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Grotesque Books
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The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,421,159 ratings — published 1915
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.54 — 99,166 ratings — published 2022
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.77 — 394,223 ratings — published 2017
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,872 ratings — published 1989
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 378,089 ratings — published 2007
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.04 — 551,976 ratings — published 1985
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.98 — 50,808 ratings — published 2008
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.82 — 37,706 ratings — published 1952
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.79 — 25,837 ratings — published 1996
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 2.93 — 57,281 ratings — published 2021
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.46 — 325,749 ratings — published 2019
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.62 — 44,869 ratings — published 1997
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.60 — 30,098 ratings — published 1973
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.94 — 394,186 ratings — published 1925
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,873,035 ratings — published 1890
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.53 — 19,208 ratings — published 1997
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.18 — 642,261 ratings — published 1996
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.28 — 419,323 ratings — published 1967
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.71 — 220,986 ratings — published 2001
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.60 — 99,549 ratings — published 2018
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.45 — 88,037 ratings — published 1998
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.83 — 125,544 ratings — published 2014
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.87 — 944,099 ratings — published 1955
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,230 ratings — published 1532
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,882,107 ratings — published 1818
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.09 — 199,924 ratings — published 2000
Grotesque (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,051 ratings — published 2003
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.00 — 151,368 ratings — published 1999
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.80 — 361,468 ratings — published 1991
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,195,265 ratings — published 1954
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.44 — 19,489 ratings — published 2022
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.66 — 441,214 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.60 — 561,609 ratings — published 2018
The 120 Days of Sodom (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.06 — 14,872 ratings — published 1785
Coin Locker Babies (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,681 ratings — published 1980
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.68 — 19,543 ratings — published 1994
The Gone World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 28,266 ratings — published 2018
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.69 — 66,659 ratings — published 2006
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.39 — 40,777 ratings — published 1971
The Tenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,199 ratings — published 1964
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,097 ratings — published 2007
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,481,331 ratings — published 1969
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.75 — 108,700 ratings — published 1984
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.56 — 129,135 ratings — published 2015
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,416,430 ratings — published 1985
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.14 — 41,146 ratings — published 2011
Saga, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.16 — 361,357 ratings — published 2012
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 294,689 ratings — published 1962
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.98 — 75,313 ratings — published 2000
Heart of a Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.08 — 72,219 ratings — published 1925
“à l’ombre des quelques hommes riches qui bombent le ventre pour étaler leur importance sociale se cache une foule des personnages grotesques, présentés sur les scènes de l’histoire comme des êtres parasites, cupides et caricaturaux.”
― Mangeuses : Histoire de celles qui dévorent, savourent ou se privent à l'excès
― Mangeuses : Histoire de celles qui dévorent, savourent ou se privent à l'excès
“In principio, quando il mondo era giovane, c'erano molti pensieri ma non esisteva nulla si simile a una verità. Le verità le fabbricò l'uomo, e ogni verità fu composta da un grande numero di pensieri imprecisi. Così in tutto il mondo ci furono verità. Ed erano meravigliose. Il vecchio aveva elencato nel suo libro centinaia di verità. Io non cercherò di riferirvele tutte. C'erano la verità della verginità e la verità della passione, la verità della ricchezza e quella della povertà, della modestia e dello sperpero, dell'indifferenza e dell'entusiasmo. Centinaia e centinaia erano le verità, e tutte meravigliose. Poi veniva la gente. Ognuno, appena compariva, si gettava su una delle verità e se ne impadroniva; alcuni, molto forti, arrivavano a possederne una dozzina contemporaneamente. Erano le verità a trasformare la gente in caricature grottesche. Il vecchio aveva una sua complessa teoria a questo proposito. Era sua opinione che quando qualcuno s'impadroniva di una verità, e diceva che quella era la sua verità e si sforzava di vivere secondo essa, allora costui si trasformava in una caricatura, e la verità che abbracciava in una menzogna.”
― Winesburg, Ohio
― Winesburg, Ohio
