141 books
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Transgression Books
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Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as transgression)
avg rating 3.64 — 25,688 ratings — published 1928
Crash (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.61 — 31,118 ratings — published 1973
The 120 Days of Sodom (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.06 — 15,014 ratings — published 1785
Blood and Guts in High School (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 7,162 ratings — published 1984
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
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avg rating 3.87 — 951,910 ratings — published 1955
Illuminations (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 14,031 ratings — published 1875
Our Lady of the Flowers (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.01 — 7,086 ratings — published 1943
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.46 — 98,997 ratings — published 1959
The Torture Garden (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.74 — 2,856 ratings — published 1899
Frisk (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 4,165 ratings — published 1991
The Sluts (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.77 — 10,033 ratings — published 2004
Erotism: Death and Sensuality (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as transgression)
avg rating 4.05 — 4,184 ratings — published 1957
Venus in Furs (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.62 — 16,855 ratings — published 1870
American Psycho (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.80 — 365,659 ratings — published 1991
The Atrocity Exhibition (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.76 — 7,255 ratings — published 1969
Literature and Evil (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.96 — 1,554 ratings — published 1957
The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.67 — 9,935 ratings — published 1824
Snakes And Earrings (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.18 — 5,754 ratings — published 2003
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.11 — 180,394 ratings — published 1993
Delta of Venus (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.60 — 25,627 ratings — published 1977
Les Fleurs du Mal (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.19 — 81,135 ratings — published 1857
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.14 — 1,901,262 ratings — published 1890
The Thief's Journal (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.93 — 5,361 ratings — published 1949
Maldoror and the Complete Works (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transgression)
avg rating 4.25 — 3,978 ratings — published 1869
House of Leaves (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.09 — 202,643 ratings — published 2000
Little Birds: Thirteen Feminist Erotic Short Stories that Inspired the Series by Anaïs Nin (Paperback)
by (shelved 2 times as transgression)
avg rating 3.68 — 14,017 ratings — published 1979
House of Incest (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.87 — 3,795 ratings — published 1915
Blue of Noon (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.73 — 3,462 ratings — published 1935
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
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avg rating 3.65 — 78,336 ratings — published 1934
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.75 — 110,260 ratings — published 1984
Journey to the End of the Night (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.18 — 48,224 ratings — published 1932
The Sheltering Sky (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.88 — 30,912 ratings — published 1949
A Season in Hell and The Drunken Boat (Mass Market Paperback)
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avg rating 4.32 — 9,740 ratings — published 1872
The Sadeian Woman: And the Ideology of Pornography (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.04 — 1,594 ratings — published 1979
A Sentimental Novel (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.94 — 206 ratings — published 2007
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.99 — 152,036 ratings — published 1999
SCUM Manifesto (Hardcover)
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avg rating 3.79 — 12,375 ratings — published 1967
Fanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.27 — 13,368 ratings — published 1748
Cows (Paperback)
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avg rating 2.69 — 14,544 ratings — published 1998
Blasted (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.60 — 5,870 ratings — published 1995
Astragal (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.66 — 2,747 ratings — published 1965
The Kindly Ones (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.03 — 15,200 ratings — published 2006
Philosophical Dictionary (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.05 — 2,277 ratings — published 1764
Mademoiselle de Maupin (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.89 — 1,424 ratings — published 1835
The Odyssey (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.83 — 1,202,217 ratings — published -800
The Fantastic: A Structural Approach to a Literary Genre (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.91 — 1,458 ratings — published 1970
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
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avg rating 4.20 — 782,986 ratings — published 1962
The Secret History (Paperback)
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avg rating 4.15 — 1,044,882 ratings — published 1992
Confessions of a Mask (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.95 — 40,076 ratings — published 1949
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
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avg rating 3.79 — 26,381 ratings — published 1996
“I was desperate to present as transgressive, but also to be entirely accepted within spaces that were anything but that.”
― Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between
― Life as a Unicorn: A Journey from Shame to Pride and Everything in Between
“A melancholic nostalgia for the good old Victorian days when it was still a terrifying transgression if a music teacher seduced the daughter of the family.”
― Abercrombie and Fitch "Back to School" 2003 Catalog
― Abercrombie and Fitch "Back to School" 2003 Catalog











