62 books
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46 voters
Violence Books
Showing 1-50 of 47,954
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
by (shelved 143 times as violence)
avg rating 4.35 — 10,081,147 ratings — published 2008
Catching Fire (The Hunger Games, #2)
by (shelved 95 times as violence)
avg rating 4.36 — 4,238,853 ratings — published 2009
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 81 times as violence)
avg rating 4.00 — 781,047 ratings — published 1962
Fourth Wing (The Empyrean, #1)
by (shelved 71 times as violence)
avg rating 4.57 — 3,735,217 ratings — published 2023
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 68 times as violence)
avg rating 4.12 — 3,792,696 ratings — published 2010
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 67 times as violence)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,026,706 ratings — published 2017
It Ends with Us (It Ends with Us, #1)
by (shelved 66 times as violence)
avg rating 4.07 — 4,720,241 ratings — published 2016
Divergent (Divergent, #1)
by (shelved 56 times as violence)
avg rating 4.13 — 4,429,854 ratings — published 2011
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as violence)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,251,340 ratings — published 1954
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 54 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 652,913 ratings — published 1996
Iron Flame (The Empyrean, #2)
by (shelved 51 times as violence)
avg rating 4.36 — 2,737,304 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 — 4,386,336 ratings — published 2015
The Better Angels of Our Nature: Why Violence Has Declined (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as violence)
avg rating 4.16 — 29,821 ratings — published 2010
The Girl Who Played with Fire (Millennium #2)
by (shelved 45 times as violence)
avg rating 4.26 — 995,557 ratings — published 2006
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as violence)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,643,723 ratings — published 1967
Long Way Down (Hardcover)
by (shelved 44 times as violence)
avg rating 4.24 — 140,491 ratings — published 2017
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as violence)
avg rating 4.15 — 231,358 ratings — published 1985
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
by (shelved 41 times as violence)
avg rating 4.45 — 2,771,819 ratings — published 1996
Insurgent (Divergent, #2)
by (shelved 41 times as violence)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,638,109 ratings — published 2012
Throne of Glass (Throne of Glass, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as violence)
avg rating 4.19 — 2,542,084 ratings — published 2012
The Cruel Prince (The Folk of the Air, #1)
by (shelved 39 times as violence)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,794,728 ratings — published 2018
The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes (The Hunger Games, #0)
by (shelved 36 times as violence)
avg rating 3.99 — 1,239,222 ratings — published 2020
The Girl Who Kicked the Hornet’s Nest (Millennium, #3)
by (shelved 36 times as violence)
avg rating 4.25 — 782,407 ratings — published 2007
Violence: Six Sideways Reflections (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as violence)
avg rating 3.89 — 5,517 ratings — published 2007
The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1)
by (shelved 35 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 3,485,280 ratings — published 2005
Scythe (Arc of a Scythe, #1)
by (shelved 34 times as violence)
avg rating 4.32 — 427,342 ratings — published 2016
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as violence)
avg rating 4.16 — 515,190 ratings — published 2018
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
by (shelved 33 times as violence)
avg rating 4.27 — 866,235 ratings — published 2014
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as violence)
avg rating 3.80 — 371,480 ratings — published 1991
On Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as violence)
avg rating 3.73 — 5,584 ratings — published 1970
The Gift of Fear: Survival Signals That Protect Us from Violence (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as violence)
avg rating 4.18 — 52,492 ratings — published 1997
Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games, #0.5)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.50 — 1,179,349 ratings — published 2025
Onyx Storm (The Empyrean, #3)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.21 — 1,793,893 ratings — published 2025
Haunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 3.94 — 925,017 ratings — published 2021
Educated (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.46 — 1,912,252 ratings — published 2018
A Court of Mist and Fury (A Court of Thorns and Roses, #2)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.63 — 3,329,373 ratings — published 2016
An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.23 — 355,313 ratings — published 2015
The Song of Achilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as violence)
avg rating 4.30 — 2,074,594 ratings — published 2011
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 4.00 — 655,748 ratings — published 2023
Columbine (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 4.29 — 104,061 ratings — published 2009
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as violence)
avg rating 4.17 — 258,134 ratings — published 2005
Raze (Scarred Souls, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 4.08 — 27,173 ratings — published 2014
Captive Prince (Captive Prince, #1)
by (shelved 28 times as violence)
avg rating 3.78 — 127,997 ratings — published 2013
Children of Blood and Bone (Legacy of Orïsha, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 4.10 — 254,159 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 — 2,815,263 ratings — published 2017
The Girl on the Train (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 3.96 — 3,335,671 ratings — published 2015
A Clash of Kings (A Song of Ice and Fire, #2)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,034,977 ratings — published 1998
The Maze Runner (The Maze Runner, #1)
by (shelved 27 times as violence)
avg rating 4.06 — 1,714,464 ratings — published 2009
Hunting Adeline (Cat and Mouse, #2)
by (shelved 26 times as violence)
avg rating 4.07 — 627,912 ratings — published 2022
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as violence)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,602,352 ratings — published 1948
“Learn this now and learn it well. Like a compass facing north, a man’s accusing finger always finds a woman. Always. You remember that, Mariam.”
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
― A Thousand Splendid Suns
“Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.”
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