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Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 980,680 ratings — published 1955
Half His Age (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.22 — 190,183 ratings — published 2026
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 481,253 ratings — published 2017
My Dark Vanessa (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.09 — 452,334 ratings — published 2020
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 461,658 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,533,476 ratings — published 1942
The Kite Runner (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.36 — 3,617,165 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,530,237 ratings — published 1969
Fahrenheit 451 (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.97 — 2,998,692 ratings — published 1963
1984 (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.21 — 5,779,154 ratings — published 1949
Rejection (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.72 — 53,909 ratings — published 2024
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.55 — 152 ratings — published
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 7,527 ratings — published 1969
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
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avg rating 4.10 — 1,005,799 ratings — published 2001
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.53 — 112,288 ratings — published 2022
Yellowface (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 1,174,973 ratings — published 2023
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,010,169 ratings — published 1890
Notes from Underground (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.16 — 261,749 ratings — published 1864
Free Will (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.86 — 39,091 ratings — published 2012
Fight Club (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 665,233 ratings — published 1996
A Little Life (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.26 — 1,014,979 ratings — published 2015
The Power (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.75 — 259,929 ratings — published 2016
The Game: Penetrating the Secret Society of Pickup Artists (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.73 — 32,972 ratings — published 2005
Utopia for Realists: How We Can Build the Ideal World (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.21 — 44,769 ratings — published 2014
Simulacra and Simulation (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 17,610 ratings — published 1981
Chasing the Scream: The Search for the Truth About Addiction (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.49 — 22,564 ratings — published 2015
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,823,601 ratings — published 2007
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 4,018,585 ratings — published 1951
Fooled by Randomness: The Hidden Role of Chance in Life and in the Markets (Incerto)
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avg rating 4.08 — 73,805 ratings — published 2001
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.71 — 3,321,465 ratings — published 1954
Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
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avg rating 3.67 — 2,930,653 ratings — published 2011
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,821,898 ratings — published 1945
Beloved (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 515,738 ratings — published 1987
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.08 — 223,743 ratings — published 2003
Heart of Darkness (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.43 — 576,550 ratings — published 1899
The Passion According to G.H. (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 23,542 ratings — published 1964
Yesteryear (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.85 — 997,801 ratings — published 2026
The Sympathizer (The Sympathizer, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 145,017 ratings — published 2015
Darwin's Black Box: The Biochemical Challenge to Evolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 4,099 ratings — published 1996
Exhibitionism for the Shy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 226 ratings — published 1995
Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 28,607 ratings — published 1999
River Out of Eden: A Darwinian View of Life (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.98 — 9,099 ratings — published 1995
The Immortality Key: Uncovering the Secret History of the Religion with No Name (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as provocative)
avg rating 4.23 — 6,591 ratings — published 2020
The Red Queen: Sex and the Evolution of Human Nature (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 17,468 ratings — published 1993
The Sacred Mushroom and the Cross (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.52 — 1,979 ratings — published 1970
The Anthropocene Reviewed: Essays on a Human-Centered Planet (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.34 — 195,298 ratings — published 2021
Bellies (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.00 — 13,863 ratings — published 2023
Excalibur (Adult Fantasy Series)
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avg rating 3.49 — 126 ratings — published 1973
Willing Prey (Feral Love, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 14,039 ratings — published 2025
“We Japanese, on the other hand, know our egos are nothing. We bend our egos, all of the time, and that is where we differ. That is the fundamental difference, Hatsue. We bend our heads, we bow and are silent, because we understand that by ourselves alone, we are nothing at all, dust in a strong wind, while the 'hakujin' believes his aloneness is everything, his separateness is the foundation of his existence. He seeks and grasps, seeks and grasps for his separateness, while we seek union with the Greater Life--you must see that these are distinct paths we are travelling, Hatsue, the 'hakujin' and we Japanese" (p. 176).”
― Snow Falling on Cedars
― Snow Falling on Cedars
“We are not human beings having a spiritual experience but spiritual beings having a human experience.”
― Initiation
― Initiation
