Most Disturbing Books
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The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.92 — 55,549 ratings — published 1989
American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 7 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.80 — 362,448 ratings — published 1991
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.77 — 398,183 ratings — published 2017
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,036,965 ratings — published 2006
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.87 — 945,877 ratings — published 1955
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 213,024 ratings — published 2003
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.10 — 425,667 ratings — published 2020
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,273 ratings — published 2005
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,424,146 ratings — published 1985
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.21 — 48,780 ratings — published 1939
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.28 — 927,814 ratings — published 2015
Violent Faculties (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.62 — 396 ratings — published 2024
The Summer I Died (The Roger Huntington Saga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.87 — 7,806 ratings — published 2006
Off Season (Dead River, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.75 — 19,963 ratings — published 1980
Maeve Fly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.67 — 26,446 ratings — published 2023
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.79 — 25,952 ratings — published 1996
Brother (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.91 — 72,584 ratings — published 2015
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.26 — 588,365 ratings — published 1988
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.34 — 58,349 ratings — published 2013
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.15 — 220,559 ratings — published 1985
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.01 — 710,931 ratings — published 2015
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 460,802 ratings — published 1995
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.53 — 35,517 ratings — published 1978
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.51 — 202,164 ratings — published 2016
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 225,772 ratings — published 2003
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.85 — 238,244 ratings — published 1979
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.24 — 795,135 ratings — published 1966
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.75 — 109,005 ratings — published 1984
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 338,588 ratings — published 1995
Child of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.82 — 55,383 ratings — published 1973
Hughes: The Private Diaries, Memos & Letters (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.84 — 644 ratings — published 2001
Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been? Selected Early Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.16 — 7,357 ratings — published 1966
Along the River of Flesh (Gone to See the River Man, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.85 — 3,333 ratings — published 2023
Rural Decay (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.80 — 629 ratings — published 2024
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.85 — 854,630 ratings — published 2005
The Spirit Bares Its Teeth (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.45 — 18,510 ratings — published 2023
Gone to See the River Man (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.65 — 24,244 ratings — published 2020
Gerald's Game (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.59 — 178,943 ratings — published 1992
Rage (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.70 — 57,842 ratings — published 1977
Wrony (Wrony, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.41 — 27,521 ratings — published 2020
Córki chmur. O kobietach z Sahary Zachodniej (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.49 — 2,252 ratings — published 2025
Beze mnie jesteś nikim. Przemoc w polskich domach (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.50 — 4,580 ratings — published 2021
Mukbang Princess (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.51 — 808 ratings — published
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 2.93 — 57,388 ratings — published 2021
The Jigsaw Man (ebook)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.81 — 2,282 ratings — published 2006
Hogg (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 2.87 — 1,757 ratings — published 1994
The Laws of the Skies (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.37 — 8,669 ratings — published 2016
Woom (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.23 — 37,365 ratings — published 2016
Battle Royale (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.26 — 85,650 ratings — published 1999
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,970 ratings — published 1989