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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,711,603 ratings — published 1949
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.33 — 62,494 ratings — published 2013
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.59 — 611,014 ratings — published 2018
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,302 ratings — published 1973
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.09 — 272,765 ratings — published 1980
The Lacuna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.83 — 76,181 ratings — published 2009
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,561 ratings — published 1928
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.06 — 285,212 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 — 387,079 ratings — published 1971
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,538,619 ratings — published 1985
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.18 — 660,850 ratings — published 1996
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,038,814 ratings — published 2017
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.76 — 114,719 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 — 120,053 ratings — published 2010
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,140,225 ratings — published 1932
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,888,513 ratings — published 1993
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,771,066 ratings — published 1945
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,520,015 ratings — published 1969
Dream Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,093 ratings — published 1926
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,296,845 ratings — published 1954
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.49 — 45,391 ratings — published 2024
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,057 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 4.12 — 61,790 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 — 82,693 ratings — published 1995
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.29 — 117,298 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 — 384,593 ratings — published 1986
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.77 — 462,463 ratings — published 2017
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.65 — 443,803 ratings — published 2007
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.68 — 21,646 ratings — published 1994
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.53 — 36,640 ratings — published 1978
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.44 — 364,516 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.49 — 840,363 ratings — published 2016
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,967 ratings — published 1981
We Sold Our Souls (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.69 — 34,839 ratings — published 2018
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.75 — 258,371 ratings — published 2016
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.79 — 109,486 ratings — published 2017
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,672 ratings — published 1955
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,516 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,372 ratings — published 2016
Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,219 ratings — published 1997
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.50 — 141,521 ratings — published 1928
Little Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,424 ratings — published 2016
Damned (Damned, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.41 — 59,577 ratings — published 2011
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,464 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 — 76,522 ratings — published 1995
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,242 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.87 — 973,113 ratings — published 1955
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.87 — 35,895 ratings — published 1796
Riddley Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,905 ratings — published 1980
“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert everything. I am like the originals buffoons. I love the rules because I can break them.”
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“That the power regimes of heterosexism and phallogocentrism seek to augment themselves through a constant repetition of their logic, their metaphysic, and their naturalized ontologies does not imply that repetition itself ought to be stopped—as if it could be. If repetition is bound to persist as the mechanism of the cultural reproduction of identities, then the crucial question emerges: What kind of subversive repetition might call into question the regulatory practice of identity itself?”
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
― Gender Trouble: Feminism and the Subversion of Identity
