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Subversive Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,643,483 ratings — published 1948
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.33 — 61,450 ratings — published 2013
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.59 — 596,905 ratings — published 2018
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.65 — 33,520 ratings — published 1973
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.09 — 270,943 ratings — published 1980
The Lacuna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.83 — 75,713 ratings — published 2009
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,277 ratings — published 1928
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.06 — 283,834 ratings — published 1973
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.06 — 384,874 ratings — published 1971
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,507,162 ratings — published 1985
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.18 — 655,820 ratings — published 1996
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,031,435 ratings — published 2017
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.76 — 113,498 ratings — published 1984
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.52 — 119,376 ratings — published 2010
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,122,867 ratings — published 1932
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,864,831 ratings — published 1993
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,705,642 ratings — published 1945
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,509,616 ratings — published 1969
Dream Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.76 — 22,650 ratings — published 1926
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,269,737 ratings — published 1954
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.49 — 44,671 ratings — published 2024
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.92 — 79,893 ratings — published 1968
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.13 — 60,366 ratings — published 2020
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.29 — 82,038 ratings — published 1995
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.29 — 115,063 ratings — published 2017
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.39 — 382,107 ratings — published 1986
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.77 — 443,694 ratings — published 2017
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.65 — 426,997 ratings — published 2007
Piercing: A Novel (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.68 — 21,121 ratings — published 1994
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.53 — 36,269 ratings — published 1978
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.45 — 355,010 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.49 — 830,358 ratings — published 2016
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.94 — 6,805 ratings — published 1981
We Sold Our Souls (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.69 — 34,314 ratings — published 2018
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.75 — 256,601 ratings — published 2016
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.80 — 108,452 ratings — published 2017
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,335 ratings — published 1955
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,462 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,296 ratings — published 2016
Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,186 ratings — published 1997
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.50 — 140,594 ratings — published 1928
Little Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,421 ratings — published 2016
Damned (Damned, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.41 — 59,317 ratings — published 2011
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,263 ratings — published 1988
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.97 — 76,034 ratings — published 1995
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.48 — 24,734 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.87 — 966,249 ratings — published 1955
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.86 — 35,311 ratings — published 1796
Riddley Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,839 ratings — published 1980
“At first reading, these are stories about love and marriage and the conventional heterosexual happily-ever-after. Only at the second does a sneaky doubt perhaps creep in to suggest that maybe marriage is not the best thing that could ever happen to these women. It has been suggested that with these clever layers of meaning, Jane was perhaps even more subversive than we give her credit for. Yes, she was writing for the commercial market. But she was also writing for her female cronies, for Martha Lloyd, Cassandra and Miss Sharp. She glibly provided the happy endings that society expected, but in an off-hand, almost perfunctory fashion. You don’t have to believe in Jane’s happy endings if you don’t want to. I like to think that this is the band of spinsters’ last laugh.”
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“Men circle like bees around honey, buzzing to communicate their sexual despair.”
― From the Horse’s Mouth
― From the Horse’s Mouth
