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25 Messed-Up Books That Made People Stop in the Middle of Reading and Think, "Um, What the Heck?!"

Recently, in the r/books subbreddit, user u/padmesolos asked, "What book made you go like 'What the f?' during or after reading it?" and whew, did bookworms come through with some absolutely nightmare-inducing answers!
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