For me it was Gerald’s Game by Stephen King. I think it’s a fantastic novel with amazing character development. The main character is extremely realistic and well written. Despite the seemingly silly premise, I was invested throughout the entire thing. The main character’s development is really what sells it for me.
That being said, I am absolutely not reading it again anytime soon. There are two scenes in particular(if you’ve the book I’m sure you know) that managed to make extremely uncomfortable, mortified, and disgusted. My biggest fear is being trapped and helpless, so this book really got to me. Fantastic book, I’m never picking it up again.
Either that or Lord of the Flies… Dear God.
“The Kid” by Sapphire which is a sequel to “Push”. Remember the movie “Precious” about the big black girl who was pregnant by her father who raped her and he gave her AIDs? “The Kid” is about her son and all I remember is the boy kept raping other boys and was a criminal. I ended up enjoying the book in some ways, but I’d never read it again. It’s pretty true to life for a segment of the black community especially the ones I grew up with in a very hard-core neighborhood.