10 Disturbing Novels

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Jezebel-writer Anna North’s debut novel, America Pacifica, is out today. The story centers around an impoverished teenage girl who is struggling to survive on an increasingly toxic island in the Pacific Ocean after a future Ice Age sets in and freezes the mainland.

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[Tom Sutpen]

07:41 AM on 05/21/2011

'The Room' by Hubert Selby, Jr.

If you've read it, you'll know whereof I speak.

[Mum]

05:47 AM on 05/21/2011

"Ceremony"  -  Leslie Marmon Silko
"In the Country of Last Things"  -  Paul Auster
"The Trial"  -  Franz Kafka
"The Iron Heel"  -  Jack London
"Going to Meet the Man"  -  James Baldwin
"The White Hotel"  -  D. M. Thomas
"The Things They Carried"  -  Tim O'Brien
"This Way for the Gas, Ladies and Gentlemen"  -  Tadeusz Borowski
"The Shawl"  -  Cynthia Ozick
"The Bluest Eye"  -  Toni Morrison
"The Fifth Child"  -  Doris Lessing
"2666"  -  Roberto Bolano
"Heart of Darkness"  -  Joseph Conrad
"A Dry White Season"  -  Andre Brink

[skantea]

01:12 AM on 05/21/2011

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[TheWanderer]

12:26 AM on 05/21/2011

The Flavorwire website has a virus that set off my Avast antivirus alarm. Be forewarned.

[Jason M Cross]

11:18 PM on 05/20/2011

Cows by Matthew Stokoe. Makes the ones mentioned seem like child's play.

[donnyraindog]

09:54 PM on 05/20/2011

I would go with anything by cormac mc carthy up until the crossing blood merdian in particular has to be read in short sittings on a full stomach. Sophecles and the odipus trilogy is pretty tough but so distant in many ways that it is read in high school without ill effect. I think perhaps Aharon Appelfelds novels of the holocaust such as -to the land of the cattails - which never mentions but rather evokes the historical events shook me up more then any other fiction that comes to mind.

[eclipse535]

03:17 PM on 05/20/2011

The 120 Days of Sodom by the Marquis de Sade.The novel is better,or worse,than the movie.

[jokinok1]

02:26 PM on 05/20/2011

L. Frank Baum's book "The Tin Man of Oz" had one chapter where a tinsmith kept the legs, arms, torsos, etc. that the Tin Man and The Tin Soldier had chopped off themselves in a barrell labled "meat parts" and he put them back together using meat glue. I loved it. Read it when I was 6 years old and nearly fell off the couch laughing.

[rp2par]

01:44 PM on 05/20/2011

Beatrice and Virgil by Yann Martel was shattering.

[noudidnt]

01:42 PM on 05/20/2011

Mein Kampf ?

[Tom Sutpen]

07:38 AM on 05/21/2011

That's technically a Memoir.

[noudidnt]

01:37 PM on 05/20/2011

Billenium, a short story by JG Ballard

[hismuse]

12:33 PM on 05/20/2011

I've read 3 of these, hard to imagine anything worse than American Psycho.

[aurora59]

11:46 AM on 05/20/2011

"The Painted Bird", by Jerzy Kozinski. Or pretty much anything ever written by Jerzy Kosinski.

[TheWanderer]

12:26 AM on 05/21/2011

Or reputedly written by Jerzy Kosinski...

[trish74]

10:05 AM on 05/20/2011

Seed to Harvest as well as Parable of the Sower and Parable of the Talents by Octavia Butler

[WYHKTai-Tai]

07:25 AM on 05/20/2011

Also, 'The Boy In Striped Pajama's' by John Boyne.