Maldoror and the Complete Works by Comte de LautréamontNadja by André BretonThe Hearing Trumpet by Leonora CarringtonIlluminations by Arthur RimbaudStory of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Best Surrealist or Dadaist Books
125 books — 103 voters
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
668 books — 1,042 voters

Go Ask Alice by Beatrice SparksCrank by Ellen HopkinsA Million Little Pieces by James FreyTrainspotting by Irvine WelshFear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson
Substance Abuse & Addiction
711 books — 1,311 voters

The Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthySiddhartha by Hermann HesseThe Fall by Albert CamusHeart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad
Better Than Food Books
210 books — 40 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyTrainspotting by Irvine WelshFahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Most Messed Up
829 books — 507 voters

Lolita by Vladimir NabokovThe Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey ChaucerLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceHistoire d'O | Story of O by Pauline RéageFanny Hill, or Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure by John Cleland
Literary Smut
145 books — 108 voters
Histoire d'O | Story of O by Pauline RéageDelta of Venus by Anaïs NinLady Chatterley's Lover by D.H. LawrenceStory of the Eye by Georges BatailleWuthering Nights by I.J. Miller
Best Literary Erotica
130 books — 106 voters

Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsThe Waste Land and Other Poems by T.S. EliotThe Magnetic Fields by André BretonThe Flowers of Evil & Paris Spleen by Charles BaudelaireChaos & Cyber Culture by Timothy Leary
Self-Destruct
34 books — 7 voters

Attack on Titan, Vol. 1 by Hajime IsayamaDeath Note, Vol. 1 by Tsugumi OhbaDeadman Wonderland, Vol. 1 by Jinsei KataokaBlack Butler, Vol. 1 by Yana TobosoFuture Diary, Volume 01 by Sakae Esuno
Transgressive Manga
87 books — 159 voters
The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao by Junot DíazJesus’ Son by Denis JohnsonInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa LahiriThe Things They Carried by Tim O'BrienDrown by Junot Díaz
Best Reading for the Contemporary Writer
125 books — 223 voters


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