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A Clockwork Orange
by
Anthony Burgess
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 216,037 ratings
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Fight Club
by
Chuck Palahniuk
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 172,252 ratings
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The Catcher in the Rye
by
J.D. Salinger
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 1,098,644 ratings
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Slaughterhouse-Five
by
Kurt Vonnegut
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 472,150 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
by
Mark Haddon
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 426,341 ratings
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1984
by
George Orwell
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 915,754 ratings
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House of Leaves
by
Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
4.14 of 5 stars 4.14 avg rating — 38,578 ratings
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Watchmen
by
Alan Moore
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 194,871 ratings
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Alice's Adventures in Wonderland & Through the Looking-Glass
by
Lewis Carroll
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 196,045 ratings
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Brave New World
by
Aldous Huxley
3.9 of 5 stars 3.90 avg rating — 550,215 ratings
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Ulysses
by
James Joyce
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 44,225 ratings
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If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
by
Italo Calvino
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 25,356 ratings
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Animal Farm
by
George Orwell
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 991,380 ratings
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
by
Hunter S. Thompson
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 118,145 ratings
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Naked Lunch
by
William S. Burroughs
3.47 of 5 stars 3.47 avg rating — 32,556 ratings
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The Master and Margarita
by
Mikhail Bulgakov
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 60,741 ratings
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Pale Fire
by
Vladimir Nabokov
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 15,896 ratings
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Mrs. Dalloway
by
Virginia Woolf
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 74,442 ratings
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The Trial
by
Franz Kafka
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 65,164 ratings
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The Sound and the Fury
by
William Faulkner
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 75,909 ratings
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On the Road
by
Jack Kerouac
3.66 of 5 stars 3.66 avg rating — 140,727 ratings
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Cloud Atlas
by
David Mitchell
4.07 of 5 stars 4.07 avg rating — 69,400 ratings
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Moby-Dick
by
Herman Melville
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 258,257 ratings
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| 24 |
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American Psycho
by
Bret Easton Ellis
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 79,918 ratings
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Infinite Jest
by
David Foster Wallace
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 23,493 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
by
Gabriel García Márquez
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 325,011 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
by
Joseph Conrad
3.36 of 5 stars 3.36 avg rating — 143,399 ratings
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Carnal: Somewhere Over 40 Winks
by
Rom LcO'Feer
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 69 ratings
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| 29 |
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Gravity's Rainbow
by
Thomas Pynchon
4.03 of 5 stars 4.03 avg rating — 14,798 ratings
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Kafka on the Shore
by
Haruki Murakami
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 72,501 ratings
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Invisible Cities
by
Italo Calvino
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 16,444 ratings
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Catch-22
by
Joseph Heller
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 273,569 ratings
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| 33 |
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The Book Thief
by
Markus Zusak (Goodreads Author)
4.35 of 5 stars 4.35 avg rating — 304,521 ratings
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| 34 |
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Finnegans Wake
by
James Joyce
3.65 of 5 stars 3.65 avg rating — 5,705 ratings
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Life of Pi
by
Yann Martel
3.84 of 5 stars 3.84 avg rating — 483,634 ratings
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The Life and Opinions of Tristram Shandy, Gentleman
by
Laurence Sterne
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 7,168 ratings
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Labyrinths
by
Jorge Luis Borges
4.47 of 5 stars 4.47 avg rating — 12,316 ratings
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Battle Royale
by
Koushun Takami
4.22 of 5 stars 4.22 avg rating — 17,041 ratings
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| 39 |
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Breakfast of Champions
by
Kurt Vonnegut
4.08 of 5 stars 4.08 avg rating — 101,820 ratings
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Never Let Me Go
by
Kazuo Ishiguro
3.76 of 5 stars 3.76 avg rating — 144,926 ratings
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| 41 |
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The Zombie Room
by
R.D. Ronald
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 2,448 ratings
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Notes from Underground
by
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
4.12 of 5 stars 4.12 avg rating — 39,975 ratings
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| 43 |
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Cat's Cradle
by
Kurt Vonnegut
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 129,583 ratings
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| 44 |
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The Things They Carried
by
Tim O'Brien
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 78,227 ratings
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Everything is Illuminated
by
Jonathan Safran Foer
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 82,120 ratings
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| 46 |
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The Elephant Tree
by
R.D. Ronald
3.75 of 5 stars 3.75 avg rating — 2,314 ratings
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Midnight's Children
by
Salman Rushdie
4.02 of 5 stars 4.02 avg rating — 44,010 ratings
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| 48 |
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Waiting for Godot
by
Samuel Beckett
3.78 of 5 stars 3.78 avg rating — 51,383 ratings
