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House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as strange)
avg rating 4.09 — 211,033 ratings — published 2000
Piranesi (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as strange)
avg rating 4.20 — 555,082 ratings — published 2020
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as strange)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,528,578 ratings — published 1915
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as strange)
avg rating 3.44 — 364,340 ratings — published 2019
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 24 times as strange)
avg rating 3.65 — 443,505 ratings — published 2007
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as strange)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,377,150 ratings — published 2011
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 24 times as strange)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,002,409 ratings — published 2001
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 23 times as strange)
avg rating 3.60 — 110,535 ratings — published 2018
Kafka on the Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as strange)
avg rating 4.11 — 571,442 ratings — published 2002
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as strange)
avg rating 4.18 — 660,742 ratings — published 1996
The Craziest Book Ever Written (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as strange)
avg rating 3.55 — 152 ratings — published
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as strange)
avg rating 3.80 — 328,355 ratings — published 2014
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as strange)
avg rating 4.14 — 323,778 ratings — published 1994
1Q84 (1Q84, #1-3)
by (shelved 16 times as strange)
avg rating 3.95 — 347,715 ratings — published 2009
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as strange)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,420 ratings — published 1959
The Library at Mount Char (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as strange)
avg rating 4.05 — 87,119 ratings — published 2015
I Who Have Never Known Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as strange)
avg rating 4.04 — 662,321 ratings — published 1995
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as strange)
avg rating 3.77 — 462,092 ratings — published 2017
Convenience Store Woman (Hardcover)
by (shelved 14 times as strange)
avg rating 3.66 — 403,400 ratings — published 2016
Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as strange)
avg rating 4.06 — 621,423 ratings — published 1871
I'm Thinking of Ending Things (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 14 times as strange)
avg rating 3.50 — 213,682 ratings — published 2016
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as strange)
avg rating 4.28 — 444,386 ratings — published 1925
Paradise Rot (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as strange)
avg rating 3.43 — 34,460 ratings — published 2009
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as strange)
avg rating 3.59 — 610,690 ratings — published 2018
Coraline (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as strange)
avg rating 4.13 — 800,769 ratings — published 2002
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as strange)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,985,015 ratings — published 1818
Neverwhere (London Below, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as strange)
avg rating 4.16 — 567,909 ratings — published 1996
The Ocean at the End of the Lane (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as strange)
avg rating 4.01 — 665,059 ratings — published 2013
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as strange)
avg rating 4.06 — 387,036 ratings — published 1971
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as strange)
avg rating 3.79 — 109,471 ratings — published 2017
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as strange)
avg rating 3.99 — 450,516 ratings — published 1865
Welcome to Night Vale (Welcome to Night Vale, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as strange)
avg rating 3.82 — 44,421 ratings — published 2015
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as strange)
avg rating 3.90 — 314,568 ratings — published 1962
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as strange)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,139,858 ratings — published 1932
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 11 times as strange)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,538,024 ratings — published 1985
Good Omens (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as strange)
avg rating 4.25 — 842,513 ratings — published 1990
The Gunslinger (Dark Tower, #1)
by (shelved 10 times as strange)
avg rating 3.90 — 678,334 ratings — published 1982
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as strange)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,519,768 ratings — published 1969
Norwegian Wood (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as strange)
avg rating 3.98 — 764,108 ratings — published 1987
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as strange)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,769,964 ratings — published 1945
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as strange)
avg rating 4.04 — 579,932 ratings — published 1985
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as strange)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,869 ratings — published 1989
Strange Pictures (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as strange)
avg rating 3.92 — 121,226 ratings — published 2022
Our Wives Under the Sea (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as strange)
avg rating 3.67 — 142,890 ratings — published 2022
Nightbitch (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as strange)
avg rating 3.41 — 92,293 ratings — published 2021
The Strange Library (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as strange)
avg rating 3.54 — 71,854 ratings — published 2005
Hollow City (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #2)
by (shelved 9 times as strange)
avg rating 4.07 — 255,879 ratings — published 2014
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as strange)
avg rating 4.11 — 156,901 ratings — published 1985
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as strange)
avg rating 4.15 — 447,157 ratings — published 1963
The Raw Shark Texts (Hardcover)
by (shelved 9 times as strange)
avg rating 3.82 — 22,232 ratings — published 2007
“You say freak, I say unique.”
―
―
“From childhood's hour I have not been
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.”
― Alone
As others were; I have not seen
As others saw; I could not bring
My passions from a common spring.
From the same source I have not taken
My sorrow; I could not awaken
My heart to joy at the same tone;
And all I loved, I loved alone.
Then- in my childhood, in the dawn
Of a most stormy life- was drawn
From every depth of good and ill
The mystery which binds me still:
From the torrent, or the fountain,
From the red cliff of the mountain,
From the sun that round me rolled
In its autumn tint of gold,
From the lightning in the sky
As it passed me flying by,
From the thunder and the storm,
And the cloud that took the form
(When the rest of Heaven was blue)
Of a demon in my view.”
― Alone
