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My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.10 — 426,248 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.87 — 946,547 ratings — published 1955
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.08 — 835,519 ratings — published 2010
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,463,184 ratings — published 2002
I’m Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,469,667 ratings — published 2022
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.28 — 752,850 ratings — published 1982
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,724,266 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,025,383 ratings — published 2007
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,365,186 ratings — published 1956
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,038,096 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.90 — 2,058,370 ratings — published 1847
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,404,433 ratings — published 1942
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.85 — 238,408 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 — 446,985 ratings — published 2017
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 2.93 — 57,429 ratings — published 2021
The First Day of Spring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.90 — 28,632 ratings — published 2021
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.52 — 161,615 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 — 871,045 ratings — published 2017
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.15 — 345,247 ratings — published 1990
American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.80 — 362,842 ratings — published 1991
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,223,897 ratings — published 1963
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,729,249 ratings — published 2012
Still Missing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.00 — 105,275 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,882,109 ratings — published 2005
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.85 — 855,720 ratings — published 2005
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.13 — 783,073 ratings — published 2002
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 495,307 ratings — published 2006
Closer: A Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,254 ratings — published 1997
August: Osage County (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.15 — 19,374 ratings — published 2008
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 780,478 ratings — published 1962
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.04 — 554,297 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,470,572 ratings — published 1949
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,196,995 ratings — published 1947
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.29 — 102,548 ratings — published 2009
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.05 — 631,961 ratings — published 1999
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 338,990 ratings — published 1995
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.94 — 278,797 ratings — published 1993
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.28 — 929,626 ratings — published 2015
Out of Darkness: Rumana Monzur's Journey through Betrayal, Tyranny and Abuse (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.16 — 49 ratings — published
Miss Morgan's Book Brigade (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.99 — 17,451 ratings — published 2024
You Made a Fool of Death with Your Beauty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.53 — 57,592 ratings — published 2022
The Family Experiment (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.03 — 56,045 ratings — published 2024
Everyone in the Group Chat Dies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.32 — 4,670 ratings — published 2025
The Housemaid (The Housemaid, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.27 — 3,371,948 ratings — published 2022
Abundance (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.94 — 40,342 ratings — published 2025
Paper Cuts (Secret, Book, & Scone Society, #6)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.25 — 8,749 ratings — published 2023
The Harder I Fight the More I Love You: A Memoir (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.01 — 6,337 ratings — published 2025
The Coworker (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.74 — 572,082 ratings — published 2023
The Women (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.59 — 1,569,648 ratings — published 2024
The Great Alone (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,195,013 ratings — published 2018
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