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Bleakness Books
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Dusk (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.16 — 6,154 ratings — published 2024
Juice (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.91 — 7,523 ratings — published 2024
One Life: My Mother's Story (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 2,058 ratings — published 2015
Small Things Like These (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 485,030 ratings — published 2021
Police (Harry Hole, #10)
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avg rating 4.24 — 50,126 ratings — published 2013
The Jungle (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 156,472 ratings — published 1906
Whisky from Small Glasses (DCI Daley, #1)
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avg rating 3.96 — 5,551 ratings — published 2012
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 68,947 ratings — published 2000
The First Stone (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.81 — 960 ratings — published 2003
How It Went Down (Unknown Binding)
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avg rating 3.95 — 7,634 ratings — published 2014
This Is Where It Ends (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.67 — 154,406 ratings — published 2016
Forgive Me, Leonard Peacock (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.87 — 48,969 ratings — published 2013
The Princess' Blankets (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.65 — 231 ratings — published 2008
This Is Not a Test: The Definitive Edition with Please Remain Calm (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 16,030 ratings — published 2012
Genie: A Scientific Tragedy (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.92 — 1,142 ratings — published 1993
Time of the Locust (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 184 ratings — published 2014
The Shrine at Altamira (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 219 ratings — published 1992
Random Family: Love, Drugs, Trouble, and Coming of Age in the Bronx (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 14,003 ratings — published 2003
Caged Warrior (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.05 — 650 ratings — published 2014
Still Waters (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.91 — 638 ratings — published 2015
Revolver (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.71 — 5,406 ratings — published 2009
Paco's Story (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 1,015 ratings — published 1986
The Plague (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.02 — 324,234 ratings — published 1947
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 4,690,893 ratings — published 1945
The Stranger (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.03 — 1,466,555 ratings — published 1942
East of Eden (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.45 — 674,973 ratings — published 1952
Rushing to Paradise (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.34 — 939 ratings — published 1994
The Unnamed (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.33 — 9,085 ratings — published 2010
Revolution (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 30,291 ratings — published 2010
Weep Not Child (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 4,404 ratings — published 1964
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,271,217 ratings — published 1963
Rücken an Rücken (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.27 — 210 ratings — published 2011
Black Boy (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 56,367 ratings — published 1945
Palo Alto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 2.97 — 12,513 ratings — published 2009
Boot Camp (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.89 — 6,114 ratings — published 2006
Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.38 — 1,387,069 ratings — published 1956
The Dead-Tossed Waves (The Forest of Hands and Teeth, #2)
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avg rating 3.91 — 32,146 ratings — published 2010
The Third Life Of Grange Copeland (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 4,680 ratings — published 1970
The Sea of Tranquility (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.28 — 88,853 ratings — published 2012
Exegesis (Vintage Contemporaries)
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avg rating 3.57 — 499 ratings — published 1997
Jacob Have I Loved (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.69 — 36,316 ratings — published 1980
We Were Liars (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.65 — 1,444,643 ratings — published 2014
The Walled City (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.88 — 7,404 ratings — published 2014
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.46 — 1,778,986 ratings — published 2007
Go Ask Alice (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 294,633 ratings — published 1971
Keeper (Paul Faustino, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 2,269 ratings — published 2003
“At the Moor
Wanderer in the black wind; quietly the dry reeds whisper
In the stillness of the moor. In the gray sky
A flock of wild birds follows;
Slanting over gloomy waters.
Turmoil. In decayed hut
The spirit of putrescence flutters with black wings.
Crippled birches in the autumn wind.
Evening in deserted tavern. The way home is scented all around
By the soft gloom of grazing herds;
Apparition of the night; toads plunge from brown waters.”
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Wanderer in the black wind; quietly the dry reeds whisper
In the stillness of the moor. In the gray sky
A flock of wild birds follows;
Slanting over gloomy waters.
Turmoil. In decayed hut
The spirit of putrescence flutters with black wings.
Crippled birches in the autumn wind.
Evening in deserted tavern. The way home is scented all around
By the soft gloom of grazing herds;
Apparition of the night; toads plunge from brown waters.”
―
“The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it was a different facet of the same thing. But surely they were both intended to accomplish the same thing: the singing, the devotion, the poetry of the churches took a man out of his bleakness for a time, and so did the brothels.”
― East of Eden
― East of Eden
