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249 voters
Intimidating Books
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War and Peace (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.17 — 371,775 ratings — published 1869
The Name of the Wind (The Kingkiller Chronicle, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.52 — 1,100,902 ratings — published 2007
The Man Without Qualities (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.18 — 7,522 ratings — published 1930
Don Quixote (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as intimidating)
avg rating 3.91 — 310,202 ratings — published 1605
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.33 — 280,937 ratings — published 2025
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.22 — 323,850 ratings — published 2006
Song of Solomon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.16 — 131,423 ratings — published 1977
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,265,776 ratings — published 1963
The Priory of the Orange Tree (The Roots of Chaos, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.16 — 289,326 ratings — published 2019
The Eye of the World (Wheel of Time, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.19 — 603,364 ratings — published 1990
These Violent Delights (These Violent Delights, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 3.79 — 171,651 ratings — published 2020
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.27 — 967,713 ratings — published 2015
The Count of Monte Cristo (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,050,263 ratings — published 1846
Babel (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.13 — 507,470 ratings — published 2022
Twisted Games (Twisted, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.08 — 1,113,511 ratings — published 2021
Wolf Hall (Thomas Cromwell, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 3.91 — 237,115 ratings — published 2009
The Three-Body Problem (Remembrance of Earth’s Past, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.08 — 514,638 ratings — published 2006
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.00 — 425,988 ratings — published 2019
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.19 — 279,638 ratings — published 1993
Gulliver’s Travels (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 3.59 — 302,033 ratings — published 1726
Way of the Argosi (Spellslinger, #0.5)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,769 ratings — published 2021
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.11 — 948,988 ratings — published 1878
The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.16 — 1,570,237 ratings — published 2020
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.09 — 206,522 ratings — published 2000
The Night Circus (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,118,103 ratings — published 2011
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.06 — 129,304 ratings — published 1973
House of Earth and Blood (Crescent City, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,213,213 ratings — published 2020
Jerusalem (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.03 — 3,355 ratings — published 2016
The Death of Virgil (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,870 ratings — published 1945
Metamorphoses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.10 — 79,547 ratings — published 8
Dhalgren (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 3.77 — 12,469 ratings — published 1975
Dune (Dune, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,666,294 ratings — published 1965
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.00 — 411,922 ratings — published 2019
Between the World and Me (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.40 — 371,874 ratings — published 2015
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 3.57 — 625,094 ratings — published 1851
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 3.44 — 930,942 ratings — published 1850
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,609,487 ratings — published 1948
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.28 — 344,247 ratings — published 2015
Theft of Swords (The Riyria Revelations, #1-2)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.23 — 78,428 ratings — published 2011
The Diviners (The Diviners, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 3.94 — 102,152 ratings — published 2012
The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.30 — 350,487 ratings — published 2006
Middlesex (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.04 — 668,136 ratings — published 2002
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,601 ratings — published 1962
The Satanic Verses (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 3.71 — 72,717 ratings — published 1988
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich: A History of Nazi Germany (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.23 — 150,734 ratings — published 1960
Life and Fate (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.46 — 16,027 ratings — published 1960
In Search of Lost Time (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.34 — 14,316 ratings — published 1913
Tender Is the Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 3.77 — 151,608 ratings — published 1934
Mason & Dixon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.15 — 12,876 ratings — published 1997
2666 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as intimidating)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,387 ratings — published 2004
“What is your name?" she asked suddenly, instead. "Your full name?"
"Christopher Whitelaw, Viscount Grantham. Kit, to you, Miss Makepeace."
And then he smiled a smile that made Susannah remember that he'd made a fortune in smuggling, and was wanted for piracy. Perhaps he'd also had an affair with the queen. For it was just that sort of smile: crooked, slow, unnervingly inclusive and intimate. It knew things, that smile. She felt shy suddenly; she was acutely aware of how substantial he was, how hard the muscles under his shirt and trousers were.”
― Beauty and the Spy
"Christopher Whitelaw, Viscount Grantham. Kit, to you, Miss Makepeace."
And then he smiled a smile that made Susannah remember that he'd made a fortune in smuggling, and was wanted for piracy. Perhaps he'd also had an affair with the queen. For it was just that sort of smile: crooked, slow, unnervingly inclusive and intimate. It knew things, that smile. She felt shy suddenly; she was acutely aware of how substantial he was, how hard the muscles under his shirt and trousers were.”
― Beauty and the Spy
“Incidentally, Fairday did know what the word intimidating meant. What she couldn't possibly know then was just how familiar with its definition she was soon to become.”
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