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My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 452,398 ratings — published 2020
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 980,787 ratings — published 1955
Room (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.08 — 849,557 ratings — published 2010
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,405,409 ratings — published 1956
The Lovely Bones (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 2,490,603 ratings — published 2002
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,630,050 ratings — published 2022
The Color Purple (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.28 — 774,258 ratings — published 1982
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,882,875 ratings — published 2010
Thirteen Reasons Why (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,038,322 ratings — published 2007
Yol (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,091,242 ratings — published 2006
Wuthering Heights (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 2,299,541 ratings — published 1847
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,533,869 ratings — published 1942
Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 472,198 ratings — published 2017
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 2.92 — 59,666 ratings — published 2021
The First Day of Spring (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.90 — 30,887 ratings — published 2021
American Dirt (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 727,082 ratings — published 2020
Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.52 — 168,591 ratings — published 2020
Between Shades of Gray (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.36 — 288,211 ratings — published 2011
They Both Die at the End (They Both Die at the End, #1)
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avg rating 3.75 — 910,111 ratings — published 2017
The Things They Carried (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 356,734 ratings — published 1990
American Psycho (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 383,047 ratings — published 1991
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,320,406 ratings — published 1963
The Fault in Our Stars (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 5,891,303 ratings — published 2012
Still Missing (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.01 — 111,260 ratings — published 2010
The Book Thief (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.39 — 2,983,992 ratings — published 2005
Never Let Me Go (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.85 — 916,829 ratings — published 2005
Coraline (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 806,311 ratings — published 2002
Sarah's Key (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as upsetting)
avg rating 4.18 — 502,656 ratings — published 2006
Closer: A Play (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 5,420 ratings — published 1997
August: Osage County (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 19,798 ratings — published 2008
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 796,777 ratings — published 1962
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,567,106 ratings — published 1915
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 587,444 ratings — published 1985
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,779,959 ratings — published 1949
The Diary of a Young Girl (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.20 — 4,338,233 ratings — published 1947
Columbine (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 105,903 ratings — published 2009
Speak (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 645,391 ratings — published 1999
Blindness (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.19 — 365,389 ratings — published 1995
Girl, Interrupted (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 293,284 ratings — published 1993
The Shack: Where Tragedy Confronts Eternity (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 1 time as upsetting)
avg rating 3.85 — 706,881 ratings — published 2007
One Day, Everyone Will Have Always Been Against This (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.55 — 80,200 ratings — published 2025
The Shampoo Effect (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 106,132 ratings — published 2026
The Pharmacist (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 1,088 ratings — published
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 1,284,609 ratings — published 2006
The Demon Star (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.97 — 1,719 ratings — published 2026
Next of Kin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 40,423 ratings — published 2021
TEN-4-FACESp (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.66 — 65 ratings — published 2026
Between Two Fires (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.17 — 106,281 ratings — published 2012
Her First Lie (Hannah Bauer, #0.5)
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avg rating 3.84 — 24,501 ratings — published 2026
A Storm of Swords (A Song of Ice and Fire, #3)
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avg rating 4.55 — 872,742 ratings — published 2000
“Just keep smiling, and one-day life will get tired of upsetting you.”
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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
