Sign in with Facebook
11 books
—
7 voters
Decadent Books
Showing 1-50 of 965
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,889,331 ratings — published 1890
Against Nature (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.79 — 15,318 ratings — published 1884
Là-Bas (Down There)
by (shelved 15 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.96 — 4,763 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 12 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.74 — 2,846 ratings — published 1899
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,796 ratings — published 1959
Paris Spleen (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.23 — 15,535 ratings — published 1857
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.19 — 80,810 ratings — published 1857
French Decadent Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.96 — 216 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 — 379,334 ratings — published 1971
The King in Yellow (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.54 — 30,550 ratings — published 1895
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,614 ratings — published 1953
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.87 — 948,487 ratings — published 1955
Monsieur Vénus (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.80 — 1,019 ratings — published 1884
The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.44 — 102 ratings — published 1998
The Great God Pan (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.67 — 16,747 ratings — published 1890
The Dedalus Book of Decadence: Moral Ruins (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.17 — 69 ratings — published 1990
American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.80 — 363,859 ratings — published 1991
Les Liaisons dangereuses (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.05 — 59,074 ratings — published 1782
Bruges-La-Morte (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,142 ratings — published 1892
Maldoror and the Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,971 ratings — published 1869
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.62 — 45,510 ratings — published 1997
Hadrian the Seventh (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.45 — 581 ratings — published 1904
Monsieur de Phocas (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.13 — 184 ratings — published 1901
Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.02 — 651,793 ratings — published 1976
The Cathedral (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.66 — 238 ratings — published 1898
The Hill of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.85 — 1,362 ratings — published 1907
The Soul-Drinker and Other Decadent Fantasies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.24 — 41 ratings — published 2016
Imaginary Lives (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.97 — 1,267 ratings — published 1896
Les Diaboliques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.73 — 2,038 ratings — published 1874
Becalmed (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.85 — 296 ratings — published 1886
Nightmares of an Ether Drinker (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.95 — 227 ratings — published 1895
Salomé (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.71 — 21,009 ratings — published 1891
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.04 — 556,114 ratings — published 1985
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.32 — 9,706 ratings — published 1872
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,036,030 ratings — published 1992
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 — 69 ratings — published 2007
Aphrodite: Moeurs antiques (Pocket Book)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.75 — 514 ratings — published 1896
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.76 — 7,220 ratings — published 1969
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.61 — 449,267 ratings — published 1957
Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.40 — 9,465 ratings — published 1870
Neo-Decadence Evangelion (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.80 — 49 ratings — published 2023
Tess of the D’Urbervilles (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.84 — 303,170 ratings — published 1891
Nil-Pray (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.45 — 11 ratings — published 2017
Collected Poems (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.02 — 57 ratings — published 1902
Drowning in Beauty: The Neo-Decadent Anthology (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.73 — 81 ratings — published 2018
A Dowry of Blood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 3.93 — 103,876 ratings — published 2021
In the Night Garden (The Orphan's Tales, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as decadent)
avg rating 4.03 — 9,282 ratings — published 2006
“In the end, this volume should be read a s a collection of love stories, Above all, they are tales of love, not the love with which so many stories end – the love of fidelity, kindness and fertility – but the other side of love, its cruelty, sterility and duplicity. In a way, the decadents did accept Nordau's idea of the artist as monster. But in nature, the glory and panacea of romanticism, they found nothing. Theirs is an aesthetic that disavows the natural and with it the body. The truly beautiful body is dead, because it is empty. Decadent work is always morbid, but its attraction to death is through art. What they refused was the condemnation of that monster. And yet despite the decadent celebration of artifice, these stories record art's failure in the struggle against natural horror. Nature fights back and wins, and decadent writing remains a remarkable account of that failure.”
― The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
― The Decadent Reader: Fiction, Fantasy, and Perversion from Fin-de-Siècle France
“No, no, don't let my vulnerable heart share in this sacrifice to lust! Let him disgust me before pleasing me! Let him be what others have been, an instrument that I can break before becoming the echoes of its vibration.”
― Monsieur Vénus
― Monsieur Vénus
