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Compulsion (The Heirs of Watson Island, #1)
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avg rating 3.84 — 3,290 ratings — published 2014
Earthlings (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 115,251 ratings — published 2018
A Bone Dead Sadness (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.95 — 166 ratings — published 2014
Nigger: An Autobiography (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.59 — 434 ratings — published
In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.47 — 25,880 ratings — published 2007
Good Morning, Midnight (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 14,126 ratings — published 1939
The Art Thief: A True Story of Love, Crime, and a Dangerous Obsession (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 129,777 ratings — published 2023
Bright Lights, Big City (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.82 — 38,738 ratings — published 1984
Bright Burning Things (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 15,481 ratings — published 2021
The Stripping of the Altars: Traditional Religion in England, 1400-1580 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,326 ratings — published 1992
Holy Feast and Holy Fast: The Religious Significance of Food to Medieval Women (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.22 — 913 ratings — published 1987
The Lost Weekend (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 2,546 ratings — published 1944
Factotum (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 78,424 ratings — published 1975
The Woman in the Window (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.93 — 921,183 ratings — published 2018
Never Mind (Patrick Melrose, #1)
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avg rating 3.76 — 11,708 ratings — published 1992
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 390,628 ratings — published 1971
Under the Volcano (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 27,776 ratings — published 1947
The Liars' Club (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.94 — 73,609 ratings — published 1995
The Flight Attendant (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.53 — 95,816 ratings — published 2018
Leaving Las Vegas (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 6,079 ratings — published 1990
The Night of the Gun (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 7,648 ratings — published 2008
The Freedom Model for Addictions: Escape the Treatment and Recovery Trap (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.45 — 137 ratings — published
The Lamb (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 65,139 ratings — published 2025
Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.18 — 147,324 ratings — published 2021
The Death of Jane Lawrence (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.23 — 25,188 ratings — published 2021
Such Sharp Teeth (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 34,677 ratings — published 2022
The Salt Grows Heavy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.52 — 34,466 ratings — published 2023
Nightbitch (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.40 — 94,827 ratings — published 2021
In the House in the Dark of the Woods (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.32 — 9,601 ratings — published 2018
Der Jude im Sprichwort der Voelker (Nook)
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avg rating 3.13 — 94 ratings — published 1916
Natural Beauty (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 29,803 ratings — published 2023
Chlorine (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 28,477 ratings — published 2023
The Hounding (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 29,376 ratings — published 2025
Animal (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 52,968 ratings — published 2021
Parasite (Parasitology, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 19,617 ratings — published 2013
They're Coming to Get You: Attack of The Naughty List! (The Naughty List Monster Boxed Set Book 1)
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avg rating 3.07 — 43 ratings — published 2014
The Mercies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 57,741 ratings — published 2020
Sister, Maiden, Monster (Apocalypse Apocrypha, 1)
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avg rating 3.52 — 8,915 ratings — published 2023
Une rose épineuse: La défloration au XIXe siècle en France (Mnémosyne) (French Edition)
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avg rating 4.67 — 6 ratings — published
Her Body and Other Parties (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 110,991 ratings — published 2017
The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1)
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avg rating 3.80 — 49,156 ratings — published 2020
The First Bad Man (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.68 — 39,348 ratings — published 2015
بروتوكولات حكماء صهيون (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.26 — 2,207 ratings — published 1903
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 161,701 ratings — published 2025
Horror House of Perversion: An Extreme Horror novella (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 882 ratings — published
Inside Linda Lovelace (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.12 — 51 ratings — published 1974
People Who Talk to Stuffed Animals Are Nice: Stories (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.13 — 624 ratings — published 2020
Untold Night and Day (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 6,153 ratings — published 2013
Candy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.13 — 1,704 ratings — published 1958
“Human will operates within a small circle — a narrow space where intention can genuinely influence action. This circle is real and meaningful, but it is not infinite. It is surrounded by larger circles of compulsion, circumstance, and destiny. When we imagine that willpower extends beyond this small circle, we create illusions. When we recognize its boundaries, we gain clarity.”
― The Illusion of Freedom: Understanding the Limits That Shape Our Lives
― The Illusion of Freedom: Understanding the Limits That Shape Our Lives
“The impulse to write things down is a peculiarly compulsive one, inexplicable to those who do not share it, useful only accidentally, only secondarily, in the way that any compulsion tries to justify itself. I suppose that it begins or does not begin in the cradle.”
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
― Slouching Towards Bethlehem