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A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
by
James Joyce
3.55 of 5 stars 3.55 avg rating — 55,697 ratings
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Trainspotting
by
Irvine Welsh
4.01 of 5 stars 4.01 avg rating — 55,980 ratings
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Z213: EXIT
by
Dimitris Lyacos
4.76 of 5 stars 4.76 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Meaning Of Theft
by
Peter O'Mahoney
3.85 of 5 stars 3.85 avg rating — 39 ratings
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Things Fall Apart
by
Chinua Achebe
3.52 of 5 stars 3.52 avg rating — 106,553 ratings
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Tales from a New Amsterdam: The Legend
by
Hunter S. Jones (Goodreads Author)
4.5 of 5 stars 4.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Miss Lonelyhearts & The Day of the Locust
by
Nathanael West
3.95 of 5 stars 3.95 avg rating — 4,473 ratings
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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
by
Vladimir Nabokov
4.18 of 5 stars 4.18 avg rating — 4,152 ratings
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| 57 |
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Blood and Guts in High School
by
Kathy Acker
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 1,283 ratings
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| 58 |
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The Third Policeman
by
Flann O'Brien
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 5,706 ratings
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Moore's Mythopoeia
by
Christopher WunderLee
4.38 of 5 stars 4.38 avg rating — 13 ratings
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Atlas Shrugged
by
Ayn Rand
3.67 of 5 stars 3.67 avg rating — 149,364 ratings
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Howl and Other Poems
by
Allen Ginsberg
4.17 of 5 stars 4.17 avg rating — 34,132 ratings
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Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values
by
Robert M. Pirsig
3.69 of 5 stars 3.69 avg rating — 75,383 ratings
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Wake the Wicked
by
Christian Baloga (Goodreads Author)
4.4 of 5 stars 4.40 avg rating — 30 ratings
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My Name is Red
by
Orhan Pamuk
3.77 of 5 stars 3.77 avg rating — 14,782 ratings
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The Unwords
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Non Nomen (Goodreads Author)
4.32 of 5 stars 4.32 avg rating — 91 ratings
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Journey to the End of the Night
by
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 8,970 ratings
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The Chocolate War (Chocolate War, #1)
by
Robert Cormier
3.46 of 5 stars 3.46 avg rating — 19,455 ratings
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The Road
by
Cormac McCarthy
3.93 of 5 stars 3.93 avg rating — 275,144 ratings
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At Swim-Two-Birds
by
Flann O'Brien
3.97 of 5 stars 3.97 avg rating — 4,369 ratings
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
by
Oscar Wilde
3.99 of 5 stars 3.99 avg rating — 254,535 ratings
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The White Hotel
by
D.M. Thomas
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 1,932 ratings
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Journals
by
Kurt Cobain
3.89 of 5 stars 3.89 avg rating — 5,316 ratings
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Maus
by
Art Spiegelman
4.49 of 5 stars 4.49 avg rating — 29,707 ratings
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Molloy, Malone Dies, The Unnamable: A Trilogy
by
Samuel Beckett
4.29 of 5 stars 4.29 avg rating — 3,730 ratings
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A Void
by
Georges Perec
3.83 of 5 stars 3.83 avg rating — 942 ratings
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The Raw Shark Texts
by
Steven Hall (Goodreads Author)
3.87 of 5 stars 3.87 avg rating — 7,574 ratings
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The Mezzanine
by
Nicholson Baker
3.94 of 5 stars 3.94 avg rating — 2,868 ratings
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The Bone People
by
Keri Hulme
4.06 of 5 stars 4.06 avg rating — 9,082 ratings
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Steppenwolf
by
Hermann Hesse
4.05 of 5 stars 4.05 avg rating — 41,230 ratings
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VALIS
by
Philip K. Dick
3.98 of 5 stars 3.98 avg rating — 9,608 ratings
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Lost in the Funhouse
by
John Barth
3.74 of 5 stars 3.74 avg rating — 2,277 ratings
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CivilWarLand in Bad Decline
by
George Saunders
4.25 of 5 stars 4.25 avg rating — 5,282 ratings
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The Fountainhead
by
Ayn Rand
3.8 of 5 stars 3.80 avg rating — 145,389 ratings
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Neuromancer (Sprawl, #1)
by
William Gibson
3.79 of 5 stars 3.79 avg rating — 114,141 ratings
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Last Exit To Brooklyn
by
Hubert Selby Jr.
3.96 of 5 stars 3.96 avg rating — 8,191 ratings
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Huey Lambert's Walking Nuclear Circus
by
Jonathan Culver (Goodreads Author)
4.21 of 5 stars 4.21 avg rating — 14 ratings
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A Son of the Circus
by
John Irving (Goodreads Author)
3.53 of 5 stars 3.53 avg rating — 10,546 ratings
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American Gods
by
Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.1 of 5 stars 4.10 avg rating — 189,309 ratings
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Watt
by
Samuel Beckett
4.04 of 5 stars 4.04 avg rating — 1,110 ratings
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Only Revolutions
by
Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author)
3.19 of 5 stars 3.19 avg rating — 2,829 ratings
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Hopscotch
by
Julio Cortázar
4.27 of 5 stars 4.27 avg rating — 7,927 ratings
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| 92 |
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Dubliners
by
James Joyce
3.86 of 5 stars 3.86 avg rating — 43,887 ratings
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Exercises in Style
by
Raymond Queneau
4.09 of 5 stars 4.09 avg rating — 2,319 ratings
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The Sandman, Vol. 1: Preludes and Nocturnes
by
Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.34 of 5 stars 4.34 avg rating — 63,294 ratings
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Nira/Sussa
by
Julian Darius (Goodreads Author)
3.81 of 5 stars 3.81 avg rating — 62 ratings
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I am an Island
by
Jonathan Culver (Goodreads Author)
4.33 of 5 stars 4.33 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Houdini Heart
by
Ki Longfellow (Goodreads Author)
4.41 of 5 stars 4.41 avg rating — 584 ratings
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The Recognitions
by
William Gaddis
4.26 of 5 stars 4.26 avg rating — 1,617 ratings
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The Journal of Albion Moonlight
by
Kenneth Patchen
4.31 of 5 stars 4.31 avg rating — 311 ratings
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Io Deceneus - Journal of a Time Traveler (The Living Universe, #1)
by
Florian Armas (Goodreads Author)
4.3 of 5 stars 4.30 avg rating — 33 ratings
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