Top 12 MOST DISTURBING books I've read [& enjoyed] 😫😩 // disturbing book recommendations

[@Midnightpigeon666]

“A child called it” is the only book that is so disgusting that I actually had to put it down, take a minute and then come back to it.

[@thecozycommune]

It really is. It's so sad!

[@Midnightpigeon666]

@@thecozycommune really heartbreaking! I haven’t found the time to read the rest of the series however it is on my list. The ever growing TBR list 😅

[@JenBabyJen]

They made us read this shit in jr high school... like what is wrong with these schools!? Apparently this across nationwide

[@ashleypurden7300]

Have you read the sequel.

[@CJLovelady]

A Child Called It was an amazing book imo. The sequel is also worth a read and the life that he ended up living is something to look into.

[@KenM_1987]

My mom owned the book A Child Called It when I was young. I'd always been an avid reader and when I was about 14 I had seen it sitting around the house and read it with no notion of what it entailed besides the back of the book synopsis. It was a real eye opener, it's a book that sticks with you in it's sheer intense depravity. Looking back I'm really surprised my parents even let me read it

[@theotherveronica]

we read it as required reading in school when i was 14. it was HARD. and i’m a mature reader. so i looking back it’s shocking that they made our entire class read it.

[@suzybearheart530]

That book was absolutely tragic and so disgusting what that woman did to her children. No child should ever ever go through that. 😢

[@karaokay5444]

Similar thing happened to me when I was a teen, I just found it laying around the house, still remember it all these years later.

[@karaokay5444]

@@theotherveronicathat is nuts

[@nanasunite]

My Dark Vanessa is one of my favorites. Its disturning on so many levels.

[@thecozycommune]

I did read that, but it wasn't my favorite.

[@nanasunite]

@@thecozycommune Have you read My Lovely Wife by Samantha Downing? Disturbing but really good.

[@thecozycommune]

Yes I have!

[@nanasunite]

@@thecozycommune The ending was so good! Glad I found your channel!

[@ohohnenyeoo2654]

My Dark Vanessa is one of my favs

[@geslinam9703]

I’ve only read “I’ll be Gone in the Dark”……and I finished it about 2 weeks before they got him. The creepiest thing about the book, and the whole case, was that he was still unknown. That recording of his whispered voice when he called one of his victims, that just gave me the chills. And he was still out there hiding, living his life after all the horrific things he had done. Once they caught him, and he had a face - the mystery was over and he wasn’t so scary anymore, just a slimy old man who time finally caught up with.

[@BenKellyMusic92]

"The Girl Next Door" by Jack Ketchum trumps all of these in terms of disturbing content 🥶

[@Nifflerify]

Facts 😢

[@Kelly-Martin]

I just read The Long Walk by Stephen King based on your recommendation. OH MY! Honestly, I've tried for years to finish a Stephen King book. This one, I blazed through. Disturbing, brutal, and a page turner. Wow.

[@thecozycommune]

Aw so glad you read it and loved it!!!!

[@justjoe1669]

I read this when I was like 14 and I Stil am thinking about it some times (I’m 24 now) I shouldn’t have read it at that age lol

[@sbeav1105]

Another Stephen King book that is pretty good...Later

[@rolisreefranch]

Read that when I was probably 14, 30 years ago. Still remember it making an impression. Maybe time for a re-read?

[@Kelly-Martin]

@@rolisreefranch I can't wait to re-read it. It broke my heart.

[@deendrew36]

“…about incest. At its finest.” I would never think of incest as being fine. Lololol

[@ramis_oritro]

"Unwind" traumatized me for life. Like the concept. It's horrifying.

[@ashleysumner5463]

So, my mom recommended me read a child called it when I was a kid. I had to be in like….3rd grade. Scarred for the rest of my life. 😭 But I think it taught me empathy at such a young age. I cried SO much reading that book.

[@BohoBookworm]

FORBIDDEN sounds hard to stomach but I'm so intrigued! Both A Stolen Life and I'll Be Gone in the Dark are just..... they deserve so much praise. So so so much. 2 of the best true crime books I've ever read!

[@thecozycommune]

Yes! A Stolen Life was so good!

[@columbia2635]

I read "Ill Be Gone in the Dark". Do you know that the author died in 2016 after spending so much time trying to figure the case out? I think it was an aneurism. She was married to Patton Oswald. I didn't read the book but the movie, Never Let Me Go, sounds a bit like unwind, except they're clones for the same purpose. Love story, too, and just so sad.

[@susanriley9135]

Oh I loved Unwind!! You’re the first one I’ve heard mention this book. It was so surreal! And there’s more books in this series which I love!

[@thecozycommune]

Yes! I'm terrible at series. Haha

[@c-3317]

Same, not a lot of people talk about the series. Love it, as well as Arc of Scythe

[@teresaboyer5707]

I loved Unwind as well!

[@annabanabanana]

You want to know a disturbing book, I know my first name is Steven by Mike Echols. It honestly tortured my soul for years. The descriptions of abuse and things that happened to that little boy will haunt me for ever. Very sad and very disturbing.

[@TheThreeBookshelves]

If you want more disturbing incest books, Flowers in the Attic by V. C. Andrews (siblings fall in love due to being isolated and abused) and The Witching Hour (strengthening family bloodline through incestuous breeding over many generations). The Long Walk is probably my favorite Stephen King work! His short stories are much more intense and disturbing than his novels. I’d also recommend Autopsy Room Four and Survivor Type (both short stories). OH, and the winner of the must disturbing shit I’ve ever read is Cannibal: The True Story Behind the Maneater of Rotenburg by Lois Jones. It’s exactly what the title implies. Deeply, intensely, SEVERELY disturbing.

[@thecozycommune]

Thank you so much for the recs! I will be adding these to my list.

[@standdownrobots_ihaveoldglory]

Btw, Flowers in the Attic was a cultural phenomenon, it's truly awful and the series goes on and on, but it is likely a turning point in dark popular literature. I've always assumed it was never called YA due to the subject matter, but it was very popular with teen girls. Gender roles were much tighter in the 80s, I'd almost call it "horror for girls." Nice girls like me read things like the Handmaids Tale, good but popular girls read Danielle Steele, and girls with an edge read VC Andrews.

[@sarahsshelves]

A book that I’ve been wanting to read for awhile now but I’m actually terrified to pick up at the same time is The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum. It’s a fictional story based on the real-life events and torture that led to the death of Sylvia Likens. I hear it’s extremely graphic and hard to read, but I am still sooo interested

[@thecozycommune]

I have that one but DNF’d it for now because the writing style was so hard to get into. I might pick it up later.

[@carolinesconcertvids860]

Not sure if, a year later, you've read it, but I have. Yes, it's very disturbing. But I've read books more disturbing

[@priankae5241]

Heart wrenching is an understatement for that book. But i wanted to read it. I wanted to share the pain, idk why. I wanted to know the story. And what cruel behaviour people are capable of.

[@henrytjernlund]

Let's Go Play at the Adams' has some similarities to TGND and in my opinion it's more disturbing. Though the first half is a slow burn as the writer spends time in each of the characters heads.

[@AnneLien1987]

This is one of the best disturbing book recommendation videos EVER. Thank you so much!

[@joshroberts5661]

The long walk was good and I feel like it’s totally overlooked!

[@rubahat420]

Book that have made me disturbed and sad and emotional was: "The Kite Runner"🥺💗...

[@le7516]

I was highly disturbed by "A Little Life" by Hanya Yanagihara. It was shocking to me and then I cried and cried!!

[@thecozycommune]

I have that on my list to read!

[@MedHead1]

It’s one of my favorite books

[@elainebest4493]

Zombie by Joyce Carol Oates left me very uncomfortable. Totally agree with you on Unwind. I read it years ago and still think about it.

[@blipblopi]

Good video! ☺ I will definitely check some of them out! One of the disturbing books I read recently and enjoyed is "Earthlings" by Sayaka Murata. It's not really the scary type of disturbing but disturbing in a more absurd way. I really recommend reading it without knowing too much about it beforehand!

[@eviengelic]

I READ THAT TOO AND OMG IT WAS SO GOOD IMO i def reccomend getting into it without knowing anything as well.

[@viktorwolfe8333]

I can't believe The Girl Next Door wasn't on this list. :(

[@lunar.metals]

If you liked "The lost" there's another book she wrote called "the cellar" it's kinda a similar premise of kidnapping people and putting them in a room, but its only girls. It's one of my favorites from this author

[@Shayyyyyyyy]

Highly recommend Pretty Girls. It almost feels like I physically hurt when reading certain parts of the book. I had to stop reading a number times. And the care Karin Slaughter took with the chapters from the dad’s perspective is so beautiful yet so heartbreaking. One of my favourite books.

