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Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 441,162 ratings — published 2017
American Psycho (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 373,518 ratings — published 1991
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.00 — 664,511 ratings — published 2023
The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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avg rating 4.35 — 10,120,721 ratings — published 2008
A Game of Thrones (A Song of Ice and Fire, #1)
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avg rating 4.45 — 2,780,211 ratings — published 1996
Battle Royale (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.26 — 87,580 ratings — published 1999
The Eyes Are the Best Part (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.78 — 62,476 ratings — published 2024
Intercepts (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 4.09 — 41,632 ratings — published 2019
Playground (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.42 — 20,904 ratings — published 2022
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
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avg rating 3.68 — 120,949 ratings — published 2020
Carrie (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 867,033 ratings — published 1974
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.70 — 3,265,448 ratings — published 1954
Victorian Psycho (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 50,623 ratings — published 2025
Hell Followed With Us (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.08 — 35,300 ratings — published 2022
The Troop (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.82 — 133,881 ratings — published 2014
Wilder Girls (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.45 — 101,907 ratings — published 2019
The Hellbound Heart (Hellraiser #1)
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avg rating 4.08 — 70,776 ratings — published 1986
Pretty Girls (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.00 — 762,576 ratings — published 2015
Endurance (The Konrath Dark Thriller Collective #5)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,869 ratings — published 2010
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
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avg rating 4.12 — 3,809,450 ratings — published 2010
When the Wolf Comes Home (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.07 — 34,277 ratings — published 2025
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.54 — 106,449 ratings — published 2022
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.78 — 324,445 ratings — published 2020
Red Rising (Red Rising Saga, #1)
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avg rating 4.27 — 887,646 ratings — published 2014
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.15 — 100,512 ratings — published 2008
Afraid (The Konrath Dark Thriller Collective #3)
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avg rating 3.92 — 9,800 ratings — published 2008
You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.55 — 27,129 ratings — published 2023
Dead of Winter (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 53,815 ratings — published 2023
The Final Girl Support Group (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.50 — 193,739 ratings — published 2021
Clown in a Cornfield (Clown in a Cornfield, #1)
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avg rating 3.72 — 44,569 ratings — published 2020
The Ruins (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.69 — 69,366 ratings — published 2006
The Poppy War (The Poppy War, #1)
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avg rating 4.16 — 522,665 ratings — published 2018
FantasticLand (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 55,848 ratings — published 2016
I Hunt Killers (I Hunt Killers, #1)
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avg rating 4.01 — 43,537 ratings — published 2012
Wolf Worm (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 12,388 ratings — published 2026
Tourist Season (The Seasons of Carnage Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 4.13 — 97,353 ratings — published 2025
Alchemised (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.32 — 296,893 ratings — published 2025
You Weren't Meant to Be Human (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.83 — 13,221 ratings — published 2025
The Library at Hellebore (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.08 — 6,725 ratings — published 2025
The Salt Grows Heavy (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.53 — 31,554 ratings — published 2023
Razorblade Tears (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.12 — 175,494 ratings — published 2021
Maeve Fly (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.66 — 28,878 ratings — published 2023
How to Sell a Haunted House (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.63 — 175,826 ratings — published 2023
My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy, #1)
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avg rating 3.50 — 55,012 ratings — published 2021
Woom (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.23 — 38,789 ratings — published 2016
Godsgrave (The Nevernight Chronicle, #2)
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avg rating 4.45 — 75,014 ratings — published 2017
“History is not a nightmare from which I am trying to awaken, but rather, a glorious tale which I wish to be cast in.”
― The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos
― The Italian Pleasures of Gabriele Paterkallos
“This assignment could damn well project all the words across my face and the ink stain my hands a gory mess before I finished it.”
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