the unbalanced book club

Discover The Unbalanced Book Club's top reads! Explore our curated list of unique and thought-provoking books for passionate readers seeking unconventional literary gems.

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Autobiography of a Schizophrenic Girl

by Marguerite Sechehaye

This is the astonishing memoir of a young woman called only “Renee,” whose descent into schizophrenia began at the age of five. Written with a …
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Geek Love

by Katherine Dunn

National Book Award Finalist • Here is the unforgettable story of the Binewskis, a circus-geek family whose matriarch and patriarch have bred their own exhibit …
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The End Of Alice

by A.M. Homes

From the 2013 Orange Prize–winning author of May We Be Forgiven. Only a work of such searing, meticulously controlled brilliance could provoke such a wide …
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Our Lady of the Flowers

by Jean Genet

Jean Genet's masterpiece, composed entirely in the solitude of his prison cell. With an introduction by Jean-Paul Sartre. Jean Genet's first, and arguably greatest, novel …
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Lolita

by Vladimir Nabokov

The most famous and controversial novel from one of the greatest writers of the twentieth century tells the story of Humbert Humbert’s obsessive, devouring, and …
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The Rosy Crucifixion: Sexus

by Henry Miller

The first book of a trilogy of novels known collectively as "The Rosy Crucifixion." It is autobiographical and tells the story of Miller's first tempestuous …
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Zombie

by Joyce Carol Oates

After Quentin P, a convicted sex offender, is paroled, he embarks on a series of murders, in a chilling book that is told from Quentin's …
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Perfume

by Patrick Suskind

INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • Set in eighteenth-century France, the classic novel that provokes a terrifying examination of what happens when one man’s indulgence in his greatest …
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Valley of the Dolls

by Jacqueline Susann

Three women seek escape as they learn about the bitterness, corruption, and falsehoods of the show-business world.
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Middlesex

by Jeffrey Eugenides

Three generations of a Greek American family find themselves plagued by a mutant gene which causes bizarre side effects in the family's teenage girls.
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An Underground Education

by Richard Zacks

The best kind of knowledge is uncommon knowledge. Okay, so maybe you know all the stuff you're supposed to know--that there are teenier things than …
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The Rules of Attraction

by Bret Easton Ellis

From the New York Times bestselling author or Less Than Zero and American Psycho—a startlingly funny, kaleidoscopic novel about three students at a small, affluent …
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The Silence of the Lambs

by Thomas Harris

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 …