DISTURBING BOOKS, PART 2 (my sequel to this video): kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qdJ0ib2ensuxgJ8.html

When I was a lot younger, about 18. My mum wanted to get me into crime and mystery books so we went to a bookshop and picked two to read and swap. One was a Harlan Coben book and the other was The Birdman. We had no idea what Mo Hayder's writing was like back then. Anyway I got The Birdman first and seeing as it was my first crime novel I thought they were all like this! I was disgusted but couldn't stop reading. When we swapped my mum came running into my room and said 'omg, you read the whole thing? Are you ok?'. 🤣 Anyway, to cut a story short, I didn't pick up a crime novel for a long time but now I write thrillers and I think it might be because of how that book stayed with me. I just wanted to say I really enjoy your videos! I used to read more transgressive fiction than I do now. And I'm thinking of getting back into the genre.

I really enjoyed this video. I hope you make more. Thanks for the recommendations

The girl next door is still on my mind 6 months after reading it. It begins very sweetly by introducing the innocent relationship building between the eventual victim and the protagonist, narrator. The way it descends into psychological horror is haunting. I read 4 other Ketchum books after this. They were mostly gruesome and lacked depth. But this one book is just so special. It hits all emotional elements for me.

Just discovered your video because it popped up in my feed. Good job! Please keep it up! I've read ALL of Mo Hader's books, one of my favorite authors. Look forward to hearing more opinions from you!

The girl next door is actually based on the true story of Sylvia Likens. horrifying and disturbing what this poor girl had to go through.

I have just subscribed! I appreciate your taste in books and your review was great!

Wow, great list. I've put a couple of the books your mentioned in my to read list. I really hope you keep doing reviews and I look forward to more of your videos in the future.

Love this video! It’s hard to find real “readers” to talk books with so I really enjoyed your thoughtful and well-informed video.looking forward to more!

I like psychological horror books if you're into short stories I reccomed "I have no mouth I must not scream" its truly disturbing and left me feeling really sad but I think overall it was a good short story

Great video! I’m definitely picking up some of these titles.

Just found your channel! This video is great. You have a great taste and a pleasant way of explaining why you liked the books you've chosen. I would love to hear you talk more about horror books 😊

great list, I really appreciate the fact that you really did a mini-review on each book. Sometimes other YT'ers will say the name of the book and a line or two about it...leaving me wondering if I'd like it or not. thanks for taking the time.

I've added a lot of these books in my list. Amazing review 👏

I've been looking for a well done list like this for awhile, this review was super helpful & I can't wait to watch part two after. keep it the great work!

A perfect video to pop up in my recommended, love the video and will definitely be checking these books out! Subscribed !

Great video! I've been trying to find more dark books to read and some other lists on KZfaq just don't go dark enough. Piercing was made into a movie as well and it's actually really good! I'm kind of curious how different the book is.

Please post more. Your reviews are very insightful and thoughtful.

well done list its all over the place lots of stuff to check out been getting into a bit of reading lately cheers all the best

New to your channel. I am delighted by the sheer diversity of your book choices and I think it makes you a lot more unique in the Booktube universe. Looking forward to watching part 2 and seeing what else you come up with in the future :)

Wow I love this video and list! So many I want to add, and it’s cool how much context you have for some of these authors/books

Nice job on the book review! Your knowledge and education shines through- please keep sharing books with us- maybe psychiatric thrillers

I was honestly hooked with just your intro, thank you so much for the video!

Great video my man!! Thank you for the recommendations!! Keep up the awesome work on your videos!!

I just found your channel and I love it so much !! Great job keep making amazing videos

Fantastic list! For anyone else in the UK, "Birdman" is on a limited time Kindle deal for 99p right now. That's tonight's reading sorted - thanks so much, Juan :) I look forward to more of your videos.

