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Cult Classics Books
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1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,286,961 ratings — published 1949
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.18 — 632,629 ratings — published 1996
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 757,625 ratings — published 1962
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 352,353 ratings — published 1991
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 31 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.20 — 771,036 ratings — published 1962
Animal Farm (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.01 — 4,405,630 ratings — published 1945
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 29 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,748,548 ratings — published 1953
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,172,623 ratings — published 1963
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,824,781 ratings — published 1951
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 372,752 ratings — published 1971
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,459,565 ratings — published 1969
The Perks of Being a Wallflower (Hardcover)
by (shelved 20 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.24 — 1,961,788 ratings — published 1999
On the Road (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.61 — 441,385 ratings — published 1957
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 175,796 ratings — published 1993
Lord of the Flies (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.70 — 3,138,133 ratings — published 1954
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 400,356 ratings — published 1993
The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, #1)
by (shelved 18 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.22 — 1,981,603 ratings — published 1979
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.26 — 6,736,447 ratings — published 1960
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.46 — 97,340 ratings — published 1959
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 17 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 136,677 ratings — published 1971
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,262,058 ratings — published 1932
The Secret History (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.16 — 968,685 ratings — published 1992
Valley of the Dolls (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.86 — 75,949 ratings — published 1966
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 16 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.87 — 925,973 ratings — published 1955
The Great Gatsby (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.93 — 5,777,111 ratings — published 1925
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 15 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,349,332 ratings — published 1985
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.75 — 105,716 ratings — published 1984
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 14 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.00 — 149,973 ratings — published 1999
Harry Potter and the Philosopher’s Stone (Harry Potter, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.47 — 11,148,125 ratings — published 1997
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 74,818 ratings — published 1975
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 63,491 ratings — published 1978
Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance: An Inquiry Into Values (Phaedrus, #1)
by (shelved 13 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.78 — 242,534 ratings — published 1974
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.85 — 70,315 ratings — published 1953
Catch-22 (Paperback)
by (shelved 13 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.99 — 876,937 ratings — published 1961
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,788,724 ratings — published 1818
The Alchemist (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 3,465,913 ratings — published 1988
A Confederacy of Dunces (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 293,437 ratings — published 1980
Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
by (shelved 11 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 17,566 ratings — published 2012
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 3,381,015 ratings — published 2012
Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 814,051 ratings — published 1990
The Outsiders (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 1,554,084 ratings — published 1967
Of Mice and Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.89 — 2,772,025 ratings — published 1937
Cat’s Cradle (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.15 — 430,719 ratings — published 1963
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,336,977 ratings — published 1942
Breakfast of Champions (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.06 — 276,399 ratings — published 1973
Infinite Jest (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.25 — 99,415 ratings — published 1996
The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.11 — 530,193 ratings — published 1984
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 4.14 — 116,520 ratings — published 1982
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.92 — 78,424 ratings — published 1968
The Doors of Perception & Heaven and Hell (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as cult-classics)
avg rating 3.91 — 74,110 ratings — published 1956
“Isolating oneself into a narrowly defined victim group promotes a view of others as irrelevant at best and dangerous at worst, which eventually only leads to further alienation. Gangs, extremist political parties, and religious cults may provide solace, but they rarely foster the mental flexibility needed to be fully open to what life has to offer and as such cannot liberate their members from their traumas. Well-functioning people are able to accept individual differences and acknowledge the humanity of others.”
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
― The Body Keeps the Score: Brain, Mind, and Body in the Healing of Trauma
“Some people with DID present their narratives of sadistic abuse in a quite matter-of-fact way, without perceptible affect. This may sometimes be done as a way of protecting themselves, and the listener, from the emotional impact of their experience. We have found that people describing trauma in a flat way, without feeling, are usually those who have been more chronically abused, while those with affect still have a sense of self that can observe the tragedy of betrayal and have feelings about it. In some cases, this deadpan presentation can also be the result of cult training and brainwashing. Unfortunately, when a patient describes a traumatic experience without showing any apparent emotion, it can make the listener doubt whether the patient is telling the truth.
(page 119, Chapter 9, Some clinical implications of believing or not believing the patient)”
― Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder
(page 119, Chapter 9, Some clinical implications of believing or not believing the patient)”
― Forensic Aspects of Dissociative Identity Disorder
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