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Upsetting Books
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My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.09 — 443,635 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.87 — 967,266 ratings — published 1955
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.08 — 844,932 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,390,593 ratings — published 1956
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,479,744 ratings — published 2002
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,572,013 ratings — published 2022
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.28 — 765,846 ratings — published 1982
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,819,788 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,033,172 ratings — published 2007
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,069,820 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,248,971 ratings — published 1847
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,478,415 ratings — published 1942
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 — 462,109 ratings — published 2017
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 2.92 — 58,757 ratings — published 2021
The First Day of Spring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,133 ratings — published 2021
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.36 — 712,359 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,975 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 — 894,210 ratings — published 2017
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.15 — 352,609 ratings — published 1990
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.80 — 374,687 ratings — published 1991
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,279,350 ratings — published 1963
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,824,821 ratings — published 2012
Still Missing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.01 — 109,141 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,943,772 ratings — published 2005
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.85 — 892,090 ratings — published 2005
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.13 — 796,348 ratings — published 2002
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 499,827 ratings — published 2006
Closer: A Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,369 ratings — published 1997
August: Osage County (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,675 ratings — published 2008
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 790,469 ratings — published 1962
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,504,588 ratings — published 1915
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.04 — 574,172 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,653,637 ratings — published 1948
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,280,038 ratings — published 1947
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.29 — 104,693 ratings — published 2009
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.05 — 639,280 ratings — published 1999
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 351,015 ratings — published 1995
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.95 — 288,025 ratings — published 1993
Her First Lie (Hannah Bauer, #.5)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,437 ratings — published 2026
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.55 — 860,575 ratings — published 2000
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.94 — 412,104 ratings — published 1925
Nobody Knows You're Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.03 — 26,816 ratings — published
Happy Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,502,845 ratings — published 2023
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.32 — 90,217 ratings — published 1998
The Summer We Fell (The Summer, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.00 — 40,697 ratings — published 2023
You Weren't Meant to Be Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,350 ratings — published 2025
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.51 — 558,045 ratings — published 2015
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.19 — 284,611 ratings — published 1993
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.67 — 84,262 ratings — published 2014
“Disappointed in herself for raising a daughter who would do that?”
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“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
