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School Shootings Books
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We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.08 — 218,754 ratings — published 2003
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.29 — 104,200 ratings — published 2009
Nineteen Minutes (Hardcover)
by (shelved 26 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.18 — 429,625 ratings — published 2007
This Is Where It Ends (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.68 — 154,174 ratings — published 2016
Hate List (Hardcover)
by (shelved 18 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.00 — 67,327 ratings — published 2009
Mockingbird (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.20 — 35,960 ratings — published 2010
A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy (ebook)
by (shelved 13 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.14 — 47,333 ratings — published 2016
Give a Boy a Gun (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.79 — 8,581 ratings — published 2000
Violent Ends (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 9 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.98 — 6,501 ratings — published 2015
Endgame (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.74 — 888 ratings — published 2006
Parkland (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.96 — 7,657 ratings — published 2019
Finding Jake (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.97 — 16,670 ratings — published 2015
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.87 — 48,935 ratings — published 2013
No Easy Answers: The Truth Behind Death at Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.02 — 3,327 ratings — published 2002
That's Not What Happened (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.75 — 20,999 ratings — published 2018
Only Child (Hardcover)
by (shelved 7 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.22 — 15,588 ratings — published 2018
Shooter (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.64 — 3,542 ratings — published 2004
Rage (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.70 — 59,327 ratings — published 1977
Simon Sort of Says (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.25 — 6,968 ratings — published 2023
The Shape of Thunder (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.15 — 5,728 ratings — published 2021
Silent Alarm (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 6 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.78 — 1,058 ratings — published 2015
Crash and Burn (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,823 ratings — published 2013
Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,552 ratings — published 2009
The Hour I First Believed (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.84 — 66,512 ratings — published 2008
Sandy Hook (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.27 — 4,063 ratings — published 2022
Newtown: An American Tragedy (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,810 ratings — published 2013
Quad (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.64 — 584 ratings — published 2007
The Life Before Her Eyes (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.32 — 1,834 ratings — published 2002
Please Pay Attention (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.31 — 1,364 ratings — published
Boy Shattered (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.32 — 3,776 ratings — published 2018
Every Moment After (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.68 — 905 ratings — published 2019
Aftermath (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.05 — 3,801 ratings — published 2018
In the Skin of a Monster (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.69 — 779 ratings — published 2015
Our Hearts Will Burn Us Down (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.07 — 773 ratings — published 2016
Underwater (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,167 ratings — published 2016
This Is Not a Drill (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.94 — 1,404 ratings — published 2012
Rampage: The Social Roots of School Shootings (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.87 — 354 ratings — published 2004
Hey Nostradamus! (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.73 — 19,462 ratings — published 2003
After (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.51 — 2,063 ratings — published 2003
The Lucky Ones (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.95 — 4,151 ratings — published 2020
Shooter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,455 ratings — published 2016
Interim (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.12 — 759 ratings — published 2015
Lockdown (Orca Soundings)
by (shelved 3 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.71 — 278 ratings — published 2008
The Light Fantastic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.51 — 575 ratings — published 2016
Luckiest Girl Alive (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.54 — 258,779 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Cuts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.47 — 2,495 ratings — published 2009
School Shooters: Understanding High School, College, and Adult Perpetrators (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.86 — 175 ratings — published 2015
And We Stay (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 3.43 — 5,433 ratings — published 2014
Rachel's Tears: The Spiritual Journey of Columbine Martyr Rachel Scott (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.11 — 4,882 ratings — published 1999
The Reluctant Journal of Henry K. Larsen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as school-shootings)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,029 ratings — published 2012
“Was he evil? I've spent a lot of time wrestling with that question. In the end, I don't think he was. Most people believe suicide is a choice, and violence is a choice; those things are under a person's control. Yet we know from talking to survivors of suicide attempts that their decision-making ability shifts in some way we don't well understand. In our conversation, psychologist and suicide researcher Dr. Matthew Nock at Harvard used a phrase I like very much: dysfunction in decision making. If suicide seems like the only way out of an existence so painful it has become intolerable, is that really an exercise of free will?
Of course, Dylan did not simply die by suicide. He committed murder; he killed people. We've all felt angry enough to fantasize about killing someone else. What allows the vast majority of us to feel appalled and frightened by the mere impulse, and another person to go through with it? If someone chooses to hurt others, what governs the ability to make that choice? If what we think of as evil is really the absence of conscience, then we have to ask, how is it a person ceases to connect with their conscience?”
― A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
Of course, Dylan did not simply die by suicide. He committed murder; he killed people. We've all felt angry enough to fantasize about killing someone else. What allows the vast majority of us to feel appalled and frightened by the mere impulse, and another person to go through with it? If someone chooses to hurt others, what governs the ability to make that choice? If what we think of as evil is really the absence of conscience, then we have to ask, how is it a person ceases to connect with their conscience?”
― A Mother's Reckoning: Living in the Aftermath of Tragedy
“Do you think the Y2K thing is going to mess everything up? Katie asked.
"I don't know. I think everything's already messed up after Columbine. Like, what kind of world do we live in if you can get shot up in your high school?"
"That was horrible. But I think it's kind of a one-time thing. People won't stand for that kind of tragedy to keep happening.”
― All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
"I don't know. I think everything's already messed up after Columbine. Like, what kind of world do we live in if you can get shot up in your high school?"
"That was horrible. But I think it's kind of a one-time thing. People won't stand for that kind of tragedy to keep happening.”
― All Out: The No-Longer-Secret Stories of Queer Teens throughout the Ages
