We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonThe Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne BrontëJude the Obscure by Thomas HardySilas Marner by George EliotThe Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell
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174 books — 91 voters
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Stiff by Mary RoachThe Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca SklootThe Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat and Other Clinical Tales by Oliver SacksOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time by Mark Haddon
Medicine and Literature
1,925 books — 2,049 voters
Jane Eyre by Charlotte BrontëFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyWuthering Heights by Emily BrontëRebecca by Daphne du MaurierDr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson
Best Gothic Books of All Time
621 books — 3,542 voters

Manhunt by Gretchen Felker-MartinSummer Sons by Lee MandeloTell Me I’m Worthless by Alison RumfittHell Followed With Us by Andrew Joseph WhiteExquisite Corpse by Poppy Z. Brite
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46 books — 24 voters

Black on Both Sides by C. Riley SnortonBorn on the Edge of Race and Gender by Willy WilkinsonBoys Run the Riot, Vol. 1 by Keito GakuThe Passing Playbook by Isaac FitzsimonsThe Thirty Names of Night by Zeyn Joukhadar
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61 books — 6 voters