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Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as torture)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,496 ratings — published 2005
Unbroken: A World War II Story of Survival, Resilience and Redemption (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as torture)
avg rating 4.39 — 1,000,086 ratings — published 2010
Code Name Verity (Code Name Verity, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as torture)
avg rating 4.00 — 128,638 ratings — published 2012
The Island (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 22 times as torture)
avg rating 3.93 — 3,797 ratings — published 2012
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as torture)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,496,188 ratings — published 1948
Waiting in the Throes (Online)
by (shelved 17 times as torture)
avg rating 4.04 — 730 ratings — published 2014
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as torture)
avg rating 4.23 — 854,196 ratings — published 1987
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
by (shelved 16 times as torture)
avg rating 4.07 — 605,055 ratings — published 2022
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
by (shelved 16 times as torture)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,466,126 ratings — published 2022
The Last Rebellion (ebook)
by (shelved 15 times as torture)
avg rating 3.63 — 1,098 ratings — published 2013
Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as torture)
avg rating 3.78 — 124,423 ratings — published 2013
Capture (The Flesh Cartel #1)
by (shelved 14 times as torture)
avg rating 3.59 — 1,761 ratings — published 2012
Call the Coroner (Staniel, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as torture)
avg rating 4.02 — 5,157 ratings — published
Aftermath (Aftermath, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as torture)
avg rating 4.06 — 5,897 ratings — published 2013
Auction (The Flesh Cartel, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as torture)
avg rating 3.82 — 1,103 ratings — published 2012
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 13 times as torture)
avg rating 4.01 — 72,225 ratings — published 2012
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as torture)
avg rating 3.94 — 892,509 ratings — published 2021
Bloodraven (Bloodraven, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as torture)
avg rating 4.00 — 4,329 ratings — published 2010
Torture and Democracy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as torture)
avg rating 4.18 — 113 ratings — published 2007
Soul Eater (Monstrous, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as torture)
avg rating 4.23 — 26,639 ratings — published 2021
The Prisoner (Broken, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as torture)
avg rating 3.56 — 969 ratings — published 2013
In the Blood (Metahuman Files #4)
by (shelved 11 times as torture)
avg rating 4.41 — 1,723 ratings — published 2017
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as torture)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,245,349 ratings — published 2015
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as torture)
avg rating 4.01 — 721,804 ratings — published 2015
Fit to be Tied (Marshals, #2)
by (shelved 11 times as torture)
avg rating 4.34 — 6,536 ratings — published 2015
Better the Devil You Know (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as torture)
avg rating 3.76 — 653 ratings — published 2015
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as torture)
avg rating 4.22 — 314,047 ratings — published 2006
Brotherhood (The Flesh Cartel #6)
by (shelved 11 times as torture)
avg rating 4.02 — 658 ratings — published 2013
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as torture)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,959 ratings — published 1989
The Sinner (L.O.R.D.S., #2)
by (shelved 10 times as torture)
avg rating 4.03 — 169,305 ratings — published 2022
Kingdom of Ash (Throne of Glass, #7)
by (shelved 10 times as torture)
avg rating 4.71 — 1,101,507 ratings — published 2018
Broken (Beautiful Monsters, #3)
by (shelved 10 times as torture)
avg rating 4.54 — 5,997 ratings — published 2017
Wins and Losses (The Flesh Cartel #5)
by (shelved 10 times as torture)
avg rating 3.94 — 655 ratings — published 2013
Outlander (Outlander, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as torture)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,156,870 ratings — published 1991
The Ritual (L.O.R.D.S., #1)
by (shelved 9 times as torture)
