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Running with Scissors by Augusten BurroughsThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsMe Talk Pretty One Day by David SedarisGirl, Interrupted by Susanna KaysenAngela's Ashes by Frank McCourt
Best Strange and Twisted Memoirs
735 books — 1,114 voters
A Child Called "It" by Dave PelzerThe Glass Castle by Jeannette WallsDear Teddy by J.D. StockholmThis Childhood of Mine by Laura Meer BarkleyTelling Teddy by J.D. Stockholm
Non-fiction Dysfunctional Families
83 books — 103 voters

The Shock Doctrine by Naomi KleinA People’s History of the United States by Howard ZinnNickel and Dimed by Barbara EhrenreichThe Diary of a Young Girl by Anne FrankBury My Heart at Wounded Knee by Dee Brown
Essential Non-Fiction Reading Re: Human Rights
623 books — 433 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis1984 by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,290 books — 11,633 voters

Beautiful Darkness by Fabien Vehlmannうずまき [Uzumaki] by Junji ItoBlack Hole by Charles BurnsThe Arrival by Shaun TanNijigahara Holograph by Inio Asano
Surreal comics (with tinges of horror and humour)
160 books — 70 voters
One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel García MárquezAmerican Gods by Neil GaimanThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaThe Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela CarterThe Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
Flavorwire's 50 Excellent Fabulist Books Everyone Should Read
50 books — 30 voters