Hi there! Im looking for some recs on books that you’d consider disturbing or shocking. I like those types of books. So far Ive read one book called “Penpals” and it was meh. I finished it but it wasnt satisfying and I found the story all over the place and had many loose ends (that’s my opinion; 2.5/5). I try to stay off of “booktok” cause I feel some are overhyped, IMO. Thanks!
by BunnE3
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American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell
We Need To Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
Brother by Anita Ahlborn
The Ruins by Scott Smith
Child of God by Cormac McCarthy
Tender is the Flesh. Straight up dark and weird. But I like it.
A Little Life
The Butterfly Garden by Dot Hutchison
Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Perfect Child by Lucinda Berry
The Chain by Adrian McKinty
The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead
The Wasp Factory, by Iain Banks
Let the Right One In, by John Ajvide Lindqvist (very different ffrom the movies)
The Metamorphosis, by Franz Kafka
Malazan book of the fallen.
I just started reading a sequel series, which I consider a comedy but before reading Malazan I would have considered it dark and shocking.
Stuff in Malazan goes from funny to dark in a sentence, it definitely changed what I think is dark now. The first book is pretty tame but I think most would still call it dark and the series gets darker every book, until the end which I dont know if it was just me but I was shocked.