House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiAnnihilation by Jeff VandermeerUzumaki by Junji ItoAlways Beside You by Damir SalkovicThe Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher
Cosmic Horror That's Not Lovecraft
52 books — 31 voters
Gone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Pillars of the Earth by Ken FollettThe Thorn Birds by Colleen McCulloughWar and Peace by Leo TolstoyLes Misérables by Victor Hugo
Big Page Count, Epic Historical Fiction
201 books — 226 voters

The Power of Myth by Joseph CampbellWomen Who Run With the Wolves by Clarissa Pinkola EstésFrom the Beast to the Blonde by Marina WarnerThe Classic Fairy Tales by Maria TatarThe Oxford Companion to Fairy Tales by Jack D. Zipes
Myth and Fantasy Studies
98 books — 60 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklThe Metamorphosis by Franz KafkaSiddhartha by Hermann HesseCandide by Voltaire
Myth, Meaning, and Experience
269 books — 92 voters

Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis Carroll1984 by George OrwellThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Best Reality Warping Fiction
336 books — 173 voters
The Divine Invasion by Philip K. DickBlood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyVALIS by Philip K. DickThe Violet Apple & The Witch by David  LindsayA Voyage to Arcturus by David  Lindsay
Gnosticism in Fiction
21 books — 9 voters

Uzumaki by Junji ItoThe Yellow Wallpaper and Other Stories by Charlotte Perkins GilmanFragments of Horror by Junji ItoBlack Hole by Charles BurnsHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Surreal Horror
88 books — 79 voters
Drowning in Beauty by Justin IsisNeo-Decadence by Justin IsisThe Neo-Decadent Cookbook by Brendan ConnellNeo-Decadence Evangelion by Justin IsisI Wonder What Human Flesh Tastes Like by Justin Isis
Neo-Decadence
69 books — 40 voters

Magic America by C.E. MedfordDogshit Saved My Life by Karl WigginsThe Stranger by Albert CamusYou Really Are Full of Shit, Aren't You? by Karl Wiggins2003 - Thanks for the Vodka by Harpie
Outlandish Books
40 books — 40 voters
Piranesi by Susanna ClarkeArea X by Jeff VandermeerRoadside Picnic by Arkady StrugatskyHard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World by Haruki MurakamiThe Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
Dreamscapes
111 books — 62 voters

Always Beside You by Damir SalkovicThe Nameless Dark by T.E. GrauSongs of a Dead Dreamer and Grimscribe by Thomas LigottiBehold the Void by Philip FracassiPerdido Street Station by China Miéville
Tear the veil of reality
29 books — 12 voters
The Fisherman by John  LanganAnnihilation by Jeff VandermeerThe Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValleうずまき [Uzumaki] by Junji ItoThe Croning by Laird Barron
Cosmic & Lovecraftian Horror
238 books — 105 voters


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