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Framed & Hunted: A True Story of Occult Persecution
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Edward Williams (Goodreads Author)
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A Very Bad Thing
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J.T. Ellison (Goodreads Author)
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Mean Spirited
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Nick Roberts (Goodreads Author)
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The Standoff (Jack Widow, #12)
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Scott Blade (Goodreads Author)
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The Book of the Dead (Pendergast, #7; Diogenes, #3)
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Douglas Preston (Goodreads Author)
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The Innocent Man: Murder and Injustice in a Small Town
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
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The Witches of Scotland (The Dream Dancers: Akashic Chronicles, #1)
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Steven P. Aitchison (Goodreads Author)
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The Girls Are Gone: The True Story of Two Sisters Who Vanished, the Father Who Kept Searching, and the Adults Who Conspired to Keep the Truth Hidden
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Michael Brodkorb (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 7,428 ratings
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The Last Guest House
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Caroline Mitchell (Goodreads Author)
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Wayward Spirits (Witches of Palmetto Point #2)
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Wendy Wang (Goodreads Author)
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Framed: Astonishing True Stories of Wrongful Convictions
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John Grisham (Goodreads Author)
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Black Fox: An Indigenous Horror Novel
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The Elephant Tree
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Devil's Snare (Witches of Palmetto Point #3)
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Wendy Wang (Goodreads Author)
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Fahrenheit 451
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Requiem for a Dream
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Invisible Monsters
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
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The Wasp Factory
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A Clockwork Orange
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Fight Club
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
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Factotum
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Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
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American Psycho
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Lunar Park
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Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
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Island
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To Read or Not to Read
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Vincent Hobbes (Goodreads Author)
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Moon Palace
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The Hour of the Time
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Vincent Hobbes (Goodreads Author)
3.44 avg rating — 399 ratings
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The Cement Garden
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.53 avg rating — 35,082 ratings
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The Endlands (Volume 1)
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Vincent Hobbes (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 134 ratings
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Less Than Zero
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Choke
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 219,943 ratings
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The Blade Artist (Mark Renton, #4)
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Dead Men's Trousers
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Survivor
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 123,366 ratings
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Junky
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Tampa
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Alissa Nutting (Goodreads Author)
3.33 avg rating — 56,605 ratings
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The Trial
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Imperial Bedrooms
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L'Assommoir
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Dust
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Allison M. Dickson (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 304 ratings
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Invisible Cities
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The Brothers Karamazov
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The Death of Bunny Munro
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Dreams of Leaving
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Haunted
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 110,620 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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Story of the Eye
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Tree of Smoke
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The Bell Jar
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The Fall
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On the Road
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Porno (Mark Renton, #3)
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The 120 Days of Sodom
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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
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Pale Fire
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Piercing
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The Theater of Dusk
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Lizbeth Gabriel (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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Neil Gaiman (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 654,267 ratings
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Nobody Move
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Guts
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.87 avg rating — 15,172 ratings
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Money
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The Rum Diary
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Lord of the Flies
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A Decent Ride (Terry Lawson, #3)
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Notes of a Dirty Old Man
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Crash
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Ubik
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Hope: A Tragedy
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The Wanting Seed
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And the Ass Saw the Angel
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Invitation to a Beheading
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Time's Arrow
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Darkness at Noon
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Henry and June: The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin, 1931-1932
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The Sluts
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High Strangeness
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Eric Bickernicks (Goodreads Author)
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Invisible
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Dark Rooms
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Lili Anolik (Goodreads Author)
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The Outsiders
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S.E. Hinton (Goodreads Author)
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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The Comfort of Strangers
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The Stargazers
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Diary
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
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THEY
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The Name of the Rose
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Glamorama
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Reheated Cabbage
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Ham on Rye
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The Stranger
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Dark Places
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Dubliners
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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The Road
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Heart of a Dog
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Mysterious Skin
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Damned (Damned, #1)
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
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Complicity
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