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The Science of Evil: On Empathy and the Origins of Cruelty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.76 — 6,622 ratings — published 2011
Escape from Camp 14: One Man's Remarkable Odyssey from North Korea to Freedom in the West (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.01 — 73,427 ratings — published 2012
The Prisoner of Cell 25 (Michael Vey, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,213 ratings — published 2011
Half Bad (The Half Bad Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.77 — 57,979 ratings — published 2014
Wolf Hollow (Wolf Hollow, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.17 — 30,506 ratings — published 2016
The Kitchen House (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.24 — 310,982 ratings — published 2010
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,276,237 ratings — published 2025
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.25 — 836,081 ratings — published 1966
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,984,164 ratings — published 1890
The Nickel Boys (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.25 — 322,985 ratings — published 2019
I, Claudia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.11 — 910 ratings — published 2018
Six of Crows (Six of Crows, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,205,414 ratings — published 2015
Goodnight, Boy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.86 — 249 ratings — published
Tyler Johnson Was Here (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.87 — 5,595 ratings — published 2018
Being Fishkill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.36 — 516 ratings — published 2017
The Raven Boys (The Raven Cycle, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.05 — 409,973 ratings — published 2012
Prisoner of War (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.27 — 970 ratings — published 2017
March: Book One (March, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.35 — 58,180 ratings — published 2013
Eleanor & Park (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,278,979 ratings — published 2012
The Underground Railroad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.06 — 457,523 ratings — published 2016
A List of Cages (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.24 — 27,766 ratings — published 2017
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,299,816 ratings — published 1954
The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.21 — 3,858 ratings — published 2011
Wonder (Wonder, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.35 — 1,221,560 ratings — published 2012
Please Stop Laughing at Me... One Woman's Inspirational Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.83 — 13,466 ratings — published 2003
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,228,412 ratings — published 2008
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,778,195 ratings — published 1945
The Marriage Portrait (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.01 — 218,824 ratings — published 2022
The Rape of Nanking: The Forgotten Holocaust of World War II (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.26 — 57,498 ratings — published 1997
All Quiet on the Western Front (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.12 — 537,590 ratings — published 1928
Virtue & Vanity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.18 — 4,277 ratings — published 2016
The Odds Against (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 2.56 — 202 ratings — published
La ciudad y los perros (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.18 — 30,012 ratings — published 1962
Poisoned (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.80 — 10,053 ratings — published 2020
The Shadows Between Us (The Stathos Sisters, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.81 — 224,253 ratings — published 2020
Darkdawn (The Nevernight Chronicle, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.30 — 60,109 ratings — published 2019
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,532,866 ratings — published 1915
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,852,252 ratings — published 2018
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.14 — 241,615 ratings — published 1985
Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass, #6)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.28 — 1,198,357 ratings — published 2017
Heir of Fire (Throne of Glass, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,737,560 ratings — published 2014
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,277,090 ratings — published 1847
Mourning Song (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.33 — 3 ratings — published
The War That Saved My Life (The War That Saved My Life, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.49 — 120,282 ratings — published 2015
The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.49 — 47,440 ratings — published 1974
All the Light We Cannot See (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,058,415 ratings — published 2014
Twelve Years a Slave (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.23 — 126,876 ratings — published 1853
The Dinner (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.22 — 179,182 ratings — published 2009
Someone (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 3.79 — 20,187 ratings — published 2013
Lockdown (Escape from Furnace, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cruelty)
avg rating 4.12 — 20,936 ratings — published 2009
“He who is cruel to animals becomes hard also in his dealings with men. We can judge the heart of a man by his treatment of animals.”
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“There must have been a moment, at the beginning, where we could have said -- no. But somehow we missed it.”
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
― Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead
