What’s the edgiest book you’ve ever read?

Compiling Patrick OShaughnessy's tweet replies

I’m trying to be helpful and listing books that people found edgy, sort them into categories and provide links to them. 

Inspired by Patrick OShaughnessy's tweet: What’s the edgiest book you’ve ever read?

Patrick OShaughnessy @patrick_oshag

What’s the edgiest book you’ve ever read?

Note: Patrick said “Interpret edgy however you want”

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Self-Improvement / Philosophy / Psychology

• 12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos by Jordan B. Peterson

• Anti-Oedipus: Capitalism and Schizophrenia by Gilles Deleuze , Felix Guattari

• Private Truths, Public Lies: The Social Consequences of Preference Falsification by Timur Kuran

• The Anarchist Cookbook by William Powell

• Spiritual Enlightenment: the Damndest Thing by Jed McKenna

• Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance by Robert M Pirsig

Classic Literature & Fiction

• 1984 by George Orwell

• A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

• American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

• Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand

• Catch-22 by Joseph Heller

• Child of God by Cormac McCarthy

• Crash by J.G. Ballard

• The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart

• Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury

• Fierce Invalids Home from Hot Climates By Tom Robbins

• Filth by Irvine Welsh

• Finnegan’s Wake by James Joyce

• Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes

• Geek Love by Katherine Dunn

• Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon

• Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk

• High-Rise by J.G. Ballard

• IT by Stephen King

• Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr.

• Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis

• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

• Naked Lunch by William S. Burrough

• On the Road by Jack Kerouac

• Perfume by Patrick Suskind

• Portnoy's Complaint by Philip Roth

• Reflections of a Nonpolitical Man by Thomas Mann

• Super Sad True Love Story: A Novel by Gary Shteyngart

• The Fermata by Nicholson Baker

• The Flamethrowers by Rachel Kushner

• The Fountainhead by Ayn Rand

• The Kindly Ones by Jonathan Littell

• The Mars Room by Rachel Kushner

• The Painted Bird by Jerry Kosinski

• The Road by Cormac McCarthy

• The Trial by Franz Kafka

• Tropic of Cancer by Henry Miller

• True Evil by Greg Iles

• Ulysses by James Joyce

• Under the Roofs of Paris by Henry Miller

Maths, Markets & Investing

• Fooled by Randomness by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Statistical Consequences of Fat Tails: Real World Preasymptotics, Epistemology, and Applications by Nassim Nicholas Taleb

• Stocks for the Long Run: The Definitive Guide to Financial Market Returns & Long-Term Investment Strategies by Jeremy Siegel

• Treks into Intuitive Geometry: The World of Polygons and Polyhedra by Jin Akiyama and Kiyoko Matsunaga

Science and Tech

• Final Exit: The Practicalities of Self-Deliverance and Assisted Suicide for the Dying by Derek Humphry

• Homo Deus: A Brief History of Tomorrow by Yuval Noah Harari

• Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind by Yuval Noah Harari

Misc

• History of Sexuality: The Use of Pleasure by Michel Foucault

• Hummingbird by Jude Angelini

• Mein Kampf by Adolf Hitler

• River of Darkness by Buddy Levy

• The Basketball Diaries: The Classic About Growing Up Hip on New York's Mean Streets by Jim Carroll

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