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My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 448,323 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 973,732 ratings — published 1955
Room (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.08 — 847,424 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,398,085 ratings — published 1956
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 2,485,343 ratings — published 2002
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,602,501 ratings — published 2022
The Color Purple (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 770,186 ratings — published 1982
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,852,243 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,035,923 ratings — published 2007
Yol (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,080,507 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,276,268 ratings — published 1847
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,507,797 ratings — published 1942
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 467,292 ratings — published 2017
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.92 — 59,188 ratings — published 2021
The First Day of Spring (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 30,541 ratings — published 2021
American Dirt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 719,911 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 167,209 ratings — published 2020
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 902,979 ratings — published 2017
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 354,814 ratings — published 1990
American Psycho (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 379,186 ratings — published 1991
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,300,012 ratings — published 1963
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,860,105 ratings — published 2012
Still Missing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 110,383 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,964,762 ratings — published 2005
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 904,905 ratings — published 2005
Coraline (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 801,263 ratings — published 2002
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 501,266 ratings — published 2006
Closer: A Play (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,396 ratings — published 1997
August: Osage County (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 19,728 ratings — published 2008
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 793,603 ratings — published 1962
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,531,898 ratings — published 1915
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 580,660 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,717,744 ratings — published 1949
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,310,599 ratings — published 1947
Columbine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 105,339 ratings — published 2009
Speak (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 642,803 ratings — published 1999
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.18 — 355,700 ratings — published 1995
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 290,847 ratings — published 1993
The Pharmacist (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,047 ratings — published
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,272,882 ratings — published 2006
The Demon Star (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 584 ratings — published 2026
Next of Kin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 35,825 ratings — published 2021
TEN-4-FACESp (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.80 — 49 ratings — published 2026
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 94,925 ratings — published 2012
Her First Lie (Hannah Bauer, #0.5)
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avg rating 3.85 — 20,873 ratings — published 2026
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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avg rating 4.55 — 867,671 ratings — published 2000
The Trial (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 417,775 ratings — published 1925
Nobody Knows You're Here (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 33,887 ratings — published 2025
Happy Place (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,532,701 ratings — published 2023
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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avg rating 4.32 — 92,232 ratings — published 1998
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“When we are easily upset it is because we are internally unstable and unrefined spiritually.”
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
