Lolita

It is tempting to look at evil people in the world and label them as monsters. From Adolf Hitler to Ted Bundy, we give them names and adjectives (inhuman, animal, insane) to distance them from ourselves. But they were all human, and the capacity for evil like theirs exists in all of us. All it requires is that we give into our selfishness, and refuse to take responsibility for our actions. This book is a horrifying reminder of that, and it forces us to take the point of view of a truly repulsive human to teach us this lesson.

P.S. I despise every cover to this book I have ever seen. It always makes it look like an erotic novel, and this book is the farthest thing from erotic.