The 8 books on this stack
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Patricia Highsmith 1973
Why it's on the stack
Nobody is entirely good · someone passing as someone they're not
It shares this with 5 more books on this stack
Tom Ripley wants money, success, and the good life - and he's willing to kill for it.
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Fyodor Dostoyevsky 1941 4 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It tells it straight · it leaves you shaken
It shares this with 3 more books on this stack
A novel built out of a series of dramatic scenes that illuminate eternal conflicts at the heart of human existence: most especially our desire for self-expression and self-fulfilment, as against the…
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Donna Tartt 1992 2 want to read
Why it's on the stack
You end up rooting for the wrong people · within the walls of a school
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Under the influence of their charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at an elite New England college discover a way of thinking and living that is a world away from the…
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Bret Easton Ellis 1991
Why it's on the stack
It tells it with no filter · a narrator who doesn't tell you the truth
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Young, handsome, and well educated, Bateman earns his fortune on Wall Street by day while spending his nights in ways we cannot begin to fathom.
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Anthony Burgess 1972
Why it's on the stack
No clean hands here · a society that controls everything
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One of Esquire's 50 Best Sci-Fi Books of All Time "A brilliant novel....
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Oyinkan Braithwaite 2018 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It stirs you up inside · funny, and it bites
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This'll be the third boyfriend Ayoola's dispatched in, quote, self-defence and the third mess that her lethal little sibling has left Korede to clear away.
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Truman Capote 1998
Why it's on the stack
It tells it with no filter · properly scary
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On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces.
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Keigo Higashino 2011
Why it's on the stack
You end up rooting for the wrong people · you need to know how it ends
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Yasuko Hanaoka is a divorced, single mother who thought she had finally escaped her abusive ex-husband Togashi.