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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 — 1,472,049 ratings — published 1915
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.54 — 104,309 ratings — published 2022
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.77 — 426,975 ratings — published 2017
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,792 ratings — published 1989
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 410,774 ratings — published 2007
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.04 — 566,409 ratings — published 1985
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.78 — 26,912 ratings — published 1996
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.64 — 32,719 ratings — published 1973
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.98 — 51,072 ratings — published 2008
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,409 ratings — published 1952
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 2.93 — 58,183 ratings — published 2021
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.45 — 345,549 ratings — published 2019
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.61 — 47,004 ratings — published 1997
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.94 — 405,253 ratings — published 1925
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,925,542 ratings — published 1890
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 22,321 ratings — published 1997
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.18 — 651,311 ratings — published 1996
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.71 — 222,526 ratings — published 2001
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.60 — 104,557 ratings — published 2018
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.45 — 90,860 ratings — published 1998
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.83 — 131,158 ratings — published 2014
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.87 — 958,782 ratings — published 1955
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,361 ratings — published 1532
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,938,850 ratings — published 1818
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.14 — 42,248 ratings — published 2011
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.09 — 205,150 ratings — published 2000
Grotesque (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,363 ratings — published 2003
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,619 ratings — published 1999
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.28 — 431,460 ratings — published 1967
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.80 — 370,102 ratings — published 1991
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,242,295 ratings — published 1954
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.43 — 20,488 ratings — published 2022
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.66 — 451,150 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.60 — 584,471 ratings — published 2018
The 120 Days of Sodom (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.06 — 15,182 ratings — published 1785
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.70 — 69,702 ratings — published 2019
Coin Locker Babies (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,864 ratings — published 1980
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.68 — 20,599 ratings — published 1994
The Gone World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 30,236 ratings — published 2018
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.69 — 68,442 ratings — published 2006
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,069 ratings — published 1971
The Tenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,364 ratings — published 1964
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,144 ratings — published 2007
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.76 — 112,239 ratings — published 1984
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.56 — 132,605 ratings — published 2015
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 120,859 ratings — published 1940
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,476,771 ratings — published 1985
Saga, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.15 — 365,136 ratings — published 2012
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 304,118 ratings — published 1962
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.98 — 76,187 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 exhibition of grotesqueness exhibits the wounded body openly to the world, to show it and sign it so that only its author can claim its authority.”
― Writing Through the Body: Iraqi Responses to the War on Terror
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