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Permanent Obscurity: Or a Cautionary Tale of Two Girls and Their Misadventures with Drugs, Pornography and Death
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Generation X: Tales for an Accelerated Culture
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Superman: Red Son
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Here Comes a Candle
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The Ninth Wave
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Dead Babies
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Batman: The Joker's Last Laugh
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Black Sun Rising (The Coldfire Trilogy, #1)
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Harley Quinn, Volume 2: Power Outage
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Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator)
3.86 avg rating — 3,134 ratings
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Crown of Shadows (The Coldfire Trilogy, #3)
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Harley Quinn, Volume 5: The Joker's Last Laugh
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Amanda Conner (Writer/Illustrator)
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When True Night Falls (The Coldfire Trilogy, #2)
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The Summer Hikaru Died, Vol. 1
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Superman: Emperor Joker
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Lady of Mercy (The Sundered, #3)
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Batman: Joker's Asylum
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Children of the Blood (The Sundered, #2)
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Batgirl, Vol. 2: Son of Penguin
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Hope Larson (Writer)
3.65 avg rating — 1,184 ratings
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Chains of Darkness, Chains of Light (The Sundered, #4)
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The Joker: Death of the Family
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Into the Dark Lands (The Sundered, #1)
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Batman: Cacophony
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The Initiate (Time Master #1)
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Unintended Consequences
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4.48 avg rating — 761 ratings
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Batman: Dead to Rights (Batman Confidential, #5)
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3.55 avg rating — 362 ratings
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The Outcast (Time Master #2)
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Forever Evil
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Geoff Johns (Writer)
4.02 avg rating — 4,173 ratings
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The Master (Time Master #3)
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| 630 |
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Batman & Robin, Vol. 3: Batman & Robin Must Die!
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Grant Morrison (Writer)
4.07 avg rating — 8,274 ratings
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Flashpoint
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Geoff Johns (Writer)
4.23 avg rating — 18,930 ratings
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Gotham City Sirens #1
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Batman: Europa
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3.52 avg rating — 1,571 ratings
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Franz Kafka's The Castle
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David Fishelson (Adapter)
4.10 avg rating — 28,634 ratings
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Pet Shop of Horrors, Vol. 1 (Pet Shop of Horrors, #1)
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4.22 avg rating — 6,329 ratings
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Jem and the Holograms, Vol. 1: Showtime
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Kelly Thompson (Goodreads Author)
4.11 avg rating — 2,788 ratings
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Ghostbusters Deviations
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Kelly Thompson (Goodreads Author)
3.36 avg rating — 33 ratings
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Ghostbusters Omnibus Volume 1
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3.85 avg rating — 72 ratings
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Ghostbusters: Ghost Busted
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Ghostbusters, Volume 3: Haunted America
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Erik Burnham (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 286 ratings
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Ghostbusters, Volume 5: The New Ghostbusters
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Erik Burnham (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 287 ratings
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Grandes Horizontales: The Lives and Legends of Four Nineteenth-Century Courtesans
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Virginia Rounding (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 210 ratings
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An Illuminated Life: Belle da Costa Greene's Journey from Prejudice to Privilege
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3.85 avg rating — 553 ratings
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Privilege and Scandal: The Remarkable Life of Harriet Spencer, Sister of Georgiana
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The Courtesans: The Demi-Monde in Nineteenth-Century France
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3.54 avg rating — 193 ratings
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Sin in the Second City: Madams, Ministers, Playboys, and the Battle for America's Soul
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Karen Abbott (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 13,147 ratings
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Courtesans: Money, Sex and Fame in the Nineteenth Century
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The Courtesan’s Revenge
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The Mistress of Paris
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Catherine Hewitt (Goodreads Author)
3.74 avg rating — 694 ratings
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England's Mistress: The Infamous Life of Emma Hamilton
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Kate Williams (Goodreads Author)
3.90 avg rating — 1,052 ratings
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Princesse of Versaille
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4.30 avg rating — 43 ratings
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Queen Isabella: Treachery, Adultery, and Murder in Medieval England
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Mistress of the Monarchy: The Life of Katherine Swynford, Duchess of Lancaster
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Lucrezia Borgia: Life, Love, and Death in Renaissance Italy
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The Friends of Eddie Coyle
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Catherine de Medici: Renaissance Queen of France
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Salvation of a Saint (Detective Galileo, #2)
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4.01 avg rating — 25,848 ratings
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The Serpent and the Moon: Two Rivals for the Love of a Renaissance King
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Love and Louis XIV: The Women in the Life of the Sun King
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Act of Passion
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Nell Gwyn: Mistress to a King
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3.85 avg rating — 586 ratings
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The Prague Cemetery
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The Girl Who Loved Camellias: The Life and Legend of Marie Duplessis
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3.41 avg rating — 370 ratings
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Inferno
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The Devotion of Suspect X (Detective Galileo, #1)
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One for Hell
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The Killer: A Psychological Thriller
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In Free Fall
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The Moon in the Gutter
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Libra
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Blood Simple and Raising Arizona
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His Name Was Death
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The Far Cry
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The Singer
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Nightfall
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Street of No Return
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Ashes
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The Burglar
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All She Was Worth
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The Prone Gunman
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Chourmo
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Total Chaos (Marseilles Trilogy, #1)
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The Restraint of Beasts
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Rachelle wrote: "Lmfao Bill Clinton. Haha the bible."Both of those made me laugh.