avg rating 4.05 — 356,435 ratings — published 2021
Silk & Steel (Silk and Steel, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as torture)
avg rating 3.75 — 6,349 ratings — published 2019
All the Lies (Mindf*ck, #4)
by (shelved 9 times as torture)
avg rating 4.51 — 303,599 ratings — published 2016
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 9 times as torture)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,737,269 ratings — published 2010
Styxx (Dark-Hunter, #22)
by (shelved 9 times as torture)
avg rating 4.58 — 23,383 ratings — published 2013
Choices (The Flesh Cartel #3)
by (shelved 9 times as torture)
avg rating 3.91 — 875 ratings — published 2013
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as torture)
avg rating 4.14 — 461,583 ratings — published 1995
Counterpoint (Song of the Fallen, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as torture)
avg rating 3.74 — 3,618 ratings — published 2010
Yakuza Pride (The Way of the Yakuza #1)
by (shelved 9 times as torture)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,398 ratings — published 2011
The Princess Bride (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as torture)
avg rating 4.27 — 949,612 ratings — published 1973
Toxic (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as torture)
avg rating 3.48 — 50,119 ratings — published 2017
Satan's Affair (Cat and Mouse, #0.5)
by (shelved 8 times as torture)
avg rating 3.71 — 153,036 ratings — published 2021
Scarlet Angel (Mindf*ck, #3)
by (shelved 8 times as torture)
avg rating 4.38 — 315,508 ratings — published 2016
Under His Heel (Under His Heel, #1)
by (shelved 8 times as torture)
avg rating 3.76 — 1,569 ratings — published 2018
Smoke & Mirrors (THIRDS, #7)
by (shelved 8 times as torture)
avg rating 4.44 — 5,284 ratings — published 2016
“Or perhaps we should just ask Todd."
I pound the glass right at his face. He doesn't even flinch.
And then she says, "Todd would never tell you. Never."
And the Mayor just looks at me.
And he smiles
My stomach sinks, my heart drops, my head feels so light I feel like I'm going to drop right to the ground.
Oh, Viola-
Viola, please-
Forgive me.
"Captain Hammar," the Mayor says and Viola's plunged into the water again, unable to not scream out in fright as down she goes.
"NO!" I shout, pressing myself against the mirror.
But the Mayor ain't even looking at her.
He's looking right at me, as if he could see me even if I was behind a brick wall.
"STOP IT!" I shout as she's thrashing again-
And more-
And more-
"VIOLA!"
And I'm pounding even tho my hands are breaking-
And Mr. Hammar is grinning and holding her there-
"VIOLA!"
And her wrist are starting to bleed from where she's pulling-
"I'LL KILL YOU!"-
I'm shouting into the Mayor's face-
With all my Noise-
"I'LL KILL YOU!"-
And still holding her there-
"VIOLA! VIOLA!"-
But it's Davy-
Of all people-
It's Davy who stops it.”
― The Ask and the Answer
I pound the glass right at his face. He doesn't even flinch.
And then she says, "Todd would never tell you. Never."
And the Mayor just looks at me.
And he smiles
My stomach sinks, my heart drops, my head feels so light I feel like I'm going to drop right to the ground.
Oh, Viola-
Viola, please-
Forgive me.
"Captain Hammar," the Mayor says and Viola's plunged into the water again, unable to not scream out in fright as down she goes.
"NO!" I shout, pressing myself against the mirror.
But the Mayor ain't even looking at her.
He's looking right at me, as if he could see me even if I was behind a brick wall.
"STOP IT!" I shout as she's thrashing again-
And more-
And more-
"VIOLA!"
And I'm pounding even tho my hands are breaking-
And Mr. Hammar is grinning and holding her there-
"VIOLA!"
And her wrist are starting to bleed from where she's pulling-
"I'LL KILL YOU!"-
I'm shouting into the Mayor's face-
With all my Noise-
"I'LL KILL YOU!"-
And still holding her there-
"VIOLA! VIOLA!"-
But it's Davy-
Of all people-
It's Davy who stops it.”
― The Ask and the Answer
“When we see religion split into so many thousand of sects, and I may say Christianity itself divided into its thousands also, who are disputing, anathematizing and where the laws permit burning and torturing one another for abstractions which no one of them understand, and which are indeed beyond the comprehension of the human mind, into which of the chambers of this Bedlam would a man wish to thrust himself.
[Letter to George Logan, 12 November 1816]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
[Letter to George Logan, 12 November 1816]”
― Letters of Thomas Jefferson
