In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods by Matt   BellJagannath by Karin TidbeckBig Ray by Michael Kimball
Underdog Literature: 2013
209 books — 40 voters
Zazen by Vanessa VeselkaThe Book of Disquiet by Fernando PessoaBluets by Maggie NelsonThe Instructions by Adam LevinReady Player One by Ernest Cline
Underdog Literature: 2011
140 books — 29 voters

Stitches by David Small
Best Memoir Graphic Novels
399 books — 440 voters
The Bell Jar by Sylvia PlathProzac Nation by Elizabeth Wurtzel
Memoirs of Madness
292 books — 374 voters

There Is No Year by Blake ButlerSleepers Awake by Kenneth PatchenMetamorphosis and Other Stories by Franz Kafka
Best Surrealist Literature
264 books — 213 voters
The Shores We Walk by Gabriel Rheaume
List of LSD books
20 books — 39 voters

Geek Love by Katherine DunnThe Contortionist's Handbook by Craig ClevengerThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Creepy stories
67 books — 106 voters
House of Leaves by Mark Z. DanielewskiCoraline by Neil GaimanRant by Chuck PalahniukWake the Wicked by Christian BalogaThe Raw Shark Texts by Steven  Hall
Bizarre books
666 books — 417 voters

Transubstantiate by Richard   ThomasThe Artist in Question by Michael J. SeidlingerMudbound by Hillary JordanThe Day We Delay by Michael J. SeidlingerLight Boxes by Shane Jones
Lesser Known Authors
3,943 books — 3,357 voters
The World Made Straight by Ron RashSerena by Ron RashStorming Heaven by Denise GiardinaOne Foot in Eden by Ron RashChild of God by Cormac McCarthy
Best Books Set in Appalachia
795 books — 840 voters

Naked Lunch by William S. BurroughsProzac Nation by Elizabeth WurtzelDry by Augusten BurroughsShuck by Daniel Allen Cox
Drug Memoir A List
169 books — 202 voters
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersThe Help by Kathryn StockettThe Bluest Eye by Toni MorrisonSong of Solomon by Toni MorrisonLittle Women by Louisa May Alcott
Best Woman-Authored Books
8,296 books — 5,261 voters

Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. DickLolita by Vladimir NabokovNo Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthyNeverwhere by Neil GaimanLord of the Flies by William Golding
Best Villains
911 books — 285 voters
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark TwainThe Color Purple by Alice WalkerThe Heart Is a Lonely Hunter by Carson McCullersCold Mountain by Charles FrazierAbsalom, Absalom! by William Faulkner
Best Southern Literature
1,345 books — 2,573 voters

Child of God by Cormac McCarthyCold Mountain by Charles FrazierOne Foot in Eden by Ron RashBack Roads by Tawni O'Dell
Appalachian Fiction
268 books — 322 voters
Forecast by Shya ScanlonBob, or Man on Boat by Peter MarkusSkunk by Justin CourterSuper Cell Anemia by Duncan B. BarlowThe Collectors by Matt   Bell
Blurbed by: Brian Evenson
16 books — 8 voters

Satan Burger by Carlton Mellick IIINightmares & Dreamscapes by Stephen  KingAmerican Psycho by Bret Easton EllisStill Life with Woodpecker by Tom RobbinsThe Book of Lost Things by John Connolly
Now That's REALLY Freakin' Weird...
715 books — 554 voters
Welcome to Oakland by Eric Miles WilliamsonCharactered Pieces by Caleb J. RossTransubstantiate by Richard   ThomasCienfuegos by Chris Deal
Blurbed by: Stephen Graham Jones
13 books — 7 voters

Perfect Alibi by Sheldon SiegelThe God File by Frank Turner HollonHell's Half Acre by Will Christopher Baer
MacAdam Cage
50 books — 3 voters
King Rat by China MiévilleThe Long Walk by Richard  BachmanThe Strain by Guillermo del ToroFragile Things by Neil GaimanWatership Down by Richard  Adams
Quality Dark Fiction
2,525 books — 3,238 voters

Cruddy by Lynda BarryPhineas Poe by Will Christopher BaerPiggyback by Tom PittsDie, You Bastard! Die! by Jan KozlowskiDriving Through The Desert by Donna Lynch
Noirs
113 books — 28 voters
The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins
Best Gothic Novels/Suspense Novels
418 books — 452 voters

Journey to the End of the Night by Louis-Ferdinand CélineThe Silence of the Lambs by Thomas  HarrisLet the Right One In by John Ajvide LindqvistNever Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde
Darkest Books of All Time
1,302 books — 1,719 voters
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
Best Knock-out Novelettes - Novellas
374 books — 293 voters

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessFight Club by Chuck PalahniukOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyThe Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar WildeCrime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky
Cult Classics
1,568 books — 2,119 voters
The Second Bat Guano War by J.M. Porup
Crime Fiction That Really Rules
56 books — 61 voters

The Devil All the Time by Donald Ray PollockWinter's Bone by Daniel WoodrellThe Death of Sweet Mister by Daniel WoodrellKnockemstiff by Donald Ray PollockJoe by Larry Brown
Country Noir
345 books — 310 voters

Lullaby by Chuck PalahniukThe Guards by Ken BruenShadow Man by Gabriel BlackwellThe Road by Cormac McCarthyChoke by Chuck Palahniuk
Contemporary Cult Fiction
493 books — 449 voters
Leather Maiden by Joe R. LansdaleGone South by Robert McCammon
Weird Crime novels
11 books — 9 voters


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