47 books
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34 voters
Transgressive Books
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American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 103 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.80 — 359,452 ratings — published 1991
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 102 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.18 — 639,966 ratings — published 1996
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 70 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.00 — 151,015 ratings — published 1999
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.00 — 766,088 ratings — published 1962
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 69 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.60 — 29,957 ratings — published 1973
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 61 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.71 — 220,554 ratings — published 2001
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 60 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.87 — 939,529 ratings — published 1955
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 58 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,321 ratings — published 1959
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.11 — 178,135 ratings — published 1993
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 57 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.64 — 25,225 ratings — published 1928
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 51 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.93 — 30,056 ratings — published 1964
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.59 — 110,976 ratings — published 2005
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.93 — 123,691 ratings — published 1999
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.60 — 98,471 ratings — published 1985
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 43 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.75 — 108,049 ratings — published 1984
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.11 — 64,835 ratings — published 1978
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.06 — 376,860 ratings — published 1971
The Sluts (Paperback)
by (shelved 40 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.78 — 9,362 ratings — published 2004
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 38 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.34 — 57,486 ratings — published 2013
Lullaby (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.74 — 103,359 ratings — published 2002
Sister Sable (The Mad Queen #1)
by (shelved 34 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.50 — 3,042 ratings — published 2015
Frisk (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 4,085 ratings — published 1991
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.66 — 26,560 ratings — published 2014
The Rules of Attraction (Paperback)
by (shelved 31 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.72 — 51,506 ratings — published 1987
Filth (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.82 — 31,950 ratings — published 1998
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.20 — 777,472 ratings — published 1962
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.93 — 138,624 ratings — published 1971
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,647 ratings — published 1989
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.84 — 70,270 ratings — published 2007
Lunar Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 30,750 ratings — published 2005
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
by (shelved 26 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 77,759 ratings — published 1934
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,127 ratings — published 1953
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.79 — 25,580 ratings — published 1996
Snuff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 25 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.22 — 66,718 ratings — published 2008
Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 80,871 ratings — published 2003
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,380,658 ratings — published 1942
Blood and Guts in High School (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,067 ratings — published 1984
The 120 Days of Sodom (Paperback)
by (shelved 24 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.06 — 14,804 ratings — published 1785
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,475,756 ratings — published 1969
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.62 — 44,291 ratings — published 1997
Cows (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 2.70 — 13,874 ratings — published 1998
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.92 — 75,629 ratings — published 1975
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.14 — 118,092 ratings — published 1982
Closer (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,303 ratings — published 1989
Almost Transparent Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.29 — 13,321 ratings — published 1976
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.90 — 40,011 ratings — published 2010
The Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,596 ratings — published 1971
Red Russia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,256 ratings — published 2017
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 18 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,805,978 ratings — published 1953
The Necrophiliac (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.78 — 3,396 ratings — published 1972
“You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it.”
― Less Than Zero
― Less Than Zero
“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











