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Misunderstood Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,101
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,486,372 ratings — published 1915
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,338 ratings — published 1969
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.18 — 653,870 ratings — published 1996
American Gods: Tenth Anniversary (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.10 — 997,783 ratings — published 2001
Romeo and Juliet (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,857,753 ratings — published 1590
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.55 — 153 ratings — published
The Unwanted Wife (Unwanted, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.76 — 58,279 ratings — published 2012
Outlier (Daydreamer, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.35 — 16,525 ratings — published 2025
Hera (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.55 — 20,908 ratings — published 2024
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.59 — 591,552 ratings — published 2018
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,461,275 ratings — published 1942
Medusa's Sisters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.15 — 6,556 ratings — published 2023
The Old Man and the Sea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.81 — 1,343,159 ratings — published 1952
Bride (Bride, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.99 — 742,501 ratings — published 2024
On the Mountain (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.98 — 4,293 ratings — published 2024
Check & Mate (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.94 — 378,092 ratings — published 2023
Unperfect (Unperfect, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.05 — 32,080 ratings — published 2021
Unworthy (Unperfect, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.02 — 13,810 ratings — published 2022
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,341,807 ratings — published 2016
Geekerella (Once Upon a Con, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.87 — 70,937 ratings — published 2017
Limits (Beg, Borrow or Steal, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.17 — 13,255 ratings — published 2018
The Love Hypothesis (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.09 — 1,988,157 ratings — published 2021
Soul Eater (Monstrous, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.21 — 28,735 ratings — published 2021
Ain't She Sweet? (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.08 — 26,814 ratings — published 2004
Arrogant Devil (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.14 — 21,597 ratings — published 2018
Bossman (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.12 — 85,146 ratings — published 2016
Angels Fall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.06 — 56,964 ratings — published 2006
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.24 — 2,035,284 ratings — published 1999
Bully (Fall Away, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.83 — 233,233 ratings — published 2013
Transcendence (Transcendence, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.02 — 24,886 ratings — published 2014
Hero (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.86 — 18,347 ratings — published 2007
To Claim a Wife (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.56 — 315 ratings — published 1999
Gold Ring of Betrayal (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.68 — 3,028 ratings — published 1996
The Me I Used to Be (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.72 — 3,596 ratings — published 2019
The Enemy (It Happened in Charleston, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.73 — 52,799 ratings — published 2020
Under Your Scars (Under Your Scars, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.33 — 94,719 ratings — published 2023
How to Write a Love Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.78 — 15,988 ratings — published 2026
The Locked Ward (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.67 — 25,296 ratings — published 2025
Cash (Lucky River Ranch, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.94 — 96,133 ratings — published 2024
Gone Tonight (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.82 — 37,317 ratings — published 2023
Wedding Dashers (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.84 — 11,898 ratings — published 2025
Drowning in Paper Flowers (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.15 — 32,749 ratings — published 2024
No Matter What (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.85 — 17,885 ratings — published 2026
What Have I Done? (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,994 ratings — published 2026
The Wedding Night: Before Christmas (Hot Holidays #3)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.03 — 2,743 ratings — published 2019
The Road to Tender Hearts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.33 — 84,923 ratings — published 2025
Fool's Gold (Mis-shapes #2)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.50 — 167 ratings — published 2026
A Love Like Yours (Love Story Duet Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.09 — 414 ratings — published 2019
I, Medusa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.02 — 35,235 ratings — published 2025
My Brilliant Friend (Neapolitan Novels, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as misunderstood)
avg rating 4.05 — 489,386 ratings — published 2011
“Jonathan sighed. The price of being misunderstood, he thought. They call you devil or they call you god.”
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
― Jonathan Livingston Seagull
“What a fool she was ever to have imagined that there might be some place in the world where she could sink to the earth with the knowledge that there were people round her who understood, who perhaps even admired and loved her! She was fated to carry loneliness about with her as a leper carries his scabs. 'No one can do anything for me: no one can do anything against me.”
― Thérèse Desqueyroux
― Thérèse Desqueyroux








