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As a modified person, it has taken me quite some time to discover all of these books. Here is a quick go-to list for anyone interested in Body Modification.
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The Illustrated Man
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4.13 avg rating — 106,422 ratings
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The Tattoo Chronicles
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High Voltage Tattoo
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3.92 avg rating — 2,074 ratings
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Body Piercing: The Body Art Manual
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3.80 avg rating — 40 ratings
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Geek Ink: The World's Smartest Tattoos for Rebels, Nerds, Scientists, and Intellectuals
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3.81 avg rating — 93 ratings
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Heavily Tattooed Men & Women
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3.78 avg rating — 9 ratings
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Science Ink: Tattoos of the Science Obsessed
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Carl Zimmer (Goodreads Author)
3.86 avg rating — 1,267 ratings
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Tattoo Darling: The Art of Angelique Houtkamp
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4.43 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Ink & Steel: The Body Modification Photography of Efrain John Gonzalez
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score: 96,
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Body Piercing
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Andrew Dunbar (Photographer)
3.19 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 95,
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The Piercing Bible: The Definitive Guide to Safe Body Piercing
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4.44 avg rating — 381 ratings
score: 94,
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Badlands: Photographs
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Charles Gatewood (photographer)
4.35 avg rating — 17 ratings
score: 93,
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Changed Flesh
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Alex Severin (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
score: 92,
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Tattoo: Secrets of a Strange Art
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3.15 avg rating — 27 ratings
score: 91,
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The Tattooed Lady: A History
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3.83 avg rating — 179 ratings
score: 90,
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Loud in the House of Myself: Memoir of a Strange Girl
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Stacy Pershall (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 3,893 ratings
score: 89,
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The Body Aesthetic: From Fine Art to Body Modification
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Tobin Siebers (Editor)
4.43 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 88,
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Body Modification & Fashion
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0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 87,
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Running the Gauntlet
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4.38 avg rating — 34 ratings
score: 86,
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Bodies of Subversion: A Secret History of Women and Tattoo
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Margot Mifflin (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 563 ratings
score: 85,
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Tattoo Special: Goliath Wallpaper of Fame - Issue 01
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Charles Gatewood (Photographer)
0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings
score: 84,
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Under the Skin: A Psychoanalytic Study of Body Modification (The New Library of Psychoanalysis 'Beyond the Couch' Series)
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4.07 avg rating — 57 ratings
score: 83,
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Primitives: Tribal Body Art and the Left Hand Path
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score: 82,
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Sharp Objects
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Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 1,196,936 ratings
score: 80,
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The Tattoo History Source Book
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3.91 avg rating — 132 ratings
score: 79,
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The Word Made Flesh: Literary Tattoos from Bookworms Worldwide
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Eva Talmadge (Goodreads Author)
3.61 avg rating — 895 ratings
score: 78,
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Scar Factory: Extreme Body Modification in Japan
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score: 77,
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Customizing The Body: The Art and Culture of Tattooing
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3.82 avg rating — 39 ratings
score: 76,
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ModCon: The Secret World Of Extreme Body Modification
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4.43 avg rating — 23 ratings
score: 75,
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Body Modification: Castration, Lip Piercing, Bodybuilding, Body Art, Corset, Scarification, Trepanning, Foot Binding, Adornment, Body Piercing
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4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
score: 74,
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The World of Tattoo: An Illustrated History
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3.71 avg rating — 38 ratings
score: 73,
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The Cosmetic Gaze: Body Modification and the Construction of Beauty
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3.73 avg rating — 11 ratings
score: 72,
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Permanence: Tattoo Portraits
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3.79 avg rating — 147 ratings
score: 71,
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Body Modification
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Mike Featherstone (Editor)
3.83 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 70,
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In the Flesh: The Cultural Politics of Body Modification
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3.63 avg rating — 120 ratings
score: 69,
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The Big Book of Tattoo
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4.20 avg rating — 10 ratings
score: 67,
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Re/Search #12: Modern Primitives
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V. Vale (Editor)
4.11 avg rating — 579 ratings
score: 66,
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia
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4.26 avg rating — 338 ratings
score: 65,
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Tattoo Machine: Tall Tales, True Stories, and My Life in Ink
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Jeff Johnson (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 591 ratings
score: 64,
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopaedia Volume II
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4.37 avg rating — 393 ratings
score: 63,
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Russian Criminal Tattoo Encyclopedia, Volume III
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Fuel (Illustrator)
4.33 avg rating — 257 ratings
score: 62,
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Ink: The Not-Just-Skin-Deep Guide to Getting a Tattoo
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3.64 avg rating — 114 ratings
score: 61,
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Written on the Body: The Tattoo in European and American History
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Jane Caplan (Editor)
3.80 avg rating — 76 ratings
score: 60,
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Tattoo Mystique: The Art and World of Angelique Houtkamp
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4.34 avg rating — 61 ratings
score: 59,
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Tattoo Delirium
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3.61 avg rating — 18 ratings
score: 58,
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Bodies of Inscription: A Cultural History of the Modern Tattoo Community
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3.67 avg rating — 101 ratings
score: 57,
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An Armchair Guide to Tattoos, Including the History of Tattooing, Many Different Types of Tattoos and Biographies of Tattoo Artists Including Kat Von D and Ami James and More
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score: 56,
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Encyclopedia of Body Adornment
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4.56 avg rating — 9 ratings
score: 55,
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Return of the Tribal: A Celebration of Body Adornment
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3.77 avg rating — 22 ratings
score: 54,
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Spiritual Tattoo: A Cultural History of Tattooing, Piercing, Scarification, Branding and Implants
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3.40 avg rating — 40 ratings
score: 53,
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Faces around the World: A Cultural Encyclopedia of the Human Face
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3.71 avg rating — 7 ratings
score: 52,
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