Most Disturbing Books

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These are the books that disturbed LibraryThing members, in one way or another. Read on, and see if you agree!

Books will be added as they are suggested.

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  1. 1.
    1984
    by George Orwell

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  2. 2.
    The Almost Moon: A Novel
    by Alice Sebold

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  3. 3.
    Alone with the Devil Famous Cases of a Courtroom Psychiatrist
    by Ronald and Dominick Bosco Markman

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  4. 4.
    Alyx
    by Lolah Burford

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  5. 5.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis

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  6. 6.
    The Amityville Horror
    by Jay Anson

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  7. 8.
    Angels & Demons
    by Dan Brown

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  8. 9.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell

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  9. 10.
    Arc D'X
    by Steve Erickson

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  10. 11.
    Arslan
    by M. J. Engh

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  11. 12.
    As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (P.S.)
    by John Colapinto

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  12. 13.
    Back Roads
    by Tawni O'Dell

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  13. 14.
    The Bad Seed
    by William March

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  14. 16.
    Bastard Out of Carolina
    by Dorothy Allison

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  15. 17.
    Bats Out of Hell
    by Barry Hannah

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  16. 18.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison

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  17. 19.
    The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Wallace Stegner

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  18. 20.
    The Birthday Boys
    by Beryl Bainbridge

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  19. 22.
    Black Water (Contemporary Fiction, Plume)
    by Joyce Carol Oates

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  20. 23.
    Blasted (Methuen Drama)
    by Sarah Kane

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  21. 24.
    Blindness (Harvest Book)
    by Jose Saramago

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  22. 25.
    Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
    by Cormac McCarthy

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    Blue World
    by Robert McCammon

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    Boy: Tales of Childhood
    by Roald Dahl

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  27. 30.
    Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited (P.S.)
    by Aldous Huxley

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  28. 32.
    Cell: A Novel
    by Stephen King

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  29. 33.
    A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
    by David J. Pelzer

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  30. 34.
    Child of God
    by Cormac Mccarthy

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  31. 35.
    The Chocolate War (Readers Circle)
    by Robert Cormier

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  32. 36.
    Choke
    by Chuck Palahniuk

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  33. 37.
    The Cobra Event
    by Richard Preston

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  34. 39.
    The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
    by Isaac Babel

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  35. 40.
    The Collection
    by Bentley Little

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  36. 41.
    The Collector (Back Bay Books)
    by John Fowles

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  37. 42.
    Come Back
    by Claire Fontaine

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  38. 43.
    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard

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  39. 44.
    Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
    by Gitta Sereny

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  40. 45.
    The Crippled Angel (Crucible Trilogy)
    by Sara Douglass

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  41. 46.
    CRUDDY: An Illustrated Novel
    by Lynda Barry

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  42. 47.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown

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  43. 48.
    Dark Places
    by Kate Grenville

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  44. 49.
    Deadkidsongs
    by Toby Litt

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  45. 50.
    Deathwatch (Laurel Leaf Books)
    by Robb White

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Created by ArmyAngel1986 on Apr 13, 2008.
 

Comments

Untitled — 11 weeks ago

Thanks for doing this list!
I just swapped a few books for versions with pictures (and fixed two misspelledtitles.)