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Grotesque Books
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The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,497,313 ratings — published 1915
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.54 — 106,559 ratings — published 2022
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.77 — 441,832 ratings — published 2017
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,279 ratings — published 1989
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 425,254 ratings — published 2007
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.04 — 572,452 ratings — published 1985
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,434 ratings — published 1996
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 33,473 ratings — published 1973
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.98 — 51,196 ratings — published 2008
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,904 ratings — published 1952
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 2.92 — 58,611 ratings — published 2021
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.45 — 353,987 ratings — published 2019
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.61 — 48,016 ratings — published 1997
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.82 — 134,020 ratings — published 2014
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.94 — 410,477 ratings — published 1925
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,948,641 ratings — published 1890
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.60 — 23,280 ratings — published 1997
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.18 — 655,368 ratings — published 1996
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.71 — 223,270 ratings — published 2001
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.42 — 20,924 ratings — published 2022
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 595,570 ratings — published 2018
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.60 — 107,363 ratings — published 2018
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.45 — 92,175 ratings — published 1998
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.87 — 965,530 ratings — published 1955
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,426 ratings — published 1532
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,959,412 ratings — published 1818
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.14 — 42,790 ratings — published 2011
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.09 — 207,732 ratings — published 2000
Grotesque (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,510 ratings — published 2003
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 153,221 ratings — published 1999
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.28 — 437,008 ratings — published 1967
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.80 — 373,704 ratings — published 1991
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,266,565 ratings — published 1954
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.66 — 455,619 ratings — published 2020
The 120 Days of Sodom: A Classic of Extreme French Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.05 — 15,323 ratings — published 1785
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.69 — 70,930 ratings — published 2019
Coin Locker Babies (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,952 ratings — published 1980
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.68 — 21,065 ratings — published 1994
The Gone World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 31,250 ratings — published 2018
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.69 — 69,407 ratings — published 2006
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,201 ratings — published 1971
The Tenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,433 ratings — published 1964
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,159 ratings — published 2007
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.76 — 113,410 ratings — published 1984
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.56 — 134,121 ratings — published 2015
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,948 ratings — published 1940
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,503,601 ratings — published 1985
Saga, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.15 — 367,120 ratings — published 2012
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 308,708 ratings — published 1962
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 76,668 ratings — published 2000
“Englezul e mare politician. Își vîră nasul peste tot. Toată lumea știe că, atunci când Anglia trage tabac pe-o nară, Franța strănută.”
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“The splendor of the salmon canapés radiant with mayonnaise disappears, swallowed by the dark shopping bags of the customers. Certainly every one of these men and women knows exactly what he wants, heads straight for his objective with a decisiveness admitting no hesitancy; and rapidly he dismantles mountains of vol-au-vents, white puddings, cervelats.
Mr. Palomar would like to catch in their eyes some reflection of those treasures' spell, but the faces and actions are only impatient and hasty, of people concentrated on themselves, nerves taut, each concerned with what he has and what he does not have. Nobody seems to him worthy of the Pantagruelic glory that unfolds in those cases, on the counters. A greed without joy or youth drives them; and yet a deep, atavistic bond exists between them and those foods, their consubstance, flesh of their flesh.”
― Mr Palomar
Mr. Palomar would like to catch in their eyes some reflection of those treasures' spell, but the faces and actions are only impatient and hasty, of people concentrated on themselves, nerves taut, each concerned with what he has and what he does not have. Nobody seems to him worthy of the Pantagruelic glory that unfolds in those cases, on the counters. A greed without joy or youth drives them; and yet a deep, atavistic bond exists between them and those foods, their consubstance, flesh of their flesh.”
― Mr Palomar
