Dying to be Ill: True Stories of Medical Deception
By: Marc D. Feldman
4.37
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
Most of us can recall a time when we pretended to be sick to reap the benefits that go along with i…
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1. Suffer the Children
By: Craig DiLouie
3.96
Format: 343 pages, Paperback
From an acclaimed horror writer, a chilling tale of blood-hungry children who rise from the dead in… read more
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2. Nightmares and Dreamscapes
By: Stephen King
3.94
Format: None pages, Paperback
Many people who write about horror literature maintain that mood is its most important element. Kin… read more
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3. In the Miso Soup
By: Ryū Murakami , Ralph McCarthy
3.83
Format: 95 pages, Paperback
It is just before New Year's. Frank, an overweight American tourist, has hired Kenji to take him on… read more
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4. On the Beach
By: Nevil Shute
3.13
Format: 192 pages, Paperback
After a nuclear World War III has destroyed most of the globe, the few remaining survivors in south… read more
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5. Under the Skin
By: Michel Faber
3.77
Format: None pages, Paperback
In this haunting, entrancing novel, Michel Faber introduces us to Isserley, a female driver who cru… read more
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6. Sickened: The Memoir of a Munchausen by Proxy Childhood
By: Julie Gregory
3.66
Format: None pages, Hardcover
A young girl is perched on the cold chrome of yet another doctor's examining table, missing yet ano… read more
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7. The End of Alice
By: A.M. Homes
4.06
Format: 368 pages,
From the 2013 Orange Prize-winning author of May We Be Forgiven Only a work of such searing, meticu… read more
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8. The Lesser Dead
By: Christopher Buehlman
4.18
Format: 342 pages, Hardcover
The secret is, vampires are real and I am one. The secret is, I'm stealing from you what is most tr… read more
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9. I Hate You, Don't Leave Me: Understanding the Borderline Personality
By: Jerold J. Kreisman , Hal Straus
4.50
Format: 158 pages, Paperback
"AM I LOSING MY MIND?" People with Borderline Personality Disorder experience such violent and frig… read more
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10. In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
By: Gabor Maté
4.49
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
He would probably dispute it, but Gabor Maté is something of a compassion machine. Diligently treat… read more
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"Passion creates, addiction consumes."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"Compassionate curiosity directed toward the self leads to the truth of things."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"There is a quality or drive innate in human beings that the Austrian psychiatrist Victor Frankl called our “search for meaning."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
"It is impossible to understand addiction without asking what relief the addict finds, or hopes to find, in the drug or the addictive behaviour."-Gabor Maté, In the Realm of Hungry Ghosts: Close Encounters with Addiction
11. Confessions of a Sociopath: A Life Spent Hiding in Plain Sight
By: M.E. Thomas
3.92
Format: 314 pages, Hardcover
The first memoir of its kind, Confessions of a Sociopathis an engrossing, highly captivating narrat… read more
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12. Intercepts
By: T.J. Payne
4.13
Format: 327 pages, Kindle Edition
Joe works at a facility that performs human experimentation.His work just followed him home. The go… read more
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13. Y/N
By: Esther Yi
2.95
Format: 204 pages, Kindle Edition
Y/Na novel about a Korean American woman living in Berlin whose obsession with a K-pop idol sends h… read more
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"You are not your dryness," the Boys said in small copy on the box, "You are not your sebum." They wanted to make the world a better place, and that began with my enlarged pores."-Esther Yi, Y/N
"I knew how all of this felt, better than if I had felt it myself. The boy was my ambassador, sent to a foreign land with which my own land was in delicate relations. I'd never visited this country my…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"As a human being who cannot live without love, I know full well that I have exhausted my options on this disappointing planet. The question is no longer ‘Who are the people who will accept my unusual…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
"Inside your mother, you were perfectly round, complete unto yourself. You wanted for nothing. But you were born, and the nightmare began. Your body was pulled in all directions. Your arms, legs, neck…"-Esther Yi, Y/N
14. I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
By: Marisa Crane
3.93
Format: 352 pages, Hardcover
In a United States not so unlike our own, the Department of Balance has adopted a radical new form … read more
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"My head feels the way watercolor looks when it bleeds."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Maybe we wanted another person to join us while we watched the world burn."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"Here I was thinking my tears might move her enough to forgive me for not turning my body into a home."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
"We argued so often we thought we’d made a mistake marrying for love when there were things like fear and loneliness to bind you."-Marisa Crane, I Keep My Exoskeletons to Myself
15. Minor Detail
By: Adania Shibli
4.20
Format: 144 pages, Paperback
Minor Detail begins during the summer of 1949, one year after the war that the Palestinians mourn a… read more
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"Man, not the tank, shall prevail."-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Não há como descartar a probabilidade de uma conexão entre os dois fatos, ou alguma ligação oculta entre eles, por analogia às relações que os seres humanos encontram entre as plantas, por exemplo, q…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Desde que tive ciência da minha incapacidade consumada de me mover de acordo com os limites, resolvi, finalmente, permanecer dentro dos limites da minha casa, tanto quanto possível. Agora, uma vez qu…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
"Toch zijn er mensen die in die logica − dus dat je je concentreert op de meest futiele details zoals stof op een bureau of vliegenpoepjes op een schilderij − de enige manier zien om de waarheid te do…"-Adania Shibli, Minor Detail
16. Red Clocks
By: Leni Zumas
3.67
Format: 368 pages, Kindle Edition
Five women. One question. What is a woman for?In this ferociously imaginative novel, abortion is on… read more
