Top 12 MOST DISTURBING books I've read [& enjoyed] 😫😩 // disturbing book recommendations

Today I bring you the top 12 MOST DISTURBING books I've read and enjoyed. These are extremely dark, and have plenty of trigger warnings, so please do your own research. I hope you enjoy these disturbing book recommendations.

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[Midnightpigeon]

“A child called it” is the only book that is so disgusting that I actually had to put it down, take a minute and then come back to it.

[nanasunite]

My Dark Vanessa is one of my favorites. Its disturning on so many levels.

[KenM_]

My mom owned the book A Child Called It when I was young. I'd always been an avid reader and when I was about 14 I had seen it sitting around the house and read it with no notion of what it entailed besides the back of the book synopsis. It was a real eye opener, it's a book that sticks with you in it's sheer intense depravity. Looking back I'm really surprised my parents even let me read it

[deendrew]

“…about incest. At its finest.” I would never think of incest as being fine. Lololol

[geslinam]

I’ve only read “I’ll be Gone in the Dark”……and I finished it about 2 weeks before they got him. The creepiest thing about the book, and the whole case, was that he was still unknown. That recording of his whispered voice when he called one of his victims, that just gave me the chills. And he was still out there hiding, living his life after all the horrific things he had done. Once they caught him, and he had a face - the mystery was over and he wasn’t so scary anymore, just a slimy old man who time finally caught up with.

[Kelly-Martin]

I just read The Long Walk by Stephen King based on your recommendation. OH MY! Honestly, I've tried for years to finish a Stephen King book. This one, I blazed through. Disturbing, brutal, and a page turner. Wow.

[TheThreeBookshelves]

If you want more disturbing incest books, Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews (siblings fall in love due to being isolated and abused) and The Witching Hour (strengthening family bloodline through incestuous breeding over many generations).

The Long Walk is probably my favorite Stephen King work! His short stories are much more intense and disturbing than his novels. I’d also recommend Autopsy Room Four and Survivor Type (both short stories).

OH, and the winner of the must disturbing shit I’ve ever read is Cannibal: The True Story Behind the Maneater of Rotenburg by Lois Jones. It’s exactly what the title implies. Deeply, intensely, SEVERELY disturbing.

[annabanabanana]

You want to know a disturbing book, I know my first name is Steven by Mike Echols. It honestly tortured my soul for years. The descriptions of abuse and things that happened to that little boy will haunt me for ever. Very sad and very disturbing.

[rubahat]

Book that have made me disturbed and sad and emotional was: "The Kite Runner"🥺💗...

[BohoBookworm]

FORBIDDEN sounds hard to stomach but I'm so intrigued! Both A Stolen Life and I'll Be Gone in the Dark are they deserve so much praise. So so so much. 2 of the best true crime books I've ever read!

[ramis_oritro]

"Unwind" traumatized me for life. Like the concept. It's horrifying.

[le]

I was highly disturbed by "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara. It was shocking to me and then I cried and cried!!

[ashleysumner]

So, my mom recommended me read a child called it when I was a kid. I had to be in like….3rd grade. Scarred for the rest of my life. 😭
But I think it taught me empathy at such a young age. I cried SO much reading that book.

[BenKellyMusic]

"The Girl Next Door" by Jack Ketchum trumps all of these in terms of disturbing content 🥶

[elainebest]

Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates left me very uncomfortable. Totally agree with you on Unwind. I read it years ago and still think about it.

[susanriley]

Oh I loved Unwind!! You’re the first one I’ve heard mention this book. It was so surreal! And there’s more books in this series which I love!

[catelyntalks]

The child called it, I read that before I was in middle school. My mom let me read it idkw or what she was thinking but it scarred me LOL 🤣

[lunar.metals]

If you liked "The lost" there's another book she wrote called "the cellar" it's kinda a similar premise of kidnapping people and putting them in a room, but its only girls. It's one of my favorites from this author

[columbia]

I read "Ill Be Gone in the Dark". Do you know that the author died in 2016 after spending so much time trying to figure the case out? I think it was an aneurism. She was married to Patton Oswald.

I didn't read the book but the movie, Never Let Me Go, sounds a bit like unwind, except they're clones for the same purpose. Love story, too, and just so sad.

[Stygia]

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