44 books
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Transgressive Books
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American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 109 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.80 — 375,021 ratings — published 1991
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 106 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.18 — 656,902 ratings — published 1996
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 75 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 33,708 ratings — published 1973
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 74 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.00 — 785,292 ratings — published 1962
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 72 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.99 — 153,462 ratings — published 1999
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 67 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.87 — 967,832 ratings — published 1955
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.64 — 26,349 ratings — published 1928
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.71 — 223,532 ratings — published 2001
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 60 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.46 — 100,082 ratings — published 1959
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 59 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.12 — 184,180 ratings — published 1993
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 55 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.96 — 33,563 ratings — published 1964
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 50 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.59 — 112,623 ratings — published 2005
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 49 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.76 — 113,785 ratings — published 1984
The Sluts (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.77 — 11,183 ratings — published 2004
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 48 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.62 — 104,674 ratings — published 1985
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 45 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.93 — 125,203 ratings — published 1999
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.12 — 69,208 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 — 385,466 ratings — published 1971
Tampa (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.33 — 61,714 ratings — published 2013
Lullaby (Paperback)
by (shelved 35 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.74 — 104,507 ratings — published 2002
Sister Sable (The Mad Queen #1)
by (shelved 34 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.50 — 3,044 ratings — published 2015
The Rules of Attraction (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.72 — 52,725 ratings — published 1987
Filth (Paperback)
by (shelved 33 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.82 — 32,635 ratings — published 1998
Frisk (Paperback)
by (shelved 32 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.66 — 4,352 ratings — published 1991
Assuming Names: A Con Artist's Masquerade (ebook)
by (shelved 31 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.66 — 26,648 ratings — published 2014
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 30 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.20 — 790,750 ratings — published 1962
Exquisite Corpse (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.78 — 27,635 ratings — published 1996
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.95 — 74,477 ratings — published 1989
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.84 — 72,927 ratings — published 1953
Lunar Park (Vintage Contemporaries)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 31,282 ratings — published 2005
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.92 — 142,297 ratings — published 1971
Snuff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.22 — 67,645 ratings — published 2008
Tropic of Cancer (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 79,314 ratings — published 1934
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,218 ratings — published 2007
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,480,733 ratings — published 1942
Blood and Guts in High School (Paperback)
by (shelved 26 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.46 — 7,361 ratings — published 1984
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.61 — 48,399 ratings — published 1997
The 120 Days of Sodom: A Classic of Extreme French Literature (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.05 — 15,383 ratings — published 1785
Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.65 — 81,548 ratings — published 2003
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,511,937 ratings — published 1969
Cows (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive)
avg rating 2.67 — 15,495 ratings — published 1998
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.92 — 77,310 ratings — published 1975
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,970,718 ratings — published 1951
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.04 — 574,728 ratings — published 1985
Closer (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.64 — 4,823 ratings — published 1989
Hogg (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 2.84 — 1,874 ratings — published 1994
The Room (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.70 — 6,684 ratings — published 1971
The Necrophiliac (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.77 — 3,639 ratings — published 1972
Almost Transparent Blue (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive)
avg rating 3.29 — 14,071 ratings — published 1976
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive)
avg rating 4.13 — 121,612 ratings — published 1982
“You think literature is supposed to make you feel safe?! It’s supposed to do quite the opposite of that, believe you me!”
― In Limbo
― In Limbo
“You're a beautiful boy, Clay, but that's about it.”
― Less Than Zero
― Less Than Zero












