Anthony Burgess · 1972
- What it is
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No filter · it gets under your skin
- Genre
- Science fiction Classics Crime
- Feels
- Unsettling Unflinching Gritty Dark
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. Each card tells you why.
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite · 2018
Grouped with yours in Crimes that aren't the usual kind
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote · 1998
A reader shelved it with yours in Crimes that aren't the usual kind
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy · 1900
No filter · one you can't put down
Animal Farm
George Orwell · 1997
It tells it straight
Whatever you're after
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The Silence of the Lambs
Thomas Harris · 1988
It ties your stomach in a knot · it leaves you short of breath
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov · 1777
It ties your stomach in a knot · it leaves something behind
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