Help finding a book to read
 

I need help finding a book to read. I really would like to read a psychological thriller, I also love violent books with a main character is teetering on the edge like American Psycho and A Clockwork Orange, can anyone recommend any good books for me?

The Shining by Stephen King. Its a journey through madness for the main character, and if you've seen the movie, its way better and in some parts different.

If you're into thrilling, violent books, then I suggest you read "Chinese Whispers" by Peter May. Here's what I had to say about it when I first read it.

How about Dean Koontz? He writes horror books. Or Harlan Coben for psychological fiction.

I'm in Youth Services- so I do not know that much about adult fiction. My strengths are in kiddie/teen lit and in non-fiction.

Nightwatch and THUD! by Terry Pratchett, although THUD! sounds more like what your looking for.

I suggest The Book of the Dead by Preston & Child.

The Kite Runner by Khaled Husseini is in the same league as this. It's about a man haunted by his past as a child in the Middle East. There's gore, vomit, bloodshed, psychological issues galore.

I liked it because, instead of submerging into a private environment (where supernatural or violent things happen and most take them for granted), it instead exposes the madness and violence that occurs in the world today. I enjoyed it a lot.

Mondays are Red bu Nicolae Morgan is a good read.

Its not exactly violent but ots about the main character (a teen) and an internal power struggle. I'm making it sound bad but its good.

It has good metaphors. (worst sumary ever)

Yeah, that's an awesome one. I just finished his newest one, 'A Thousand Splendid Suns'... But 'Kite Runner' is more what you're looking for, I think. Good luck! I'm looking for something the same league as 'Suns' now. I wanna read something rediculously good again!

Not really my genre, but Slaughter House Five by Vonnegut maybe?

While it's a good book, it's not exactly thrilling or violent. It's more... weird. The title is known to have a certain misleading quality, since it was given to me as a horror-book as well. It couldn't be further from a horror-book, actually.

Well, I tried. Like I said. Not my genre. Can't go wrong with Stephen King though. Shakespeare's Titus Andronicus is also the renaissance equivalent of a slasher flick if you like the classics, but that may be way too tame for the modern crowd. Though canibalism and severed limbs are plentiful in it.

Try James Patterson - Pop Goes The Weasel
Alex Cross may not be teetering on the edge but he is
certainly put to the test in these books!

If you are a fan of Zombies, I recommend World War Z by Max Brooks. Kind of a global look at zombie infestation.

I recommend House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski. That book tends to mess with your head. I wouldn't even read it at night.