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Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 330 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.77 — 487,160 ratings — published 2017
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 231 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.87 — 982,703 ratings — published 1955
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 204 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.80 — 384,015 ratings — published 1991
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 169 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,287,460 ratings — published 2006
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 159 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 453,437 ratings — published 2020
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 154 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 224,206 ratings — published 2003
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 152 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,922 ratings — published 1989
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.76 — 115,924 ratings — published 1984
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 147 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,327,123 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 147 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,574,330 ratings — published 1985
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 132 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.28 — 4,269,823 ratings — published 2018
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 131 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,794,147 ratings — published 1949
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 794,644 ratings — published 1962
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 127 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,094,064 ratings — published 2006
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 125 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.33 — 63,689 ratings — published 2013
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 117 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.60 — 114,179 ratings — published 2018
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,569,140 ratings — published 2012
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 117 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,539 ratings — published 2005
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.04 — 589,118 ratings — published 1985
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 116 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,826 ratings — published 1996
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 115 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.86 — 247,597 ratings — published 1979
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 104 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 850,117 ratings — published 2010
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 101 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.65 — 465,497 ratings — published 2007
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 100 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 802,671 ratings — published 2015
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 96 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.82 — 143,546 ratings — published 2014
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 96 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 468,308 ratings — published 1995
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 95 times as disturbing)
avg rating 2.92 — 59,802 ratings — published 2021
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 90 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.94 — 871,592 ratings — published 2009
Brother (Paperback)
by (shelved 86 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.90 — 85,969 ratings — published 2015
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 80 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 248,241 ratings — published 1985
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 79 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.46 — 101,077 ratings — published 1959
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 77 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,019,194 ratings — published 2015
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 214,886 ratings — published 2000
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,573,477 ratings — published 1915
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,491,618 ratings — published 2002
Cows (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as disturbing)
avg rating 2.66 — 16,351 ratings — published 1998
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,407,697 ratings — published 2012
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 666,140 ratings — published 1996
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,133 ratings — published 1939
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.36 — 10,315,322 ratings — published 2008
The Collector (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.97 — 102,250 ratings — published 1963
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 72 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.53 — 112,919 ratings — published 2022
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,536,059 ratings — published 2005
Gone to See the River Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 70 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.63 — 27,354 ratings — published 2020
Living Dead Girl (Hardcover)
by (shelved 70 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.77 — 34,500 ratings — published 2008
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 69 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.44 — 375,872 ratings — published 2019
The Butterfly Garden (The Collector, #1)
by (shelved 68 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 324,426 ratings — published 2016
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.49 — 218,238 ratings — published 2016
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as disturbing)
avg rating 4.19 — 366,578 ratings — published 1995
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as disturbing)
avg rating 3.90 — 323,742 ratings — published 1962
“The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it emotionally. A higher paradox confounds the emotion as well as reason and there are long periods in the lives of all of us, when the truth as revealed by faith is hideous, emotionally disturbing, downright repulsive. Witness the dark night of the soul in individual saints . . .”
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“Never let the future disturb you, you will meet it.”
― Peace and Love Doesn't Last Long
― Peace and Love Doesn't Last Long
