What’s the most disturbing book you’ve ever read?
What’s the most disturbing book you’ve ever read?
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The Devil of Nanking by mo Hayder is probably one of the most disturbing books I’ve ever read.
Also I’ll be Gone in the Dark about the golden state killer by Michelle McNamara and the hot zone by Richard Preston because I think Ebola is one of the most terrifying things on earth.
Helter skelter
Child of God
Bleed by ed kurtz
bunker diary
I read this recently, very disturbing!
The ending is the worst part
Life As We Knew It by Susan Beth Pfeffer, because it’s plausible.
As a child: The Book of Lost Things by Connelly
I love that book, but yes. I had just had my daughter and it creeped me out.
Yeah…I read it way too young. I was in 5th or 6th grade ha
so creepy, but so good.
Gerald’s Game by Stephen King
The Light of the Fireflies
Lord of the Flies
Naomi’s Room by Jonathan Aycliffe
Gosnell: The Untold Story of America’s Most Prolific Serial Killer
An Untamed State by Roxane Gay. It’s not often I have to put down a book and walk away because something I read was so horrible and/or intense, but it happened several times with this one.
Pretty girls by Karin Slaughter or blindsided also by Karin slaughter.
Lolita, The Bluest eye
Incendiary by Chris Cleave. I won’t touch another book of his, my heart can’t take it.
The Loneliest Girl in the Universe. My heart was pounding in my chest the last half of the book and for a solid hour after I finished.
All the Ugly and Wonderful things
Pretty girls by Karin Slaughter
The Butterfly Garden
The wars by Timothy findley
The Circle by Dave Eggars
The Painted Bird by Jerzey Kosinski
The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold-It left me depressed for weeks…
I was also disturbed deeply by A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer -mostly because it was a true story
Yes to both of those.
Shutter Island by Dennis Lehane.
The End of Alice by A.M. Homes
Monster the story of Joseph Fritzl, the Austrian man who put his daughter in a self made dungeon and fathered her children was horrific, that story stays with you for a long time
Flowers in the Attic by VC Andrews
I have read many, but most recently The Roanoke Girls
The Roanoke Girls. Probably that’s the only book that I have read, so far, that disturbed me.
American Psycho—couldn’t even finish it…
Blindness by Jose Saramago
Aaru by David Meredith.
He Is The Monster by Amy Ellis
Marquis de Sade. I was a teenager and it scared and repulsed me. That was so long ago an I still remember.
A Child Called It by Dave Pelzer because it’s a true story
That one bothered me too.