10 The Winner's Trilogy - Marie Rutkoski 9 Sunrise on the Reaping - Suzanne Collins 8 Mr Salary - Sally Rooney 7 Convenience Store Woman - Sayaka Murata 6 Lord of the Flies - William Golding 5 The State of Affairs: Rethinking Infidelity - Esther Perel 4 Everyone in This Room Will Someday Be Dead - Emily Austin 3 The Boys in the Boat - Daniel James Brown 2 Simple Passion - Annie Ernaux 1 I Who Have Never Known Men - Jacqueline Harpman

Scarring in a much different way than I expected it to be. I've heard that Gone to See the River Man is deeply fucked up, but I thought that was because Kristopher Triana is considered a splatterpunk author. I was ready for body horror on body horror and we got a few deeply gruesome scenes, but I realize now that the aversion people have to this book is not from the gore. It's from the brother sister rape scenes. Which yes, were incredibly disturbing, especially with the add