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Self Destruction Books
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A Visit from the Goon Squad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.70 — 250,631 ratings — published 2010
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.60 — 572,909 ratings — published 2018
No Longer Human (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 259,605 ratings — published 1948
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 1,237,556 ratings — published 1963
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,900,695 ratings — published 1890
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,956,820 ratings — published 1925
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.28 — 942,202 ratings — published 2015
The Goldfinch (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,047,595 ratings — published 2013
Macbeth (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,027,055 ratings — published 1623
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 37,294 ratings — published 1984
Crank (Crank, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 155,805 ratings — published 2004
Fight Club (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 646,526 ratings — published 1996
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,093,934 ratings — published 1866
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 618,910 ratings — published 1851
An American Tragedy (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.97 — 38,874 ratings — published 1925
Reminders of Him (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.33 — 1,677,256 ratings — published 2022
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,421,559 ratings — published 1942
No Longer Human (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.28 — 21,534 ratings — published 2019
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 648,769 ratings — published 1952
Crash (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 31,086 ratings — published 1973
The Brothers Karamazov (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.39 — 391,010 ratings — published 1880
The Road Through the Wall (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.59 — 3,246 ratings — published 1948
Tales of Ordinary Madness (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.84 — 30,922 ratings — published 1983
Blackout: Remembering the Things I Drank to Forget (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.04 — 23,371 ratings — published 2015
The Storyteller (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,584 ratings — published 2011
Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 34,130 ratings — published 1998
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,136,745 ratings — published 1847
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,517,861 ratings — published 1948
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,027,103 ratings — published 2007
Anna Karenina (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.10 — 938,023 ratings — published 1878
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 31,303 ratings — published 1964
New Moon (The Twilight Saga, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.62 — 2,138,025 ratings — published 2006
Summer of Deliverance: A Memoir of Father and Son (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.03 — 146 ratings — published 1998
All the King's Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.09 — 66,810 ratings — published 1946
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.73 — 292,888 ratings — published 1971
Glass (Crank, #2)
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avg rating 4.29 — 74,894 ratings — published 2007
He Knew He Was Right (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 6,064 ratings — published 1869
Tricks (Tricks, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 41,589 ratings — published 2009
Identical (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.29 — 67,195 ratings — published 2008
Hell (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.49 — 2,295 ratings — published 2002
Damage (ebook)
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avg rating 3.58 — 7,512 ratings — published 1991
What Was She Thinking? [Notes on a Scandal] (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.74 — 25,481 ratings — published 2003
Shot in the Heart (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,974 ratings — published 1994
Affliction (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 3,942 ratings — published 1989
Dostoevsky: A Writer in His Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.49 — 1,166 ratings — published 2002
Mrs. Dalloway (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.77 — 359,651 ratings — published 1925
The Lonely Hunter: A Biography of Carson McCullers (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 4.23 — 665 ratings — published 1975
Searching for Mercy Street: My Journey Back to My Mother, Anne Sexton (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,181 ratings — published 1994
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,059 ratings — published 1952
The Bird's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as self-destruction)
avg rating 3.73 — 8,109 ratings — published 1954
“The quickest path to self-destruction is to push away the people you love.”
― Pieces of You
― Pieces of You
“One of the greatest evils is the foolishness of a good man. For the giving man to withhold helping someone in order to first assure personal fortification is not selfish, but to elude needless self-destruction; martyrdom is only practical when the thought is to die, else a good man faces the consequence of digging a hole from which he cannot escape, and truly helps no one in the long run.”
― Just Another War Story
― Just Another War Story












