Books That Broke My Brain (In the Best Way)

Welcome to Bexxy Mov’s Bookshelf

Looking for psychologically messy fiction? You’re in the right place.


These are books I’ve personally read and genuinely recommend or hated. If you enjoy morally grey characters, trauma, addiction, dark humour, complicated relationships, and stories that stay with you long after the final page, you’ll probably find your next favourite here.

Types of Stories

📚 Trauma & Recovery
🖤 Morally Grey Characters
🌶️ Dark Romance & Spice
🧠 Psychological Fiction
😭 Books That Emotionally Destroyed Me

Watch the reviews below:

Junky by William S. Burroughs
The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test by Tom Wolfe
When The Birds Stopped Singing by Raja Shehadeh
Anna Karenina by Leo Tolstoy
A Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin
Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler
No Spiritual Surrender:Indigenous Anarchy in Defense of the Sacred by Klee Benally
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken Kesey
The Memory Code by Dr. Lynne Kelly
Wait with Me by Ava Emily Gillespie
Island of the Blue Dolphins by Scott O’Dell
Kurt Vonnegut’s A Man Without a Country
5 Authors That Shaped Me as a Reader (And Accidentally Shaped My Novel)
Children of the Mind by Orson Scott Card
Lights Out by Vanessa Allen
My Year of Rest and Relaxation by Ottessa Moshfegh
Porno by Irvine Welsh

Want to see these themes in my own fiction?


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