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Exploring Taboos
Books that have an interesting or different view on a taboo.
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Lolita
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Crime and Punishment
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4.28 avg rating — 1,039,829 ratings
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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4.20 avg rating — 771,277 ratings
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Madame Bovary
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3.71 avg rating — 367,130 ratings
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,080,230 ratings
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The Virgin Suicides
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3.78 avg rating — 400,778 ratings
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The Bell Jar
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4.05 avg rating — 1,173,968 ratings
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
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3.72 avg rating — 233,378 ratings
score: 777,
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8 people voted
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Venus in Furs
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3.63 avg rating — 16,198 ratings
score: 400,
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4 people voted
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Lady Chatterley's Lover
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3.50 avg rating — 135,668 ratings
score: 391,
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4 people voted
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Story of O
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3.30 avg rating — 21,824 ratings
score: 389,
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4 people voted
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The Crucible
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3.61 avg rating — 454,995 ratings
score: 387,
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4 people voted
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Anna Karenina
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4.10 avg rating — 913,553 ratings
score: 386,
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Trainspotting
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4.11 avg rating — 175,859 ratings
score: 381,
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4 people voted
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The Hotel New Hampshire
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John Irving (Goodreads Author)
3.93 avg rating — 68,243 ratings
score: 381,
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4 people voted
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Long Day’s Journey into Night
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4.06 avg rating — 42,535 ratings
score: 374,
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4 people voted
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The Marketplace (The Marketplace, #1)
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Laura Antoniou (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 1,975 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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How We Fall
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Kate Brauning (Goodreads Author)
3.65 avg rating — 730 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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I Am Stalker
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Ashley S. Clancy (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 979 ratings
score: 300,
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3 people voted
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Hale
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K. Webster (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 7,793 ratings
score: 299,
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3 people voted
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The Cement Garden
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Ian McEwan (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 34,805 ratings
score: 298,
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3 people voted
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Tender Is the Night
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3.77 avg rating — 147,640 ratings
score: 295,
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3 people voted
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Geek Love
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3.95 avg rating — 71,838 ratings
score: 290,
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3 people voted
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House of Incest
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3.86 avg rating — 3,619 ratings
score: 282,
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3 people voted
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Novel with Cocaine
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3.84 avg rating — 3,551 ratings
score: 278,
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3 people voted
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Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
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4.06 avg rating — 63,822 ratings
score: 276,
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3 people voted
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Wasted: A Memoir of Anorexia and Bulimia
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4.03 avg rating — 33,915 ratings
score: 273,
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3 people voted
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A House in the Country
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4.16 avg rating — 754 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Lucky Girl: How I Survived the Sex Industry
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Violet Ivy (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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The Beast in My Wife
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3.80 avg rating — 41 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Carnal Knowledge
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Crystal Blue (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Opiate Addiction - The Painkiller Addiction Epidemic, Heroin Addiction and the Way Out
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Taite Adams (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 128 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Fit for Consumption: Stories Both Queer and Horrifying
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3.72 avg rating — 47 ratings
score: 200,
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2 people voted
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Relatively Honest
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Molly Ringle (Goodreads Author)
3.34 avg rating — 186 ratings
score: 199,
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2 people voted
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Fifty Shades of Grey (Fifty Shades, #1)
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E.L. James (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 2,821,783 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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The Wild (The Wild, #1)
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K. Webster (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 11,747 ratings
score: 198,
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2 people voted
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Ada, or Ardor: A Family Chronicle
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4.12 avg rating — 12,738 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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Naughty Bits
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Selena Kitt (Goodreads Author)
3.34 avg rating — 1,235 ratings
score: 196,
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2 people voted
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The Son
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3.67 avg rating — 93 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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Sins from my Stepmother: Forbidden Desires
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C.R.R. Crawford (Goodreads Author)
4.07 avg rating — 60 ratings
score: 194,
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2 people voted
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Waterland
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3.90 avg rating — 9,934 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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A Spell of Winter
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3.67 avg rating — 3,831 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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Sins from my Stepmother: House of Lust
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C.R.R. Crawford (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 6 ratings
score: 192,
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2 people voted
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Dalva
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4.16 avg rating — 4,437 ratings
score: 188,
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2 people voted
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The Lover
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3.71 avg rating — 69,645 ratings
score: 188,
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2 people voted
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The Holy Sinner
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3.93 avg rating — 1,914 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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Fall on Your Knees
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3.97 avg rating — 67,778 ratings
score: 187,
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2 people voted
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Alive: The Story of the Andes Survivors
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4.14 avg rating — 81,190 ratings
score: 186,
