Something Awful's Book Club
Something Awful (SA) is an American comedy website hosting content including blog entries, forums, feature articles, digitally edited pictures, and humorous media reviews. It was created by Richard "Lowtax" Kyanka in 1999 as a largely personal website, but as it grew, so did its contributors and content. The website has helped to perpetuate various Internet phenomena, and it has been cited as a significant influence on Internet culture. In 2018, Gizmodo named it in their list of the 100 websites that "shaped the internet". The books subforum has held a monthly book club since 2008, this is the list from 2019 onwards.
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Roadside Picnic
Arkady and Boris Strugatsky · 1978 · 1 list
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Bear
Marian Engel · 1976 · 2 lists
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V.
Thomas Pynchon · 1600 · 5 lists
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The Doorbell Rang
Rex Stout · 1965 · 2 lists
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Thinking, Fast and Slow
Daniel Kahneman · 2011 · 4 lists
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The Art of Fielding
Chad Harbach · 2011 · 3 lists
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Picnic at Hanging Rock
Joan Lindsay · 1970 · 2 lists
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Her Body and Other Parties
Carmen Maria Machado · 2017 · 2 lists
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The Maltese Falcon
Dashiell Hammett · 1929 · 15 lists
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Moby-Dick
Herman Melville · 1851 · 34 lists
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The Jungle
Kristina Gehrmann, Upton Sinclair · 1905 · 3 lists
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We
Yevgeny Zamyatin · 2014 · 2 lists
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The Autobiography of Benvenuto Cellini
Benvenuto Cellini · 1946 · 1 list
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Decameron
Giovanni Boccaccio · 1516 · 10 lists
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Black Lamb and Grey Falcon
Rebecca West · 1941 · 3 lists
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The African Queen
C.S. Forester · 1935 · 1 list
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The End of Policing
Alex S. Vitale · 2017 · 1 list
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Strange Hotel
Eimear McBride · 2020 · 1 list
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Kwaidan: Stories and Studies of Strange Things
Lafcadio Hearn · 1904 · 1 list
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A Libertarian Walks Into a Bear: The Utopian Plot to Liberate an American Town (And Some Bears)
Matthew Hongoltz-Hetling · 2020 · 1 list
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The Mark of Zorro
Johnston McCulley · 1919 · 1 list
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How to Read Donald Duck
Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart · 1971 · 1 list
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Carrier Wave
Robert Brockway · 2020 · 1 list
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The Third Policeman
Flann O'Brien · 1967 · 5 lists
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You Can't Win
Jack Black · 1926 · 1 list
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Treasure Island
Robert Louis Stevenson · 1880 · 13 lists
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Can Such Things Be
Ambrose Bierce · 1924 · 1 list
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Swann's Way
Marcel Proust · 2016 · 2 lists
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A Dreamer's Tales
Lord Dunsany · 1910 · 1 list
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
Shirley Jackson · 1962 · 2 lists
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Strong Poison
Dorothy L. Sayers · 1930 · 3 lists
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Hogfather
Terry Pratchett · 1996 · 2 lists
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The Sun Also Rises
Ernest Hemingway · 1926 · 22 lists
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Les Contes Drolatiques
Honoré de Balzac · 1855 · 1 list
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Depeche Mode
Serhiy Zhadan · 2013 · 1 list
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Kalpa imperial
Angélica Gorodischer · 2001 · 1 list
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Night Flight
Antoine de Saint-Exupéry · 1931 · 1 list
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The Forgotten Beasts of Eld
Patricia A. McKillip · 1974 · 3 lists
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Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler · 1993 · 1 list
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Pompeii
Mary Beard · 2009 · 1 list
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The Satanic Verses
Salman Rushdie · 1988 · 7 lists
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Carmilla
Sheridan Le Fanu · 1871 · 2 lists
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Snow Country
Yasunari Kawabata · 1935 · 2 lists
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If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler
Italo Calvino · 1982 · 6 lists
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Oil!
Upton Sinclair · 1926 · 1 list
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Counterfeit Monkey
Emily Short · 2012 · 1 list
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Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse · 1927 · 8 lists
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The Importance of Being Earnest
Oscar Wilde · 2018 · 3 lists
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The King Must Die
Mary Renault · 1958 · 2 lists
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Don Quixote
Miguel de Cervantes · 1495 · 1 list
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Suttree
Cormac McCarthy · 1979 · 3 lists
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Communion: A True Story
Whitley Strieber · 1985 · 1 list
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Camp Damascus
Chuck Tingle · 2023 · 1 list
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Rocannon's World
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1966 · 1 list
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Love
Hanne Ørstavik · 2018 · 1 list
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Orlando
Virginia Woolf · 1928 · 11 lists
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This Is How You Lose the Time War
Amal El-Mohtar · 2019 · 1 list
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Guards! Guards!
Terry Pratchett · 1989 · 2 lists
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North Woods
Daniel Mason · 2023 · 3 lists
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The Once and Future King
T.H. White · 1939 · 5 lists
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Wuthering Heights
Emily Brontë · 1847 · 29 lists
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Rhinoceros
Eugène Ionesco · 1959 · 1 list
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The Street
Ann Petry · 1989 · 2 lists
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The King in Yellow
Robert W. Chambers · 1895 · 2 lists
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Absalom, Absalom!
William Faulkner · 1936 · 16 lists
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Red Harvest
Dashiell Hammett · 1929 · 9 lists
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Under the Volcano
Malcolm Lowry · 1947 · 15 lists
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Even Cowgirls Get the Blues
Tom Robbins · 1976 · 1 list
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The Lathe of Heaven
Ursula K. Le Guin · 1971 · 1 list
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Salammbô
Gustave Flaubert · 1862 · 1 list
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Wizard of the Crow
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong'o · 2006 · 2 lists
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Place of Hawks
August Derleth · 1935 · 1 list
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Things Fall Apart
Chinua Achebe · 1958 · 19 lists
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Ghost Stories of an Antiquary
M.R. James · 2006 · 1 list
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The Melancholy of Resistance
László Krasznahorkai · 1998 · 3 lists
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Death Comes for the Archbishop
Willa Cather · 1927 · 6 lists
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Last and First Men
Olaf Stapledon · 1930 · 1 list
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The Gadfly
Ethel Voynich · 1897 · 1 list
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Not Wanted on the Voyage
Timothy Findley · 1984 · 1 list
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The Memory Police
Yōko Ogawa · 2020 · 1 list
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The Hour of the Star
Clarice Lispector · 1987 · 2 lists
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Sense and Sensibility
Jane Austen · 1811 · 6 lists
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The Years
Annie Ernaux · 2008 · 3 lists
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Poems
William Butler Yeats · 1895 · 1 list