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Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 19 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.54 — 110,693 ratings — published 2022
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,546,177 ratings — published 1915
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.77 — 470,339 ratings — published 2017
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,101 ratings — published 1989
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 451,667 ratings — published 2007
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.04 — 583,072 ratings — published 1985
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.81 — 39,850 ratings — published 1952
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.44 — 368,273 ratings — published 2019
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,452 ratings — published 1973
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.98 — 51,373 ratings — published 2008
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,319 ratings — published 1996
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 2.92 — 59,324 ratings — published 2021
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.61 — 49,807 ratings — published 1997
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.82 — 139,705 ratings — published 2014
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.93 — 419,942 ratings — published 1925
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,993,313 ratings — published 1890
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.61 — 24,525 ratings — published 1997
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.18 — 662,853 ratings — published 1996
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.80 — 380,679 ratings — published 1991
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,467 ratings — published 2001
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.42 — 21,865 ratings — published 2022
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.68 — 73,253 ratings — published 2019
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.60 — 111,810 ratings — published 2018
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.45 — 94,481 ratings — published 1998
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.87 — 976,266 ratings — published 1955
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.76 — 115,123 ratings — published 1984
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,513 ratings — published 1532
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,994,910 ratings — published 1818
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.14 — 43,848 ratings — published 2011
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.14 — 243,559 ratings — published 1985
Grotesque (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,791 ratings — published 2003
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 154,190 ratings — published 1999
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.28 — 447,680 ratings — published 1925
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,307,703 ratings — published 1954
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,180 ratings — published 2005
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.66 — 464,531 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 617,285 ratings — published 2018
Coin Locker Babies (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.79 — 10,081 ratings — published 1980
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.68 — 21,856 ratings — published 1994
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 59,918 ratings — published 1989
The Gone World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,105 ratings — published 2018
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.69 — 71,709 ratings — published 2006
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,398 ratings — published 1971
The Tenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,567 ratings — published 1964
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,193 ratings — published 2007
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.55 — 136,530 ratings — published 2015
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,754 ratings — published 1940
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,551,236 ratings — published 1985
Saga, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.15 — 370,343 ratings — published 2012
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.90 — 316,970 ratings — published 1962
“Every nail, claw-scale and spur, every spike
and welt on the hand of that heathen brute
was like barbed steel.”
― Beowulf A New Verse Translation Hardcover
and welt on the hand of that heathen brute
was like barbed steel.”
― Beowulf A New Verse Translation Hardcover
“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
