My Top 5 Most Disturbing Books

This week’s post is dedicated to the top five most disturbing books I have ever read. Several of these books have influenced my own writing, most notably my satirical black comedy, Necropolis.

5 – Lolita

Nabokov’s ornate masterpiece is about a man’s (Humbert Humbert) infatuation with a twelve-year-old girl. Lolita was regarded as so scandalous that it was rejected by a number of major publishers before its publication in 1955. If you don’t find the subject matter of Lolita disturbing, it would...