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"Mínevudottír may have felt free; but she was a cog in a land-snatching, resource-sucking, climate-fucking imperialist machine."-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks
"She knew—it was her job as a teacher of history to know—how many horrors are legitimated in public daylight, against the will of most of the people."-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks
"Shut up, she tells her monkey mind. Please shut up, you picker of nits, presser of bruises, counter of losses, fearer of failures, collector of grievances future and past."-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks
"But why does she want them, really? Because Susan has them? Because the Salem bookstore manager has them? Because she always vaguely assumed she would have them herself? Or does the desire come from …"-Leni Zumas, Red Clocks
17. A Molecule Away from Madness: Tales of the Hijacked Brain
By: Sara Manning Peskin
4.21
Format: 214 pages, Hardcover
Our brains are the most complex machines known to humankind, but they have an Achilles heel: the ve… read more
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18. The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
By: Kerry Daynes
4.03
Format: 322 pages, Kindle Edition
Welcome to the world of the forensic psychologist, where the people you meet are wildly unpredictab… read more
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"There is no them and us, it is just us."-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
"It's a shithole but at least I can get a decent brew.' How very British, I thought to myself."-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
"[t]he art of talking comes easier to some of us but others. For boys and men, so many of them still socialised in a myriad of destructive ways to hide weakness and took out their difficulties, the id…"-Kerry Daynes, The Dark Side of the Mind: True Stories from My Life as a Forensic Psychologist
19. Negative Space
By: B.R. Yeager
3.72
Format: 364 pages, Paperback
Four teens in a New Hampshire mill town abuse a bizarre hallucinogen called WHORL in order to cope … read more
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"I don't know whether I actually did anything. Whether I was actually responsible for or had any influence on her escape. But I let her believe it, because it meant the world could be something more t…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could erase anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I dreamed about a super computer that could raise anything in existence. First I erased all the spiders. Then I erased all the people, including myself. I wasn’t there anymore, but I could still thin…"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
"I'm there now. Tell me I will succeed. That it's the world blinking out and not me, like the ones I've loved and tried to pull back. Tell me he'll never set the world afire. Tell me so I can finally …"-B.R. Yeager, Negative Space
20. When Crack Was King: A People's History of a Misunderstood Era
By: Donovan X. Ramsey
4.36
Format: 448 pages, Hardcover
A kaleidoscopic account of the crack cocaine era and a community’s ultimate resilience, told throug… read more
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21. What Lies Buried: A forensic psychologist's true stories of madness, the bad and the misunderstood
By: Kerry Daynes
4.35
Format: 359 pages, Kindle Edition
Kerry Daynes, leading forensic psychologist, opens up the case files of some of her most perplexing… read more
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22. The Family Experiment
By: John Marrs
4.15
Format: 384 pages, Hardcover
From the acclaimed author of The One and The Marriage Act, The Family Experiment is a dark and bril… read more
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23. There Is No Ethan: How Three Women Caught America's Biggest Catfish
By: Anna Akbari
3.66
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
Part memoir, part explosive window into the mind of a catfisher, a thrilling personal account of th… read more
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24. Heart: A History
By: Sandeep Jauhar
4.07
Format: 269 pages, Hardcover
The heart lies at the centre of every facet of our existence. It’s so bound up with our deepest fee… read more
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"For even if the heart is not the seat of the emotions, it is highly responsive to them."-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History
"Continuous blood flow is antithetical to the way that humans, pulsatile beings, evolved. Though continuous flow can keep us alive, it alters ours physiology in idiosyncratic and unpredictable ways."-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History
"In many ways, the heart does resemble a house. It is divided into multiple chambers, separated by doors. The walls have a characteristic texture. The house is old, designed over many millennia. Hidde…"-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History
"Traditional" Japanese immigrants had coronary disease rates in line with their homeland counterparts. "Westernised" immigrants had a prevalence that was at least 3 times higher. "Retention of Japanes…"-Sandeep Jauhar, Heart: A History
25. Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
By: Rachel Monroe
3.72
Format: 272 pages, Hardcover
A provocative and original investigation of our cultural fascination with crime, linking four arche… read more
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"Sometimes women’s attraction to true crime is dismissed as trashy and voyeuristic (because women are vapid!). Sometimes it is unquestioningly celebrated as feminist (because if women like something, …"-Rachel Monroe, Savage Appetites: Four True Stories of Women, Crime, and Obsession
26. A Well-Trained Wife: My Escape from Christian Patriarchy
By: Tia Levings
4.48
Format: 304 pages, Hardcover
“Today it hit me when he hit me, blood shaking in my brain. Maybe there wasn’t a savior coming. May… read more
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27. The Woman Who Fooled The World: Belle Gibson’s Cancer Con, and the Darkness at the Heart of the Wellness Industry
By: Beau Donelly
4.06
Format: 324 pages, Paperback
Belle Gibson convinced the world she had healed herself of terminal brain cancer by eating a health… read more
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28. The Examiner
By: Janice Hallett
4.06
Format: 480 pages, Hardcover
Told in emails, text messages, and essays, this innovative pause-resister follows a group of studen… read more
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29. Guilty Creatures: Sex, God, and Murder in Tallahassee, Florida
By: Mikita Brottman
3.54
Format: 288 pages, Hardcover
From the critically acclaimed author of the “enthralling” ( San Francisco Book Review ) An Unexplai… read more
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30. Dying to be Ill: True Stories of Medical Deception
By: Marc D. Feldman
4.37
Format: 294 pages, Kindle Edition
Most of us can recall a time when we pretended to be sick to reap the benefits that go along with i… read more
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