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The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.91 — 59,403 ratings — published 1989
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.80 — 378,482 ratings — published 1991
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.77 — 461,263 ratings — published 2017
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,078,909 ratings — published 2006
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.87 — 972,638 ratings — published 1955
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,536,551 ratings — published 1985
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 50,496 ratings — published 1939
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 221,715 ratings — published 2003
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.27 — 994,902 ratings — published 2015
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 447,613 ratings — published 2020
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,900 ratings — published 2005
Violent Faculties (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.53 — 487 ratings — published 2024
The Summer I Died (The Roger Huntington Saga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,576 ratings — published 2006
Off Season (Dead River, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.74 — 21,039 ratings — published 1980
Maeve Fly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.65 — 30,263 ratings — published 2023
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,043 ratings — published 1996
Brother (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.91 — 81,918 ratings — published 2015
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.60 — 110,392 ratings — published 2018
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.26 — 599,152 ratings — published 1988
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.33 — 62,434 ratings — published 2013
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 240,490 ratings — published 1985
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 782,099 ratings — published 2015
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 318,063 ratings — published 1970
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 466,480 ratings — published 1995
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,707,105 ratings — published 1949
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 210,889 ratings — published 2000
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.53 — 36,612 ratings — published 1978
Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.93 — 51,033 ratings — published 1997
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.50 — 213,566 ratings — published 2016
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 237,438 ratings — published 2003
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.86 — 245,155 ratings — published 1979
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.83 — 56,511 ratings — published 1963
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.25 — 834,035 ratings — published 1966
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.76 — 114,653 ratings — published 1984
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,295,096 ratings — published 1954
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 354,891 ratings — published 1995
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.93 — 281,855 ratings — published 1948
17 anni. Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.79 — 341 ratings — published 2004
No Longer Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.27 — 22,684 ratings — published 2019
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,139,025 ratings — published 1932
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.67 — 142,731 ratings — published 2022
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,512,797 ratings — published 2005
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.37 — 57,127 ratings — published 1973
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.65 — 442,756 ratings — published 2007
The Book of the Unnamed Midwife (The Road to Nowhere, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 28,019 ratings — published 2014
Ondskan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.81 — 12,694 ratings — published 1981
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.04 — 579,620 ratings — published 1985
At Dark, I Become Loathsome (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.20 — 5,249 ratings — published 2025
The Wolf and the Watchman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.88 — 23,532 ratings — published 2017
Boy Parts (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.70 — 89,765 ratings — published 2020