Top Ten Tuesday: Books That Were Hard For Me To Read

I decided that I would start participating in these challenges (even though I am starting a day late:S)

These challenges are created by Broke and Bookish and can be found HERE. 

September 30th: Top Ten Books That Were Hard For Me To Read (because difficult of book, subject matter, because it was cringeworthy-- however you want to interpret)

LETS BEGIN! (in no particular order):

1: Dirty Little Secret - Jennifer Echols. I found this book difficult to read because of the main male love interest, and the protagonists family (who were just horrible to her). It was written well, I just did not like like the plot or the characters and this made it difficult for me to read. 

2. September Girls - Bennett Madison. I think the main thing that made this book hard to read was how females are written within it. They are all blonde, big boobs big butts skinny everywhere else, and you can't forget to mention that they are all called ho's. 

3. The Gathering - Isobelle Carmody. This was just SO HARD to read. I think it was because I was fourteen, and there was animal torture among other things. This is also the first book I remember crying over. I was so upset, and it is why I will never be able to read another of her books because this destroyed me completely (even though Isobelle is an amazing author). Sorry.

4. Stolen - Lucy Christopher. This was just a really confronting topic, it was crazy and insane but something that is 100% plausible. And that is why I found it difficult to read, because what would I have done in Gemma's shoes?

5. The Alchemist - Paulo Coelho. This book is so short, but yet it took me half a year to read. Call me lazy, but I found this book difficult to read and so I would read like 5 pages and would then put it down for another month. In the end I thought it was an enlightening book, but one that was incredibly tough to read. 

6. From Ashes - Molly McAdams. This book. Just no. Read my review if you want to know more. But if there was a book i'd want to drown this would be it.

7. Such a Pretty Girl - Laura Wiess. I think this book, made me realise the police/family/etc aren't always there to help you. And that sucks, and this book sucked (because of the events that occur within it). And when you realise that, that is a pretty painful thing to know.

8. The Burn Journals - Brent Runyon. This memoir was crushing. It was a very fast read, but it was painful to read, yet important to read at the same time. 

9. Life After Death - Damien Echols. I think if I was put on death row for a crime I didn't commit, I may have taken a different route than what Damien took. This book was an eye opener, and sad because it would have been so hard to live more years on death row than you had outside of prison.

10. The Catcher in the Rye - J.D. Salinger. The first time I read this, it was for school, I was 16, and me and Holden were not two peas in a pod to put it lightly. Therefore it took me a while to read this tiny book. But the older I got, Holden grew on me, and this is now a novel I can appreciate, while still thinking the protagonist complains too much, haha.


So that is it, for my first top ten tuesday, and again sorry its late. 
Have a lovely day :)