Cynical


The Picture of Dorian Gray
The Great Gatsby
The Secret History
Diary of an Oxygen Thief
Crime and Punishment
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep?
The Catcher in the Rye
A Clockwork Orange
Keep the Aspidistra Flying
The Rules of Attraction
Gone Girl
The Metamorphosis
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
Yellowface
Breakfast of Champions
Aravind Adiga
Go to Old Delhi,and look at the way they keep chickens there in the market. Hundred of pale hens and brightly colored roosters, stuffed tightly into wire-mesh cages. They see the organs of their brothers lying around them.They know they are next, yet they cannot rebel. They do not try to get out of the coop. The very same thing is done with humans in this country.
Aravind Adiga, The White Tiger

Derek Landy
You are a cynical man, Mr. Pleasant." "We live in cynical times, Miss Cain. ...more
Derek Landy, Death Bringer

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