Controversial/unnerving books. Recommendations?

[JasonVoorhees]

Hi all

Been browsing the good old World Wide Web this chilly Saturday evening while my LO is with her dad, and came across an article regarding the most "traumatizing books people have ever read". Basically books that stick with you forever, due to their disturbing content.

I'm an avid reader and pretty bored of mainstream novels. Read a few weird books in my time and recently bought Lolita (a literary classic, so I've heard). WIBU to ask your experiences and/or recommendations?

Looking forward to your replies, hopefully some of you Mumsnetters are as weird as me.

Putney by Sofka zinoffiev!

Has anyone said Pet Semetary yet? This was recommended on a thread here a few years ago. Fucking horrible book. I had a nearly two year old at the time and sometimes still have nightmares about one of the scenes

Almost transparent blue by ryu murakami

Very short, unbearably bleak, enjoyed it a lot

I enjoyed the Wasp Factory, but there were points I was laughing my arse off because I couldn't get the image of the narrator as Dwight Schrute from the american Office out of my head.