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American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.80 — 386,248 ratings — published 1991
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 107 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.18 — 668,044 ratings — published 1996
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 34,961 ratings — published 1973
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 76 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.00 — 796,923 ratings — published 1962
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.99 — 155,050 ratings — published 1999
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.64 — 27,171 ratings — published 1928
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.87 — 986,349 ratings — published 1955
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.71 — 225,397 ratings — published 2001
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 63 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.46 — 101,305 ratings — published 1959
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.12 — 187,223 ratings — published 1993
The Sluts (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.77 — 12,752 ratings — published 2004
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 56 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,358 ratings — published 1964
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.76 — 116,466 ratings — published 1984
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,820 ratings — published 2005
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.62 — 107,864 ratings — published 1985
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.92 — 126,320 ratings — published 1999
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.12 — 70,485 ratings — published 1978
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.06 — 390,872 ratings — published 1971
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.33 — 64,117 ratings — published 2013
Frisk (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,564 ratings — published 1991
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.78 — 29,183 ratings — published 1996
Lullaby (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.74 — 105,337 ratings — published 2002
Sister Sable (The Mad Queen #1)
by (shelved 34 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.50 — 3,044 ratings — published 2015
The Rules of Attraction (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.72 — 53,660 ratings — published 1987
Filth (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.82 — 33,083 ratings — published 1998
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.66 — 26,859 ratings — published 2014
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 29 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.20 — 799,196 ratings — published 1962
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,781 ratings — published 1989
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.84 — 74,191 ratings — published 1953
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.61 — 51,584 ratings — published 1997
Blood and Guts in High School (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,558 ratings — published 1984
Lunar Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 31,707 ratings — published 2005
The 120 Days of Sodom: A Classic of Extreme French Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.04 — 15,817 ratings — published 1785
Snuff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.22 — 68,327 ratings — published 2008
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 80,511 ratings — published 1934
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,766 ratings — published 2007
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 26 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.92 — 144,843 ratings — published 1971
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,554,723 ratings — published 1942
Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 82,048 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,537,308 ratings — published 1969
Cows (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 2.65 — 16,590 ratings — published 1998
Hogg (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 2.80 — 1,992 ratings — published 1994
The Necrophiliac (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,826 ratings — published 1972
Closer (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.64 — 5,286 ratings — published 1989
The Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,742 ratings — published 1971
Child of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.81 — 59,841 ratings — published 1973
Almost Transparent Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.29 — 14,699 ratings — published 1976
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,477 ratings — published 1975
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,035,576 ratings — published 1951
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.04 — 593,261 ratings — published 1985
“Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people. It is all-the good and the bad-carted up and brought along from one generation to the next. And everything that is brought along is colored and shaped by those who bring it.”
― A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
― A Childhood: The Biography of a Place
“But if Sade's work is to be summed up in one word, this word would not be 'sexual' or 'comic' or even 'sadistic', it would be 'transgressive'. As it systematically transgresses all sexual, social, religious and moral norms, his writing repeatedly and earnestly insists on the exquisite pleasure to be derived from this transgression.”
― Sade: The Libertine Novels
― Sade: The Libertine Novels
