Great Non-Bestseller Books That Challenge(Part 1)

Discover hidden gems with these great non-bestseller books that challenge conventional thinking. Explore thought-provoking reads that deserve more attention in Part 1 of our curated list.

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The Wasp Factory

by Iain Banks

Powerful, perverse, and engrossing, this controversial novel offers a graphic portrait of a serial killer told in the first-person. "Read it if you dare!"--"The Daily …
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The Man who was Thursday

by Gilbert Keith Chesterton

The Supreme Anarchists Council is dedicated to overthrowing the world order. To keep their identities a secret, each of the members has been named after …
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Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

For use in schools and libraries only. The powerful story of a young boy and his tragic fate in World War I makes a terrifying …
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I am Legend

 

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Crime Novels: American Noir of the 1930s & 40s (LOA #94)

by Robert Polito

Presents six early classics of American noir fiction: James M. Cain's The Postman Always Rings Twice, Edward Anderson's Thieves Like Us, Kenneth Fearing's The Big …
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Sex, Art, and American Culture

by Camille Paglia

A collection of twenty of Paglia's out-spoken essays on contemporary issues in America's ongoing cultural debate such as Anita Hill, Robert Mapplethorpe, the beauty myth, …
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The Demon

by Hubert Selby

Harry White is a man haunted by a satyr's lust and an obsessive need for sin and retribution. The more Harry succeeds - a good …
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Europe

by Norman Davies

Here is a masterpiece of historical narrative that stretches from the Ice Age to the Atomic Age, as it tells the story of Europe, East …
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