[@mac2173]

Such a good book! Loved it. Tragic but really really good

[@Jaden94]

I read The Good Daughter by her first. I couldn’t read another thriller for MONTHS. The scenes were so so graphic and triggered me so much. So disturbing

[@Ichigo-dh9rd]

Love Karin Slaughter but pretty girls was boring to me. Good daughter is a good recommend

[@thecozycommune]

I read pretty girls a few years ago and gave it 5 stars! The good daughter I gave 4!

[@annesimonot5148]

Loved I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and The Sound of Gravel! I have to say that House of Small Shadows by Adam Nevill, and Pig Island by Mo Hayder are my most disturbing books of recent years. Never gonna try Hayder again, but… I may try Cunning Folk, Nevill’s newest. Folk horror.. it’s so tempting.

[@Laura-ir8kx]

I am from Richmond, California and I remember this incident. She was also close to her home and I kept asking, why did she not try to escape? But you never know how you will act unless you are put in the exact situation. In reference to the book A Stolen Life

[@ovenproofoyster950]

Good list! I also love disturbing books and have read quiet a few recently, some of my favorites are: the summer I died, the resurrectionist, dead inside and absolutely LOVED Jack Ketchum's trilogy (off season, offspring and the woman)

[@thecozycommune]

Thank you! I'll have to take a look at some of your recs!

[@amberreid1059]

Tender is the Flesh was my favorite read from 2020 and was most definitely disturbing! Would recommend that one to you for sure.

[@thecozycommune]

I did read it, but didn't like it.

[@babygirrrl5147]

I’m a Christian too but I hate thinking about death

[@annelisewells1877]

was just looking for a video like this thank you!!!!!

[@thecozycommune]

Hope you like it!

[@jobrasheare7856]

Gone to see the River man is VERY dark and quite disturbing but it was one of my favorite books I read last year

[@ErikaByrd]

When I was in high school we read Unwind as a class. It was wild. I’ve been trying to remember the name of it recently to reread. So glad you mentioned it!!!

[@sjthorn]

I'm actually surprised to see Forbidden on this list, almost no one I know has ever read the book (for obvious reasons), yet I'll admit (save for the romance, which I found completely pointless and needless anyway) it's one of my favorite books. I love disturbing books, and I'm definitely writing some of these down to look into.

[@thecozycommune]

I love disturbing books too!

[@cherryactually]

i absolutely love Forbidden! it was my most favorite book i read last year. people find it hard to stomach and i was a little hesitant talking about it to others, but i am shameless (or just messed up?) and i thought it was really heart-wrenching. 🙃

[@sjthorn]

@@cherryactually No way lol, I felt 100% the same when I read it lol. Or maybe we are both messed up.😅😂

[@haydenaliralria2003]

The way you told Gather the Daughters remind me of two daughters with their father Lot in the book of Genesis.

[@books-on-a-wire]

So many excellent recommendations! I am always confounded by the people who help enable the perpetrator and say nothing of the horrors going on in their house, the psychology behind it just baffles me. I still think of If You Tell and the reality that she's going to be released very soon.

[@thecozycommune]

Thank you! And yes I can't believe she is being released next year!

[@jonannsandvig9762]

I am so excited to see your picks. The most disturbing book I've read is Verity by Colleen Hoover. It was a book I loved to hate. Lolol!

[@clownfromspongebob3979]

“I don’t know how to describe The Push” *cuts to Burger King ad*

[@eduardobenassi3072]

"Even though I'm a christian, I still don't wanna die" ...well, that is exactly the reason said religion exists, fear of our inevitable finality. Play the game of choices and dogma, pretending separation from nature, the illusion that current follows in our wake. Insignificance is a hard one to swallow though, better let the fiction replace uncertainty 🥴

[@geraldbalzano431]

A breath of fresh air, this list, after seeing all the legions of videos where "disturbing"="gross", and virtually nothing more subtle than splatter-porn makes the list. Anyway, good to see something DIFFERENT in this category.

