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
Fight Club
Invisible Monsters
A Clockwork Orange
Crash
Choke
Lolita
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Trainspotting
Story of the Eye
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Haunted
Survivor
Less Than Zero
The Wasp Factory
Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
868 books — 967 voters
The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerThe Lost Symbol by Dan    BrownDeception Point by Dan    BrownA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Books That Won't Be Made Into Films
60 books — 17 voters

Framed & Hunted by Edward        WilliamsA Very Bad Thing by J.T. EllisonMean Spirited by Nick  RobertsThe Witches of Scotland by Steven P. AitchisonWayward Spirits by Wendy Wang
Transgressive and Bizzaro Fiction
319 books — 131 voters
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk1984 by George OrwellA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
Let's Shake It Up A Bit
961 books — 570 voters

Harry Crews
Nothing is allowed to die in a society of storytelling people. It is all-the good and the bad-carted up and brought along from one generation to the next. And everything that is brought along is colored and shaped by those who bring it.
Harry Crews, A Childhood: The Biography of a Place

Neda Aria
To all ignorant women who see their worth in their bodies. In having a husband. In the number of the children they bear. To Mandana Saberi a woman who sacrificed her meaningful being for the sake of a fake social value.
Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

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