Requiem for a Dream
By: Hubert Selby Jr. , Darren Aronofsky
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
From the writer/director of the acclaimed film Pi, the screen-adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s clas…
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1. Lullaby
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.74
Format: 260 pages, Paperback
Carl Streator is a reporter investigating Sudden Infant Death Syndrome for a soft-news feature. Aft… read more
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"I'm in love. So kill me."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"Anymore, no one's mind is their own."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"We're all of us haunted and haunting."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
"Some people still think knowledge is power."-Chuck Palahniuk, Lullaby
2. The Devil All the Time
By: Donald Ray Pollock
4.13
Format: 261 pages, Hardcover
Set in rural southern Ohio and West Virginia, The Devil All the Time follows a cast of characters f… read more
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"Some people were born just so they could be buried."-Donald Ray Pollock, The Devil All the Time
3. American Psycho
By: Bret Easton Ellis
4.16
Format: 76 pages, Paperback
Patrick Bateman is twenty-six and he works on Wall Street, he is handsome, sophisticated, charming … read more
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- classics
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4. Requiem for a Dream
By: Hubert Selby Jr. , Darren Aronofsky
4.10
Format: 136 pages, Paperback
From the writer/director of the acclaimed film Pi, the screen-adaptation of Hubert Selby Jr.'s clas… read more
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- english literature
- novels
5. Story of the Eye
By: Georges Bataille , Joachim Neugroschel , Dovid Bergelson
3.66
Format: 103 pages, Paperback
Only Georges Bataille could write, of an eyeball removed from a corpse, that "the caress of the eye… read more
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"We pedaled rapidly, without laughing or speaking, peculiarly satisfied with our mutual presence, akin to one another in the common isolation of lewdness, weariness, and absurdity."-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"Simone was tall and lovely. She was usually very natural; there was nothing heartbreaking in her eyes or her voice. But on a sensual level, she so bluntly craved any upheaval that the faintest call f…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"I remember that one day, when we were in a car tooling along at top speed,we crashed into a cyclist, an apparently very young and very pretty girl. Her head was almost totally ripped off by the wheel…"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
"As for the fact that Simone dared to piss on the corpse, whether in boredom or, at worst, in irritation: it mainly goes to prove how impossible it was for us to understand what was happening, and of …"-Georges Bataille, Story of the Eye
6. We Need to Talk About Kevin
By: Lionel Shriver
4.08
Format: 400 pages, Paperback
The gripping international bestseller about motherhood gone awry.Eva never really wanted to be a m… read more
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"He wasn't mad, he was sad."-Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
"A boy is a dangerous animal."-Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
"My own apathy is bone chilling."-Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
"Beware of what "everybody says"."-Lionel Shriver, We Need to Talk About Kevin
7. Choke
By: Chuck Palahniuk
3.25
Format: None pages,
Victor Mancini, a medical-school dropout, is an antihero for our deranged times. Needing to pay eld… read more
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8. Savages
By: Don Winslow
3.57
Format: 256 pages,
Part-time environmentalist and philanthropist Ben and his ex-mercenary buddy Chon run a Laguna Beac… read more
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9. Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World
By: Haruki Murakami , Alfred Birnbaum
3.58
Format: None pages, Paperback
'A narrative particle accelerator that zooms between Wild Turkey Whiskey and Bob Dylan, unicorn sku… read more
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10. Requiem for a Dream
By: Hubert Selby Jr. , Richard Price , Darren Aronofsky
4.14
Format: None pages, Trade Paperback
In Coney Island, Brooklyn, Sarah Goldfarb, a lonely widow, wants nothing more than to lose weight a… read more
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11. The Price of Salt, or Carol
By: Patricia Highsmith , Claire Morgan
4.02
Format: 292 pages, Paperback
Patricia Highsmith's story of sexual obsession may be one of the most important, but still largely … read more
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"She hated cleaning up after making something."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"Love was supposed to be a kind of blissful insanity."-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"It always gets late with you. - Is that a compliment?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
"What else mattered except being with Carol, anywhere, anyhow?"-Patricia Highsmith, The Price of Salt, or Carol
12. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
By: Hunter S. Thompson , Ralph Steadman
3.86
Format: 536 pages, Paperback
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegasis the best chronicle of drug-soaked, addle-brained, rollicking good … read more
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13. Stanley Kubrick's Clockwork Orange
By: Anthony Burgess , Stanley Kubrick
3.71
Format: 208 pages, Paperback
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14. Letter to His Father
By: Franz Kafka , Max Brod , Eithne Wilkins , Ernst Kaiser , Willem van Toorn , Gerda Meijerink
3.53
Format: 349 pages,
This is the bilingual edition with German verso, English recto. read more
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15. Trainspotting
By: Irvine Welsh , None
3.87
Format: 334 pages, Mass Market Paperback
Ils sont quatre amis inseparables qui ont en commun une enfance, une ville, des voisins, le chomage… read more
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16. Cinema Speculation
By: Quentin Tarantino
4.06
Format: 391 pages, Hardcover
The long-awaited first work of nonfiction from the author of the #1 New York Times bestselling Once… read more
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"Elvis movies weren't real movies, they were "Elvis Presley movies"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Who wants to spend three months making a fucked-up version of their movie?"-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
"Then the movie started playing like a real movie. But frankly, a more real movie than we were used to."-Quentin Tarantino, Cinema Speculation
17. Fight Club
By: Chuck Palahniuk
4.19
Format: 224 pages, Paperback
Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first bo… read more
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"I am nothing, and not even that."-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"Skinny guys fight till they're burger."-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"I don't want to die without any scars."-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
"Maybe we should always assume the worst."-Chuck Palahniuk, Fight Club
18. A Clockwork Orange
By: Anthony Burgess
4.00
Format: 240 pages, Paperback
In Anthony Burgess's influential nightmare vision of the future, criminals take over after dark. Te… read more
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"I was cured all right."-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
"Alex like groweth up, Oh Yes."-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
"I was always on my oddy knocky."-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
"Civilised my syphilised yarbles."-Anthony Burgess, A Clockwork Orange
19. Invisible Monsters
By: Chuck Palahniuk
4.00
Format: 304 pages, Paperback
She's a catwalk model who has everything: a boyfriend, a career, a loyal best friend. But when a su… read more
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"Sorry, mom. Sorry, God."-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"Make me into anything, but just love me."-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"The future is just wasted on some people."-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
"At this rate, we'll never get to the future."-Chuck Palahniuk, Invisible Monsters
20. Room to Dream
By: David Lynch
4.33
Format: 496 pages, Hardcover
In this memoir, David Lynch - co-creator of Twin Peaks and writer and director of groundbreaking fi… read more
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"Ultimately, each life is a mystery until we each solve the mystery, and that's where we are all headed whether we know it or not."-David Lynch, Room to Dream
"I don't know how I got to that thing of not caring what other people think, but it's a good thing. The thing is, you fall in love with ideas and it's like falling in love with a girl. It could be a g…"-David Lynch, Room to Dream
21. Illuminations: Stories
By: Alan Moore
3.53
Format: 464 pages, Hardcover
In his first-ever short story collection, which spans forty years of work, Alan Moore presents a se… read more
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"When most of our contemporary superhero movies are showcases for their escalating special effects, then the question of which film has the greater cinematic or artistic value becomes a matter of comp…"-Alan Moore, Illuminations: Stories
