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Upsetting Books
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My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.09 — 443,634 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.87 — 967,265 ratings — published 1955
Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.08 — 844,931 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.38 — 1,390,593 ratings — published 1956
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.86 — 2,479,744 ratings — published 2002
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.43 — 1,572,013 ratings — published 2022
The Color Purple (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.28 — 765,846 ratings — published 1982
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,819,785 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.83 — 1,033,172 ratings — published 2007
The Road (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,069,820 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,248,971 ratings — published 1847
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,478,415 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 — 462,108 ratings — published 2017
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 2.92 — 58,757 ratings — published 2021
The First Day of Spring (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.90 — 30,133 ratings — published 2021
American Dirt (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.36 — 712,359 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.52 — 165,975 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 — 894,210 ratings — published 2017
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.15 — 352,609 ratings — published 1990
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.80 — 374,685 ratings — published 1991
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,279,337 ratings — published 1963
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.12 — 5,824,817 ratings — published 2012
Still Missing (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.01 — 109,141 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,943,772 ratings — published 2005
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.85 — 892,090 ratings — published 2005
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.13 — 796,347 ratings — published 2002
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 499,827 ratings — published 2006
Closer: A Play (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.97 — 5,369 ratings — published 1997
August: Osage County (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.14 — 19,675 ratings — published 2008
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 790,469 ratings — published 1962
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,504,574 ratings — published 1915
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.04 — 574,172 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,653,637 ratings — published 1948
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.20 — 4,280,038 ratings — published 1947
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.29 — 104,693 ratings — published 2009
Speak (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.05 — 639,280 ratings — published 1999
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 351,015 ratings — published 1995
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 3.95 — 288,025 ratings — published 1993
Her First Lie (Hannah Bauer, #.5)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.88 — 14,437 ratings — published 2026
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.55 — 860,575 ratings — published 2000
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.94 — 412,104 ratings — published 1925
Nobody Knows You're Here (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.03 — 26,815 ratings — published
Happy Place (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.93 — 1,502,845 ratings — published 2023
Parable of the Talents (Earthseed, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.32 — 90,217 ratings — published 1998
The Summer We Fell (The Summer, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.00 — 40,697 ratings — published 2023
You Weren't Meant to Be Human (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.81 — 14,350 ratings — published 2025
Golden Son (Red Rising Saga, #2)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.51 — 558,041 ratings — published 2015
Parable of the Sower (Earthseed, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 4.19 — 284,611 ratings — published 1993
Acceptance (Southern Reach, #3)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.67 — 84,262 ratings — published 2014
“Just keep smiling, and one-day life will get tired of upsetting you.”
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“When we are easily upset it is because we are internally unstable and unrefined spiritually.”
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
― Simple Reminders: Inspiration for Living Your Best Life
