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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 144 times as violence)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,232,925 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 96 times as violence)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,311,177 ratings — published 2009
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as violence)
avg rating 4.00 — 789,866 ratings — published 1962
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 77 times as violence)
avg rating 4.56 — 3,907,748 ratings — published 2023
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 69 times as violence)
avg rating 4.13 — 3,855,158 ratings — published 2010
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as violence)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,039,895 ratings — published 2017
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as violence)
avg rating 4.06 — 4,808,491 ratings — published 2016
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as violence)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,475,893 ratings — published 2011
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as violence)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,301,269 ratings — published 1954
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 661,693 ratings — published 1996
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
by (shelved 53 times as violence)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,856,836 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 — 4,538,567 ratings — published 2015
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as violence)
avg rating 4.15 — 29,963 ratings — published 2010
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 47 times as violence)
avg rating 4.24 — 142,901 ratings — published 2017
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as violence)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,679,745 ratings — published 1967
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 45 times as violence)
avg rating 4.26 — 1,003,015 ratings — published 2006
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as violence)
avg rating 4.14 — 241,937 ratings — published 1985
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as violence)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,805,430 ratings — published 1996
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as violence)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,652,339 ratings — published 2012
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 2,652,402 ratings — published 2012
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as violence)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,853,911 ratings — published 2018
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 38 times as violence)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,576 ratings — published 2007
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 37 times as violence)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,288,143 ratings — published 2020
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 36 times as violence)
avg rating 4.25 — 787,665 ratings — published 2007
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as violence)
avg rating 4.15 — 542,604 ratings — published 2018
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as violence)
avg rating 4.27 — 952,834 ratings — published 2014
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,517,236 ratings — published 2005
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as violence)
avg rating 4.32 — 440,442 ratings — published 2016
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 33 times as violence)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,279,179 ratings — published 2025
On Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as violence)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,726 ratings — published 1970
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as violence)
avg rating 3.80 — 379,547 ratings — published 1991
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
by (shelved 32 times as violence)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,904,005 ratings — published 2025
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 53,454 ratings — published 1997
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 31 times as violence)
avg rating 3.94 — 963,510 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as violence)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,959,144 ratings — published 2018
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as violence)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,152,767 ratings — published 2011
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,441,354 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.23 — 361,743 ratings — published 2015
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 4.00 — 686,578 ratings — published 2023
Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 3.78 — 131,738 ratings — published 2013
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 4.17 — 266,285 ratings — published 2005
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,376,935 ratings — published 2015
Raze (Scarred Souls, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 4.08 — 27,268 ratings — published 2014
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 4.29 — 105,398 ratings — published 2009
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 4.10 — 257,659 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 — 2,913,131 ratings — published 2017
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,047,325 ratings — published 1998
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,740,702 ratings — published 2009
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as violence)
avg rating 4.07 — 652,847 ratings — published 2022
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as violence)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,723,676 ratings — published 1949
“Violence, naked force, has settled more issues in history than has any other factor.”
― Starship Troopers
― Starship Troopers
“In 2012 about 56 million people died throughout the world; 620,000 of them died due to human violence (war killed 120,000 people, and crime killed another 500,000). In contrast, 800,000 committed suicide, and 1.5 million died of diabetes. Sugar is now more dangerous than gunpowder.”
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
― Homo Deus: A History of Tomorrow
