Dracula by Bram StokerThe Exorcist by William Peter BlattyFrankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft ShelleyThe Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson’Salem’s Lot by Stephen  King
Paperbacks from Hell
569 books — 55 voters
Fingersmith by Sarah WatersTipping the Velvet by Sarah WatersAnnie on My Mind by Nancy GardenFried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe by Fannie FlaggThe Price of Salt by Claire  Morgan
Best Lesbian Fiction
2,032 books — 2,657 voters

The Price of Salt by Claire  MorganOranges Are Not the Only Fruit by Jeanette WintersonThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Well of Loneliness by Radclyffe HallAnnie on My Mind by Nancy Garden
Lesbian novels from before 1990
251 books — 113 voters
Lolita by Vladimir NabokovAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessHarry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. RowlingThe Da Vinci Code by Dan    Brown
Books I Am Going to Hell For Reading
377 books — 412 voters

Nine Stories by J.D. SalingerDubliners by James JoyceA Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'ConnorThe Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan PoeInterpreter of Maladies by Jhumpa Lahiri
Collections of Short Stories
2,897 books — 2,042 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
333 books — 172 voters

Fight Club by Chuck PalahniukA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisTrainspotting by Irvine WelshInvisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk
Best Transgressive Fiction
871 books — 968 voters

John Dies at the End by David  WongVacation by Jeremy C. ShippHELP! A Bear is Eating Me! by Mykle HansenThe Haunted Vagina by Carlton Mellick IIIThe Cannibals of Candyland by Carlton Mellick III
Bizarro
358 books — 254 voters
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis1984 by George OrwellLord of the Flies by William GoldingA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboA Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess
The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written
3,241 books — 11,485 voters

Venus in Furs by Leopold von Sacher-MasochJustine, or The Misfortunes of Virtue by Marquis de SadeHistoire d'O | Story of O by Pauline RéageLady Chatterley’s Lover by D.H. LawrenceStory of the Eye by Georges Bataille
Naughty Classics
121 books — 45 voters
We Got Zombies on the Lawn Again, Ma by Donnie  SmithDeath by Zamboni by David David KatzmanGrundish and Askew by Lance CarbuncleA Coupla Shades of Taupe by Court BurbackAlexei Maxim Russell's Field Guide to Assholes by Alexei Maxim Russell
Books That Make You Vomit With Joy!
129 books — 134 voters