10 Psychological Novels Guaranted To Mess With Your Mind

4. The Wasp Factory By Iain Banks

The Wasp Factory is a book above a child with serious violence issues. It's written from a first person perspective, told by seventeen-year-old Frank Cauldhame, describing his childhood and all that remains of it. Frank observes many shamanistic rituals of his own invention, and it is revealed that Frank was the perpetrator of three deaths of children within his family before he reached the age of ten himself. Frank calculating describes other acts of violence throughout the novel, including killing wasps (related to the title) and rodents That alone should suggest how intensely strange this book is. Who wants to read about serial killing ten year old psychopaths? All of us, of course. Oh - and let's not forget that at the end of the novel, we and Frank find out that Frank is actually a girl and has been pumped full of male hormone drugs by his father since he was born. SO MESSED UP. And not one for the feint hearted.