[@kayleighbrown459]

Unwind is a good example of why I'm not crazy about YA tbh. Like...the premise is so dark and so disturbing but since it's YA, you're kinda expected to suspend your disbelief a little bit which I think just kinda makes it a bit unpleasant. I felt that way about the Hunger Games too. Like the government just decided that killing kids was fine and no-one did anything? I'm expected to believe that humanity just stopped being a maternal species that takes care of its young beyond all else and now murdering teens is ok? I get that a lot of people like the genre but it's just not for me I think.

[@icianian]

1. Forbidden 2. Pretty girls 3. Gather the Daughters 4. If You Tell 5. The Sound of Gravel 6. The Push 7. The Child Called It 8. The Long Walk 9. A Stolen Life 10. I'll Be Gone in the Dark 11. The Lost 12. Unwind

[@thecozycommune]

Thanks! They are actually all linked and listed in tbr description box 😘

[@jacobhooks7687]

Blindness by Jose Samango The Girl next dooe by Jack Ketchum The Room Hubert Selby Jr

[@Maria-cb5qq]

have you read Tampa? that was pretty disturbing, i cant remember if u were the booktuber who mentioned it before tho

[@thecozycommune]

I haven't yet!

[@Maria-cb5qq]

@@thecozycommune Ohhhh, it's Tampa by Alissa Nutting. Deeply disturbing story abt a female, pedophile mid school teacher,, based on real events. highly recommend

[@catelyntalks]

The child called it, I read that before I was in middle school. My mom let me read it idkw or what she was thinking but it scarred me LOL 🤣

[@kimbersgrandadventure]

I am constantly telling people to read The Long Walk! One of my all time favs. So messed up 😂

[@MichaelRomeoTalksBooks]

Wow. I'm disturbed just hearing you talk about them. These books make my most disturbing books look like an episode of Harry Potter.

[@notsubtle8065]

That Unwind is literally my favorite book. If you listen on Audio when they get to that part of them describing his pieces getting removed and they get to that part about auditory whatever and then it goes silent after they cut it. I wanted to cry for him

[@Emi_Bunni]

I had to read Unwind in seventh grade. Yeah, definitely not suitable for twelve and thirteen year olds. I couldn’t finish the “unwinding” chapter. I felt lightheaded and had to lay my head on my desk for the rest of the class period. It’s a good book, but definitely not for the faint-hearted. It was the first time I ever became physically ill and disturbed by a book. When I told my parents about the book, they even thought it was way too disturbing. I almost passed out in class twice because of this book.

[@thecozycommune]

Yes!!! Its more adult in my opinion, I can't imagine a young kid reading it

[@bobwalsh3751]

Just discovered your channel tonight and I'm hooked!

[@Midnightpigeon666]

If you haven’t read it before I would recommend reading Killing for company about Dennis Nielsen or his autobiography wish recently came out. Some very disturbing scenes described in these books.

[@thecozycommune]

Thank you! I will take a look at your recs!

[@kimberlygonzalez9597]

“A child called it” I am a young reader and I read this book in MIDDLE SCHOOL. not once not twice but 5 times because it was so disturbing but it was a true story and to think that it happen to someone. It is honestly such a great read but it does take gut to read it.

[@Lauren_Jeanne_]

Totally agree about the documentary of I’ll be Gone in the Dark- it even scared me 😂🙈 Also The Push sounds so interesting, but I just know it wouldn’t be good for me to read. All the true memoirs- I love it, but also as you’re explaining them I’m like HOW can people be so evil??

[@thecozycommune]

Right!? I think the same thing. When I was listening to If You Tell I was like IS THIS NONFICTION??

[@seandashefsky8805]

I really enjoy your videos and you have guided me to some really solid books but it gets hard listening sometimes as you say “like” like so many times it’s funny. I counted four “likes” in under 30 seconds.

[@thecozycommune]

Unfortunately that's who I am!

[@KrystalAddiWatson]

Fellow Christian here 👋 I’ve read a lot by Stephen King but haven’t read the Long Walk. Sounds like one to add to my list though!

[@SaraMGreads]

I love your recommendations. I think we have similar reading preferences and you are so darn adorable. I won't be reading these disturbing books though. lol

[@thecozycommune]

Aw thank you!!! I'm glad we have the same reading tastes!

[@mamaK648]

That was fast getting this video up! Can't wait. :)

[@thecozycommune]

It was such a great idea, I had to pounce right away. I've also been batch filming and editing, because I have to go back to work in a few days.

