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My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 448,340 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 973,756 ratings — published 1955
Room (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.08 — 847,430 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,398,103 ratings — published 1956
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,485,361 ratings — published 2002
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,602,600 ratings — published 2022
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.28 — 770,197 ratings — published 1982
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,852,341 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,035,933 ratings — published 2007
Yol (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,080,546 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,276,393 ratings — published 1847
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,507,943 ratings — published 1942
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.14 — 467,301 ratings — published 2017
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 2.92 — 59,190 ratings — published 2021
The First Day of Spring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,542 ratings — published 2021
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.36 — 719,931 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 167,213 ratings — published 2020
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.75 — 903,012 ratings — published 2017
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 354,825 ratings — published 1990
American Psycho (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 379,206 ratings — published 1991
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,300,099 ratings — published 1963
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,860,243 ratings — published 2012
Still Missing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 110,382 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,964,826 ratings — published 2005
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.85 — 904,957 ratings — published 2005
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.13 — 801,275 ratings — published 2002
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 501,269 ratings — published 2006
Closer: A Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,396 ratings — published 1997
August: Osage County (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,728 ratings — published 2008
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 793,613 ratings — published 1962
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,532,037 ratings — published 1915
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 580,692 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 5,718,032 ratings — published 1949
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,310,706 ratings — published 1947
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,340 ratings — published 2009
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.05 — 642,811 ratings — published 1999
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 355,724 ratings — published 1995
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.95 — 290,852 ratings — published 1993
The Pharmacist (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.88 — 1,047 ratings — published
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,272,918 ratings — published 2006
The Demon Star (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.25 — 590 ratings — published 2026
Next of Kin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 35,831 ratings — published 2021
TEN-4-FACESp (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.80 — 49 ratings — published 2026
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 94,955 ratings — published 2012
Her First Lie (Hannah Bauer, #0.5)
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avg rating 3.85 — 20,882 ratings — published 2026
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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avg rating 4.55 — 867,685 ratings — published 2000
The Trial (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 417,816 ratings — published 1925
Nobody Knows You're Here (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 33,898 ratings — published 2025
Happy Place (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.93 — 1,532,793 ratings — published 2023
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
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avg rating 4.32 — 92,236 ratings — published 1998
“High CPAP pressures would cause Aerophagia, upsetting my gastrointestinal system.”
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“And as paralyzing and upsetting as all the never agains were, the final leaving felt perfect. Pure. The most distilled possible form of liberation.”
― Paper Towns
― Paper Towns
