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The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,577,498 ratings — published 1915
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.77 — 491,224 ratings — published 2017
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.53 — 113,331 ratings — published 2022
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,607 ratings — published 1989
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 10 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 468,028 ratings — published 2007
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.04 — 590,321 ratings — published 1985
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 34,813 ratings — published 1973
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.98 — 51,499 ratings — published 2008
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.81 — 40,375 ratings — published 1952
Playground (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.41 — 22,518 ratings — published 2022
A Certain Hunger (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.68 — 74,599 ratings — published 2019
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,925 ratings — published 1996
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 2.92 — 59,895 ratings — published 2021
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.44 — 377,254 ratings — published 2019
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.61 — 50,977 ratings — published 1997
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.82 — 144,682 ratings — published 2014
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.93 — 426,398 ratings — published 1925
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.13 — 2,022,000 ratings — published 1890
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.61 — 25,028 ratings — published 1997
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.18 — 666,693 ratings — published 1996
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.80 — 384,652 ratings — published 1991
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.71 — 225,129 ratings — published 2001
Paradise Rot (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.43 — 35,725 ratings — published 2009
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.60 — 114,571 ratings — published 2018
Tomie (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.16 — 45,775 ratings — published 1987
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.45 — 96,029 ratings — published 1998
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.87 — 983,786 ratings — published 1955
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.76 — 116,075 ratings — published 1984
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,586 ratings — published 1532
Frankenstein (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.93 — 2,022,245 ratings — published 1818
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.14 — 44,525 ratings — published 2011
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.14 — 249,093 ratings — published 1985
Grotesque (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.74 — 14,953 ratings — published 2003
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.99 — 154,824 ratings — published 1999
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.28 — 454,581 ratings — published 1967
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,330,481 ratings — published 1954
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,621 ratings — published 2005
Victorian Psycho (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.53 — 67,398 ratings — published 2025
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.66 — 472,958 ratings — published 2020
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.58 — 629,445 ratings — published 2018
The 120 Days of Sodom: A Classic of Extreme French Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.04 — 15,756 ratings — published 1785
Boy Parts (ebook)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.70 — 92,299 ratings — published 2020
Coin Locker Babies (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.79 — 10,142 ratings — published 1980
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.68 — 22,304 ratings — published 1994
The Girl Next Door (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.91 — 61,143 ratings — published 1989
The Gone World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.90 — 34,423 ratings — published 2018
The Ruins (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.69 — 73,374 ratings — published 2006
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,579 ratings — published 1971
The Tenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.04 — 6,676 ratings — published 1964
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,921 ratings — published 2007
“Intimidation," she told me, amused by my repulsion.
"Men abandon battle when they see their own fates in these ruined faces”
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"Men abandon battle when they see their own fates in these ruined faces”
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“I had always believed that the very best food contains something elementally repugnant. That its innate grotesquerie is what makes it so perversely alluring. My own favorite foods tended toward a certain sludgy, muddy texture. And from the most expensive and genteel through to the indulgently crass, the appeal of slop abides: caviar, escargots, foie gras or hamburgers, kebabs, macaroni and cheese. Even vegetable soup forms a membrane. Apples begin rotting from the very first bite. No matter which end of the spectrum, there lies fundamentally and yet delectably disgusting, some squirmy, sinewy, oozing, greasy, sticky, glutinous, mushy, fatty, chewy, viscous thing that compels. The line between pleasure and revulsion can seem so very thin, if it even exists at all.”
― Supper Club
― Supper Club