Are we Voting correctly?? I have recanted my votes for Dexter, Locke Lamora, Parker and John Dortmunder.True Dexter is not a nice person, but in the books he is written as the good guy, there are even worse characters that are the Villeins.
There are well written Villeins I empathies with. Jim Butcher's "Gentleman" Johnny Marcone comes to mind. As well Kim Harrison's Al and Trent.
I think I will give this more thought before I vote.
The bible? Bill Clinton? Harry Potter?Who made this list cause they are morons.... A "bad guy" is not just someone that some people in the book hate (ie Harry Potter I guess) they are legitimate bad guys (ie American Psycho)
Also how the hell does the Bible belong on anyway shape or form? Not to mention the many others....
Megan wrote: "The bible? Bill Clinton? Harry Potter?Who made this list cause they are morons.... A "bad guy" is not just someone that some people in the book hate (ie Harry Potter I guess) they are legitima..."
I started the list, Megan, but no one person "made this list." You add the books you think you belong, and other people do the same. I agree with you that none of those you mentioned belong on the list, but it's a group effort. If you feel strongly about it, you can get your friends to vote other stuff higher up the list until those fall even lower.
The Bible, cheering Satan. Bill Clinton...well there are some people who root for Ken Starre I guess. And Harry Potter, oh come on. You know some people root for Malfoy. It's called Rooting for the Bad Guy, meaning you want the "Bad Guy" to win. Not meaning that Harry Potter is a "bad guy". And Twilight, I am confused too. Do they mean Jacob, Victoria, Laurant, or James? I could be down with any of them.
New Moon of the Twilight series would be my #1 where I was totally hoping the villain would prevail...anything to make the whining STOP!
Amelia wrote: "New Moon of the Twilight series would be my #1 where I was totally hoping the villain would prevail...anything to make the whining STOP!"Ha!
I'm loving how the King James Bible is included on this list.Bravo, good sir.
*Caitlinn!* wrote: "Twilight?"Well Vampires are evil and bad lol
I love how Something Borrowed is on this list. Rachel is the bad friend stealing her bff's fiance! but you root for her cuz she is good, if that makes any sense! lol
Umm, how is Eldest on this list?
Seriously? Who on the "bad guy" list in Eldest would be worth rooting for? Or, maybe they just hated the book and wanted Eragon to die?
The bible should never be on any lists on this site. i labeled it under scifi/fantasy/horror. jesus was the original zombie
caitlin wrote: "Twilight?"yes, we wanted James to win, so she would be dead. Looking back on that book, I really don't understand why I liked it so much. I almost hate it now.
Unless their counting Edward as the bad guy because he's a vampire, I could see why they would be rooting for him.
People where rooting for Patrick Bateman? I liked that book, but... What the entire fuck?
interesting list,i can't believe only now i came across it...
The Phantom of the Opera should be #1. What is number 1 anyway?
I think the "bad guy" they are referring to in Harry Potter is Snape.
Dexter is a good guy by morality's standards, but a bad guy according to the law. Personally, I love, love, love Dexter!
Kandice wrote: "I think the "bad guy" they are referring to in Harry Potter is Snape."Yes, I agree! But who is the bad guy in Holes? I thought she was the bad woman.
What kind of twisted person roots for the bad guy in Lolita? How can anyone be cool with pedophilia?
This is a tricky list to vote for because there are multiple possible reasons to vote: -Sympathizing with an antagonist or villain protagonist, or simply viewing them as cool/awesome, without viewing them as in the right
-Enjoying a book with a significant degree of moral ambiguity where the line between hero and villain is blurred
-Viewing the antagonist or villain protagonist of a book as the real hero
-Rooting for the villain of a badly written book because the protagonists are unsympathetic
I don't think it should be assumed that people are sick in the head because they voted for stuff like Lolita or The Killing Joke.
Joseph wrote: "The bible should never be on any lists on this site. i labeled it under scifi/fantasy/horror. jesus was the original zombie"Did you read the book or just the blurb? Jesus certainly wasn't the first to return from death...
The System(The Turner Diaries) are the true heroes of the story and don’t allow anyone to say otherwise.
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Anyone can add books to this list.
How to Vote
To vote on existing books from the list, beside each book there is a link vote for this book clicking it will add that book to your votes.
To vote on books not in the list or books you couldn't find in the list, you can click on the tab add books to this list and then choose from your books, or simply search.
