Book Lists Voted on by <a href="/user/show/590841-cathy">Cathy</a> (21 Lists)

Listopia > Book Lists Voted on by Cathy (21 Lists)

The Chess Garden by Brooks Hansen

Chess-themed Fiction

118 books — 141 voters

They Return At Evening by H.R. Wakefield

Imagine a Man in a Box by H.R. Wakefield

Randalls Round by Eleanor Scott

The Clock Strikes Twelve and Other Stories by H.R. Wakefield

The EC Archives by Al Feldstein

New Editions of Vintage Horror

42 books — 26 voters

Heir to the Glimmering World by Cynthia Ozick

The Statistical Probability of Love at First Sight by Jennifer E. Smith

Eleven Kinds of Loneliness by Richard Yates

If All The Sand Were Pearl by Pepper Espinoza

As Meat Loves Salt by Maria McCann

Most Poetic Book Titles

2,421 books — 927 voters

A Fine and Private Place by Peter S. Beagle

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Ghost Story by Peter Straub

Tamsin by Peter S. Beagle

Favorite Ghost Stories

445 books — 317 voters

Games Without Rules by Tamim Ansary

Best Middle East Nonfiction

543 books — 381 voters

The Lottery and Other Stories by Shirley Jackson

Books of Blood by Clive Barker

Skeleton Crew by Stephen King

Tales of H.P. Lovecraft by H.P. Lovecraft

Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James

Most Terrifying Short Stories

382 books — 505 voters

The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons

The Other by Thomas Tryon

After Dark by Manly Wade Wellman

In Yana, the Touch of Undying by Michael Shea

Forgotten Frights: Overlooked and Underappreciated Horror

812 books — 416 voters

Dracula by Bram Stoker

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë

The Call of Cthulhu by H.P. Lovecraft

The best gothic novels, ghost stories and early horror 1764-1937

378 books — 754 voters

House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski

Best Ghost Stories of Algernon Blackwood by Algernon Blackwood

Collected Ghost Stories by M.R. James

Dracula by Bram Stoker

At the Mountains of Madness and Other Tales of Terror by H.P. Lovecraft

Creepy Halloween Stories

193 books — 134 voters

The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

The Black Cat by Edgar Allan Poe

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

Interview with the Vampire by Anne Rice

Books to get you in the Halloween Mood

686 books — 462 voters

The House with a Clock in Its Walls by John Bellairs

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

The Tailypo by Joanna C. Galdone

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp

Children's Horror Books

104 books — 101 voters

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn by Mark Twain

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor

Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner

Best Southern Literature

1,422 books — 2,700 voters

A Fine Balance by Rohinton Mistry

Midnight’s Children by Salman Rushdie

Red Earth and Pouring Rain by Vikram Chandra

The Home and the World by Rabindranath Tagore

The Toss of a Lemon by Padma Viswanathan

323 books — 331 voters

The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury

A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

A Halloween Reader by Lesley Pratt Bannatyne

Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury

Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry

Best Halloween Books

722 books — 757 voters

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

The Witch of Blackbird Pond by Elizabeth George Speare

Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH by Robert C. O'Brien

A Year Down Yonder by Richard Peck

The High King by Lloyd Alexander

The Most Deserving Newbery

106 books — 3,008 voters

Up in the Old Hotel by Joseph Mitchell

From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler by E.L. Konigsburg

I Love New York City

614 books — 391 voters

Kim by Rudyard Kipling

Shantaram by Gregory David Roberts

The Siege of Krishnapur by J.G. Farrell

A Passage to India by E.M. Forster

The Jewel in the Crown by Paul Scott

Excellent Books about India and England

283 books — 271 voters

Possession by A.S. Byatt

A Room with a View by E.M. Forster

What to read when you've finished Jane Austen

520 books — 680 voters

The Art of Simple Food by Alice Waters

Essentials of Classic Italian Cooking by Marcella Hazan

Vegetarian Cooking for Everyone by Deborah Madison

French Provincial Cooking by Elizabeth David

1,488 books — 1,175 voters

The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne

The Red Pony by John Steinbeck

Read These In School - Would Have Preferred A Root Canal

469 books — 1,600 voters

A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny

The October Country by Ray Bradbury

The Witches of Eastwick by John Updike

The Secret History by Donna Tartt

Ancient Images by Ramsey Campbell

Best Books To Read In Autumn

913 books — 535 voters