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
  2. 2.
    The Almost Moon: A Novel
    by Alice Sebold
  3. 3.
    Alone with the Devil Famous Cases of a Courtroom Psychiatrist
    by Ronald and Dominick Bosco Markman
  4. 4.
    Alyx
    by Lolah Burford
  5. 5.
    American Psycho
    by Bret Easton Ellis
  6. 6.
    The Amityville Horror
    by Jay Anson
  8. 8.
    Angels & Demons
    by Dan Brown
  9. 9.
    Animal Farm: Centennial Edition
    by George Orwell
  10. 10.
    Arc D'X
    by Steve Erickson
  11. 11.
    Arslan
    by M. J. Engh
  12. 12.
    As Nature Made Him: The Boy Who Was Raised as a Girl (P.S.)
    by John Colapinto
  13. 13.
    Back Roads
    by Tawni O'Dell
  14. 14.
    The Bad Seed (P.S.)
    by William March
  16. 16.
    Bastard Out of Carolina
    by Dorothy Allison
  17. 17.
    Bats Out of Hell
    by Barry Hannah
  18. 18.
    Beloved
    by Toni Morrison
  19. 19.
    The Big Rock Candy Mountain (Contemporary American Fiction)
    by Wallace Stegner
  20. 20.
    The Birthday Boys
    by Beryl Bainbridge
  22. 22.
    Black Water
    by Joyce Carol Oates
  23. 23.
    Blasted (Modern Plays)
    by Sarah Kane
  24. 24.
    Blindness (Harvest Book)
    by Jose Saramago
  25. 25.
    Blood Meridian (Picador Books)
    by Cormac McCarthy
  26. 26.
  27. 27.
    Blue World
    by Robert McCammon
  28. 28.
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  29. 29.
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    Boy: Tales of Childhood
    by Roald Dahl
  30. 30.
    Brave New World and Brave New World Revisited
    by Aldous Huxley
  32. 32.
    Cell: A Novel
    by Stephen King
  33. 33.
    A Child Called It: One Child's Courage to Survive
    by David J. Pelzer
  34. 34.
    Child of God
    by Cormac McCarthy
  35. 35.
    The Chocolate War
    by Robert Cormier
  36. 36.
    Choke
    by Chuck Palahniuk
  37. 37.
    The Cobra Event
    by Richard Preston
  38. 38.
    The Collected Short Stories of Roald Dahl
    by Roald Dahl
  39. 39.
    The Collected Stories of Isaac Babel
    by Isaac Babel
  40. 40.
    The Collection
    by Bentley Little
  41. 41.
    The Collector (Back Bay Books)
    by John Fowles
  42. 42.
  43. 43.
    Crash: A Novel
    by J. G. Ballard
  44. 44.
    Cries Unheard: Why Children Kill: The Story of Mary Bell
    by Gitta Sereny
  45. 45.
    The Crippled Angel (Crucible Trilogy)
    by Sara Douglass
  46. 46.
    Cruddy: An Illustrated Novel
    by Lynda Barry
  47. 47.
    The Da Vinci Code
    by Dan Brown
  48. 48.
    Dark Places
    by Kate Grenville
  49. 49.
    Deadkidsongs
    by Toby Litt
  50. 50.
    Deathwatch
    by Robb White

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Created by ArmyAngel1986 on Apr 13, 2008.
 

Comments

mischief83

MoogleFan — 1 year ago

Checked out your music list. Two to add:

Poe- Haunted, for reading with House of Leaves. Her brother is the author, and on the back of the book it actually says this CD is the companion CD for the book. I already had the CD, and all of a sudden it made sense when I read the book.

Soul Coughing- Irresistible Bliss, for reading with Brave New World. I had just bought the CD when the book was assigned for summer reading. I couldn’t put it down, and couldn’t take the CD player off repeat. I don’t know if will work for everyone, but for me, it was the soundtrack to that book.

Mar 22, 10:54AM | 0 comments | Reply to this

Deanne Beech

Dan Brown — 3 years ago

The only disturbing thing about Dan Brown’s books is the hype surrounding them.

Feb 04, 09:22PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

ireallylovepie

Untitled — 3 years ago

I am a bit surprised that Battle Royale isn’t on this list. That book is disturbing as hell.

Dec 04, 02:38PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

MARK

clive barker — 3 years ago

i’m suprised none his books are on the list.

Sep 29, 08:10PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

MoogleFan

Listen to... — 3 years ago

…the albums on this list, while reading those books:

http://www.listsofbests.com/list/57480

Jul 15, 09:03PM | 0 comments | Reply to this

bah

Untitled — 3 years ago

Thanks for doing this list!

I just swapped a few books for versions with pictures (and fixed threemisspelledtitles.)

Apr 15, 04:06PM | 0 comments | Reply to this



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