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The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,948 ratings — published 1989
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.80 — 384,118 ratings — published 1991
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.77 — 487,805 ratings — published 2017
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,094,333 ratings — published 2006
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.87 — 982,884 ratings — published 1955
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,575,009 ratings — published 1985
Johnny Got His Gun (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.22 — 51,143 ratings — published 1939
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.08 — 224,248 ratings — published 2003
A Little Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,019,616 ratings — published 2015
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 453,534 ratings — published 2020
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,554 ratings — published 2005
Violent Faculties (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.48 — 524 ratings — published 2024
The Summer I Died (The Roger Huntington Saga, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.87 — 8,838 ratings — published 2006
Off Season (Dead River, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.74 — 21,476 ratings — published 1980
Maeve Fly (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.65 — 31,900 ratings — published 2023
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,830 ratings — published 1996
Brother (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.90 — 86,075 ratings — published 2015
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.60 — 114,240 ratings — published 2018
The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.26 — 604,064 ratings — published 1988
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.33 — 63,705 ratings — published 2013
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 248,360 ratings — published 1985
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 803,048 ratings — published 2015
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 327,372 ratings — published 1970
A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 468,325 ratings — published 1995
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,795,643 ratings — published 1949
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.09 — 214,973 ratings — published 2000
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.53 — 37,050 ratings — published 1978
Out (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.93 — 52,243 ratings — published 1997
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.49 — 218,320 ratings — published 2016
Shutter Island (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.14 — 240,872 ratings — published 2003
Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.86 — 247,642 ratings — published 1979
The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.83 — 57,799 ratings — published 1963
Flowers for Algernon (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.25 — 849,771 ratings — published 1966
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.76 — 115,940 ratings — published 1984
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,327,705 ratings — published 1954
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.19 — 366,677 ratings — published 1995
It Lasts Forever and Then It's Over (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.60 — 22,384 ratings — published 2024
The Whisper Man (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.00 — 222,278 ratings — published 2019
Apt Pupil (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.93 — 44,695 ratings — published 1982
Mother-Eating (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.96 — 141 ratings — published 2025
No Longer Human (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.92 — 292,316 ratings — published 1948
17 anni. Vol. 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.79 — 346 ratings — published 2004
No Longer Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.27 — 23,237 ratings — published 2019
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,162,278 ratings — published 1932
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.66 — 147,317 ratings — published 2022
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,536,443 ratings — published 2005
The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas (Library Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 4.37 — 58,917 ratings — published 1973
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.65 — 465,872 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 — 28,418 ratings — published 2014
Ondskan (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as most-disturbing)
avg rating 3.81 — 12,872 ratings — published 1981