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Dark Books for Winter Reading

Description: Fiction with a dark or disturbing sensibility.
Members: 10 participating members
sturlington, ahef1963, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda, westendgirl, andomck, dara85, KimarieBee, aulsmith, brandymt

Rank Title Author Added

1

Wuthering Heights

by Emily Brontë

49,711 members

671 reviews

3.9

6 Members: aulsmith, sturlington, thecoroner, westendgirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

2

American Gods {original}

32,856 members

915 reviews

4.1

5 Members: sturlington, andomck, westendgirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

3

by George Orwell

79,032 members

1,243 reviews

4.2

5 Members: sturlington, westendgirl, ahef1963, brandymt, ManWithAnAgenda

4

Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)

by Mary Shelley

2,336 members

43 reviews

3.8

5 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, andomck, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

5

by Raymond Chandler

9,980 members

277 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

24,288 members

575 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, andomck, westendgirl, ahef1963

7

The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales

by Brothers Grimm

810 members

8 reviews

4.2

5 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, westendgirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

Of Mice and Men

by John Steinbeck

37,686 members

641 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, brandymt

9

The Haunting of Hill House

by Shirley Jackson

9,031 members

414 reviews

3.9

4 Members: sturlington, andomck, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

10

The Secret History

19,148 members

528 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, westendgirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

11

Heart of Darkness

by Joseph Conrad

22,834 members

375 reviews

½ 3.6

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, westendgirl, ahef1963

12

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

7,628 members

413 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, andomck, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

by William Shakespeare

25,038 members

217 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

14,782 members

358 reviews

4.1

4 Members: thecoroner, westendgirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda,sturlington

15

by José Saramago

12,637 members

379 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, westendgirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

16

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

10,933 members

292 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, westendgirl, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories

by H. P. Lovecraft

3,272 members

58 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, andomck, ahef1963,ManWithAnAgenda

18

The Wasp Factory

6,906 members

198 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, westendgirl, ahef1963

19

Watchmen (Absolute Edition)

1,350 members

18 reviews

½ 4.6

3 Members: sturlington, westendgirl, ahef1963

20

The Sandman: The Doll's House

8,066 members

140 reviews

½ 4.3

3 Members: sturlington, westendgirl, ahef1963

21

by Gillian Flynn

8,112 members

403 reviews

3.8

3 Members: dara85, sturlington, ahef1963

22

Johnny Got His Gun

by Dalton Trumbo

3,574 members

73 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, andomck

23

The Summer of Katya

533 members

13 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: KimarieBee, ahef1963

24

The Talented Mr. Ripley

by Patricia Highsmith

5,951 members

194 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

25

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

23,509 members

295 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, westendgirl, ahef1963

26

The Sisters Brothers

by Patrick deWitt

4,133 members

307 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, westendgirl, ahef1963

27

No Country for Old Men

by Cormac McCarthy

10,781 members

287 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

28

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

by Carson McCullers

10,447 members

237 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, westendgirl, ahef1963

29

by Dante Alighieri

23,128 members

205 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, thecoroner

30

by Thomas Harris

9,765 members

102 reviews

3.8

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

31

The Church of Dead Girls

by Stephen Dobyns

944 members

27 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

32

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

22,061 members

921 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

33

19,332 members

233 reviews

4

2 Members: thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda

34

The Third Policeman

by Flann O'Brien

4,134 members

121 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, andomck, ahef1963

35

The Virgin Suicides

by Jeffrey Eugenides

12,300 members

252 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, westendgirl

36

Let the Right One In

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

5,510 members

260 reviews

4

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ahef1963

37

by Gillian Flynn

21,161 members

1,527 reviews

3.9

3 Members: dara85, sturlington, ahef1963,andomck

38

1,840 members

57 reviews

3.9

2 Members: KimarieBee, sturlington

39

by Chelsea Cain

2,377 members

160 reviews

3.8

2 Members: dara85, sturlington

40

by Albert Camus

34,333 members

490 reviews

3.9

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

41

Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe

by Edgar Allen Poe

1,113 members

5 reviews

4.2

2 Members: sturlington, thecoroner

42

by Katherine Dunn

5,974 members

159 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, andomck

43

The Corrections

by Jonathan Franzen

16,271 members

340 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, thecoroner, ManWithAnAgenda,andomck

44

by Joseph Heller

38,893 members

513 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, westendgirl

45

The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle

by Haruki Murakami

17,407 members

372 reviews

4.2

2 Members: andomck, ahef1963

46

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

by Flannery O'Connor

3,907 members

95 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, westendgirl

47

The House of the Seven Gables

by Nathaniel Hawthorne

8,355 members

112 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

48

by J. G. Ballard

3,423 members

76 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

49

A Game of Thrones

by George R. R. Martin

40,846 members

1,102 reviews

½ 4.4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

50

The Cement Garden

3,488 members

94 reviews

½ 3.6

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

51

by Sylvia Plath

27,157 members

483 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

52

by Sarah Waters

3,270 members

128 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: aulsmith

53

The Greenlanders

1,104 members

32 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

54

A Clockwork Orange

by Anthony Burgess

25,227 members

379 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

55

10,680 members

166 reviews

3.8

2 Members: thecoroner, ahef1963

56

by Jean-Paul Sartre

873 members

13 reviews

3.9

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

57

by Stephen King

22,035 members

479 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

58

by Stephen King

7,632 members

68 reviews

½ 3.5

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

59

The Master of Ballantrae

by Robert Louis Stevenson

2,125 members

42 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

60

by Chelsea Cain

1,318 members

86 reviews

3.8

Member: dara85

61

The Dream Peddler: A Novel

by Martine Fournier Watson

83 members

6 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

62

219 members

13 reviews

½ 3.3

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

63

The Black Dahlia

by James Ellroy

5,327 members

128 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: thecoroner

64

The Hellbound Heart

by Clive Barker

2,455 members

62 reviews

3.8

Member: andomck

65

by Andrew Vachss

373 members

2 reviews

4

Member: andomck

66

Last Exit to Brooklyn

by Hubert Selby Jr.

2,924 members

34 reviews

3.8

Member: thecoroner

67

The Girl in a Swing

by Richard Adams

818 members

15 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

68

The Only Good Indians

by Stephen Graham Jones

1,888 members

99 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

69

The Yiddish Policemen's Union

by Michael Chabon

10,163 members

417 reviews

3.8

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963,andomck

70

The Subtle Knife

by Philip Pullman

24,302 members

349 reviews

4.1

Member: ahef1963

71

Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows

by J. K. Rowling

93,093 members

1,551 reviews

½ 4.4

Member: ahef1963, ,ManWithAnAgenda

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