Transgressive

Transgressive fiction is a genre of literature that focuses on characters who feel confined by the norms and expectations of society and who break free of those confines in unusual or illicit ways. Because they are rebelling against the basic norms of society, protagonists of transgressive fiction may seem mentally ill, anti-social, or nihilistic. The genre deals extensively with taboo subject matters such as drugs, sexual activity, violence, incest, pedophilia, and crime.

American Psycho (Vintage Contemporaries)
Fight Club
Crash
A Clockwork Orange
Invisible Monsters
Choke
Lolita
Story of the Eye
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Trainspotting
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Haunted
Survivor
Less Than Zero
The Wasp Factory
Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-MasochA Brotherly Valentine by Rhett BlueMy Virgin Butt for My Big Brother by Rhett BlueReal Brotherly Loving by Rhett BlueBig Brother's Little Caregiver by Rhett Blue
Sexually transgressive
66 books — 11 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTender Is the Flesh by Agustina BazterricaHeathen's Barrow by Nash NelsonNot Okay by Brett AxelThe Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Most Disturbing Fiction Books
75 books — 24 voters

White Noise by Don DeLilloThere Is No Antimemetics Division by qntmPersephone in the Late Anthropocene by Megan GrumblingHigh-Rise by J.G. BallardThe Book of Lies by Aleister Crowley
Existential Horror
23 books — 2 voters
The Kyanite Alliance by Nora HalliwellWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley JacksonThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Dark Feminist Books
119 books — 66 voters


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Rupert Dreyfus, Spark

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I lost everything. My social value, my child, and my husband.
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