George Orwell · 1997
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My Sister, the Serial Killer
Oyinkan Braithwaite · 2018
It tells it straight · comedy with teeth
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess · 1972
It tells it straight · it stirs you up inside
No Country for Old Men
Cormac McCarthy · 1900
No filter · one you can't put down
Trainspotting
Irvine Welsh · 1993
It tells it straight
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Ken Kesey · 2005
No filter · with fire in it
Defending Jacob
William Landay · 2012
Hard, and nobody dresses it up · it hits hard
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