratings — published 2020
Sharp Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.11 — 27,142 ratings — published 2016
Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.19 — 45,605 ratings — published 2015
Shadow's Edge (Night Angel, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.25 — 109,320 ratings — published 2008
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth #1)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.29 — 335,104 ratings — published 2015
Blood Song (Raven's Shadow, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.41 — 92,218 ratings — published 2011
Beyond the Shadows (Night Angel, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.27 — 103,958 ratings — published 2008
The Steel Remains (A Land Fit for Heroes, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 3.74 — 18,415 ratings — published 2008
The Thousandfold Thought (The Prince of Nothing, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 3.95 — 13,118 ratings — published 2006
“Thyme, or 'dawn in paradise,'
I go there with the dead.
They die by someone else's hand
Whose souls sleep in my bed.”
― The Marsh Queen
I go there with the dead.
They die by someone else's hand
Whose souls sleep in my bed.”
― The Marsh Queen
“Shadow continues his search outside for a door to the mortal realm. I have faith in him, my oldest, most loyal friend---if there is a way out, he will find it.”
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries














