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
Crash
A Clockwork Orange
Invisible Monsters
Story of the Eye
Lolita
Choke
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Trainspotting
The Sluts
Last Exit to Brooklyn
The Wasp Factory
Haunted
Less Than Zero
Object Found by Gusztáv  BágerHowling Into the Void by R. David FulcherThe Complete Tales and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeAnxiety by Danny WinterWeaving Wyrd by Elle Mort
Dark Poetry
38 books — 41 voters
Elizabeth Peyton by Elizabeth PeytonMoravagine by Blaise CendrarsEquus by Peter ShafferJunky by William S. BurroughsThee Psychick Bible by Genesis P-Orridge
Elias Rønnenfelt Reading List
33 books — 2 voters

The Victory Perspective by E.J. KellettThe Catcher in the Rye by J.D. SalingerAstronomicon minorem - DMT, Cthulhu and You by Khurt KhaveCreatures of the Dark by Stella PurpleCabello by Grea Alexander
Sinister Literature
50 books — 30 voters
Uzumaki by Junji ItoThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanFragments of Horror by Junji ItoBlack Hole by Charles BurnsHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Surreal Horror
90 books — 81 voters

1984 by George OrwellFight Club by Chuck PalahniukA 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
977 books — 614 voters
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
891 books — 970 voters

“ I have a transgressive spirit, and Pop is transgression's best friend. ...more ”
― Nuno Roque

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“ I lost everything. My social value, my child, and my husband. ”
― Neda Aria, Feminomaniacs

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