Harrowing Books
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A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.28 — 893,687 ratings — published 2015
Shuggie Bain (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.30 — 186,380 ratings — published 2020
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,369,161 ratings — published 1985
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games)
by (shelved 3 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.52 — 902,884 ratings — published 2025
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,334,161 ratings — published 1949
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harrowing)
avg rating 3.85 — 833,415 ratings — published 2005
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.37 — 272,279 ratings — published 2011
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.47 — 1,813,333 ratings — published 2018
Nothing to Envy: Ordinary Lives in North Korea (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.46 — 97,942 ratings — published 2009
All the Bright Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.11 — 621,655 ratings — published 2015
A Monster Calls (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.35 — 287,104 ratings — published 2011
The Wager: A Tale of Shipwreck, Mutiny and Murder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.17 — 196,318 ratings — published 2023
The Glass Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,342,762 ratings — published 2005
Prophet Song (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.04 — 79,347 ratings — published 2023
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.15 — 212,191 ratings — published 1985
Endurance: Shackleton's Incredible Voyage (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.46 — 159,989 ratings — published 1959
With the Old Breed: At Peleliu and Okinawa (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.49 — 46,856 ratings — published 1981
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.39 — 370,165 ratings — published 1986
The Devil's Highway: A True Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.11 — 18,208 ratings — published 2004
Summer of Salt (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 3.99 — 9,817 ratings — published 2018
The Space Between Worlds (The Space Between Worlds, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 3.93 — 44,189 ratings — published 2020
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,466,321 ratings — published 1969
This is Going to Hurt: Secret Diaries of a Junior Doctor (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.40 — 322,906 ratings — published 2017
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,347,031 ratings — published 1956
The Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 3.82 — 23,339 ratings — published 2019
Homegoing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.47 — 394,634 ratings — published 2016
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.11 — 512,328 ratings — published 1928
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 3.74 — 407,518 ratings — published 1958
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.58 — 249,674 ratings — published 1980
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.01 — 671,440 ratings — published 2015
The Strange and Beautiful Sorrows of Ava Lavender (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 43,101 ratings — published 2014
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 1,200,481 ratings — published 2006
Two Boys Kissing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 48,591 ratings — published 2013
We Are Okay (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 99,826 ratings — published 2017
Please Ignore Vera Dietz (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 29,905 ratings — published 2010
If You Could Be Mine (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 10,325 ratings — published 2013
Monday's Not Coming (ebook)
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avg rating 4.25 — 75,919 ratings — published 2018
Challenger Deep (ebook)
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avg rating 4.14 — 33,851 ratings — published 2015
Shake Hands with the Devil: The Failure of Humanity in Rwanda (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 13,713 ratings — published 2003
This Is Where It Ends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 149,309 ratings — published 2016
The God of Small Things (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 320,917 ratings — published 1997
The Children and the Wolves (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.34 — 440 ratings — published 2012
Living Dead Girl (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 33,930 ratings — published 2008
In the Woods (Dublin Murder Squad #1)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 3.78 — 434,603 ratings — published 2007
In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.49 — 101,989 ratings — published 2015
Into Thin Air: A Personal Account of the Mt. Everest Disaster (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.26 — 558,968 ratings — published 1997
My Absolute Darling (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 3.59 — 55,056 ratings — published 2017
And Then There Were None (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.27 — 1,576,886 ratings — published 1939
Burial Rites (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.04 — 122,649 ratings — published 2013
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as harrowing)
avg rating 4.28 — 744,675 ratings — published 1982
“Borrowing today to pay tomorrow is harrowing; loan sharks will arrow your marrow till sorrow wash over you.”
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
― Weighty 'n' Worthy African Proverbs - Volume 1
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