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American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.80 — 382,885 ratings — published 1991
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 108 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.18 — 665,090 ratings — published 1996
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 78 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,641 ratings — published 1973
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.00 — 793,439 ratings — published 1962
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 73 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.99 — 154,525 ratings — published 1999
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,848 ratings — published 1928
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.87 — 980,390 ratings — published 1955
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 67 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,837 ratings — published 2001
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,951 ratings — published 1959
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.12 — 186,505 ratings — published 1993
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,201 ratings — published 1964
The Sluts (Paperback)
by (shelved 52 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.77 — 12,364 ratings — published 2004
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,417 ratings — published 2005
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.76 — 115,640 ratings — published 1984
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.62 — 107,051 ratings — published 1985
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.92 — 126,027 ratings — published 1999
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.12 — 70,200 ratings — published 1978
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 44 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.06 — 389,270 ratings — published 1971
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.33 — 63,446 ratings — published 2013
Lullaby (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.74 — 105,104 ratings — published 2002
Frisk (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,493 ratings — published 1991
Sister Sable (The Mad Queen #1)
by (shelved 34 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.50 — 3,044 ratings — published 2015
The Rules of Attraction (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.72 — 53,382 ratings — published 1987
Filth (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.82 — 32,936 ratings — published 1998
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,651 ratings — published 1996
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.66 — 26,690 ratings — published 2014
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.20 — 796,609 ratings — published 1962
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.95 — 75,367 ratings — published 1989
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,842 ratings — published 1953
Lunar Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 31,561 ratings — published 2005
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 80,187 ratings — published 1934
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.61 — 50,447 ratings — published 1997
The 120 Days of Sodom: A Classic of Extreme French Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.05 — 15,682 ratings — published 1785
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.92 — 144,108 ratings — published 1971
Snuff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.22 — 68,124 ratings — published 2008
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.85 — 71,596 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,532,419 ratings — published 1942
Blood and Guts in High School (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,504 ratings — published 1984
Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 81,914 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,529,896 ratings — published 1969
Cows (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 2.66 — 16,208 ratings — published 1998
Hogg (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 2.83 — 1,939 ratings — published 1994
The Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,723 ratings — published 1971
The Necrophiliac (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,758 ratings — published 1972
Closer (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.64 — 5,158 ratings — published 1989
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.91 — 78,126 ratings — published 1975
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.80 — 4,017,701 ratings — published 1951
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.04 — 587,089 ratings — published 1985
Child of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.81 — 59,163 ratings — published 1973
Almost Transparent Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.28 — 14,426 ratings — published 1976
“Even for those who have chosen to fully accept and affirm their 2SLGBTQIA+ siblings in Christ, until we let go of our narrow and prideful belief in the supremacy of the “normal”, we will not only continue to perpetuate harm to the already vulnerable, but we will deny the Church the opportunity to encounter aspects of the Divine only found in those who “transgress” those false and narrow boundaries.”
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“You think literature is supposed to make you feel safe?! It’s supposed to do quite the opposite of that, believe you me!”
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