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Unsettling Books
Showing 1-50 of 2,056
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.77 — 380,096 ratings — published 2017
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.51 — 198,360 ratings — published 2016
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.91 — 290,378 ratings — published 1962
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.07 — 351,864 ratings — published 1892
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.53 — 97,124 ratings — published 2022
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.65 — 364,256 ratings — published 2007
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,208,590 ratings — published 2006
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,381,096 ratings — published 1949
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 14 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.47 — 316,998 ratings — published 2019
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.70 — 125,293 ratings — published 2022
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.09 — 197,795 ratings — published 2000
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.81 — 388,189 ratings — published 1959
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 12 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.80 — 296,740 ratings — published 2014
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.04 — 546,176 ratings — published 1985
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.80 — 358,361 ratings — published 1991
Boy Parts (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.72 — 80,756 ratings — published 2020
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 11 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.29 — 3,703,113 ratings — published 2018
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.10 — 418,670 ratings — published 2020
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.45 — 86,408 ratings — published 2000
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 10 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.87 — 937,284 ratings — published 1955
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.02 — 84,100 ratings — published 1949
The Shining (The Shining, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,688,849 ratings — published 1977
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,170,715 ratings — published 1954
We Used to Live Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.63 — 234,596 ratings — published 2024
What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier, #1)
by (shelved 9 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.85 — 134,078 ratings — published 2022
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.60 — 97,765 ratings — published 2018
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.60 — 552,390 ratings — published 2018
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.83 — 123,311 ratings — published 2014
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,389,247 ratings — published 1985
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,025,649 ratings — published 2006
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.71 — 65,577 ratings — published 2019
The Silent Patient (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.17 — 3,164,690 ratings — published 2019
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.85 — 842,068 ratings — published 2005
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.78 — 407,881 ratings — published 1993
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,414,619 ratings — published 2012
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 8 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.08 — 691,255 ratings — published 1983
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.99 — 2,057,477 ratings — published 1932
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.13 — 776,331 ratings — published 2002
Ripe (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.59 — 31,771 ratings — published 2023
Natural Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,172 ratings — published 2023
This Thing Between Us (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.69 — 37,526 ratings — published 2021
Cursed Bunny (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.75 — 40,839 ratings — published 2017
The Dangers of Smoking in Bed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.80 — 60,926 ratings — published 2009
The Only Good Indians (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.68 — 111,845 ratings — published 2020
Through the Woods (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.94 — 87,581 ratings — published 2014
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,258,060 ratings — published 2015
The Last House on Needless Street (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.81 — 143,743 ratings — published 2021
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 6 times as unsettling)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,143,516 ratings — published 2020
The Push (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as unsettling)
avg rating 4.04 — 429,033 ratings — published 2021
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as unsettling)
avg rating 2.93 — 56,851 ratings — published 2021
“There were five of them, and four had traded their eyes for green-gold wasps that curled into their sockets and compounded their vision. Claws graced their hands like sharp commas. Scales at their throats burned red when they breathed. One wing sighed bellows-like out of the naked back of the shortest, the one who still had slate-gray human eyes. After a while, I'd wished he had wasps instead.”
― Borne
― Borne
“Scenes from the Playroom
Now Lucy with her family of dolls
Disfigures Mother with an emery board,
While Charles, with match and rubbing alcohol,
Readies the struggling cat, for Chuck is bored.
The young ones pour more ink into the water
Through which the latest goldfish gamely swims,
Laughing, pointing at naked, neutered Father.
The toy chest is a Buchenwald of limbs.
Mother is so lovely; Father, so late.
The cook is off, yet dinner must go on
With onions as her only cause for tears
She hacks the red meat from the slippery bone,
Setting the table, where the children wait,
Her grinning babies, clean behind the ears.”
―
Now Lucy with her family of dolls
Disfigures Mother with an emery board,
While Charles, with match and rubbing alcohol,
Readies the struggling cat, for Chuck is bored.
The young ones pour more ink into the water
Through which the latest goldfish gamely swims,
Laughing, pointing at naked, neutered Father.
The toy chest is a Buchenwald of limbs.
Mother is so lovely; Father, so late.
The cook is off, yet dinner must go on
With onions as her only cause for tears
She hacks the red meat from the slippery bone,
Setting the table, where the children wait,
Her grinning babies, clean behind the ears.”
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