17 books
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15 voters
Unnerving Books
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.91 — 302,807 ratings — published 1962
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.81 — 403,414 ratings — published 1959
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.80 — 368,808 ratings — published 1991
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.45 — 342,955 ratings — published 2019
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.09 — 294,882 ratings — published 2016
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 3 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,221,865 ratings — published 2020
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,469,348 ratings — published 1985
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.80 — 312,537 ratings — published 2014
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.08 — 840,804 ratings — published 2010
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.09 — 204,434 ratings — published 2000
Corrupt (Devil's Night, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.78 — 436,910 ratings — published 2015
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.08 — 544,210 ratings — published 1995
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 2,196,132 ratings — published 1847
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,922 ratings — published 2005
Something Wicked This Way Comes (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.89 — 155,705 ratings — published 1962
Come Closer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.65 — 52,240 ratings — published 2003
Nausea (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.93 — 141,852 ratings — published 1938
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,562,517 ratings — published 1948
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.77 — 422,835 ratings — published 2017
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.50 — 206,729 ratings — published 2016
Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.82 — 53,007 ratings — published 2015
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.70 — 69,349 ratings — published 2019
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,482,605 ratings — published 2012
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,242,390 ratings — published 2006
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.10 — 435,175 ratings — published 2020
The Collector (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.97 — 96,943 ratings — published 1963
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,771,227 ratings — published 2010
Authority (Southern Reach, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.55 — 108,863 ratings — published 2014
Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.06 — 161,529 ratings — published 1967
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,377,709 ratings — published 1956
Rebecca (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.25 — 734,887 ratings — published 1938
Deliverance (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 3.89 — 34,096 ratings — published 1970
Unwind (Unwind, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as unnerving)
avg rating 4.17 — 251,275 ratings — published 2007
The Gunslinger (The Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 3.91 — 669,493 ratings — published 1982
Everything Under (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 3.50 — 15,139 ratings — published 2018
Hidden Pictures (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 4.14 — 624,336 ratings — published 2022
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 3.60 — 279,926 ratings — published 2024
Bespelled (Bewitched, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 4.16 — 28,190 ratings — published 2024
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,886,686 ratings — published 1953
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,214,190 ratings — published 2009
American Vampire, Vol. 1 (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 3.97 — 27,013 ratings — published 2010
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,031,634 ratings — published 2008
Abandoned Vermont and New Hampshire: Forgotten in the Mountains (America Through Time)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 3.60 — 5 ratings — published
Heavenly Tyrant (Iron Widow, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 3.77 — 15,348 ratings — published 2024
Penpal (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 3.86 — 63,440 ratings — published 2012
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,376 ratings — published 1928
Abandoned New Hampshire: Ghosts of Our Past (Abandoned Union)
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avg rating 3.33 — 3 ratings — published
Skitter (The Hatching #2)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,793 ratings — published 2017
Old Soul (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 3.77 — 4,669 ratings — published 2025
For Whom the Belle Tolls (Hell's Belles, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as unnerving)
avg rating 4.36 — 39,016 ratings — published 2025
“Why does he have such an unnerving effect on me? His over-whelming good looks maybe? The way his eyes blaze at me? The way he strokes his index finger against his lower lip? I wish he'd stop doing that.”
― Fifty Shades of Grey
― Fifty Shades of Grey
“I shivered as the cold was all encompassing, not just from being outdoors, but from being read as well. He had a way of seeing through me. It was as unnerving as it was bonding and I couldn't figure out how the two could co-exist.”
― Willow
― Willow





