Portnoy's Complaint (1969)

This is the novel that made Roth a literary superstar, and it remains his most controversial. At the center of the novel is Alexander Portnoy, who narrates his story in the form of a monologue with his psychoanalyst as the pair try to get the root of Portnoy's central problem: his oversexed nature and gleeful, overzealous self-abuse.