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Disturbing books iceberg is an iceberg chart topic from r/IcebergCharts. The highest-scoring chart on it, "The updated disturbing books iceberg", was posted by u/KTheButcherShitter on 1 December 2021 and had about 673 upvotes when it was collected.[1] The subreddit has 13 other charts on the same or closely related topics; see Other versions.

The "Disturbing Novels Iceberg" was made with icebergcharts.com (dated 2021-12-01, 295 entries). It sorts disturbing books into levels by reader type, colour-coded as horror (red), true crime (yellow), paranormal/occult (blue) or general fiction (white), and each level is illustrated with an image from one of its books. Entries reflect the chart author's choices and are not verified fact.

"The updated disturbing books iceberg" by u/KTheButcherShitter (1 December 2021)

Tiers[edit]

Level 1: Normie book reader[edit]

Image taken from It.

  • The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas
  • A Clockwork Orange
  • A Head Full of Ghosts
  • A Modest Proposal
  • Animal Farm
  • As I Lay Dying
  • Books of Blood
  • Brave New World
  • Carrie
  • Communion
  • Coraline
  • Dante's Inferno
  • Dracula
  • Factotum
  • Fight Club
  • Filth
  • Flowers for Algernon
  • Frankenstein
  • Gone Girl
  • Goosebumps
  • Heart Shaped Box
  • Heart of Darkness
  • Hell House
  • Helter Skelter
  • Horrorstör
  • I Am Legend
  • Invisible Monsters
  • It
  • I'm Thinking of Ending Things
  • Let the Right One In
  • Lolita
  • Lord of the Flies
  • Misery
  • Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children
  • NOS4A2
  • Nineteen Eighty-Four
  • No Country For Old Men
  • Penpal
  • Pet Sematary
  • Psycho
  • Push
  • Rosemary's Baby
  • Salem's Lot
  • Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
  • Sharp Objects
  • Something Wicked This Way Comes
  • The Amityville Horror
  • The Call of Cthulhu
  • The Diary of a Young Girl
  • The Exorcist
  • The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
  • The Graveyard Book
  • The Handmaid's Tale
  • The Haunting of Hill House
  • The Hellbound Heart
  • The Jungle
  • The King in Yellow
  • The Kite Runner
  • The Lottery
  • The Lovely Bones
  • The Metamorphosis
  • The Monkey's Paw
  • The Mothman Prophecies
  • The Shadow Over Innsmouth
  • The Shining
  • The Silence of the Lamb
  • The Stepford Wives
  • The Telltale Heart
  • Trainspotting
  • Zodiac

Level 2: Book nerd[edit]

Image taken from Haunted.

  • A Little Life
  • 2666
  • A Season in Hell
  • A Short Stay in Hell
  • American Psycho
  • Anonymous
  • Audition
  • Battle Royale
  • Behold A Pale Horse
  • Blindness
  • Blood Meridian
  • Columbine
  • Concrete Island
  • Cows
  • Dark Places
  • Exquisite Corpse
  • Flesh and Blood
  • Frisk
  • Gerald's Game
  • Grotesque
  • Haunted
  • Heaven's Gate: Cult Suicide in San Diego
  • High Life
  • Hostage to the Devil
  • House of Leaves
  • I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
  • In the Tall Grass
  • Lunar Park
  • Mein Kampf
  • Mindhunter
  • Missing 411
  • My Eyes Are Black Holes
  • Mysterious Skin
  • Night
  • Out
  • Perfect Blue: Complete Metamorphosis
  • Pig Island
  • Rage
  • Requiem For a Dream
  • Rule by Secrecy
  • Skagboys
  • Skin
  • Snuff
  • Survivor (Chuck Palahniuk)
  • Sway
  • Teatro Grottesco
  • Tender Is the Flesh
  • The 8th
  • The Autopsy
  • The Butterfly Garden
  • The Cement Garden
  • The Cipher
  • The Collector
  • The Devil's Workshop
  • The Forbidden Book
  • The Long Walk
  • The Marbled Swarm
  • The Orphan Master's Son
  • The Piano Teacher
  • The Road
  • The Stranger Beside Me
  • The Tally
  • The Trial
  • The Triflers
  • The Troop
  • The Ultimate Evil
  • The Unabomber Manifesto
  • The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
  • Unwind
  • We Need to Talk About Kevin

Level 3: Horror junkie[edit]

Image taken from The Drift.

