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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.21 — 5,769,531 ratings — published 1949
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.33 — 63,338 ratings — published 2013
My Year of Rest and Relaxation (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.59 — 622,914 ratings — published 2018
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.65 — 34,603 ratings — published 1973
A People’s History of the United States: 1492 - Present (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.09 — 274,204 ratings — published 1980
The Lacuna (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.83 — 76,573 ratings — published 2009
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,811 ratings — published 1928
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.06 — 286,442 ratings — published 1973
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.06 — 389,024 ratings — published 1971
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.16 — 2,563,320 ratings — published 1985
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.18 — 664,610 ratings — published 1996
The Hate U Give (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.45 — 1,043,897 ratings — published 2017
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.76 — 115,519 ratings — published 1984
The New Jim Crow: Mass Incarceration in the Age of Colorblindness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.52 — 120,528 ratings — published 2010
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.98 — 2,155,489 ratings — published 1932
The Giver (Giver, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.12 — 2,905,815 ratings — published 1993
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.03 — 4,813,792 ratings — published 1945
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,528,732 ratings — published 1969
Dream Story (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.76 — 23,507 ratings — published 1926
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.71 — 3,317,790 ratings — published 1954
The Message (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.49 — 45,977 ratings — published 2024
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.92 — 80,291 ratings — published 1968
Why Fish Don’t Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.12 — 63,195 ratings — published 2020
The Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.28 — 83,234 ratings — published 1995
On Tyranny: Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.28 — 113,339 ratings — published 2017
Maus I: A Survivor's Tale: My Father Bleeds History (Maus, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.39 — 386,663 ratings — published 1986
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.77 — 478,262 ratings — published 2017
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.65 — 459,068 ratings — published 2007
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.68 — 22,066 ratings — published 1994
The Cement Garden (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.53 — 36,925 ratings — published 1978
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.44 — 372,149 ratings — published 2019
Born a Crime: Stories from a South African Childhood (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.48 — 848,685 ratings — published 2016
The Palace of Dreams (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.93 — 7,129 ratings — published 1981
We Sold Our Souls (ebook)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.69 — 35,274 ratings — published 2018
The Power (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.75 — 259,699 ratings — published 2016
Her Body and Other Parties: Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.79 — 110,302 ratings — published 2017
Notes of a Native Son (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.36 — 25,897 ratings — published 1955
Twin Peaks: The Final Dossier (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.90 — 7,546 ratings — published 2017
The Secret History of Twin Peaks (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.96 — 12,418 ratings — published 2016
Guide (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.01 — 1,249 ratings — published 1997
Lady Chatterley’s Lover (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.50 — 142,338 ratings — published 1928
Little Red (Hardcover)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.86 — 1,430 ratings — published 2016
Damned (Damned, #1)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.41 — 59,802 ratings — published 2011
Manufacturing Consent: The Political Economy of the Mass Media (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.23 — 25,670 ratings — published 1988
Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.97 — 76,868 ratings — published 1995
Queer (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.47 — 25,593 ratings — published 1985
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.87 — 979,538 ratings — published 1955
The Monk (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 3.87 — 36,445 ratings — published 1796
Riddley Walker (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as subversive)
avg rating 4.02 — 8,967 ratings — published 1980
“I’m warning you because you’re young and vulnerable. He’s a dirty, lying, conniving piece of shit and he’s dangerous.” Gottfried Baumauer.”
― From the Horse’s Mouth
― From the Horse’s Mouth
“I had artistic classical training, and when you learn the classics for so many years, you might gain audacity, power and confidence to subvert everything. I am like the originals buffoons. I love the rules because I can break them.”
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