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We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Paperback)
by (shelved 25 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.90 — 325,084 ratings — published 1962
The Haunting of Hill House (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 433,028 ratings — published 1959
Beloved (Paperback)
by (shelved 18 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 517,692 ratings — published 1987
As I Lay Dying (Paperback)
by (shelved 15 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.72 — 195,589 ratings — published 1930
The Scarlet Letter (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.44 — 944,737 ratings — published 1850
The House of the Seven Gables (Paperback)
by (shelved 12 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.45 — 44,376 ratings — published 1851
The Fall of the House of Usher (Paperback)
by (shelved 10 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.84 — 94,697 ratings — published 1839
The Yellow Wall-Paper (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.06 — 390,950 ratings — published 1892
Child of God (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 59,459 ratings — published 1973
Wise Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 9 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.81 — 40,344 ratings — published 1952
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.77 — 159,540 ratings — published 1820
Absalom, Absalom! (Paperback)
by (shelved 8 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 49,889 ratings — published 1936
Other Voices, Other Rooms (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.74 — 18,389 ratings — published 1948
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 248,753 ratings — published 1985
The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.99 — 124,857 ratings — published 1940
Sula (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.06 — 137,069 ratings — published 1973
Moby-Dick or, The Whale (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.58 — 637,689 ratings — published 1851
To Kill a Mockingbird (Paperback)
by (shelved 7 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.26 — 7,148,689 ratings — published 1960
Wieland, or, The Transformation (Carwin, #1)
by (shelved 6 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.18 — 2,059 ratings — published 1798
In Cold Blood (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.09 — 759,510 ratings — published 1966
The Lottery and Other Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.01 — 84,549 ratings — published 1949
The Sundial (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.79 — 9,391 ratings — published 1958
Yol (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,095,119 ratings — published 2006
The Lottery (Paperback)
by (shelved 6 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.03 — 121,986 ratings — published 1948
The Only Good Indians (The Only Good Indians, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.68 — 128,323 ratings — published 2020
A Streetcar Named Desire (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.98 — 342,425 ratings — published 1947
The Virgin Suicides (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.78 — 443,683 ratings — published 1993
The Turn of the Screw (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.38 — 189,753 ratings — published 1898
The Bluest Eye (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.14 — 327,869 ratings — published 1970
Sharp Objects (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.00 — 1,288,546 ratings — published 2006
Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.91 — 307,284 ratings — published 1994
No Country for Old Men (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.17 — 271,405 ratings — published 2005
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.10 — 1,007,017 ratings — published 2001
Light in August (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.95 — 68,937 ratings — published 1932
Dark Places (Hardcover)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.94 — 872,083 ratings — published 2009
The Complete Stories (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.38 — 41,565 ratings — published 1971
The Cask of Amontillado (Paperback)
by (shelved 5 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.07 — 91,161 ratings — published 1846
The Elementals (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.97 — 25,076 ratings — published 1981
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.15 — 51,798 ratings — published 1955
Where the Crawdads Sing (ebook)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.37 — 3,812,632 ratings — published 2018
Outer Dark (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.89 — 28,110 ratings — published 1968
American Gothic Tales (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.12 — 1,413 ratings — published 1996
All the Pretty Horses (The Border Trilogy, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.07 — 157,609 ratings — published 1992
The Road Through the Wall (Hardcover)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.58 — 3,523 ratings — published 1948
The Flood (Blackwater, #1)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.68 — 91,708 ratings — published 1983
The Raven (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.29 — 176,841 ratings — published 1845
Beasts (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.63 — 5,789 ratings — published 2001
Pet Sematary (Kindle Edition)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 4.09 — 735,816 ratings — published 1983
Ghost Story (Mass Market Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.91 — 85,085 ratings — published 1979
The Sound and the Fury (Paperback)
by (shelved 4 times as american-gothic)
avg rating 3.86 — 202,465 ratings — published 1929
“I found it necessary to change my posture, in order to preserve my blood from congealing.”
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“Herman Marshall breathed the Smith & Wesson, and its odor was like wisps of powdered coal. Loop 610 was behind a distant row of tract houses, and he listened to the traffic. It was an unrelenting hiss the way Niagara Falls no doubt was an unrelenting hiss. It was a perfect and endless sound of fear and danger that had been created by the human race because everyone said Progress, and hip, hip, hooray, kiss my ass, let’s all bow down in the face of good old Progress. Herman Marshall grunted. He wondered whether the police cars would use their sirens.”
― The Ideal, Genuine Man
― The Ideal, Genuine Man
