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Tangled Hair: Selected Tanka from Midaregami (English/Japanese)
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avg rating 4.22 — 452 ratings — published 1901
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.29 — 1,171,809 ratings — published 1866
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 74,812 ratings — published 2019
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as obscure)
avg rating 3.44 — 378,595 ratings — published 2019
The Book of Disquiet (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as obscure)
avg rating 4.38 — 40,504 ratings — published 1982
Prometheus Rising (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 7,711 ratings — published 1983
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as obscure)
avg rating 4.06 — 392,209 ratings — published 1892
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 1 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.44 — 45,648 ratings — published 1998
Ficciones (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.39 — 84,566 ratings — published 1944
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とんがり帽子のアトリエ 10 [Tongari Bōshi no Atelier 10] (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.57 — 9,752 ratings — published 2022
Earthflown (The Anatomy of Water, #1)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,283 ratings — published 2024
Seaside Stranger: Umibe No Etranger (Seaside Stranger, #0.5)
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avg rating 3.92 — 6,767 ratings — published 2014
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,850,111 ratings — published 1945
The Complete Maus (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.58 — 267,422 ratings — published 1992
The Monk (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 37,177 ratings — published 1796
The 120 Days of Sodom: A Classic of Extreme French Literature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.04 — 15,778 ratings — published 1785
The Prince (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 403,751 ratings — published 1513
Thus Spoke Zarathustra (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 185,438 ratings — published 1883
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 328,218 ratings — published 1962
FantasticLand (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 63,120 ratings — published 2016
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 495,149 ratings — published 2017
The Pisces (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.30 — 42,272 ratings — published 2018
Thomas the Obscure (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 1,561 ratings — published 1941
El escarabajo de oro (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.57 — 6,593 ratings — published 1843
The Manuscript Found in Saragossa (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 4,417 ratings — published 1847
Liber Null and Psychonaut: An Introduction to Chaos Magic (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 3,350 ratings — published
The Obscene Bird of Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,379 ratings — published 1970
American Psycho (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 385,351 ratings — published 1991
The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 5,706 ratings — published 1845
Von Kempelen and His Discovery
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avg rating 2.48 — 536 ratings — published 1849
The Oblong Box (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.56 — 2,064 ratings — published 1844
The Mystery of Marie Rogêt (C. Auguste Dupin, #2)
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avg rating 2.93 — 4,354 ratings — published 1842
The Balloon Hoax - an Edgar Allan Poe Short Story
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avg rating 2.43 — 930 ratings — published 1844
Eleonora (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.52 — 3,071 ratings — published 1842
The Imp of the Perverse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 2,863 ratings — published 1845
A Descent into the Maelstrom (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.47 — 4,227 ratings — published 1841
Berenice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 8,438 ratings — published 1835
The Fall (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 148,051 ratings — published 1956
The Trial (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 427,285 ratings — published 1925
Against Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 16,022 ratings — published 1884
Play Nice (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.86 — 76,584 ratings — published 2025
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as obscure)
avg rating 4.03 — 122,874 ratings — published 1948
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.38 — 190,605 ratings — published 1898
The Gulag Archipelago 1918–1956 (Abridged)
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avg rating 4.33 — 36,429 ratings — published 1973
An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge (ebook)
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avg rating 4.01 — 28,026 ratings — published 1890
In the Penal Colony (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as obscure)
avg rating 3.92 — 35,873 ratings — published 1918
“Maybe the truth of it all is that we’re just too fearful to give our faith enough running room to realize that this precariously thin path that led us to the end of this life is dwarfed to obscurity by the infinitely vast byway that begins immediately on the other side.”
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“Most sane human beings who have managed to attain and retain fame each uses it to dramatically increase their name’s chances of being remembered until Jesus comes back, since their heart cannot do what they consciously or unconsciously lust for, that is to say, for it to beat until Jesus returns.”
― The Use and Misuse of Children
― The Use and Misuse of Children