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2 people voted
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The Sound and the Fury
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3.86 avg rating — 193,359 ratings
score: 186,
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2 people voted
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Any Man
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Amber Tamblyn (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 14,877 ratings
score: 184,
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2 people voted
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The God of Small Things
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Arundhati Roy (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 319,242 ratings
score: 182,
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2 people voted
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Some Are Sicker Than Others
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Andrew Seaward (Goodreads Author)
3.73 avg rating — 561 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Playing with Food
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K.A. Merikan (Goodreads Author)
3.19 avg rating — 199 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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The Storycatcher
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Ann Hite (Goodreads Author)
3.84 avg rating — 1,152 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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His Perfect Sweetness
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Aya Fukunishi (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 12 ratings
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1 person voted
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Jezebel
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Koko Brown (Goodreads Author)
3.63 avg rating — 155 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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A Way Back Home
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S.L. Kowalski (Goodreads Author)
liked it 3.00 avg rating — 5 ratings
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1 person voted
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The Dark Philosophers
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3.97 avg rating — 143 ratings
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1 person voted
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Giving Thanks (Fruit of the Forbidden Tree #2)
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Ella Blythe (Goodreads Author)
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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Smart Masturbation for Men
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4.42 avg rating — 31 ratings
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1 person voted
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Giselle's Pleasure (An Invitation From A Fairy, #1)
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Rose Wynters (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 17 ratings
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1 person voted
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Tantalized
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Nenia Campbell (Goodreads Author)
3.09 avg rating — 313 ratings
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1 person voted
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The Good Enough Husband
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Sylvie Fox (Goodreads Author)
3.46 avg rating — 83 ratings
score: 100,
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1 person voted
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YOURS: Taboo Erotica Sex Stories
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2.86 avg rating — 14 ratings
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1 person voted
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Junk
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3.91 avg rating — 22,012 ratings
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Klaxon at the Core (Psionic Frequency, #2)
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Talya Andor (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 86 ratings
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Oulanem
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Paul Majkut (Goodreads Author)
4.46 avg rating — 24 ratings
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The Taste Of Metal
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Joe Hnida (Goodreads Author)
3.79 avg rating — 34 ratings
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Hausfrau
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Jill Alexander Essbaum (Goodreads Author)
3.24 avg rating — 15,773 ratings
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Double Take (Motel Mini #5)
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E.M. Leya (Goodreads Author)
3.56 avg rating — 64 ratings
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The Acid Diary
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Daniel S. William Fletcher (Goodreads Author)
4.21 avg rating — 56 ratings
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Repeat It Today with Tears
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3.56 avg rating — 217 ratings
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Descent Into Darkness (Written Pictures, #1)
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H.A. Kotys (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 55 ratings
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Moving May
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Giselle Renarde (Goodreads Author)
2.92 avg rating — 12 ratings
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Taboo: Milkshakes On A Plane (Taboo Nursing Tale Book 3)
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Little Children
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3.64 avg rating — 32,907 ratings
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Seduced By Her Stepbrother
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Taryn James (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 106 ratings
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Un día perfecto para Elis
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Juanse Gutiérrez (Goodreads Author)
3.48 avg rating — 52 ratings
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Inside Charlotte (The Promiscuous Wanderings of Charlotte Somerset Book 1)
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Jo B. Hayve (Goodreads Author)
3.17 avg rating — 41 ratings
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A Guide To Craigslist Prostitution: Buying A Prostitute (Craigslist Prostitution Series Book 2)
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it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating
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My Fresh Out Alpha Mate (Arranged Mating, #4)
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4.12 avg rating — 8 ratings
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Stepbrother, Where Art Thou? Collection (Stepbrother, Where Art Thou?, #1-3)
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Aya Fukunishi (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 26 ratings
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Comfort Food
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Kitty Thomas (Goodreads Author)
3.68 avg rating — 18,660 ratings
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Rico's vleugels
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3.37 avg rating — 348 ratings
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Darcy Her Daddy
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恋風 1 [Koi Kaze 1]
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3.55 avg rating — 67 ratings
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God Drug
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Stephen L. Antczak (Goodreads Author)
3.35 avg rating — 46 ratings
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The Medical Marijuana Guide: Cannabis and Your Health
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4.23 avg rating — 65 ratings
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The Sinister Urge
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3.12 avg rating — 84 ratings
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Alice
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4.06 avg rating — 16 ratings
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The Cannibal Gardener
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Joe Pawlowski (Goodreads Author)
3.38 avg rating — 50 ratings
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Dark Dance
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3.75 avg rating — 1,191 ratings
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The Nihilist
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Keijo Kangur (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 61 ratings
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Bee and Jacky
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3.06 avg rating — 77 ratings
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A New Calling
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Sylvian Breker (Goodreads Author)
3.64 avg rating — 106 ratings
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A Brotherly Christmas
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Rhett Blue (Goodreads Author)
3.40 avg rating — 5 ratings
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Punishing My Himbo Slut Brother: The Complete Series 3-Pack Bundle
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Rod Rey (Goodreads Author)
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Bones and All
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Camille DeAngelis (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 25,348 ratings
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Lavoura Arcaica
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Philosophy in the Boudoir
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Nov 16, 2016 11:56PM
Interesting list, as there are several books on it which I personally wouldn't consider as dealing with a taboo subject. But I'm guessing the list inadvertently shows cultural differences between countries.
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