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My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.10 — 418,635 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.87 — 937,247 ratings — published 1955
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.08 — 831,668 ratings — published 2010
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,454,624 ratings — published 2002
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.44 — 1,424,669 ratings — published 2022
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.28 — 747,835 ratings — published 1982
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,677,114 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,021,274 ratings — published 2007
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,352,684 ratings — published 1956
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,025,606 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,014,727 ratings — published 1847
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,372,465 ratings — published 1942
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.85 — 236,446 ratings — published 1979
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.14 — 439,982 ratings — published 2017
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 2.93 — 56,851 ratings — published 2021
The First Day of Spring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,140 ratings — published 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.52 — 159,738 ratings — published 2020
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.75 — 858,941 ratings — published 2017
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.14 — 342,610 ratings — published 1990
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.80 — 358,353 ratings — published 1991
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,199,940 ratings — published 1963
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,668,390 ratings — published 2012
Still Missing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.00 — 104,231 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,851,227 ratings — published 2005
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.13 — 776,297 ratings — published 2002
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 493,641 ratings — published 2006
Closer: A Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,220 ratings — published 1997
August: Osage County (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,276 ratings — published 2008
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 776,457 ratings — published 1962
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.04 — 546,143 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,380,855 ratings — published 1949
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,149,256 ratings — published 1947
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.29 — 101,786 ratings — published 2009
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.05 — 628,743 ratings — published 1999
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 334,110 ratings — published 1995
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.94 — 275,354 ratings — published 1993
Are You Mad at Me? (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.45 — 4,129 ratings — published
A Marriage at Sea: A True Story of Love, Obsession, and Shipwreck (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.84 — 21,826 ratings — published 2024
Human Acts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.27 — 71,241 ratings — published 2014
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.28 — 414,708 ratings — published 1967
Moonstone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.32 — 923 ratings — published 2024
The Lamb (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.79 — 26,330 ratings — published 2025
Maid: Hard Work, Low Pay, and a Mother's Will to Survive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.86 — 112,312 ratings — published 2019
Gone Before Goodbye (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.75 — 45,140 ratings — published 2025
The Names (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.15 — 124,215 ratings — published 2025
Stone Yard Devotional (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.73 — 21,183 ratings — published 2023
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,473,069 ratings — published 1969
Wild Dark Shore (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.13 — 232,806 ratings — published 2025
A Two-Spirit Journey (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,737 ratings — published 2016
I'll Never Call Him Dad Again: Turning Our Family Trauma of Sexual Assault and Chemical Submission into a Collective Fight (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.27 — 8,363 ratings — published 2022
“And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
“Some people take offense like it's a limited time offer.”
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