Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/58404202-cynthia">Cynthia</a> (832 Lists)

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Of Monsters and Madness by Jessica Verday

The Madman's Daughter by Megan Shepherd

The Clockwork Scarab by Colleen Gleason

YA Gothic Retellings

88 books — 73 voters

A Madness So Discreet by Mindy McGinnis

A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray

Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalco

In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters

Rebel Angels by Libba Bray

YA Gothic Historical Fiction

72 books — 63 voters

Wait Till Helen Comes by Mary Downing Hahn

Skullduggery by Kathleen Karr

On the Day I Died by Candace Fleming

Grave Secrets by A.G. Cascone

The Case of the Mystery Graves by Gordon Snell

YA & Middle Grade Graveyards

135 books — 65 voters

The Diviners by Libba Bray

The Name of the Star by Maureen Johnson

Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

The Girl from the Well by Rin Chupeco

In the Shadow of Blackbirds by Cat Winters

Young Adult Horror: Ghosts

146 books — 190 voters

Welcome to Dead House by R.L. Stine

The Canterville Ghost by Oscar Wilde

The Ghost Next Door by Wylly Folk St. John

Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia

Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp

YA Haunted Houses

124 books — 78 voters

A Treasury of American Horror Stories by Frank D. McSherry Jr.

American Gothic Tales by Joyce Carol Oates

The Twilight Zone by Martin H. Greenberg

The 13 Best Horror Stories of All Time by Leslie Pockell

Tales of the Cthulhu Mythos by Jim Turner

Best Horror Anthologies

450 books — 534 voters

Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me! by Karl Wiggins

Secrets of the Realm by Bev Stout

Seduction and Snacks by Tara Sivec

The Bone Collector by Jeffery Deaver

Best Unknown but must be Known books

9,051 books — 8,287 voters

One of Us Is Lying by Karen M. McManus

Young Adult THRILLERS.

2,189 books — 2,732 voters

Mistborn by Brandon Sanderson

The Way of Kings by Brandon Sanderson

Storm Front by Jim Butcher

Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Susanna Clarke

Kushiel's Dart by Jacqueline Carey

New Speculative Fiction Stars

1,136 books — 2,706 voters

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Shining by Stephen King

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Quality Dark Fiction

2,486 books — 3,216 voters

Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess

Lord of the Flies by William Golding

1984 by George Orwell

American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis

The Most Disturbing Books Ever Written

3,183 books — 11,202 voters

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Best Horror Novels

1,969 books — 5,433 voters

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë

Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier

Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

Best Gothic Books of All Time

571 books — 3,485 voters

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

The Shining by Stephen King

The Turn of the Screw by Henry James

The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving

The Woman in White by Wilkie Collins

1,480 books — 1,875 voters

Shit my History Teacher DID NOT tell me! by Karl Wiggins

Best of Little-Known Authors

6,664 books — 4,801 voters

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Notebook by Nicholas Sparks

The Time Traveler's Wife by Audrey Niffenegger

Persuasion by Jane Austen

Best Love Stories

5,182 books — 9,621 voters

1984 by George Orwell

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen

The Hobbit, or There and Back Again by J.R.R. Tolkien

14,419 books — 10,015 voters

Dark Lover by J.R. Ward

Bared to You by Sylvia Day

Backstage Pass by Olivia Cunning

Wicked Ties by Shayla Black

Fantasy Lover by Sherrilyn Kenyon

Best Smut Books

1,332 books — 1,303 voters

Sex at Dawn by Christopher Ryan

Bound and Gagged by Laura Kipnis

A Pictorial History of Sex in Films by Parker Tyler

Jim Goad's Gigantic Book of Sex by Jim Goad

The Secret Museum by Walter Kendrick

Pornography & Smut

81 books — 28 voters

Monster, She Wrote by Lisa Kröger

The Girl Who Circumnavigated Fairyland in a Ship of Her Own M... by Catherynne M. Valente

She-Wolves by Helen Castor

Starring Sally J. Freedman as Herself by Judy Blume

When She Hollers by Cynthia Voigt

She Her or Hers in the title

260 books — 25 voters

The Complete Chi's Sweet Home, Part 1 by Kanata Konami

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown

Catwings by Ursula K. Le Guin

218 books — 146 voters

Wish You Were Here by Rita Mae Brown

The Cat Who Could Read Backwards by Lilian Jackson Braun

Murder Past Due by Miranda James

Best Pet Mystery Series

151 books — 110 voters

Redwall by Brian Jacques

Into the Wild by Erin Hunter

The Wind in the Willows by Kenneth Grahame

Winnie-the-Pooh by A.A. Milne

Bambi by Felix Salten

Best Anthropomorphic Animal Books

375 books — 278 voters

Orpheus Girl by Brynne Rebele-Henry

Working on a Song by Anaïs Mitchell

The Odyssey by Mary Zimmerman

Lavinia by Ursula K. Le Guin

Modern Adaptations of Greek Mythology

367 books — 540 voters

Shakespeare by Bill Bryson

Will in the World by Stephen Greenblatt

The Science of Shakespeare by Dan Falk

Shakespeare's Insults by Wayne F. Hill

Shakespeare's Restless World by Neil MacGregor

Coolest Nonfiction Books about Shakespeare

67 books — 11 voters

'Art' by Yasmina Reza

4.48 Psychosis by Sarah Kane

The Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)

Wit by Margaret Edson

Plays you must read at least once

113 books — 15 voters

The Compleat Works of Wllm Shkspr by Reduced Shakespeare Company

Plays/Scripts/Theatre

85 books — 22 voters

The Crucible by Arthur Miller

The Laramie Project by Moisés Kaufman

The Little Foxes by Lillian Hellman

The Vagina Monologues by V (formerly Eve Ensler)

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

Plays Worth Reading

130 books — 22 voters

A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry

Top Girls by Caryl Churchill

Theatrical Greatness

140 books — 30 voters

Games for Actors and Non-Actors by Augusto Boal

Acting Class by Milton Katselas

So You Want to be an Actor

19 books — 13 voters

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