[@mamaK648]

@@thecozycommune Makes sense. I have the reminder set. 👍

[@ashleewolfe3034]

I was SO excited when I saw 'Most Disturbing' recs because I'm twisted like that apparently lmao. Also, I'm a HUGGGEE true crime documentary enthusiast, but I could not make it through I'll be gone in the dark documentary unfortunately. It was incredibly boring

[@thecozycommune]

I just tried to watch I'll be gone in the dark and you were right. So boring

[@Weirder_the_better]

I'm curious to hear some of your disturbing recs, ashlee!

[@carolinesconcertvids860]

The character in The Push reminds me of someone I knew in real life. My manager at a job I had. When she had her first child she had a very close bond with them, but when she had her 2nd child she had no bond at all and was diagnosed with postpartum depression

[@GreatOldOne9866]

If you haven't already, read The Voice of The Night, by Dean Koontz. That disturbed the hell out of me.

[@katlouise90]

Seeing this reminded me that I never did pick up a copy of Jaycee Dugard’s second book. I read the first when it hadn’t long been out but it really was disturbing to read everything that she went through.

[@thecozycommune]

I do own the second book but haven't read it yet.

[@joeschmo8755]

Here’s 10 books that are actually disturbing this list was very tame Hog The Bighead The girl next door The summer I died The room Sick bastards Survivor Insane bastards 120 days of Sodom Let’s go play at the Adam’s

[@Ohana-rf4ms]

The Long walk was amazing!

[@minsugd1751]

I read the child called it in either 7th or 8th grade and I've never felt so angry and heartbroken even now at 22, other than maybe, and this is kind of random, but THAT scene from outlander. maybe I just haven't consumed much disturbing things but those two make me sick and furious

[@ReadingWryly]

Ooh. These sound good! Yes, that pee water boarding scene in pretty girls was MESSED UP! Oh! And the I’ll be Gone in the Dark documentary is great!

[@thecozycommune]

Yes that scene 😢

[@TheSnubbyGirl]

Man I've been through a number of disturbing books that I didn't find that bad. I've read the whole Hannibal Lector series & some Stephen King to name a few. The end of Red Dragon was disturbing to me, as well as some parts of Hannibal. For a supposed scary or disturbing read, Silence of the lambs didn't even freak me out or disturb me even a little. But as I said, the sequal Hannibal was a disturbing read that I enjoyed.

[@standdownrobots_ihaveoldglory]

I read Silence and Red Dragon in grad school, our prof, an 18th century British lit specialist, was obsessed with modern crime novels and their impact on literature to such a passionate degree, there was a rumor he was really Thomas Harris. I think I've seen photos of Harris, lol, it wasn't true, but it was interesting to study them academically, altho it's not too shocking - surprise, surprise, the "psycho killer" is the new stand-in for the "village monster," with personality disorders, paraphilias, and trauma replacing more "cryptid-esque" mysteries that keep us from truly understanding the beast.

[@littlebird3706]

@The Cozy Commune Thanks for the heads up. Now i know what to avoid! I saw this book on goodreads giveaway called A Wolf in the Palace: A Polyamorous Story which may have disturbing themes but i'm not sure. I want to read it but I'm afraid its gonna give me nightmares and traumatize me for the rest of my life. Please could you do a book review on it cause the the book cover looks really pretty and innocent but the summary is suspenseful. Your reviews are really insightful

[@monikaliane]

Disturbing book rec; Audition by ryu Murakami, banished by Lisa Pulitzer, breaking free by Rachel Jeff’s, things have gotten worse since we last spoke Eric Larocca,

[@thecozycommune]

I do have Breaking Free on my physical TBR!

[@haileyhughes]

gotta have storygraph open in another tab for this one 🤩

[@haileyhughes]

omg i have the sound of gravel on my shelves!! i need to get to her soon

[@haileyhughes]

ok yeah the push made me feel some kinda way too 🥲

[@thecozycommune]

YESSSS. OMG you have to read The Sound of Gravel. Like i'm requiring it.

[@Sharpe1502]

American Predator made me barricade my window and I actively locked my bedroom door after reading it

[@mernlovesmusic]

Okay so I read Forbidden YEARS ago and I have NEVER seen it on anyone's list but yeah, I definitely agree with you about it. It's very disturbing but enjoyable? Idk how but it was.

