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Grotesque Books
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The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,358,663 ratings — published 1915
Lapvona (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 15 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.54 — 92,478 ratings — published 2022
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 11 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.95 — 71,752 ratings — published 1989
Tender Is the Flesh (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.78 — 351,237 ratings — published 2017
The Vegetarian (Hardcover)
by (shelved 8 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 337,149 ratings — published 2007
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.04 — 535,539 ratings — published 1985
The Gargoyle (Hardcover)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.97 — 50,510 ratings — published 2008
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.82 — 36,845 ratings — published 1952
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.79 — 24,553 ratings — published 1996
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 2.94 — 55,925 ratings — published 2021
Bunny (Bunny, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.47 — 295,890 ratings — published 2019
Earthlings (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.60 — 93,947 ratings — published 2018
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.62 — 42,425 ratings — published 1997
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.59 — 28,675 ratings — published 1973
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,804,268 ratings — published 1890
Audition (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.49 — 16,995 ratings — published 1997
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.18 — 632,296 ratings — published 1996
The Master and Margarita (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.28 — 405,806 ratings — published 1967
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.71 — 219,156 ratings — published 2001
Uzumaki (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.45 — 83,877 ratings — published 2000
The Troop (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.84 — 116,879 ratings — published 2014
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.87 — 925,340 ratings — published 1955
Gargantua and Pantagruel (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.65 — 16,063 ratings — published 1532
Frankenstein: The 1818 Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.89 — 1,786,943 ratings — published 1818
The Trial (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.94 — 380,461 ratings — published 1925
House of Leaves (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.09 — 193,413 ratings — published 2000
Grotesque (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.74 — 13,751 ratings — published 2003
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.00 — 149,903 ratings — published 1999
Mexican Gothic (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.67 — 420,762 ratings — published 2020
The 120 Days of Sodom (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.07 — 14,518 ratings — published 1785
Coin Locker Babies (Trade Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.80 — 9,492 ratings — published 1980
Piercing (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.69 — 18,170 ratings — published 1994
The Gone World (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.92 — 26,206 ratings — published 2018
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.39 — 40,484 ratings — published 1971
The Tenant (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.05 — 5,958 ratings — published 1964
On Ugliness (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.88 — 19,014 ratings — published 2007
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.75 — 105,646 ratings — published 1984
The Handmaid's Tale (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.15 — 2,346,882 ratings — published 1985
The Devil All the Time (Hardcover)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.14 — 39,868 ratings — published 2011
Saga, Volume 1 (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.16 — 356,096 ratings — published 2012
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.92 — 277,431 ratings — published 1962
Perdido Street Station (New Crobuzon, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.98 — 74,412 ratings — published 2000
Heart of a Dog (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.09 — 69,308 ratings — published 1925
Rabelais and His World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.25 — 1,527 ratings — published 1965
Winesburg, Ohio (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.84 — 36,479 ratings — published 1919
Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children (Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children, #1)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.92 — 1,341,908 ratings — published 2011
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.00 — 757,271 ratings — published 1962
Uzumaki: Spiral into Horror, Vol. 2. (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.32 — 12,969 ratings — published 1999
Mockingjay (The Hunger Games, #3)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 4.11 — 3,626,262 ratings — published 2010
Brave New World (Paperback)
by (shelved 3 times as grotesque)
avg rating 3.88 — 1,260,435 ratings — published 1932
“Our fiction is not merely in flight from the physical data of the actual world…it is, bewilderingly and embarrassingly, a gothic fiction, nonrealistic and negative, sadist and melodramatic – a literature of darkness and the grotesque in a land of light and affirmation…our classic [American] literature is a literature of horror for boys”
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“There are those among the Folk so hideous that all living things shrink back in horror. And yet others have a grotesquerie so exaggerated, so voluptuous, that it comes all the way around to beauty”
― The Stolen Heir
― The Stolen Heir
