352 books
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191 voters
Violence Books
Showing 1-50 of 48,451
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 143 times as violence)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,157,173 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 95 times as violence)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,275,214 ratings — published 2009
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as violence)
avg rating 4.00 — 785,512 ratings — published 1962
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 73 times as violence)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,821,030 ratings — published 2023
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 68 times as violence)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,824,117 ratings — published 2010
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as violence)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,033,594 ratings — published 2017
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as violence)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,764,857 ratings — published 2016
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as violence)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,453,578 ratings — published 2011
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as violence)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,277,471 ratings — published 1954
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 657,112 ratings — published 1996
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
by (shelved 52 times as violence)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,797,271 ratings — published 2023
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #1)
by (shelved 48 times as violence)
avg rating 4.15 — 4,462,202 ratings — published 2015
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as violence)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,902 ratings — published 2010
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 46 times as violence)
avg rating 4.24 — 141,823 ratings — published 2017
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 45 times as violence)
avg rating 4.26 — 999,352 ratings — published 2006
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as violence)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,663,075 ratings — published 1967
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as violence)
avg rating 4.15 — 236,489 ratings — published 1985
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as violence)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,787,666 ratings — published 1996
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as violence)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,645,568 ratings — published 2012
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,598,563 ratings — published 2012
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as violence)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,823,938 ratings — published 2018
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as violence)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,549 ratings — published 2007
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 36 times as violence)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,264,358 ratings — published 2020
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 36 times as violence)
avg rating 4.25 — 785,090 ratings — published 2007
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as violence)
avg rating 4.27 — 907,505 ratings — published 2014
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,500,737 ratings — published 2005
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as violence)
avg rating 4.32 — 434,019 ratings — published 2016
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as violence)
avg rating 4.15 — 529,122 ratings — published 2018
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as violence)
avg rating 3.80 — 375,221 ratings — published 1991
On Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as violence)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,654 ratings — published 1970
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,016 ratings — published 1997
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
by (shelved 31 times as violence)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,849,590 ratings — published 2025
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as violence)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,935,635 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as violence)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,109,503 ratings — published 2011
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,231,888 ratings — published 2025
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 3.94 — 942,248 ratings — published 2021
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,385,613 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.23 — 358,674 ratings — published 2015
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 4.00 — 671,978 ratings — published 2023
Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 3.78 — 129,970 ratings — published 2013
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 4.17 — 262,357 ratings — published 2005
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,355,787 ratings — published 2015
Raze (Scarred Souls, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 4.08 — 27,219 ratings — published 2014
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 4.29 — 104,785 ratings — published 2009
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 4.10 — 255,692 ratings — published 2018
A Court of Wings and Ruin (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #3)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 4.46 — 2,864,902 ratings — published 2017
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,040,970 ratings — published 1998
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,727,639 ratings — published 2009
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as violence)
avg rating 4.07 — 639,618 ratings — published 2022
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as violence)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,661,913 ratings — published 1948
“I wanted to punch him and understand him at the same time.”
― Take Me Tomorrow
― Take Me Tomorrow
“Josh's heart soared as he got a taste of the power and endurance in his elk body.”
― Down in the Valley
― Down in the Valley












