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The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,981,498 ratings — published 1890
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.93 — 6,107,100 ratings — published 1925
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.15 — 1,108,018 ratings — published 1992
Diary of an Oxygen Thief (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 2.71 — 79,834 ratings — published 2006
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,144,120 ratings — published 1866
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.09 — 531,191 ratings — published 1968
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,297,567 ratings — published 1954
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,992,727 ratings — published 1951
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.00 — 789,211 ratings — published 1962
Keep the Aspidistra Flying (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.89 — 26,392 ratings — published 1936
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.04 — 1,298,688 ratings — published 1963
The Rules of Attraction (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.72 — 53,003 ratings — published 1987
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,539,437 ratings — published 2012
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,530,242 ratings — published 1915
The Blade Itself (The First Law, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.22 — 332,594 ratings — published 2006
Yellowface (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.72 — 1,146,709 ratings — published 2023
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.06 — 285,249 ratings — published 1973
Thank You for Smoking (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.94 — 13,330 ratings — published 1994
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,520,325 ratings — published 1969
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.92 — 143,093 ratings — published 1971
The Art of War (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.94 — 593,144 ratings — published -500
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.59 — 611,433 ratings — published 2018
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,539,514 ratings — published 1985
Diary of a Wimpy Kid (Diary of a Wimpy Kid, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.98 — 807,996 ratings — published 2007
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.15 — 447,271 ratings — published 1963
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.20 — 793,397 ratings — published 1962
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.80 — 378,924 ratings — published 1991
The Unabridged Devil's Dictionary (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.05 — 11,191 ratings — published 1911
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.62 — 105,818 ratings — published 1985
Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West (The Wicked Years, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.50 — 695,811 ratings — published 1995
Last Argument of Kings (The First Law, #3)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 4.37 — 213,547 ratings — published 2008
Hollywood (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as cynical)
avg rating 3.81 — 28,321 ratings — published 1989
Like This, But Funnier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 3.22 — 1,027 ratings — published 2026
How to Kill Your Family (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 3.51 — 192,440 ratings — published 2021
I See You've Called in Dead (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 4.07 — 67,379 ratings — published 2025
Yesteryear (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 3.91 — 700,878 ratings — published 2026
The Savage, Noble Death of Babs Dionne (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 3.89 — 7,089 ratings — published 2025
The Stalker (Unknown Binding)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 3.48 — 2,082 ratings — published 2025
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 3.60 — 7,856 ratings — published 1925
Wild Dark Shore (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 4.06 — 581,224 ratings — published 2025
Half His Age (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 3.24 — 173,038 ratings — published 2026
Be Gay, Do Crime: Sixteen Stories of Queer Chaos (Paperback)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 3.48 — 1,117 ratings — published 2025
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 3.55 — 135,970 ratings — published 2015
This Will Be Fun (This Will Be, #1)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 3.36 — 8,951 ratings — published 2024
I'm Glad My Mom Died (Hardcover)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 4.42 — 1,600,777 ratings — published 2022
Firsts Are Always Messy (Firsts Series Book 1)
by (shelved 1 time as cynical)
avg rating 4.16 — 712 ratings — published 2024
“Life is not a list of checkboxes that we have to tick off sequentially one after another. Got a degree? Tick. Booked a house under my name? Tick. Got married? Tick. Had Children? Tick. All this sound too cliché, too depressing. These are acts which people do under the influence of peer pressure, mimicking each other, and not willingly as a genuine choice of their own.”
― That Thing About You
― That Thing About You
“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.”
― The White Tiger
― The White Tiger
