Great Non-Bestseller Books That Challenge (Part 2)

Discover hidden literary gems with our curated list of great non-bestseller books that challenge conventional thinking. Expand your reading beyond the mainstream with these thought-provoking picks.

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The Long Walk

by Slavomir Rawicz

Cavalry officer Slavomir Rawicz was captured by the Red Army in 1939 during the German-Soviet partition of Poland and was sent to the Siberian Gulag. …
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The Butcher Boy

by Patrick McCabe

Telling the strange and sometimes hilarious tale of a deeply disturbed boy, a portrait of a dangerous mind profiles Francie, known in his repressive Irish …
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Blade Runner

by Philip K. Dick

Captures the strange world of twenty-first-century Earth, a devastated planet in which sophisticated androids, banned from the planet, fight back against their potential destroyers, while …
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Dispatches

by Michael Herr

"The best book to have been written about the Vietnam War" (The New York Times Book Review); an instant classic straight from the front lines. …
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The Gormenghast novels

 

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Midaq Alley

by Naguib Mahfouz

Widely acclaimed as Naguib Mahfouz's best novel, Midaq Alley brings to life one of the hustling, teeming back alleys of Cairo in the 1940s. From …
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Confessions of a Mask

by Yukio Mishima

The story of a man coming to terms with his homosexuality in traditional Japanese society has become a modern classic.
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The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, Ripley's Game

by Patricia Highsmith

Three classic psychological crime thrillers by a master of the macabre appear here together in hardcover for the first time. THE INSPIRATION FOR THE NETFLIX …
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Dog Soldiers

by Robert Stone

Small-time journalist John Converse thinks to cash in on the last days of the Vietnam War by becoming involved in a major drug deal, but …
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Mildred Pierce

 

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Blue Movie

by Terry Southern

Hilarious and wildly erotic satire on Hollywood. Southern was the screen writer for Easy rider and Dr Strangelove.