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A Clockwork Orange
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American Psycho
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Fight Club
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Fahrenheit 451
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The Wasp Factory
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest
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Factotum
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Trainspotting (Mark Renton, #2)
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Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
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Lunar Park
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Requiem for a Dream
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Invisible Monsters
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Lord of the Flies
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1984
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Lolita
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The Road
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The Hunger Games (The Hunger Games, #1)
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Crime and Punishment
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The Stranger
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Perfume: The Story of a Murderer
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Not Okay
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In Cold Blood
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Flowers in the Attic (Dollanganger, #1)
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The Collector
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Macbeth
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Brave New World
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The Secret History
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Misery
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The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2)
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The Cement Garden
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Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders
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All Quiet on the Western Front
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The Metamorphosis
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Frankenstein
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Snuff
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The Killer Inside Me
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Medea
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3.95 avg rating — 85,242 ratings
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Heart of Darkness
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3.43 avg rating — 549,675 ratings
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Pet Sematary
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 677,471 ratings
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Story of the Eye
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The Lottery and Other Stories
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Frisk
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Never Let Me Go
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Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
3.85 avg rating — 826,880 ratings
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Ulysses
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Hugo Read This!
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4.32 avg rating — 25 ratings
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The Jungle
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Into the Wild
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4.02 avg rating — 1,174,195 ratings
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Dracula
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The Picture of Dorian Gray
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Time's Arrow
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Rosemary’s Baby (Rosemary's Baby, #1)
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The Soft Machine (The Nova Trilogy #1)
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Darkness at Noon
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Less Than Zero
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Moon Palace
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The Tell-Tale Heart and Other Writings
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The Yellow Wall-Paper
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The Barn
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4.40 avg rating — 47 ratings
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One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich
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If on a Winter’s Night a Traveler
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The Catcher in the Rye
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Carrie
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In the Miso Soup
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Sometimes a Great Notion
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
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Hell's Angels
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The Turn of the Screw
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Crime (Ray Lennox, #1)
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Haunted
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3.59 avg rating — 110,201 ratings
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The ThrillPlex Theater
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3.83 avg rating — 36 ratings
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Everything's Eventual
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3.97 avg rating — 107,734 ratings
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The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories
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The Goldfinch
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Tree of Smoke
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Imperial Bedrooms
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Under the Banner of Heaven: A Story of Violent Faith
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Lullaby
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3.74 avg rating — 102,887 ratings
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The Children Act
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3.73 avg rating — 83,202 ratings
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The Godfather (The Godfather, #1)
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The Shining (The Shining, #1)
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4.28 avg rating — 1,664,821 ratings
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The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell
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The Fall of the House of Usher and Other Tales
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Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde
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The Lovely Bones
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The Comfort of Strangers
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House of Leaves
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Coulro
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Shutter Island
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The Rules of Attraction
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Titus Andronicus
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On the Road
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The Long Walk
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Killers of the Flower Moon: The Osage Murders and the Birth of the FBI
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4.14 avg rating — 432,316 ratings
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The Masque of the Red Death
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The Stand
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Dubliners
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High-Rise
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Twilight
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Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1)
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The Sluts
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