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
Choke
Lolita
Story of the Eye
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text
Trainspotting
Last Exit to Brooklyn
Haunted
The Wasp Factory
Survivor
Less Than Zero
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
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 PurpleTaoTuning by Adrian Emery
Sinister Literature
47 books — 28 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
88 books — 79 voters
Knock Knock by S.P. MiskowskiTwenty-Eight Teeth of Rage by Ennis DrakeChuggie and the Desecration of Stagwater by Brent Michael KelleyIdols &  Cons by S.S. MichaelsThe Black Dog Eats the City by Chris Kelso
Books I Love from Omnium Gatherum
48 books — 7 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 JacksonFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
Dark Feminist Books
128 books — 66 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisThe Football Factory by John KingUnderworld by Don DeLilloThe Great Gatsby by F. Scott FitzgeraldPimp by Iceberg Slim
Irvine Welsh's favorite books
10 books — 1 voter

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

Sleep looked peaceful from outside. It never felt peaceful from inside.
Ellis De Keyzer, Scopophilia

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