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Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.54 — 111,038 ratings — published 2022
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,549,520 ratings — published 1915
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.77 — 472,478 ratings — published 2017
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,149 ratings — published 1989
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 453,753 ratings — published 2007
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.04 — 583,937 ratings — published 1985
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.81 — 39,914 ratings — published 1952
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.44 — 369,255 ratings — published 2019
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,494 ratings — published 1973
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.98 — 51,386 ratings — published 2008
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,391 ratings — published 1996
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 2.92 — 59,375 ratings — published 2021
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.61 — 49,967 ratings — published 1997
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.82 — 140,150 ratings — published 2014
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.93 — 420,634 ratings — published 1925
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,996,632 ratings — published 1890
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.61 — 24,595 ratings — published 1997
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.18 — 663,356 ratings — published 1996
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.80 — 381,204 ratings — published 1991
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,534 ratings — published 2001
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.42 — 21,940 ratings — published 2022
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.68 — 73,408 ratings — published 2019
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.60 — 112,175 ratings — published 2018
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.45 — 94,668 ratings — published 1998
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.87 — 977,108 ratings — published 1955
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.76 — 115,247 ratings — published 1984
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,525 ratings — published 1532
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,997,446 ratings — published 1818
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.14 — 43,929 ratings — published 2011
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.14 — 244,287 ratings — published 1985
Grotesque (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,808 ratings — published 2003
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 154,255 ratings — published 1999
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.28 — 448,525 ratings — published 1925
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,310,447 ratings — published 1954
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,230 ratings — published 2005
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.66 — 465,228 ratings — published 2020
Paradise Rot (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.43 — 34,999 ratings — published 2009
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 618,929 ratings — published 2018
Coin Locker Babies (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.79 — 10,083 ratings — published 1980
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.68 — 21,920 ratings — published 1994
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 60,043 ratings — published 1989
The Gone World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.90 — 33,269 ratings — published 2018
Tomie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.16 — 45,081 ratings — published 1987
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.69 — 71,868 ratings — published 2006
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,415 ratings — published 1971
The Tenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,578 ratings — published 1964
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,212 ratings — published 2007
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.55 — 136,708 ratings — published 2015
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 123,878 ratings — published 1940
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,554,600 ratings — published 1985
“There are those among the Folk so hideous that all living things shrink back in horror. And yet others have a grotesquerie so exaggerated, so voluptuous, that it comes all the way around to beauty”
― The Stolen Heir
― The Stolen Heir
“If something is ugly, it’s likely that it’s only ugly because it’s never been given the opportunity to be beautiful. And never having had that opportunity is likely the ugliest thing of all.”
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