I’m not sure if it’s the wildest but the first that comes to mind is “John Dies at the End”
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The book is better but the movie was pretty good.
And now his watch has ended.
If only the sequel kept to the same idea...
"Dude, This Book Is Full of Spiders"? THEN WHY WAS MINE FULL OF SCORPIONS‽
The one that included the most wildlife might be hard to know exactly, but 'The Lost World' by Arthur Conan Doyle might be a contender.
One of my favourite books, and one that gave me lots to think about was His Dark Materials by Phillip Pullman.
The most 'different' setting for a book that I've read might be The Planiverse by AKA Dewdney, which takes place in a 2d world with thought out and realistic physics and societies.
Dhalgren by Samuel Delany
(Close race with House of Leaves, but ultimately House of Leaves was telling a specific story, whereas Dhalgren is a semi-incoherent drug trip. Loved both books, though.)
Fanged Noumena by Nick Land
Cyclonopedia by Reza Negarestani
Both are a naked lunch level mindfuck. Don't treat it as a book, but rather as a stream of consciousness on the acid trip. Don't try to make any sense, just ride the wave.
"The teachings of Don Juan" by Carlos Castaneda. Read it in highschool and it put me off psychedelics for more than two decades.
Clockwork Orange
In elementary school I read this book called "Flawed Dogs" and it was unforgettably wild. It's about a dog who escapes some kinda confinement by jumping over a barbed wire fence and loses his back legs in the process, and then joins a dog gang and does dog gang activities. Also one of the dog gang members was a cat in disguise.
Honestly I should see if I can find a copy of it and reread it. It was pretty wild.
edit: I looked it up and maybe I have a lot of the details wrong but it's still pretty wild
Der Prozess (1915) by Franz Kafka, it still is relevant today.
The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami just a magnificent read, you probably couldn’t go wrong with any of his works.
Probably some short story I read in high school but from what I can remember the first one that came to mind is Blood Meridian
A long way gone by Ishmael Beah was pretty dark. Story of a boy soldier from Sierra Leone explaining how you get forced into it and the terrible things they did.
I don't know about wild, but UNSONG has been a very weird trip. It's like science fiction, except instead of science its Jewish kabbalah. There's angels, demons, alt history American politics, religious references that are truly esoteric, and puns... lots and lots of puns.
Sadly, Porn
I don't know how to describe it, expect to be confused and offended and gaslit.
Kitchen Confidential.
Depends in what way you mean 'wild.' Crazy even psychedelic, but nonetheless benign? Or are we including disturbing?
Ya
Hogg by Samuel Delany
The multiorgasmic man.