My top 2:
1. "Lord of the Flies" - by William Golding.
2. "The Picture of Dorian Gray" - by Oscar Wilde
And please don't bring Henry Miller or De Sade into this.
I was more disturbed by the good guys. The hero pulls a sword on a ten-year-old and threatens to gut her for the crime of being a brat, and the heroine mind controls a guy into cutting his balls off and devouring them. Although admittedly I never bothered reading past book 1, I hear the series goes downhill fast.
I found The Descent by Jeff Long to be very disturbing but in a good way. It's full of savagery and macabre imagery.
Orwell's 1984 also disturbed me but left me feeling bleak and generally unhappy.
"Haunted" by Chuck Palahnuik. Read it because I LOVED Fight Club, turns out he's something of a one hit wonder because Haunted was utter loose stool water, the most fucker up, pointlessly disgusting book I've ever read.
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Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy.
Jack Ketchum-The Girl Next Door
Don't read many disturbing books so I'll just say Sphere even though it wasn't too bad. I read it when I was like 12-15 at about 2am and it scared the heck out of me.
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Johnny Got His Gun.
The horror of the protagonist's situation *shudder*
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Bible. /10chars
THE HORDE WILL ENDURE
THE HORDE IS STRONG!
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its blow my mind
Last edited by Danuel; 2016-01-05 at 04:55 PM.
Yep, bible. Read it as a teenager, mind was blown.
I agree with the people that mentioned Sword of Truth. They were certainly special.
Came here to mention Haunted. I was working in a mall when I read the book. I remember getting lightheaded and nearly falling off of the stool I was sitting on during the pool story. Definitely not the first book I would recommend from Palahnuik. If you are willing to give his work another shot I'd recommend Lullaby, Rant or Survivor. None have quite the shock value that Haunted did.