The 8 books on this stack
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Irvine Welsh 1993
Why it's on the stack
No clean hands here · fierce and defiant
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Choose life. Choose mortgage payments; choose washing machines; choose cars; choose sitting oan a couch watching mind-numbing and spirit-crushing game shows, stuffing fuckin junk food intae yir mooth.
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André Aciman 2007
Why it's on the stack
It raises the temperature · a love story that hurts
Andre Aciman's Call Me by Your Name is the story of a sudden and powerful romance that blossoms between an adolescent boy and a summer guest at his parents' cliffside mansion on the Italian Riviera.
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Mario Puzo 2004 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
You end up rooting for the wrong people · a big story that sweeps you along
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
The Godfather is the Mafia leader Vito Corleone, a benevolent despot who stops at nothing to gain and hold power.
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Kazuo Ishiguro 1994
Why it's on the stack
Comforting, like coming home · funny and sad at once
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past.
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Cormac McCarthy 1900
Why it's on the stack
Nobody is entirely good · outlaws and guns in the West
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
Stumbling upon a bloody massacre, a cache of heroin, and more than two million in cash during a hunting trip, Llewelyn Moss removes the money, a decision that draws him and his young wife into the…
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William Goldman 1973
Why it's on the stack
Odd and endearing · love and laughs in equal parts
Fond remembrance of a fairy tale his father read to him in childhood leads an author into re-telling it to his own son.
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Thomas Harris 1988 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It'll scare you · you'll keep turning it over for days
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
An ingenious, masterfully written novel, Thomas Harris's The Silence of the Lambs is a classic of suspense and storytelling and the basis for the Oscar award-winning horror film starring Jodie Foster…
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Stephen King 1992 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It ties your stomach in a knot · a haunted house
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One of the true classics of horror, THE SHINING is regarded as one of Stephen King's masterpieces.