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American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 111 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.80 — 379,389 ratings — published 1991
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.18 — 661,523 ratings — published 1996
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 77 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.66 — 34,354 ratings — published 1973
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.00 — 789,681 ratings — published 1962
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.99 — 153,992 ratings — published 1999
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 68 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.87 — 974,062 ratings — published 1955
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 66 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,616 ratings — published 1928
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.71 — 224,227 ratings — published 2001
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,516 ratings — published 1959
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.12 — 185,538 ratings — published 1993
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.96 — 34,020 ratings — published 1964
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.76 — 114,842 ratings — published 1984
The Sluts (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,870 ratings — published 2004
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.59 — 113,033 ratings — published 2005
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 47 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.62 — 105,959 ratings — published 1985
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.93 — 125,614 ratings — published 1999
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.12 — 69,873 ratings — published 1978
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.06 — 387,404 ratings — published 1971
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.33 — 62,632 ratings — published 2013
Lullaby (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.74 — 104,829 ratings — published 2002
Sister Sable (The Mad Queen #1)
by (shelved 34 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.50 — 3,044 ratings — published 2015
Frisk (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,435 ratings — published 1991
The Rules of Attraction (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.72 — 53,055 ratings — published 1987
Filth (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.82 — 32,782 ratings — published 1998
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.78 — 28,165 ratings — published 1996
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.66 — 26,631 ratings — published 2014
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.20 — 793,748 ratings — published 1962
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,948 ratings — published 1989
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.84 — 73,371 ratings — published 1953
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.61 — 49,487 ratings — published 1997
Lunar Park (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 31,413 ratings — published 2005
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.92 — 143,212 ratings — published 1971
Snuff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.22 — 67,883 ratings — published 2008
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,759 ratings — published 1934
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,399 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,509,312 ratings — published 1942
Blood and Guts in High School (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,437 ratings — published 1984
The 120 Days of Sodom: A Classic of Extreme French Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.05 — 15,542 ratings — published 1785
Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 81,731 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,521,421 ratings — published 1969
Cows (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 2.67 — 15,843 ratings — published 1998
Hogg (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 2.84 — 1,912 ratings — published 1994
The Necrophiliac (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,710 ratings — published 1972
Closer (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,999 ratings — published 1989
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.92 — 77,682 ratings — published 1975
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,995,680 ratings — published 1951
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.04 — 580,957 ratings — published 1985
The Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,703 ratings — published 1971
Child of God (Vintage International)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.81 — 58,475 ratings — published 1973
Almost Transparent Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.28 — 14,223 ratings — published 1976
“But if Sade's work is to be summed up in one word, this word would not be 'sexual' or 'comic' or even 'sadistic', it would be 'transgressive'. As it systematically transgresses all sexual, social, religious and moral norms, his writing repeatedly and earnestly insists on the exquisite pleasure to be derived from this transgression.”
― Sade: The Libertine Novels
― Sade: The Libertine Novels
“To arrive at the unknown through the disordering of all the senses, that's the point. The sufferings will be tremendous, but one must be strong, be born a poet: it is in no way my fault.”
― Illuminations
― Illuminations