Thank you for this great list! You have a really great way to present the books and explain your view! I will watch the sequel that you mention in the infobox right away and look forward to more videos from you! ☺

Really glad I clicked on your video when it popped up in my recommendations! Thanks for bringing up these interesting works. And for your first video you did a very good job, keep it up :)

Great video! Keep up the good work! Loved the list, I'll definitely be checking some of these out! 📚

I’ve had this video on my Watch Later list and considered taking it off. But I thought “what the heck, I’m down for a long video” and I do NOT regret watching this!! Amazing video! Keep it up. You earned my like 👍🏻

Thanks, Juan. Very intriguing list. Have added a few of these to the TBR.

It's actually non-fiction, but "The Elephant Man" by Bernard Promenance probably disturbed me the most. Extremely upsetting throughout and the ending just left me feeling cold. I felt heartbroken for days after. P.S. No need to apologize or be nervous, you did great, dude :)

You did a great job, especially being your first video. I've watched quite a few "most disturbing" list vids on this same subject and it's refreshing to see that your entries aren't a lot of the same recycled crap that everyone seems to choose. There are a lot of really varying choices in this list and I wanted to say thanks for that. Keep up the good work, brother.

I just watched this and found it funny how I can relate to you when it comes to being disturbed. You mentioned how Tampa was something you couldn’t finish because of the content but you finished Cow! I have done the same with books when it comes to sex scenes that are too graphic but I don’t mind reading some disturbing content. There are a couple of books on your list that interest me. Thank you 😊

Stumbled upon your video and loved it! Please continue doing more! Love hearing your thoughts on books. May I ask what did you study in school? Are you working in a field related to literature? :)

Im def gonna b lookin for some of these books. Good job on your 1st vid dude

Thanks for putting list in the description,, I did sit through the entire video, pretty insightful 👌

Well done with the spoilers. A very intriguing list. Thanks for the introduction of Mo Hayder ill be reading soonest. What about Hogg by Samuel R. Delany.

Great job on the video!👍🏼

I’m currently halfway through Blood Meridian and it’s by far one of my top 10’s. I’m obsessed with McCarthy’s ability to paint the vastness and bone dryness of the desert and the sickening brutality of the violence and death. There have been many time already in this book that I’ve had to stop reading after the many particularly brutal parts and just say “what the fuck?” I’ve got No Country For Old Men, The Road and, The Child of God up next on my list. Absolutely phenomenal author. One of the greats for sure! His books are a must read if your not terribly squeamish to very detailed gore and fucked up subjects like the death of children.

Damn brother awesome job! I like that your first video about books was unsettling and it's about disturbing books haha.

Just discovered your channel. I really like the way you present your books. You came across as very knowledgeable. 👍🏼

Good stuff man, keep it up!

I really enjoyed this video! Disturbing books are definitely one of my guilty pleasures. Hope to see more from you :)

Your channel is full of deep-dives in the horror genre. Superb.

The video is very good! You did a great work. Unbelievable that was your first video.

Excellent reviews! I hope to see more videos like this from you.

Amazing first video! Amazing video all around. Thanks!

I love your voice so much! Thank you for this beautiful video and keep going

Great for first video! Awesome work man .

Best online reviews! Detailed, literate. Thank you!

Thank you. Very illustrating and descriptive. It's obvious that you processed those books within yourself when you read them. Thank you for the guide...

Amazing video! thanks for this, enjoyed every second and added a bunch to my reading list

Really loved this video. Can't wait to watch the rest in this series! Subbed!

Nice one. Do more of these!

Thank you for the video! I have added most of these to my TBR pile now. I’m a huge fan of twisted disturbing novels but most of them just try to throw violence at you and don’t really disturb you, they just try to shock you. So thanks for the ideas!

Well done on your first video! Keep up the good work.

You're doing great, brother! Keep up the great work!

really great video. keep it up!

Great video! Love your channel!

I was so psyched that you had The Story of the Eye. Have you read Les Chants de Maldoror by Comte de Lautrement. That's really really really disturbing.

