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The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as grim)
avg rating 4.22 — 327,437 ratings — published 2006
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 19 times as grim)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,785,373 ratings — published 1996
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
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avg rating 4.37 — 210,376 ratings — published 2008
Before They Are Hanged (The First Law, #2)
by (shelved 13 times as grim)
avg rating 4.36 — 228,032 ratings — published 2007
Best Served Cold (Hardcover)
by (shelved 12 times as grim)
avg rating 4.25 — 116,269 ratings — published 2009
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 12 times as grim)
avg rating 4.55 — 860,572 ratings — published 2000
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
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avg rating 4.42 — 1,040,103 ratings — published 1998
The Road (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,069,797 ratings — published 2006
Prince of Thorns (Broken Empire, #1)
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avg rating 3.82 — 125,500 ratings — published 2011
A Dance with Dragons (A Song of Ice and Fire, #5)
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avg rating 4.34 — 749,586 ratings — published 2011
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,934,255 ratings — published 1963
Red Country (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.32 — 68,610 ratings — published 2012
A Feast for Crows (A Song of Ice and Fire, #4)
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avg rating 4.17 — 805,306 ratings — published 2005
Brave New World (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 2,125,487 ratings — published 1932
Beyond Redemption (Manifest Delusions, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 4,104 ratings — published 2015
The Way of Shadows (Night Angel, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 178,373 ratings — published 2008
A Little Hatred (The Age of Madness, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as grim)
avg rating 4.45 — 64,174 ratings — published 2019
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as grim)
avg rating 4.15 — 527,237 ratings — published 2018
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 7 times as grim)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,146,460 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 7 times as grim)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,270,077 ratings — published 2009
Deadhouse Gates (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #2)
by (shelved 6 times as grim)
avg rating 4.28 — 86,777 ratings — published 2000
The Blacktongue Thief (Blacktongue, #1)
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avg rating 4.19 — 50,010 ratings — published 2021
The Black Company (The Chronicles of the Black Company, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 55,914 ratings — published 1984
The Darkness That Comes Before (The Prince of Nothing, #1)
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avg rating 3.85 — 24,299 ratings — published 2003
Gardens of the Moon (Malazan Book of the Fallen, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as grim)
avg rating 3.94 — 142,130 ratings — published 1999
The Devils (The Devils, #1)
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avg rating 4.21 — 74,028 ratings — published 2025
A Deadly Education (The Scholomance, #1)
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avg rating 3.93 — 228,828 ratings — published 2020
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.19 — 83,912 ratings — published 2012
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 446,464 ratings — published 2017
The Wisdom of Crowds (The Age of Madness, #3)
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avg rating 4.60 — 43,133 ratings — published 2021
The Trouble with Peace (The Age of Madness, #2)
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avg rating 4.60 — 48,321 ratings — published 2020
Half a King (Shattered Sea, #1)
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avg rating 3.97 — 76,357 ratings — published 2014
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,273,934 ratings — published 1954
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 2,511,893 ratings — published 1985
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 720,367 ratings — published 1983
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.39 — 2,943,736 ratings — published 2005
The Sovereign Individual: Mastering the Transition to the Information Age (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grim)
avg rating 4.17 — 4,340 ratings — published 1997
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 50,139 ratings — published 1939
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 35,690 ratings — published 1973
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 235,766 ratings — published 1985
Gideon the Ninth (The Locked Tomb, #1)
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avg rating 4.18 — 192,417 ratings — published 2019
The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)
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avg rating 4.27 — 186,608 ratings — published 2020
Sharp Ends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.10 — 28,636 ratings — published 2016
Half the World (Shattered Sea, #2)
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avg rating 4.19 — 46,768 ratings — published 2015
Shadow's Edge (Night Angel, #2)
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avg rating 4.25 — 110,252 ratings — published 2008
The Fifth Season (The Broken Earth, #1)
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avg rating 4.28 — 347,445 ratings — published 2015
King of Thorns (Broken Empire, #2)
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avg rating 4.17 — 71,553 ratings — published 2012
Blood Song (Raven's Shadow, #1)
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avg rating 4.41 — 93,332 ratings — published 2011
“When shrouded meanings and grim intentions are nicely polished up and pokerfaced personae are generously palming off their fantasy constructs, caution is the watchword, since rimpling water on the well of truth swiftly obscures our vision and perception. ("Trompe le pied.")”
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“But you looked away, and seemed to be avoiding looking at Shadow too, so that I immediately began to think about how it had been him who had led me to you, and then about all of his uncanny ways, not least of which is his choice of a creature like you for a master. I patted his head, feeling about for the glamor, as I have never bothered to do before---and why should I; I do not make a habit of looking beneath people's pets to see if there is a monster hiding there---and sure enough, there it was, and when I moved the magic aside, a bloody Black Hound stared back at me, all glowing eyes and glistening fangs.
You looked worried, for some reason, but you calmed down when I started laughing. "Where did you get him?" I said.
"In Scotland," you replied. "He's a Grim. I rescued him from a boggart, who was tormenting him for sport.”
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
You looked worried, for some reason, but you calmed down when I started laughing. "Where did you get him?" I said.
"In Scotland," you replied. "He's a Grim. I rescued him from a boggart, who was tormenting him for sport.”
― Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries
