104 books
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38 voters
Gruesome Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,421
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.77 — 446,502 ratings — published 2017
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.00 — 768,203 ratings — published 2015
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,586 ratings — published 2005
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.82 — 134,978 ratings — published 2014
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.15 — 527,260 ratings — published 2018
Misery (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.22 — 843,918 ratings — published 1987
Evil at Heart (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #3)
by (shelved 5 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.04 — 16,368 ratings — published 2009
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.80 — 374,690 ratings — published 1991
Alchemised (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.31 — 309,481 ratings — published 2025
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.00 — 669,763 ratings — published 2023
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.78 — 326,180 ratings — published 2020
Ninth House (Alex Stern, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.00 — 414,874 ratings — published 2019
FantasticLand (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.83 — 56,438 ratings — published 2016
Every Dead Thing (Charlie Parker, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.95 — 34,092 ratings — published 1999
Career of Evil (Cormoran Strike, #3)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.22 — 233,493 ratings — published 2015
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.91 — 58,458 ratings — published 1989
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,450,299 ratings — published 2011
Krampus: The Yule Lord (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.07 — 20,294 ratings — published 2012
Let Me Go (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #6)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.02 — 9,862 ratings — published 2013
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.04 — 574,179 ratings — published 1985
Heartsick (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.93 — 43,980 ratings — published 2007
Sweetheart (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #2)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.05 — 21,732 ratings — published 2008
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.94 — 857,837 ratings — published 2009
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,146,653 ratings — published 2008
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,225,290 ratings — published 2025
100% Match (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.00 — 24,070 ratings — published 2022
So Thirsty (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.48 — 29,900 ratings — published 2024
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.83 — 685,538 ratings — published 1886
Angelfall (Penryn & the End of Days, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.10 — 200,243 ratings — published 2011
The Slob (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.32 — 13,103 ratings — published 2019
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 2.92 — 58,758 ratings — published 2021
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.15 — 235,776 ratings — published 1985
Verity (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.29 — 4,028,627 ratings — published 2018
The Burning God (The Poppy War, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.27 — 186,620 ratings — published 2020
If You Tell: A True Story of Murder, Family Secrets, and the Unbreakable Bond of Sisterhood (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.97 — 366,922 ratings — published 2019
The Dragon Republic (The Poppy War, #2)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.33 — 240,513 ratings — published 2019
The Chestnut Man (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.21 — 89,228 ratings — published 2019
The Killing Kind (Charlie Parker, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.22 — 14,920 ratings — published 2001
The Outsider (Holly Gibney #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.02 — 393,766 ratings — published 2018
Alice (The Chronicles of Alice, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.82 — 53,685 ratings — published 2015
Birdman (Jack Caffery, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 3.89 — 26,429 ratings — published 1999
The Nightingale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.65 — 2,286,824 ratings — published 2015
Undone (Will Trent, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.23 — 89,052 ratings — published 2009
Peter Nimble and His Fantastic Eyes (Peter Nimble, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.12 — 12,770 ratings — published 2011
Triptych (Will Trent, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.13 — 134,770 ratings — published 2006
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,390,596 ratings — published 1956
Summer of Night (Seasons of Horror, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.05 — 29,646 ratings — published 1991
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,590,755 ratings — published 2012
Kill You Twice (Archie Sheridan & Gretchen Lowell, #5)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.15 — 12,846 ratings — published 2012
The Terror (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as gruesome)
avg rating 4.09 — 77,403 ratings — published 2007
“Nothing could be worse than being stared at by his own eye.”
― Ink Blood Sister Scribe
― Ink Blood Sister Scribe
“He let her do it, then looked around for his fingers. There they were, curled like a bloody quotation mark on the lead. He laughed.”
― The Subtle Knife
― The Subtle Knife












