141 books
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Story of the Eye (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 26,161 ratings — published 1928
Crash (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.64 — 33,267 ratings — published 1973
The 120 Days of Sodom (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.05 — 15,276 ratings — published 1785
Blood and Guts in High School (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 7,305 ratings — published 1984
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 963,368 ratings — published 1955
Illuminations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.31 — 14,186 ratings — published 1875
Our Lady of the Flowers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 7,164 ratings — published 1943
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 99,717 ratings — published 1959
The Torture Garden (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,902 ratings — published 1899
Frisk (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 4,298 ratings — published 1991
The Sluts (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 10,797 ratings — published 2004
Erotism: Death and Sensuality (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 4,295 ratings — published 1957
Venus in Furs (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 17,213 ratings — published 1870
American Psycho (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 372,403 ratings — published 1991
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 7,343 ratings — published 1969
Literature and Evil (English and French Edition)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,572 ratings — published 1957
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 10,080 ratings — published 1824
Snakes And Earrings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.18 — 5,794 ratings — published 2003
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.12 — 183,348 ratings — published 1993
Delta of Venus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 26,664 ratings — published 1977
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 82,976 ratings — published 1857
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.13 — 1,940,999 ratings — published 1890
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,446 ratings — published 1949
Maldoror and the Complete Works (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.25 — 4,006 ratings — published 1869
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 206,876 ratings — published 2000
Little Birds (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.68 — 14,225 ratings — published 1979
House of Incest (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 3,879 ratings — published 1915
Blue of Noon (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.72 — 3,555 ratings — published 1935
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
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avg rating 3.65 — 79,026 ratings — published 1934
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 113,027 ratings — published 1984
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 48,936 ratings — published 1932
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 31,234 ratings — published 1949
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 9,827 ratings — published 1872
The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,610 ratings — published 1979
A Sentimental Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.94 — 207 ratings — published 2007
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 153,018 ratings — published 1999
SCUM Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 12,688 ratings — published 1967
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.26 — 13,492 ratings — published 1748
Cows (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.68 — 15,222 ratings — published 1998
Blasted (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 5,998 ratings — published 1995
Astragal (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 2,811 ratings — published 1965
The Kindly Ones (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 15,415 ratings — published 2006
Philosophical Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.06 — 2,294 ratings — published 1764
Mademoiselle de Maupin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.90 — 1,440 ratings — published 1835
The Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.84 — 1,221,404 ratings — published -700
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,481 ratings — published 1970
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 788,504 ratings — published 1962
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,076,924 ratings — published 1992
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 41,190 ratings — published 1949
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.78 — 27,274 ratings — published 1996
“To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that's the point. The sufferings will be tremendous, but one must be strong, be born a poet: it is in no way my fault.”
― Illuminations
― Illuminations
“His base sins were envy - of beauty, of happiness - and pride, bending the whole world to his view of creation, and these were the greatest sins of all, the same transgressions over which the devil himself, once an archangel, had stumbled and fallen a long way out of Heaven.”
― Intensity
― Intensity