  • A Brief History of Seven Killings
  • A Child Called "It"
  • A Sentimental Novel
  • And the Ass Saw the Angel
  • Animals Eat Each Other
  • Assisted Living
  • Bastard Out of Carolina
  • Behead all Satans
  • Blood Sports
  • Blood and Guts in High School
  • Blubber Island
  • Born to Bleed
  • Cabello: Mineau
  • Child of God
  • Coin Locker Babies
  • Complicity
  • Crash
  • Escape from Camp 14
  • Flowers in the Attic
  • Geek Love
  • Found.
  • Gristle & Bone: Stories
  • Headhunter Reimagined
  • Hellucination
  • Hogg
  • In Cold Blood
  • In the Miso Soup
  • Junky
  • Last Days
  • Last Exit to Brooklyn
  • Les Chants de Maldoror
  • Marabou Stork Nightmares
  • Meat
  • My Twisted World
  • Naked Lunch
  • Negative Space: A Play in One Act
  • Not Okay
  • On The Beach
  • People Who Eat Darkness
  • Perceptions of a Renegade Mind
  • Perfume
  • Piercing
  • Programmed to Kill
  • Siege
  • Skin Game
  • Small Sacrifices
  • Stabs at Happiness: 13 Stories
  • Steps
  • Tampa
  • The Abuse of Ashley Collins
  • The Atrocity Exhibition
  • The Conspiracy Against the Human Race
  • The Day of Oprichnik
  • The Drift
  • The Eyes
  • The Fallen Boys
  • The Girl Next Door
  • The Incest Diary
  • The Laws of the Skies
  • The Maimed
  • The Necrophilliac
  • The North Water
  • The Notebook Trilogy
  • The Painted Bird
  • The Rape of Nanking
  • The Restraint of Beasts
  • The Resurrectionist
  • The Room
  • The S.C.U.M. Manifesto
  • The Sluts
  • The Sordid Promise
  • The Story of the Eye
  • The Summer I Died
  • The Turner Diaries
  • The Wasp Factory
  • The Watcher
  • This Way for the Gas
  • Until One Of Us Is Dead
  • Yellow
  • Zombie

Level 4: Gorepunk[edit]

Image taken from Let's Go Play at the Adams.

  • 120 Days of Sodom
  • 4.48 Psychosis
  • Albert Fish in His Own Words
  • Bind, Torture, Kill
  • Caligula: Divine Carnage
  • Cleansed
  • Dark Spring
  • Death on Credit
  • Eden Eden Eden
  • Gone to See the River Man
  • Happy Ever After
  • Header
  • House of Evil
  • In the Fog
  • Justine
  • Let's Go Play at the Adams
  • Living Dead Girl
  • Mouchette
  • Off Season
  • Piaget's Last Fear
  • Prey Drive
  • Prodigal Blues
  • Rejected for Content: Splattergore
  • Secrets in the Cellar
  • Sweating Blood
  • The Basement
  • The Bighead
  • The Consumer
  • The End of Alice
  • The Gulag Archipelago
  • The Heart is Deceitful Above All Things
  • The Nazi and the Barber
  • The Obscene Bird of Night
  • The Ordeal
  • The Origin of Conciousness
  • The Storyteller of Pain
  • The Taste of a Man
  • The Torture Garden
  • Tomb for 500,000 Soldiers
  • True Crime

Level 5: Goremaniac[edit]

Image taken from Just Like Hell.

  • All You Can Eat
  • Ass Goblins of Auschwitz
  • Brain Cheese Buffet
  • Dead Babies
  • Genital Grinder
  • Heliogabalus; or, the Crowned Anarchist
  • Just Like Hell
  • Like Porno for Psychos
  • Little Girl Lost
  • Mother Maggot
  • Petrolio
  • Proxy
  • Selected Writings of Antonin Artaud
  • Survivor (J.F. Gonzalez)
  • The Diary of a Rapist
  • The Grand Grimoire
  • The Slob
  • The Ultimate Dead Baby Cook Book
  • Weed Species
  • Woom

Level 7: Utterly insane[edit]

Image taken from The Evil Dead.

  • Book of Soyga
  • Babyfucker
  • Gozu
  • Insane Bastards
  • Lesser Key of Solomon
  • Sick Bastards
  • The Necronomicon
  • The Orphan's Story

Level 8: Far beyond the mortal realm[edit]

Image taken from Tomino's Hell.

  • Anthropodermic bibliopegy
  • Lost Marquis de Sade manuscripts
  • Narrative of the Life of James Allen
  • The Great Omar
  • Tomino's Hell

Level 9[edit]

The level title is written in Arabic. Image taken from Code Gigax.

  • Code Gigax
  • The Voynich Manuscript

Other versions[edit]

Other charts from r/IcebergCharts grouped under this topic, ordered by score:

See also[edit]

Source[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ↑ u/KTheButcherShitter. The updated disturbing books iceberg. Reddit (r/IcebergCharts). 1 December 2021. Retrieved 29 October 2026.
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