Books for Fans of Stranger Things

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Gathered from various sources, these are books that are recommended if you like the Netflix show Stranger Things. How many have you read?
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The Hobbit
by J. R. R. Tolkien
107,919 members
1,306 reviews
½ 4.3
4 Members
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A Wrinkle in Time
by Madeleine L'Engle
45,571 members
1,041 reviews
4
4 Members
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3
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
10,349 members
505 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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It
by Stephen King
26,004 members
466 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
25,373 members
651 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Ready Player One
by Ernest Cline
22,382 members
1,391 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay
by Michael Chabon
20,461 members
432 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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9
The Ocean at the End of the Lane
by Neil Gaiman
17,429 members
1,039 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Explanations
: Doesn't remind me of Stranger Things, plus Neil being a bad person.
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
13,300 members
338 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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11
Firestarter
by Stephen King
10,999 members
137 reviews
½ 3.7
3 Members
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The Passage
by Justin Cronin
10,457 members
674 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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13
A Monster Calls
by Patrick Ness
6,971 members
510 reviews
½ 4.4
3 Members
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14
The October Country
by Ray Bradbury
4,140 members
70 reviews
4
3 Members
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15
The Body
by Stephen King
1,341 members
19 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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The Shining
by Stephen King
27,442 members
530 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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Explanations
: Doesn't remind me of Stranger Things.
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House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
19,439 members
439 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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Carrie
by Stephen King
17,238 members
342 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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Let the Right One In
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
6,477 members
284 reviews
4
2 Members
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My Best Friend's Exorcism
by Grady Hendrix
3,538 members
144 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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21
Collected Ghost Stories
by M. R. James
2,593 members
45 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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22
Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy
by Jeff VanderMeer
1,224 members
32 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe
by Kij Johnson
672 members
43 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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In the Woods
by Tana French
11,793 members
634 reviews
3.8
Member
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25
The Girl With All the Gifts
by M. R. Carey
6,367 members
449 reviews
4
Member
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Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark
by Alvin Schwartz
4,977 members
96 reviews
3.9
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
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The Ruins
by Scott Smith
4,187 members
210 reviews
½ 3.4
2 Members
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Explanations
: Other than the vines, it doesn't remind me of Stranger Things.
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Le Grand Meaulnes
by Alain-Fournier
3,933 members
85 reviews
3.8
Member
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29
The Age of Miracles
by Karen Thompson Walker
3,587 members
350 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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30
Black Hole
by Charles Burns
3,040 members
92 reviews
3.8
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
31
Boy's Life
by Robert R. McCammon
2,933 members
113 reviews
½ 4.3
Member
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32
Pines
by Blake Crouch
2,807 members
163 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
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33
Paper Girls Volume 1
by Brian K. Vaughan
2,435 members
124 reviews
4
Member
souloftherose
34
Meddling Kids: A Novel
by Edgar Cantero
1,984 members
123 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
35
The Hollow Places
by T. Kingfisher
1,742 members
90 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
36
Broken Monsters
by Lauren Beukes
1,566 members
108 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
sturlington
37
White Is for Witching
by Helen Oyeyemi
1,456 members
54 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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38
The Girl with the Silver Eyes
by Willo Davis Roberts
1,323 members
26 reviews
4.1
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
39
Dare Me
by Megan Abbott
1,218 members
95 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
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40
The Loney
by Andrew Michael Hurley
1,026 members
54 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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41
X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga
by Chris Claremont
972 members
21 reviews
4
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
42
Disappearance at Devil's Rock
by Paul Tremblay
873 members
52 reviews
½ 3.7
Member
sturlington
43
Rooms
by Lauren Oliver
872 members
50 reviews
½ 3.4
Member
sturlington
44
The End of Everything
by Megan Abbott
818 members
60 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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Pandemonium
by Daryl Gregory
668 members
39 reviews
3.9
Member
sturlington
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The Boy Who Drew Monsters
by Keith Donohue
519 members
38 reviews
½ 3.5
Member
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47
The White People and Other Stories
by Arthur Machen
219 members
3 reviews
½ 3.6
Member
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Underground Kingdom
by Edward Packard
192 members
2 reviews
½ 3.3
Member
ManWithAnAgenda
49
Watchers
by Dean Koontz
6,083 members
131 reviews
4
50
Night Film
by Marisha Pessl
3,673 members
294 reviews
3.8
51
A Girl of the Limberlost
by Gene Stratton-Porter
3,088 members
52 reviews
4.1
52
The Door to December
by Dean Koontz
3,072 members
24 reviews
½ 3.6
53
Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy
by ND Stevenson
2,578 members
138 reviews
4
54
The Last Child
by John Hart
2,537 members
213 reviews
4.1
55
Summer of Night
by Dan Simmons
2,213 members
50 reviews
3.9
56
Alice
by Christina Henry
2,154 members
66 reviews
½ 3.7
57
Akira, Volume 1
by Katsuhiro Otomo
2,115 members
43 reviews
4.2
58
Necroscope
by Brian Lumley
1,872 members
41 reviews
4
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Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang
by Joyce Carol Oates
1,351 members
18 reviews
½ 3.7
60
Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science
by John Fleischman
1,182 members
42 reviews
3.8
61
It Devours!
by Joseph Fink
1,120 members
27 reviews
3.9
62
The Hike
by Drew Magary
976 members
53 reviews
3.8
63
Midnight Robber
by Nalo Hopkinson
848 members
24 reviews
3.8
64
House of Secrets
by Chris Columbus
772 members
34 reviews
½ 3.3
65
The Call
by Peadar Ó Guilín
661 members
34 reviews
3.9
66
Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories
by Steven Millhauser
625 members
29 reviews
3.8
67
Signal to Noise
by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
594 members
32 reviews
3.8
68
Slasher Girls and Monster Boys
by April Genevieve Tucholke
540 members
19 reviews
3.9
69
The Mind Readers
by Lori Brighton
495 members
22 reviews
½ 3.6
70
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories
by Laird Barron
473 members
12 reviews
4.1
71
Girls on Fire: A Novel
by Robin Wasserman
455 members
25 reviews
½ 3.4
72
Edge of Dark Water
by Joe R. Lansdale
439 members
27 reviews
4.1
73
And the Trees Crept In
by Dawn Kurtagich
388 members
26 reviews
½ 3.4
74
The Troupe
by Robert Jackson Bennett
305 members
15 reviews
½ 3.6
75
Killer Pizza
by Greg Taylor
288 members
13 reviews
½ 3.7
76
Joe the Barbarian
by Grant Morrison
280 members
18 reviews
½ 3.5
77
Jesus Saves
by Darcey Steinke
183 members
4 reviews
½ 3.3
78
Nightblood (Paperbacks from Hell)
by T. Chris Martindale
149 members
6 reviews
3.9
79
A Summer of Drowning
by John Burnside
146 members
14 reviews
½ 3.6
80
Before Wings
by Beth Goobie
95 members
2 reviews
½ 4.4
81
03: A Novel
by Jean-Christophe Valtat
67 members
3 reviews
½ 3.3
82
Blight
by Alexandra Duncan
59 members
1 review
5
83
The Boys of Summer: A Novel
by Richard Cox
56 members
2 reviews
½ 3.4
84
The Hellbound Heart
by Clive Barker
3,137 members
83 reviews
3.8
Explanations
: Doesn't remind me of Stranger Things. Extremely different feel. Explicit and very adult.