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    Hey all!!

    As the title says, I’m looking for a weird, grotesque book that will genuinely unsettle me.

    I recently completed ‘A Girl is a Half Formed Thing’ by Eimear McBride, and it has to be one of my favourite books i’ve read recently (if not all time).

    I also finished ‘In the Miso Soup’ by Ryū Murakami today, which unsettled me at some parts but not wholly – I still enjoyed it very much!

    I (strangely enough, lol) enjoy books that unsettle me, with grotesque, taboo, or borderline ‘depraved’ themes (e.g. cannibalism), so I’m looking for books that have these themes in them.

    Some books I currently have on my TBR list are:

    – Grotesque by Natsuo Kirino

    – Girls Against God by Jenny Hval

    – A Certain Hunger by Chelsea G. Summers

    Incase anyone can recommend these and books similar, I’d be very thankful.

    Similarly, I’m also a fan of books that make me SAD. Like, seriously sad – so if there are any books that could overlap the two themes send them my way!

    Thank you all for any suggestions you can make!! 🙂

    by falteringmemories

    4 Comments

    1. chucklesthepirate on

      Undead Hungry Grandmother Birthday Party by Joey Comeau

      Parts left me feeling physically sick and repulsed.

    2. Successful-Try-8506 on

      Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.

      The Rapist by Les Edgerton

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