Vladimir Nabokov · 1777
- What it is
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It gets under your skin · it stays with you
- Genre
- Literary Classics
- Feels
- Unsettling Unflinching Haunting Tense Dark
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We Need to Talk about Kevin
Lionel Shriver · 2003
It gets under your skin
I'm Thinking of Ending Things
Iain Reid · 2016
It ties your stomach in a knot · it leaves you short of breath
The Haunting of Hill House
Shirley Jackson · 2002
It ties your stomach in a knot · it leaves you short of breath
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The Handmaid's Tale
Margaret Atwood · 1986
It stays with you · with fire in it
Kindred
Octavia E. Butler · 1979
It stays with you · it closes in on you
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