Every now and then, I read a book that freaks me out. It takes a certain kind of book to weird me out. It has to been plausible, and make me think that the reality of the book could happen to us. This why I can’t read true crime, but I can read very gory mysteries. I think it’s because I can distance myself when I read fiction. If it gets to be too much, I can always tell myself, “This didn’t/couldn’t happen.”
So, here’s my list of books that freaked me out to the point that I either wanted to put them in the freezer, or had to take breaks and read something silly in order to get though:
- 1984 by George Orwell
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Rainbows’ End by Vernor Vinge
- Forty Signs of Rain by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Fifty Degrees Below by Kim Stanley Robinson
- Maus by Art Spiegelman