Hi Juan....great video ! I’m 58 years old, and a big reader...always have been. Thanks for the list. My list would include “She’s Come Undone”-Wally Lamb, “Geek Love”.-Katherine Dunn, and “The Color Purple”-Alice Walker. Keep up the good job, I look forward to watching more.

I’m late. New to your channel. Gnarly stuff brodie

"Horror is my favorite genre" *subscribe* I loved this video! Your recommendations are refreshingly unique, and I'm looking forward to more :)

We could be best friends if I didn't live on the east coast. Dude...keep on making content...it's great! Also...I highly highly recommend "stranglehold" by Ketchum...there are a handful of things that happen in that book that terrified me and took my breath away.. powerful and disturbing.

I’m really enjoying your channel - I’ve got some suggestions of disturbing books I think you’d like - apologies if you’ve already read them: *Up Above The World and Let It Come Down by Paul Bowles, plus any number of his short stories *Book 6 of Les Chants De Maldoror by Le Compte de Lautréamont *The short stories of Leonora Carrington *The White People by Arthur Machen *The King In Yellow by Robert W Chambers *The Sailor Who Fell From Grace With The Sea by Yukii Mishima *Flicker by Theodore Roszak *Our Lady Of Darkness by Fritz Lieber

Thanks for the intro to Matthew Stokoe - based on his writing style, I'm not only going to read Cows (I just read a sample) but also Empty Mile. I recently read The Monstrumologist trilogy by Rick Yancey - disturbing and amazing and most importantly, well written. So many themes.

What an interesting list, I liked your takes on these books. There was a time when I was interested in BDSM in fiction, so I bought Story of the Eye, The Story of O, and Masochism: Coldness and Cruelty & Venus in Furs by Giles Deleuze. The first one I ended up throwing in the recycling bin without reading and without wanting anyone to read it, the second one made me want to shake O for subjecting herself to all that crap and ended up in the trash after I had read about 3 chapters, and Deleuze's book is still with me, but I also abandoned it as I found it depressing lol.

Great recommendations!

Great video looking forward to watching more and getting in to Ketchum's work

I'm usually skeptical of videos of lists, as there's a lot of them that are very poor in content. With that said, I'm glad I've watched your video! Subscribed and added the books to my list. I'll start catching up with your channel now :)

I highly recommend Charles Bukowski's More Notes of a Dirty Old Man: The Uncollected Columns. Definitely not for the transgression-shy! Also anything by William Burroughs, but especially his novel The Naked Lunch. It's, um, special. Happy reading and thanks for the great video!

This video popped up in my feed and I'm really happy I clicked on it! I'm always looking for new authors and books I haven't heard about and this gives me some good ones. 👍🙂🍻

Good video! I subscribed. Hubert Selby's "Last Exit to Brooklyn" is a very great novel, I think. Collection of interconnected stories, really... but you should read it! It can be disturbing, but there are beautiful, compassionate things in it. Do you know about Derek Raymond's Factory series? I read all five of them in a row a few years ago, and it almost destroyed me. I just picked up "Birdman" and will read it as soon as it arrives.

Hey Very articulate book analysis & review video and great to see Hubert Selby's "The Room" get a review it deserves. For my money it gets the No 1 place in any disturbing book list you do feel a sense of being claustrophobically trapped inside a deteriorating and very violent mind of a young man with no light at the end of the tunnel. Helluva a read but to quote you "Reader Beware!!!"

Cool list , thank you

Juan , acabo de descubrir tu canal. he visto un par de videos y me agradaron bastante. felicidades por el buen trabajo, de esta lista he leído meridiano sangre, against nature y cows que me parecieron geniales. ¿el de Alissa Nutting en español es las lecciones peligrosas? se me antojo mucho leerle.

I just subscribed because you are good at this. Keep it up if you can, please.

Really enjoyed the video. Keep it up man.

that's interesting A Rebours likened to instigram, nice bro. Cool list brother. Blood Meridian is the greatest but try The Outer Dark, the final scene is devastating.

Gonna have to check out all the books except the last one, probably too much for me, great video!

