The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo by Stieg LarssonA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz ZafónAnd Then There Were None by Agatha ChristieThe Girl Who Played with Fire by Stieg Larsson
Best Literary Mysteries
2,727 books — 5,316 voters

Gravity’s Rainbow by Thomas PynchonInfinite Jest by David Foster WallaceThe Crying of Lot 49 by Thomas PynchonSlaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.Labyrinths by Jorge Luis Borges
A Postmodernist "Canon"
273 books — 174 voters
Dracula by Bram Stoker1984 by George OrwellA Story of Yesterday by Sergio CoboThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeAmerican Gods by Neil Gaiman
Quality Dark Fiction
2,794 books — 4,199 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessHoly Bible by AnonymousNaked Lunch by William S. BurroughsAlice’s Adventures in Wonderland / Through the Looking-Glass by Lewis CarrollHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
Weirdest Books Ever
1,186 books — 1,199 voters
The Shining by Stephen  KingWe Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley JacksonHouse of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiSomething Wicked This Way Comes by Ray BradburyPines by Blake Crouch
Books Like Twin Peaks
51 books — 32 voters

Beowulf by Seamus HeaneyThe Odyssey by HomerThe Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales by Jacob GrimmThe Iliad by HomerAesop’s Fables by Aesop
Mythology/Folklore
587 books — 228 voters
The Stranger by Albert CamusMan's Search for Meaning by Viktor E. FranklGoya y las Pinturas Negras desde la psicología de Jung by Javier De Prada ParejaInsight Out by Vann Joines PH DThe Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka
Myth, Meaning, and Experience
275 books — 133 voters


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