The phrase "unsettling book" is correct and can be used in written English.
It is often used to describe a book or literary work that is disturbing, unsettling, or causes discomfort to the reader. Example: "I couldn't sleep after reading that unsettling book about a serial killer."
It was an unsettling book that arrived, as if on cue, at an unsettled time.
This is an oddly delightful and unsettling book.
"As a Friend" is an unsettling book, haunting and haunted.
So this quirky, occasionally unsettling book goes on, never short of new ideas, all of them rolled out with style.
It's an unsettling book, from the first page showing Steinberg's fierce will to survive.
What is one to make of this odd and unsettling book?
Muriel Spark's Edinburgh, Peckham and Kensington are specific and detailed right down to the bus routes, yet one of her most brilliant and unsettling books, The Driver's Seat, follows her central character from the "north" on a holiday to a kind of generalised "southern" every-city.
Told from the POV of a small town sheriff who is slowly succumbing to mental illness and an unquenchable thirst to kill, it's one of the most unsettling books ever written.
Compared even with its poorer neighbours, Bangladesh and Nepal, India's social record is unusually grim .An Uncertain Glory", an excellent but unsettling new book by two of India's best-known development economists, Amartya Sen and Jean Drèze, sets out how and why this is so.
Despite its happy ending, Far From the Madding Crowd is an unsettling, unstable book.
This gruesome yet strangely reverential scene sets the tone for a necessarily unsettling, humbling book, which, despite a streak of earnestness and political naivety, is more than simply a coming of age among the corpses.
