What are some books that messed with your mind?

Collecting books that disturbed you, made you think, or haunted you long after you were done reading.

Books94

Answers174

Readers72

Details	Rating	Readers Count
Flowers for Algernon Daniel Keyes	4.28	1,315 reads
1984 George Orwell	4.21	5,152 reads
Tender Is the Flesh Agustina Bazterrica Sarah Moses (Translator)	3.7	512 reads
House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski	4.1	526 reads
The Three-Body Problem Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Translator)	3.94	2,079 reads
We Have Always Lived in the Castle Shirley Jackson	3.92	573 reads
Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? Philip K. Dick	3.94	1,210 reads
Piranesi Susanna Clarke	4.24	1,514 reads
I'm Thinking of Ending Things Iain Reid	3.69	426 reads
Pines Blake Crouch	3.86	381 reads
Life of Pi Yann Martel	3.83	1,025 reads
Dust Hugh Howey Michiel van Sleen (Translator)	4.14	451 reads
The Lathe of Heaven Ursula K. Le Guin	4.03	322 reads
The Girl Next Door Jack Ketchum	3.7	99 reads
Parable of the Sower Octavia E. Butler	4.13	673 reads
The Handmaid's Tale Margaret Atwood	4.09	2,189 reads
Dark Matter Blake Crouch	4.03	1,617 reads
Three Ted Dekker	3.81	47 reads
Brother Ania Ahlborn	3.83	87 reads
Recursion Blake Crouch	4.2	999 reads
Childhood's End Arthur C. Clarke	3.98	464 reads
A Short Stay in Hell Steven L. Peck	4.11	144 reads
There Is No Antimemetics Division qntm Sam Hughes	4.26	126 reads
The Left Hand of Darkness Ursula K. Le Guin	4.07	794 reads
All Tomorrows: A Billion Year Chronicle of the Myriad Species and Mixed Fortunes of Man C.M. Kosemen	4.22	54 reads
The Sparrow Mary Doria Russell	3.96	286 reads
They Never Learn Layne Fargo	4	135 reads
My Dark Vanessa Kate Elizabeth Russell	4.21	367 reads
The Kite Runner Khaled Hosseini	4.15	1,283 reads
Wool Hugh Howey	4.11	1,019 reads
The Atlas Six Olivie Blake Roberta Verde (Translator)	3.45	491 reads
Home Before Dark Riley Sager	3.86	352 reads
No Longer Human Osamu Dazai Donald Keene (Translator)	3.85	556 reads
Bunny Mona Awad	3.54	520 reads
Penpal Dathan Auerbach	3.92	148 reads
The End is Nigh	3.43	28 reads
The Witch Elm Tana French	3.46	115 reads
Unwind Neal Shusterman	4.01	242 reads
The City & The City China Miéville	3.98	348 reads
Robopocalypse Daniel H. Wilson Mike Chamberlain	3.57	120 reads
Blindness José Saramago Giovanni Pontiero (Translator) زهره افتخاری (Translator)	3.99	356 reads
The Tenant Roland Topor	4.17	11 reads
The Gulag Archipelago Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn	4.75	5 reads
The Mysterious Flame of Queen Loana Umberto Eco Geoffrey Brock (Translator)	2.64	15 reads
Comfort Me with Apples Catherynne M. Valente	3.51	187 reads
Terminal Boredom: Stories Izumi Suzuki Polly Barton (Translator) Sam Bett (Translator) David Boyd (Translator) Daniel Joseph (Translator) Aiko Masubuchi (Translator) Helen O'Horan (Translator)	3.77	33 reads
The King in Yellow Robert W. Chambers	3.28	141 reads
Girls Against God Jenny Hval Marjam Idriss (Translator)	3.43	24 reads
The gradual The gradual Christopher Priest	3.4	5 reads
The Anomaly Hervé Le Tellier Adriana Hunter (Translator)	3.83	79 reads
The Colour Out of Space H.P. Lovecraft	4.1	46 reads
Absolute Promethea Absolute Promethea Alan Moore Mick Gray J.H. Williams III	0	1 read
I Who Have Never Known Men Jacqueline Harpman	4.25	286 reads
The Measure Nikki Erlick	3.76	218 reads
Hidden Pictures Jason Rekulak	3.9	340 reads
Dead Inside Chandler Morrison	2.84	39 reads
The Necrophiliac Gabrielle Wittkop Don Bapst (Translator)	3.94	10 reads
The Only One Left Riley Sager	3.93	417 reads
Do Not Disturb Freida McFadden	3.46	60 reads
Diavola Jenn Marie Thorne	3.74	57 reads
Baby X Kira Peikoff	3.92	13 reads
Middle of the Night Riley Sager	3.71	98 reads
Incidents Around the House Josh Malerman	3.83	108 reads
The Andromeda Strain Michael Crichton	3.71	464 reads
Mefisto in Onyx Mefisto in Onyx Harlan Ellison	5	1 read
Erasure Percival Everett	4.32	60 reads
The Gone World Tom Sweterlitsch	3.95	164 reads
The Hike Drew Magary	3.85	115 reads
Genesis Bernard Beckett	3.99	42 reads
Bridge To Terabithia Katherine Paterson	3.99	446 reads
Robogenesis Daniel H. Wilson	3.68	26 reads
Abduction Robin Cook	3.81	8 reads
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War Max Brooks	3.9	1,012 reads
Annihilation Jeff VanderMeer	3.72	1,151 reads
Seveneves Neal Stephenson	3.93	594 reads
Devolution: A Firsthand Account of the Rainier Sasquatch Massacre Max Brooks	3.62	158 reads
Ubik Philip K. Dick	3.98	384 reads
Klara and the Sun Kazuo Ishiguro	3.81	806 reads
Use of Weapons Iain M. Banks	4.03	254 reads
The Chain Adrian McKinty	3.55	155 reads
Lock Every Door Riley Sager	3.7	329 reads
The Bluest Eye Toni Morrison	3.98	279 reads
The Library at Mount Char Scott Hawkins	4.06	334 reads
The Institute Stephen King	4.02	519 reads
Of Mice and Men John Steinbeck	3.8	2,059 reads
The Wasp Factory Iain Banks	3.6	215 reads
The Terror Dan Simmons	4.03	197 reads
Blindsight Peter Watts	3.84	364 reads
The Complete Maus Art Spiegelman	4.64	548 reads
Death's End Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Translator)	4.35	768 reads
Shift Hugh Howey	4.01	463 reads
Exhalation Ted Chiang	4.29	557 reads
Earthlings Sayaka Murata Ginny Tapley Takemori (Translator)	3.6	291 reads
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream Harlan Ellison	3.66	179 reads