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The Beach

Alex Garland · 448 pages

Een jonge reiziger komt met zijn metgezellen terecht op een verborgen, paradijselijk Thais eiland, dat langzaam aan verandert in een nachtmerrie.

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Engleby

Sebastian Faulks · 352 pages

Sebastian Faulks's new novel is a bolt from the blue, unlike anything he has written before: contemporary, demotic, heart-wrenching – and funny, in the deepest shade of black. Mike Engleby says things that others dare not even think.When the novel opens in the 1970s, he is a university student, having survived a 'traditional' school. A man devoid of scruple or self-pity, Engleby provides a disarm

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Lie With Me

Sabine Durrant · 320 pages

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Darkly Dreaming Dexter

Jeff Lindsay · 304 pages

Kriminalroman. Miamipolitiet og politiofficer Deborah Morgan prøver at finde en seriemorder. Deborah håber sagen vil fremme hendes karrieremuligheder, og hun får hjælp af sin bror Dexter, der arbejder for politiet. Han er også seriemorder - men det er ikke ham, sagen drejer sig om

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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Hunter S. Thompson · 204 pages

Maverick author Hunter S. Thompson introduced the world to "gonzo journalism" with this cult classic that shot back up the best seller lists after Thompson's suicide in 2005. No book ever written has more perfectly captured the spirit of the 1960s counterculture. In Las Vegas to cover a motorcycle race, Raoul Duke (Thompson) and his attorney Dr. Gonzo (inspired by a friend of Thompson) are quickly

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A Kind of Intimacy

Jenn Ashworth · 288 pages

"Annie Fairhurst bears a resemblance to Stephen King's Annie Wilkes (from Misery) and Ashworth is playing with the horror genre here, although the reader doesn't realize this for quite some time"--Cover.

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Gone Girl

Gillian Flynn · 440 pages

Gone Girl is a 2012 crime thriller novel by American writer Gillian Flynn. It was published by Crown Publishing Group in June 2012. The novel became popular and made the New York Times Best Seller list. The sense of suspense in the novel comes from whether or not Nick Dunne is involved in the disappearance of his wife Amy. ---------- Also contained in: [Les apparences suvi de la novella Nou

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Eileen

Ottessa Moshfegh · 266 pages

"A lonely young woman working in a boys' prison outside Boston in the early 60s is pulled into a very strange crime, in a mordant, harrowing story of obsession and suspense"--

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A Clockwork Orange

Anthony Burgess · 188 pages

A Clockwork Orange is a dystopian satirical black comedy novel by English writer Anthony Burgess, published in 1962. It is set in a near-future society that has a youth subculture of extreme violence. The teenage protagonist, Alex, narrates his violent exploits and his experiences with state authorities intent on reforming him. The book is partially written in a Russian-influenced argot called "Na

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Monsters

Emerald Fennell

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Siracusa

Delia Ephron · 288 pages

"An electrifying novel about marriage and deceit from bestselling author Delia Ephron that follows two couples on vacation in Siracusa, a town on the coast of Sicily, where the secrets they have hidden from each other are exposed and relationships are unraveled. New Yorkers Michael, a famous writer, and Lizzie, a journalist, travel to Italy with their friends from Maine--Finn, his wife Taylor, and

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American Psycho

Bret Easton Ellis · 399 pages

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Hidden Bodies

Caroline Kepnes · 448 pages

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A Pleasure and a Calling

Phil Hogan · 283 pages

A deliciously unsettling, darkly funny novel about a man who quietly spies on the private lives of his neighbors. You won't remember Mr. Heming. He was the estate agent who showed you around your comfortable home, suggested a financial package, negotiated a price with the owner, and called you with the good news. The less good news is that, all these years later, he still has the key. That's absu

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Fight Club

Chuck Palahniuk · 208 pages

A man who struggles with insomnia meets a colorful extremist, and they create a secret organization together. Chuck Palahniuk showed himself to be his generation’s most visionary satirist in this, his first book. Fight Club’s estranged narrator leaves his lackluster job when he comes under the thrall of Tyler Durden, an enigmatic young man who holds secret after-hours boxing matches in the base

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The Round House

Louise Erdrich · 352 pages

A young man is upended after a violent attack on his mother, which leaves his family in turmoil. Well-written page turner that is hard to put down!

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The Third Reich

Roberto Bolano · 288 pages

"On vacation with his girlfriend, Ingeborg, the German war-game champion Udo Berger returns to a small town on the Costa Brava where he spent the summers of his childhood. Soon they meet another vacationing German couple, Charly and Hanna, who introduce them to a band of locals--the Wolf, the Lamb, and El Quemado--and to the darker side of life in a resort town. Late one night, Charly disappears w

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The Wasp Factory

Iain Banks · 184 pages

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Love Letters to a Serial Killer

Tasha Coryell · 320 pages

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Lolita

Vladimir Nabokov

Contains: - Смех в темноте - [Lolita](https://openlibrary.org/works/OL627084W)

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All Is Not Forgotten

Wendy Walker · 310 pages

"In the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, everything seems picture perfect. Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack

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The Last Summer of the Camperdowns

Elizabeth Kelly · 383 pages

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Jack of Spades: A Tale of Suspense

Joyce Carol Oates · 208 pages

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