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Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 476,629 ratings — published 2017
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 695,219 ratings — published 2023
American Psycho (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 382,124 ratings — published 1991
Battle Royale (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 88,964 ratings — published 1999
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.36 — 10,278,970 ratings — published 2008
Playground (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.41 — 22,102 ratings — published 2022
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,817,036 ratings — published 1996
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 883,916 ratings — published 1974
When the Wolf Comes Home (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 40,240 ratings — published 2025
The Eyes Are the Best Part (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 72,764 ratings — published 2024
Intercepts (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 43,816 ratings — published 2019
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 126,119 ratings — published 2020
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,315,850 ratings — published 1954
Victorian Psycho (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 62,526 ratings — published 2025
Hell Followed With Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.07 — 36,673 ratings — published 2022
The Troop (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 141,098 ratings — published 2014
Wilder Girls (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.44 — 103,283 ratings — published 2019
The Hellbound Heart (Hellraiser #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 72,746 ratings — published 1986
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 795,058 ratings — published 2015
Endurance (The Konrath Dark Thriller Collective #5)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,891 ratings — published 2010
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.53 — 111,638 ratings — published 2022
Clown in a Cornfield (Clown in a Cornfield, #1)
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avg rating 3.72 — 47,336 ratings — published 2020
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 338,239 ratings — published 2020
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 981,333 ratings — published 2014
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 100,991 ratings — published 2008
Afraid (The Konrath Dark Thriller Collective #3)
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avg rating 3.92 — 9,846 ratings — published 2008
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.13 — 3,874,379 ratings — published 2010
Dungeon Crawler Carl (Dungeon Crawler Carl, #1)
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avg rating 4.43 — 623,839 ratings — published 2020
Maeve Fly (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 31,219 ratings — published 2023
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.54 — 28,796 ratings — published 2023
Dead of Winter (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 56,453 ratings — published 2023
My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.50 — 56,679 ratings — published 2021
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.49 — 199,699 ratings — published 2021
The Ruins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 72,203 ratings — published 2006
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.15 — 550,678 ratings — published 2018
FantasticLand (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 60,245 ratings — published 2016
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 43,868 ratings — published 2012
Wolf Worm (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.06 — 22,628 ratings — published 2026
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.11 — 122,332 ratings — published 2025
Alchemised (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.30 — 364,457 ratings — published 2025
You Weren't Meant to Be Human (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.77 — 18,117 ratings — published 2025
The Library at Hellebore (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.06 — 7,485 ratings — published 2025
The Salt Grows Heavy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 33,383 ratings — published 2023
Razorblade Tears (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 188,107 ratings — published 2021
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 181,684 ratings — published 2023
Woom (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.23 — 39,899 ratings — published 2016
“This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.”
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“One thing we should not forget: if we don’t guard against those trying to sell justifications for letting the gory constructions of their criminal instincts run wild and concoct pretexts for their malicious acts, we might miss out on the moments they are stealing the appropriate junctures, impersonate a god and usurp the spirit of religious beliefs. (“No longer in the middle?”)”
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