Irvine Welsh 1993
- What it is
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Strangers who become a family · pitch-black comedy
- Genre
- Literary Short stories
- Feels
- Unflinching Morally grey Funny Defiant Dark
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Pitch-black comedy and short stories
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Like yours: found family · funny and sad at once
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Only short stories
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Fierce and defiant · it ties your stomach in a knot
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Melancholic and unhurried · a myth or a classic told anew
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It leaves you with a warm feeling · love in the middle of danger
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The Color Purple
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Heart of Darkness
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No clean hands here · it stirs you up inside
The butcher boy
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It tells it with no filter · it leaves you shaken
Lolita
Vladimir Nabokov 1777
You end up rooting for the wrong people · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
Under the volcano
Malcolm Lowry 1947
It tells it with no filter · it stays with you
Fight Club
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · it ties your stomach in a knot
Yellow wallpaper
Charlotte Perkins Gilman 2009
It messes with your head · full of big ideas
Fine Balance
Rohinton Mistry 1995
It makes you laugh · you come out liking people more
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Pat Barker 2018
Fierce and defiant · it leaves you shaken
Crime and Punishment
Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1941
Nobody is entirely good · it leaves you shaken
A Clockwork Orange
Anthony Burgess 1972
No clean hands here, but in science fiction
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You end up rooting for the wrong people · it leaves you shaken
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No clean hands here · sad, and in no hurry
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