[@thecozycommune]

It is disturbing!

[@isastar940]

I really recommend Watch Her Fall by Erin Kelly, I think you'll love it

[@alakalayaancandog1066]

I doubt you'd ever see this but can i just say, you look like Taylor Swift!! You're so pretty!!

[@thecozycommune]

Awww that is so sweet! Thank you!

[@kdbarham]

Love the list. Totally agree what is disturbing to me may not be to someone else.

[@jasonuerkvitz3756]

6:20 Yes, it's disturbing that a man would have so many children and not fight to provide for them. What I find far more disturbing is that multiple women would have the same man and endanger their children by bringing them within such a predator's proximity. Let's be sure to keep the clear and appropriate blame on an even field. All adults are culpable in such a nightmarefest.

[@thecozycommune]

You are so right! Everyone in the book is at fault.

[@jackbrown2833]

Read the book about Elizabeth smart!!! It’s similar to a stolen life

[@becky_buckley]

If You Tell is very disturbing, super graphic. As a mom I had to take many breaks from reading it. Good book but definitely messed up

[@thecozycommune]

It really is!

[@jennifersmyth6301]

I can’t wait ! Hope the butterfly garden is in there

[@thecozycommune]

Nope it's not! I've read the book, but thought it was very boring.

[@AleiaBreaks]

I remember reading Forbidden early on in High School and thinking why on earth was I recommended this as a romance book? I did enjoy it but it was really off putting. I don't know how to classify it except sad, so so sad.

[@thecozycommune]

Yes it is so crazy and sad

[@t0dd000]

Cormac McCarthy wrote an interesting take on the brother sister thing, read the duology: The Passenger and Stella Maris. Only an author of his caliber could write about a relationship like that and somehow frame it as not repulsive. Note. Advanced readers only. These books are very literary.

[@nataliewestby7696]

Young adult books can be very disturbing.

[@renellee7043]

Because of you I’m reading the Forbidden right now and i think i like it❤️

[@peterpuleo2904]

I have enough unpleasant memories from my police career so I will take a pass. Also, I cannot handle anything dealing with child victimization. Watching the evening news on television is bad enough. Thank you for the reviews!

[@xyntrk]

Francesca Lia Block's Wasteland has a similar theme to Forbidden.

[@lesliemartin3]

Hi Jacqueline I'm new to your channel I really like it though I'm a big big reader and I have been since I was very very young. A lot of the books that you described in your video not only have I already read them but I've got some great recommendations if you're up for it I've got five: The first one is by Cormac McCarthy It's called the Road. It is a post-apocalyptic thriller but it's a very easy read It's very short you'd probably read it in a day. One of the best books I've ever read in my life and there is a movie yay! The second book is Blood meridian that is Cormac McCarthy as well. You may not like it as much as you'll like the road because it is very very very bleak and violent most of his books are however, this book tends to go on and on with some violence that almost after a while you're kind of desensitized and the ending will really kind of get you. The third book and probably one of my favorite books in the entire world is called paint It Black by Janet Fitch. I've read this book so many times I probably can't even count. It's about a girl and a guy who are very young I want to say she's probably about 20 years old in the book. She's in a relationship with a guy she's very much in love with and he decides to go on a trip after they have a big fight and after a few days she finds out from a police officer that he has checked himself into a hotel room and shot himself in the head. The rest of the book is sort of a back and forth between the present and the past and how she's dealing with his death and how her relationship with his mother becomes almost unfairly close and they realize how much they really need each other despite knowing some very disturbing things about the relationship she had with her son. The fourth book is again another one by Janet Fitch and it is called White oleander. You may have already seen the movie or read the book or both because both of them were very highly publicized in the early 2000s. If you have not read the book but you have seen the movie I definitely still recommend reading the book It is fantastic. My favorite thing about her writing style is that it's incredibly descriptive every single thing that you're reading you can picture it perfectly you almost create this world and your head that exists in these books and you'll do it almost involuntarily to the point where you feel like you're actually watching a movie. And fun fact both of them are movies yay! The last book I'm going to tell you about is my go-to anytime I really just need some enlightening and some very raw disturbing violence and that's American psycho by Brett Easton Ellis. You probably have already heard of the book and/or seeing the movie and you may have even read the book as well however there are a few books by Ellis that I would recommend if you have already read American psycho one being the informers. It's sort of a short story novel but all of the stories sort of come together and they're all interconnected. There is also lunar park by Brett Easton Ellis it's one of my favorite books because what it does is it was like the first ARG if that makes sense. By writing this book he sort of tricked an entire group of people that were his like cult following readers that everything in the book was real He even created a website that had his imaginary wife and imaginary movies that she was in just for the sake of the book. The funniest thing about it is when I was reading the book for the first time I actually googled the name of his wife because he said that she was a very famous actress and the '80s and early '90s and when I googled her name there was a website there was several post-dedicated to her there was movies listed yet I didn't recognize any of them and I was like who the heck is this person and then that's when I realized that it was a complete fabrication by Brett Easton Ellis to promote lunar park. That being said it was just genius it was very very cool. So I would love to hear some feedback if you do decide to read any of these I would love to recommend more should you ever go through them all because I am just an avid reader from hell I love disturbing books I love stories being read in my mind I can picture everything it's just I love it It's amazing and I'm glad I found your channel.

