Hi team, I want suggestions for books that are weird. That left you feeling disturbed when you’d finished. That made you audibly say ‘wtf’ as you read them. Fiction preferred though any genre is fine, I’d just love to hear why you think your recs belong on the list.
To avoid doubling up, at the recommendation of others (not this sub) I’ve already read:
1. Haunting & Hunting Adeline by H.D. Carlton
2. Milk Fed by Melissa Broder
3. Earthlings by Sayaka Murata
4. A Little Life by Hanya Yanagihara
I enjoyed and would highly recommend all of the above, except 1. (I thought both Adeline books were poorly written – the similes and metaphors in particular were constant and awful, the smut just as bad – and just seemed like the author living out her nonconsensual sexual fantasies. Very à la 50 Shades of Grey.)
Any and all suggestions welcomed <3
by ExtraCheesyLinguine
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Bunny by Mona Awad was pretty messed up.
Tender is the Flesh- very, very disturbing.
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks – it’s not super overt, but the wtfery builds wonderfully.
Read Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk. Actually almost any Chuck Palahniuk book will be good but Haunted probably fits this the best.
Flowers in the Attic is really fucking weird. Trigger warnings for child abuse/neglect/murder and also just tons of incest. There’s several books in the series but I noped out after the first one. It will curl your toes but only in disgust and horror.
My Eyes Are Black Holes by Logan Ryan Smith
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis.
Lapvona by Ottessa Moshfegh