The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockCrooked Letter, Crooked Letter by Tom FranklinA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor
Country Noir
345 books — 309 voters
Prince of Thorns by Mark  LawrenceA Game of Thrones by George R.R. MartinThe Blade Itself by Joe AbercrombieLast Argument of Kings by Joe AbercrombieBefore They Are Hanged by Joe Abercrombie
Best Dark Fantasy
527 books — 684 voters

Dracula by Bram StokerFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Graveyard Book by Neil GaimanThe Shining by Stephen        KingThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe
Best Books to Read for Halloween
1,167 books — 1,257 voters

The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerPhineas Poe by Will Christopher BaerMy Dirty California by Jason MosbergPike by Benjamin Whitmer
Noirs
113 books — 28 voters
The Killer Inside Me by Jim ThompsonDouble Indemnity by James M. CainThe Postman Always Rings Twice by James M. CainThe Big Sleep by Raymond ChandlerThe Getaway by Jim Thompson
Alan Guthrie's 200 Noirs
118 books — 34 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeThe Sound and the Fury by William FaulknerAs I Lay Dying by William FaulknerIn Cold Blood by Truman CapoteMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Southern Gothic Literature
336 books — 495 voters
To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper LeeGone with the Wind by Margaret MitchellThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainMidnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt
Best Southern Books
826 books — 738 voters

The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyThe Road by Cormac McCarthyKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockWinter's Bone by Daniel Woodrell
Regional Grit Lit
120 books — 85 voters
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. ThompsonSteppenwolf by Hermann HesseThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeDuino Elegies by Rainer Maria RilkeLetters to a Young Poet by Rainer Maria Rilke
Jeff Buckley's Bookshelf
158 books — 41 voters