118 books
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69 voters
Gruesome Books
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Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.77 — 386,489 ratings — published 2017
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.01 — 694,284 ratings — published 2015
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,011 ratings — published 2005
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.83 — 124,364 ratings — published 2014
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.16 — 470,963 ratings — published 2018
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.23 — 842,197 ratings — published 1987
Evil at Heart (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,162 ratings — published 2009
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.80 — 359,889 ratings — published 1991
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.01 — 601,477 ratings — published 2023
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.79 — 306,951 ratings — published 2020
FantasticLand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.84 — 51,137 ratings — published 2016
Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.95 — 33,122 ratings — published 1999
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.01 — 377,636 ratings — published 2018
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.22 — 228,128 ratings — published 2015
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,017 ratings — published 1989
Krampus: The Yule Lord (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.08 — 18,186 ratings — published 2012
Let Me Go (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #6)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,733 ratings — published 2013
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.04 — 548,956 ratings — published 1985
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,279 ratings — published 2007
Sweetheart (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,474 ratings — published 2008
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.94 — 834,513 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.35 — 9,826,810 ratings — published 2008
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.51 — 988,556 ratings — published 2025
100% Match (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.01 — 21,432 ratings — published 2022
So Thirsty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.48 — 26,307 ratings — published 2024
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.83 — 661,762 ratings — published 1886
Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.10 — 198,488 ratings — published 2011
The Slob (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.34 — 12,011 ratings — published 2019
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 2.93 — 57,071 ratings — published 2021
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.15 — 217,485 ratings — published 1985
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,728,537 ratings — published 2018
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.98 — 350,113 ratings — published 2019
Dead Inside (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.24 — 16,318 ratings — published 2015
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.00 — 398,011 ratings — published 2019
The Chestnut Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.21 — 84,325 ratings — published 2019
The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,598 ratings — published 2001
Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.83 — 51,972 ratings — published 2015
Birdman (Jack Caffery, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.89 — 25,469 ratings — published 1999
Undone (Will Trent, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.23 — 83,620 ratings — published 2009
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes (Peter Nimble, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,504 ratings — published 2011
Triptych (Will Trent, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.13 — 126,523 ratings — published 2006
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,356,199 ratings — published 1956
Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.05 — 28,716 ratings — published 1991
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,356,704 ratings — published 2012
Kill You Twice (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.15 — 12,695 ratings — published 2012
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,356,650 ratings — published 2011
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.09 — 73,226 ratings — published 2007
The Night Season (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #4)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.90 — 12,313 ratings — published 2011
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,691,268 ratings — published 2010
A Wife for Silas (The Dark Life of Silas #1)
by (shelved 2 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.37 — 2,386 ratings — published
“How was he murdered?”
“Asphyxiated.”
“Can you elaborate?”
“I can, but it’s rather gruesome.”
“I’m a private investigator, Mr. Kingsley. I’ve seen plenty of gruesome.”
― Uncanny Alliance
“Asphyxiated.”
“Can you elaborate?”
“I can, but it’s rather gruesome.”
“I’m a private investigator, Mr. Kingsley. I’ve seen plenty of gruesome.”
― Uncanny Alliance
“He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.”
― The Subtle Knife
― The Subtle Knife










