40 books
—
1 voter
Transgressive Fiction Books
Showing 1-50 of 1,328
Fight Club (Paperback)
by (shelved 112 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.18 — 641,273 ratings — published 1996
American Psycho (Paperback)
by (shelved 89 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 360,696 ratings — published 1991
Choke (Paperback)
by (shelved 64 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.71 — 220,816 ratings — published 2001
A Clockwork Orange (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 767,616 ratings — published 1962
Invisible Monsters (Paperback)
by (shelved 62 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.00 — 151,200 ratings — published 1999
Trainspotting (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 46 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 178,563 ratings — published 1993
Survivor (Paperback)
by (shelved 42 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 123,788 ratings — published 1999
Naked Lunch: The Restored Text (Paperback)
by (shelved 41 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.46 — 98,457 ratings — published 1959
Lolita (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 40 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.87 — 942,205 ratings — published 1955
Red Russia (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 39 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 9,272 ratings — published 2017
Less Than Zero (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.61 — 98,962 ratings — published 1985
Haunted (Paperback)
by (shelved 37 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.59 — 111,100 ratings — published 2005
Rant: An Oral Biography of Buster Casey (Hardcover)
by (shelved 37 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 70,357 ratings — published 2007
Requiem for a Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 36 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.11 — 65,152 ratings — published 1978
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Hardcover)
by (shelved 35 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 778,493 ratings — published 1962
Crash (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.60 — 30,033 ratings — published 1973
Snuff (Hardcover)
by (shelved 34 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.22 — 66,786 ratings — published 2008
Lullaby (Paperback)
by (shelved 34 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.74 — 103,433 ratings — published 2002
Post Office (ebook)
by (shelved 33 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 138,951 ratings — published 1971
Last Exit to Brooklyn (Paperback)
by (shelved 30 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.93 — 30,298 ratings — published 1964
Diary (Paperback)
by (shelved 29 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.65 — 80,927 ratings — published 2003
The Catcher in the Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.80 — 3,880,384 ratings — published 1951
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream (Paperback)
by (shelved 28 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.06 — 377,512 ratings — published 1971
Junky (Paperback)
by (shelved 27 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.84 — 71,233 ratings — published 1953
Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.04 — 550,367 ratings — published 1985
Lunar Park (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.65 — 30,791 ratings — published 2005
Geek Love (Paperback)
by (shelved 23 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.95 — 72,776 ratings — published 1989
Skagboys (Mark Renton, #1)
by (shelved 22 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.07 — 17,831 ratings — published 2012
The Wasp Factory (Paperback)
by (shelved 22 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.75 — 108,463 ratings — published 1984
Factotum (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 75,754 ratings — published 1975
Ham on Rye (Paperback)
by (shelved 21 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.14 — 118,359 ratings — published 1982
The Stranger (Paperback)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.03 — 1,389,810 ratings — published 1942
Damned (Damned, #1)
by (shelved 20 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.41 — 58,507 ratings — published 2011
Crime and Punishment (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.29 — 1,073,266 ratings — published 1866
Story of the Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 19 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.64 — 25,308 ratings — published 1928
In the Miso Soup (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.62 — 44,636 ratings — published 1997
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.13 — 1,866,010 ratings — published 1890
1984 (Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.20 — 5,427,874 ratings — published 1949
Fahrenheit 451 (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.97 — 2,819,990 ratings — published 1953
The Zombie Room (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 17 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.92 — 40,246 ratings — published 2012
The Metamorphosis (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 17 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 1,414,595 ratings — published 1915
Pygmy (Hardcover)
by (shelved 17 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 2.99 — 30,623 ratings — published 2009
Slaughterhouse-Five (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,479,060 ratings — published 1969
The Elephant Tree (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.90 — 40,351 ratings — published 2010
The Rules of Attraction (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.72 — 51,590 ratings — published 1987
Glamorama (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.55 — 25,527 ratings — published 1998
Filth (Paperback)
by (shelved 16 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.82 — 32,018 ratings — published 1998
Gone Girl (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.15 — 3,433,424 ratings — published 2012
The Bell Jar (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 4.05 — 1,212,348 ratings — published 1963
Tropic of Cancer (Tropic, #1)
by (shelved 15 times as transgressive-fiction)
avg rating 3.65 — 77,885 ratings — published 1934
“There was a certain amount of initial argumentation about the "meaning" of the balloon; this subsided, because we have learned not to insist on meanings, and they are rarely even looked for now, except in cases involving the simplest, safest phenomena.”
― Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
― Unspeakable Practices, Unnatural Acts
“And if there’s one thing I’ve learned, it’s that in the transgressive romance, the only true taboo is being dull.”
―
―