[@ameliamariah4757]

I LOVED Pretty Girls. Karin Slaughter is my girl. But the "water" boarding scene effed me up

[@northeastcity6921]

Both of Jaycee Duggars books are very well written. Also, the cults--the sister wives (tv show) is one of those families with multiple wives. If you like cultish things there are also books written by the Sister Wives as well as The Duggars (19 kids and counting, etc)

[@thecozycommune]

Oh I'll look those up! Thanks!

[@msoberan90]

Loved this recommendation video! I added a whole lot to my amazon cart! Thank you!

[@thecozycommune]

Yayaya ya that's awesome!

[@knitty781]

Beasts by Joyce Carrol Oates (a professor and his wife coerce students to be sex slaves), House of the Scorpion by Nancy Farmer (YA similar to Unwind), Geek Love by Katherine Dunn (Parents do drugs to create birth defects in their children for a circus side show). Try these. I'll love to hear what you think.

[@bekahl]

Came here for recommendations but discovered I either already read or already own waiting to be read every. single. book! Turns out I'm already disturbed 🤪 😂😂

[@thecozycommune]

Bahahha glad you have good taste!

[@kassidyolsen4613]

Highly recommend "Secret Slave" if you wanna squirm and lose hope in humanity. It's a true story which is the worst part

[@debbiemcnamara7059]

I read I’ll Be Gone In The Dark. I read it in China and they caught him while I was there.

[@dixiechick6652]

They cage the animals at night is a book I read when I was 15, I cried for two weeks, there were not many YA books in my teens so I was probably reading books I shouldn’t. I still have not went back and read that book again.

[@fruitninja5082]

I read “a child called it” and for some reason I didn’t feel ANYTHING whatsoever it’s a me thing I know for sure but still I didn’t fell anything someone please suggest even more traumatic books.

[@robinjones1955]

Several of these books are on my tbr soon list.. I'm waiting for payday... I read a Child Called IT when it came out in 1995.. I love disturbing books too!

[@dionbesa8684]

I read Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter and it is indeed disturbing. I enjoyed reading her works. I already have Jaycee Dugard's A Stolen Life I bought it last because it is disturbing according to the book clubs on social media. This video makes me sure that this one is my next TBR. Thanks

[@thecozycommune]

You'll have to let me know if you like A Stolen Life!

[@dionbesa8684]

I finished reading it and it is heart-breaking to know how her life becomes for 18yrs. I highly recommend it 🙂

[@trishee7625]

Pretty Girls was too much of unnecessary torture porn. I just stopped reading Karin Slaughter anymore.

[@DaisyShaz]

I loooved the push .You had recommended it a while back, it was my best july read.

[@thecozycommune]

I'm so glad you enjoyed it!

[@deniseondersma6262]

Suffer the child by Judith Spencer is the most disturbing non-fiction book I've ever read

[@rissyyy10]

The long walk is giving me squid games vibes

[@sasapejcin3568]

Good Samaritan by John Marrs is super dark and disturbing! Actually maybe the most disturbing thriller I have ever read!

[@thecozycommune]

Ooooo I'll have to look that one up!

[@comparedtowhat2719]

Place "Notice" by Heather Lewis on the list. Read with caution.

[@dianevanderlinden3480]

I can't find it anywhere.