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My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.10 — 438,962 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.87 — 961,433 ratings — published 1955
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.08 — 842,706 ratings — published 2010
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,474,681 ratings — published 2002
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,545,172 ratings — published 2022
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.28 — 762,163 ratings — published 1982
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,791,662 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,030,611 ratings — published 2007
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,383,169 ratings — published 1956
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,060,323 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,221,019 ratings — published 1847
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,454,982 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 — 457,654 ratings — published 2017
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 2.93 — 58,332 ratings — published 2021
The First Day of Spring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.90 — 29,688 ratings — published 2021
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.37 — 705,368 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.52 — 164,839 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 — 887,313 ratings — published 2017
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.15 — 350,287 ratings — published 1990
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.80 — 371,383 ratings — published 1991
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,263,122 ratings — published 1963
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,795,229 ratings — published 2012
Still Missing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.01 — 107,949 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,925,434 ratings — published 2005
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.85 — 881,106 ratings — published 2005
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.13 — 792,265 ratings — published 2002
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 498,496 ratings — published 2006
Closer: A Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,325 ratings — published 1997
August: Osage County (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,574 ratings — published 2008
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 787,543 ratings — published 1962
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.04 — 568,612 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,600,495 ratings — published 1948
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,254,319 ratings — published 1947
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.29 — 104,035 ratings — published 2009
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.05 — 637,035 ratings — published 1999
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 347,463 ratings — published 1995
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.95 — 285,546 ratings — published 1993
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.32 — 88,578 ratings — published 1998
The Summer We Fell (The Summer, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.00 — 40,095 ratings — published 2023
You Weren't Meant to Be Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.85 — 11,823 ratings — published 2025
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.50 — 534,174 ratings — published 2015
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.19 — 278,683 ratings — published 1993
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.67 — 83,115 ratings — published 2014
The Double Tax: How Women of Color Are Overcharged and Underpaid (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.35 — 163 ratings — published
When We Flew Away: A Novel of Anne Frank Before the Diary (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.04 — 8,175 ratings — published 2024
The Phantom of the Opera (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.69 — 13 ratings — published
The Peace: A Warrior's Journey (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.92 — 322 ratings — published 2024
Lovesickness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.04 — 13,422 ratings — published 2011
Beautiful World, Where Are You (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.52 — 506,209 ratings — published 2021
“The most upsetting thing about Society’s attitude towards disabled people is that many millions of disabled people became disabled while trying to please Society, the very same bitch that secretly regards them as subhuman.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children
“Disappointed in herself for raising a daughter who would do that?”
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