Superb first video! Thanks for the tips! :)

Solid choices, dude. I am definitely adding Birdman and a few others to my list. Blood Meridian is definitely not your grandfathers western novel. I saw the movie Audition, so I'm keen to read Piercing as well.

Great vid. Keep at it!

this video is so insightful

Hi Juan. Just want to say that you did an excellent job for your first video! Your voice is actually so soft and calming for the material you're talking about, and you seem to really know you're stuff so "kudos"! This list had so many more obscure titles that I had never heard of and have now added to my own personal list of books to read. On another note, do you have any recommendations for your favorite murder mystery or thriller novels? Books with a great plot twist? I'd love to hear them! Thanks again!

You ROCK! Just downloaded several of these suggestions

Thanks for making this video. I'm always interested in stories or novels that push at the bounderies of acceptability or what's considered tabboo. I've never not finished a story that's appauled my sensibilities, in fact i like to challenge myself and go to places way outside my comfort zone. The best works of Fiction (or non Fiction for that matter) should challenge the reader without descending into complete madness just for the sake of it. Self reflection is one of the most challenging and harrowing subjects a reader can absorb in a story as it pushes the reader to go places that makes them feel uncomfortable maybe even unwelcome in certain situations. That's what the best stories do i suppose, challenge the reader to self analyze the situations the story puts them in either as an antagonist or a protagonist without feeling disgusted or affronted with the author for doing so. Thanks again. Liked & Subscribed.

The Bataille reminds me of City Lights bookstore in San Francisco. I used to have the book and I read it, but I always saw it in that store and maybe it was published there…I was drawn here from Bookpilled. I will slowly go through your videos. He mentioned your 100 Book Challenge and I will do that and document it - awesome idea. My library has Birdman on audiobook so I’ll listen to that soon. Loved your description of Against Nature - I added it to my queue. I read The Girl Next Door. I’ll get Peaceable Kingdom based on your rec. Read Blood Meridian and many others by McCarthy. Need to read it again. I’m actually adding many of these to my list to buy. That last statement is a contradiction to the 100 Books challenge so I am now torn. Thanks…lol

I've only ever read The Girl Next Door from the books on this list but it has haunted me since I read it. Yes, the novel is gruesome and often times feels so despicably meticulous that it made me sick. It is well written and executed in it's slow spiral into the depravity that can come when the naïve are used for the gain of rotten people; however, the thing that stuck with me the most was that the two victims were sisters. As an older sibling I know I would do literally anything for my younger sibling, so seeing the dynamic of someone volunteering for abuse in an attempt to protect their sibling was what really hurt. The contrast of depravity and selfless familial love was painful in a way that I don't think will ever leave me.

Just started reading! Found your Channel last week and have been loving these Reviews! Excellent Descriptions as well! The Horror Genre here in Hawaii is so taboo 😅 Our state is so Conservative we don’t even have Horror Cons 🥲

Great video man!

Great Video and List. I had to put down Cows twice and finished on the third attempt. I can recommend the rest of Stokoe's book. They are really great

I just stumbled on your channel. Great reviews.

Nice video for your first one, keep it up!

Outside the horror genre, the most disturbing piece of fiction I have ever read is "in the Ravine" by Anton Chekhov. The title varies in translation, but the "I didn't see this coming" shock survived a second reading. Curious if anyone else has experienced this story likewise. Your reviews are excellent.

Loved your recommendations. Some unique stuff I've never heard of. Instantly subscribed to your channel. Like how eclectic this list is.

The Girl Next Door is stunning because the author has so much empathy that he can make you understand the motivations of horrible characters. What truly makes something “disturbing” is when despicable actions start to make sense from the book’s perspective.

Really enjoyed your way of talking about books. Thanks! I'm subscribed. Question: Assuming you've read American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis, why do you think that book never appears on lists of "the most disturbing books?"

Enjoy enjoyed your review I just decided to start me a channel myself and I hope I can get better and better thank you so much for your reviews and gave me a couple of books I've never heard of it I need to read