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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,023,645 ratings — published 1890
Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.78 — 16,015 ratings — published 1884
Là-Bas (Down There)
by (shelved 16 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.95 — 5,017 ratings — published 1891
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 13 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.52 — 153 ratings — published
The Torture Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,986 ratings — published 1899
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.19 — 84,133 ratings — published 1857
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.46 — 101,167 ratings — published 1959
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.22 — 16,224 ratings — published 1857
French Decadent Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.96 — 219 ratings — published 2013
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.06 — 390,245 ratings — published 1971
Monsieur Vénus (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,131 ratings — published 1884
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 74,048 ratings — published 1953
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.87 — 984,249 ratings — published 1955
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.42 — 104 ratings — published 1998
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.51 — 33,975 ratings — published 1895
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.66 — 18,115 ratings — published 1890
Monsieur de Phocas (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.15 — 197 ratings — published 1901
The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.15 — 72 ratings — published 1990
Salomé (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.71 — 22,060 ratings — published 1891
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.04 — 590,780 ratings — published 1985
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.80 — 384,942 ratings — published 1991
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.05 — 61,316 ratings — published 1782
Bruges-La-Morte (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.69 — 3,423 ratings — published 1892
Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,653 ratings — published 1870
Maldoror and the Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.25 — 4,034 ratings — published 1869
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.61 — 51,049 ratings — published 1997
Hadrian the Seventh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.45 — 612 ratings — published 1904
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.02 — 674,664 ratings — published 1976
The Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.65 — 255 ratings — published 1898
The Hill of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 1,461 ratings — published 1907
Les Chants de Maldoror (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 5,034 ratings — published 1869
The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.21 — 42 ratings — published 2016
Imaginary Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.96 — 1,319 ratings — published 1896
Les Diaboliques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.72 — 2,158 ratings — published 1874
Becalmed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.85 — 310 ratings — published 1886
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.95 — 244 ratings — published 1895
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.32 — 10,041 ratings — published 1872
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,141,163 ratings — published 1992
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,172,134 ratings — published 1925
The Renaissance: Studies in Art and Poetry (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,794 ratings — published 1873
The Dedalus Book of German Decadence: Voices of the Abyss (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 47 ratings — published 1994
The Dedalus Book of Russian Decadence: Perversity, Despair and Collapse (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.99 — 72 ratings — published 2007
The King in Yellow (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.79 — 3,705 ratings — published
Aphrodite: Moeurs antiques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.74 — 549 ratings — published 1896
The Happy Prince (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.19 — 38,752 ratings — published 1888
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.75 — 7,556 ratings — published 1969
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.61 — 461,986 ratings — published 1957
The Greenwood Faun (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.11 — 28 ratings — published 2017
Neo-Decadence Evangelion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.79 — 48 ratings — published 2023
“(Baudelaire) had descended to the bottom of the inexhaustible mine, had picked his way along abandoned or unexplored galleries, and had finally reached those districts of the soul where the monstrous vegetations of the sick mind flourish. There, near the breeding ground of intellectuals aberrations and disease of the mind - the mysterious tetanus, the burning fever of lust, the thyphoids and yellow fevers of crime – he had found, hatching in the dismal forcing-house of ennui, the frightening climacteric of thoughts and emotions.”
― Against Nature
― Against Nature
“The blood of my motherland waters a magic plant that cures all ills. That plant is art, and sometimes art needs corruption as a kind of fertilizer”
― Lorenzaccio
― Lorenzaccio
