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Grotesque Books
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The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 1,480,625 ratings — published 1915
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.54 — 105,191 ratings — published 2022
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.77 — 432,453 ratings — published 2017
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.95 — 73,974 ratings — published 1989
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 416,388 ratings — published 2007
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.04 — 568,620 ratings — published 1985
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,123 ratings — published 1996
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.64 — 32,997 ratings — published 1973
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.98 — 51,120 ratings — published 2008
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.82 — 38,546 ratings — published 1952
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 2.93 — 58,332 ratings — published 2021
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.45 — 348,720 ratings — published 2019
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.61 — 47,379 ratings — published 1997
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.83 — 132,182 ratings — published 2014
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.94 — 407,246 ratings — published 1925
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,934,360 ratings — published 1890
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 22,675 ratings — published 1997
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.18 — 652,802 ratings — published 1996
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.71 — 222,819 ratings — published 2001
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 588,671 ratings — published 2018
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.60 — 105,685 ratings — published 2018
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.45 — 91,349 ratings — published 1998
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.87 — 961,437 ratings — published 1955
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,385 ratings — published 1532
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,946,655 ratings — published 1818
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.14 — 42,430 ratings — published 2011
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.09 — 206,125 ratings — published 2000
Grotesque (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,422 ratings — published 2003
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 152,851 ratings — published 1999
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.28 — 433,577 ratings — published 1967
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.80 — 371,388 ratings — published 1991
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,250,544 ratings — published 1954
The Unworthy (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 55,435 ratings — published 2023
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.43 — 20,659 ratings — published 2022
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.66 — 452,821 ratings — published 2020
The 120 Days of Sodom (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.05 — 15,242 ratings — published 1785
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.69 — 70,180 ratings — published 2019
Coin Locker Babies (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,895 ratings — published 1980
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.68 — 20,797 ratings — published 1994
Hurricane Season (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.03 — 51,971 ratings — published 2017
The Gone World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 30,593 ratings — published 2018
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.69 — 68,772 ratings — published 2006
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,106 ratings — published 1971
The Tenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.05 — 6,393 ratings — published 1964
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,148 ratings — published 2007
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.76 — 112,654 ratings — published 1984
Eileen (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.56 — 133,210 ratings — published 2015
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 121,337 ratings — published 1940
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,486,416 ratings — published 1985
Saga, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.15 — 365,934 ratings — published 2012
“When you can assume that your audience holds the same beliefs you do, you can relax and use more normal means of talking to it; when you have to assume that it does not, then you have to make your vision apparent by shock -- to the hard of hearing you shout, and for the almost-blind you draw large and startling figures.”
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
― Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose
“Every nail, claw-scale and spur, every spike
and welt on the hand of that heathen brute
was like barbed steel.”
― Beowulf A New Verse Translation Hardcover
and welt on the hand of that heathen brute
was like barbed steel.”
― Beowulf A New Verse Translation Hardcover
