July 2026 Group Read Nominations > Likes and Comments
I nominatePine by Francine Toon
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman
I nominate Last Days by Brian EvensonIt’s about a cult of mutilation being investigated by a hard boiled detective. Super awesome and visceral.
Eternal Wives by me revolves around a cult.Otherwise Monster 8 Cults by J Boote
Both are extreme horror
I nominate The Burial Tide by Neil Sharpson!
INELIGIBLE PREVIOUS READS ALPHABETICALLY BY TITLE14 by Peter Clines
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre by Philip Fracassi
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng by Kylie Lee Baker
Below by Laurel Hightower
Between Two Fires by by Christopher Buehlman
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Black Flame by Gretchen Felker-Martin
Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
Blister by Jeff Strand
The Boatman's Daughter by Andy Davidson
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi
The Broken Girls by Simone St James
Brother by Ania Ahlborn
The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Burning Girls by C J Tudor
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
By the Light of Dead Stars by Andrew Van Wey
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Camp Damascus by Chuck Tingle
Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez
The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
The Carrow Haunt by Darcy Coates
Castaways by Brian Keene
The Cellar by Richard Laymon
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
Chills by Mary SanGiovanni
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
Clowns Vs. Spiders by Jeff Strand
Colony by Benjamin Cross
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Come With Me by Ronald Malfi
Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud
Cunning Folk by Adam L.G. Nevill
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene 2X
The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Demonic by Lee Mountford
The Descent by Jeff Long
Desperation by Stephen King
The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
Dracul by J.D. Barker
Dracula by Bram Stoker
Eat the Ones You Love by Sarah Maria Griffin
The Elementals by Michael McDowell 2X
The Envelope by John Durgin
Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
Fever House by Keith Rosson
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Fisherman by John Langan
From Below by Darcy Coates
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene
Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Ghostland by Duncan Ralston
The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Girls by Emma Cline
Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana
The Good House by Tananarive Due
The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay
The Haar by David Sodergren
The Hacienda by Isabel Canas
The Halloween Children by Brian James Freeman
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff Strand and James A. Moore
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Hide by Kiersten White
The Hollow Place by T. Kingfisher
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow by Christina Henry
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 2X
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
It by Stephen King
Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
Jaws by Peter Benchley
The Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo
John Dies at the End by David Wong/Jason Pargin
Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke
Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom
Larry by Adam Millard
Last Days by Adam Nevill
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 2X
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman
The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Maggie's Grave by David Sodergren
Malignant by Michaelbrent Collings
Man, Fuck This House by Brian Asman
Mary by Nat Cassidy
Maynard's House by Herman Raucher
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker
Misery by Stephen King
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
Murder Road by Simone St. James
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Near the Bone by Christina Henry
Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Nightmare Room by Chris Sorensen
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam L.G. Nevill
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 2X
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Off Season by Jack Ketchum
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Parasite by Darcy Coates
Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Rats by James Herbert
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Reddening by Adam Nevill
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Revival by Stephen King
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
The Roo by Alan Baxter
The Root Witch by Debra Castaneda
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Ruins by Scott Smith
The Running Man by Richard Bachman aka Stephen King
The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
Seed by Ania Ahlborn
The September House by Carissa Orlando
The Shining by Stephen King
The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
Slade House by David Mitchell
Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
The Staircase in the Woods by Chuck Wendig
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Subhuman by Michael McBride
Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
Suffer the Children by John Saul
Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Sundial by Catriona Ward
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Terror by Dan Simmons 2X
They Bloom at Night by Trang Thanh Tran
Thinner by Richard Bachman
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
This Wretched Valley by Jenny Kiefer
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman 2X
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon
Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Vampire on the Orient Express by Shane Carrow
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vessel by Adam Nevill
Watchers by Dean Koontz
The Watchers by A.M. Shine
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 2X
We Live Here Now by Sarah Pinborough
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
When the Wolf Comes Home by Nat Cassidy
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics
You Like it Darker by Stephen King
TJ wrote: "I nominatePine by Francine Toon
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman"
TJ wrote: "I nominate
Pine by Francine Toon
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
Wake Up and Open Your Eyes by Clay McLeod Chapman"
Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison sounds good to me!
Lesley wrote: "Eternal Wives by me revolves around a cult.Otherwise Monster 8 Cults by J Boote
Both are extreme horror"
Just added Eternal Wives to my TBR. I've heard great things about this book!
I nominate Last Days by Adam L.G. Nevill
The Handmaid's Tale by Margaret Atwood
+1 How bad things can get
I nominate
by Mona Awad and
by Jenny Kiefer.
Denis (deez_bookish_adventures) wrote: "I nominate Last Days by Adam L.G. Nevill
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Previous group read, therefore not eligible.
I nominate
by Craig DiLouie.
I nominateSorrowland by Rivers Solomon
The Darkness Greeted Her by Christina Ferko
Nowhere Burning by Catriona Ward
+1 Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
Thanks for posting the list, Alan! Authors and publishers are not allowed to nominate their own books and those nominations will not be included in our final poll.
I see some great noms already! Keep them coming!
+1 for Within These Walls by Ania Ahlborn and Little Heaven by Nick Cutter
+1 How Bad Things Can Get+1 Little Heaven
If You Lie by Caleb Stephens Scientology cult vibes.
My nom is Ritual by Graham Masterton"When a restaurant critic and his son visit the little town of Allen's Corners in rural Connecticut, they are in for a shock. In the mood to try something different they stop at Le Reposoir, unaware that most of the meals on the menu are not the a-la-carte range they're used to.
Because Allen's Corner has a secret. A secret that will eat you alive..."
Darla wrote: "Little Heaven by Nick Cutter"+1 Little Heaven
LunaW wrote: "Chandler wrote: "I nominate:Headlights
"This book is Cult horror? I'm in!"
I believe so :)
- TJ wrote: "I nominate Pine by Francine Toon- Rikki wrote: "+1 Pine by Francine Toon"
I nominate as well.
+ 1 for Last Days by Adam L.G. Nevill
+1 for How Bad Things Can Get By Darcy Coates +1 for Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
+1 for Little Eve by Catriona Ward
Bookworm wrote: "+1 for How Bad Things Can Get By Darcy Coates +1 for Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
+1 for Little Eve by Catriona Ward"
same here,
+1 for How Bad Things Can Get By Darcy Coates
+1 for Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
+1 for Little Eve by Catriona Ward
Thank you Char - my favorite subgenre!+1 Within These Walls
+1 Our Share of Night
I'll also add in Revelator
*Please note previous group reads are not eligible for nomination. You can find that list here: https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
**Authors and publishers are not allowed to nominate their own books.
Nominate away! If you want to nominate someone else choice, just say +1 for whatever book that is. The more noms, the more chances that the book will win. Bring me your culty choices!