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Bleakness Books
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Dusk (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.14 — 6,862 ratings — published 2024
Juice (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.91 — 8,043 ratings — published 2024
One Life: My Mother's Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,077 ratings — published 2015
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 515,947 ratings — published 2021
Police (Harry Hole, #10)
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avg rating 4.24 — 50,922 ratings — published 2013
The Jungle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 158,037 ratings — published 1906
Whisky from Small Glasses (DCI Daley, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,644 ratings — published 2012
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 69,571 ratings — published 2000
The First Stone (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 968 ratings — published 2003
How It Went Down (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.95 — 7,680 ratings — published 2014
This Is Where It Ends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 156,614 ratings — published 2016
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 49,178 ratings — published 2013
The Princess' Blankets (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 234 ratings — published 2008
This Is Not a Test: The Definitive Edition with Please Remain Calm (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 16,331 ratings — published 2012
Genie: A Scientific Tragedy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,158 ratings — published 1993
Time of the Locust (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 185 ratings — published 2014
The Shrine at Altamira (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 221 ratings — published 1992
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 14,257 ratings — published 2003
Caged Warrior (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.04 — 652 ratings — published 2014
Still Waters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 642 ratings — published 2015
Revolver (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 5,445 ratings — published 2009
Paco's Story (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,023 ratings — published 1986
The Plague (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 333,042 ratings — published 1947
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,810,105 ratings — published 1945
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,527,071 ratings — published 1942
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.46 — 725,773 ratings — published 1952
Rushing to Paradise (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.35 — 950 ratings — published 1994
The Unnamed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.33 — 9,112 ratings — published 2010
Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 30,408 ratings — published 2010
Weep Not Child (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 4,513 ratings — published 1964
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,315,425 ratings — published 1963
Rücken an Rücken (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.27 — 210 ratings — published 2011
Black Boy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 56,725 ratings — published 1945
Palo Alto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.97 — 12,565 ratings — published 2009
Boot Camp (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 6,129 ratings — published 2006
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,403,001 ratings — published 1956
The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)
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avg rating 3.91 — 32,213 ratings — published 2010
The Third Life Of Grange Copeland (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,726 ratings — published 1970
The Sea of Tranquility (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.28 — 89,195 ratings — published 2012
Exegesis (Vintage Contemporaries)
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avg rating 3.58 — 504 ratings — published 1997
Jacob Have I Loved (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 36,535 ratings — published 1980
We Were Liars (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 1,483,441 ratings — published 2014
The Walled City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 7,443 ratings — published 2014
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,819,580 ratings — published 2007
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 296,611 ratings — published 1971
Keeper (Paul Faustino, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,303 ratings — published 2003
“The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
“the bleakest situations bring out the hospitality in all of us, but it's during the harshest we find out how strong we really are.”
― The Black Banner
― The Black Banner