Dark Books for Winter Reading

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Fiction with a dark or disturbing sensibility.
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Wuthering Heights
by Emily Brontë
52,342 members
708 reviews
3.9
6 Members
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The Complete Grimm's Fairy Tales
by Brothers Grimm
874 members
8 reviews
4.2
6 Members
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American Gods {original}
by Neil Gaiman
33,711 members
933 reviews
4.1
5 Members
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Of Mice and Men
by John Steinbeck
39,326 members
666 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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1984
by George Orwell
82,452 members
1,276 reviews
4.2
5 Members
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Heart of Darkness
by Joseph Conrad
23,723 members
390 reviews
½ 3.6
5 Members
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Frankenstein (Enriched Classics)
by Mary Shelley
2,355 members
43 reviews
3.8
5 Members
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Macbeth
by William Shakespeare
26,276 members
231 reviews
4
5 Members
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The Big Sleep
by Raymond Chandler
10,345 members
285 reviews
4
4 Members
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Neverwhere
by Neil Gaiman
25,039 members
580 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Something Wicked This Way Comes
by Ray Bradbury
11,445 members
297 reviews
3.9
5 Members
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The Wasp Factory
by Iain Banks
7,127 members
204 reviews
3.8
4 Members
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The Haunting of Hill House
by Shirley Jackson
9,856 members
433 reviews
3.9
4 Members
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The Secret History
by Donna Tartt
20,534 members
559 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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We Have Always Lived in the Castle
by Shirley Jackson
8,232 members
426 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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The Inferno
by Dante Alighieri
24,121 members
213 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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House of Leaves
by Mark Z. Danielewski
15,845 members
378 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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Blindness
by José Saramago
13,106 members
391 reviews
4.1
4 Members
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The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories
by H. P. Lovecraft
3,427 members
60 reviews
4
4 Members
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Watchmen (Absolute Edition)
by Alan Moore
1,374 members
18 reviews
½ 4.6
3 Members
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The Sandman: The Doll's House
by Neil Gaiman
8,330 members
151 reviews
½ 4.3
3 Members
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Dark Places
by Gillian Flynn
8,641 members
416 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Johnny Got His Gun
by Dalton Trumbo
3,712 members
76 reviews
4.2
3 Members
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The Summer of Katya
by Trevanian
547 members
15 reviews
½ 3.7
2 Members
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The Talented Mr. Ripley
by Patricia Highsmith
6,251 members
199 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
by Ken Kesey
24,264 members
298 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
by Flannery O'Connor
4,098 members
98 reviews
4.1
3 Members
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The Sisters Brothers
by Patrick deWitt
4,290 members
315 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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No Country for Old Men
by Cormac McCarthy
11,168 members
292 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
by Carson McCullers
10,789 members
244 reviews
4
3 Members
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Red Dragon
by Thomas Harris
10,099 members
103 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Church of Dead Girls
by Stephen Dobyns
957 members
27 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
23,037 members
941 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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The Trial
by Franz Kafka
19,994 members
238 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Third Policeman
by Flann O'Brien
4,251 members
124 reviews
4
3 Members
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The Virgin Suicides
by Jeffrey Eugenides
12,723 members
257 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Let the Right One In
by John Ajvide Lindqvist
5,746 members
265 reviews
4
3 Members
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Gone Girl
by Gillian Flynn
22,289 members
1,547 reviews
3.9
3 Members
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A Simple Plan
by Scott Smith
1,902 members
58 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Heartsick
by Chelsea Cain
2,431 members
163 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Stranger
by Albert Camus
35,679 members
510 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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Ten Great Mysteries by Edgar Allan Poe
by Edgar Allen Poe
1,158 members
5 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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Geek Love
by Katherine Dunn
6,156 members
163 reviews
4
2 Members
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The Corrections
by Jonathan Franzen
16,666 members
342 reviews
3.8
3 Members
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Catch-22
by Joseph Heller
40,182 members
529 reviews
4.1
2 Members
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The Wind-Up Bird Chronicle
by Haruki Murakami
17,959 members
370 reviews
4.2
2 Members
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The House of the Seven Gables
by Nathaniel Hawthorne
8,695 members
115 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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Crash
by J. G. Ballard
3,562 members
77 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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A Game of Thrones
by George R. R. Martin
42,901 members
1,124 reviews
½ 4.4
2 Members
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The Cement Garden
by Ian McEwan
3,571 members
99 reviews
½ 3.6
2 Members
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The Bell Jar
by Sylvia Plath
28,274 members
505 reviews
4
2 Members
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Affinity
by Sarah Waters
3,345 members
129 reviews
½ 3.7
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The Greenlanders
by Jane Smiley
1,143 members
33 reviews
3.8
Member
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A Clockwork Orange
by Anthony Burgess
25,996 members
389 reviews
4
2 Members
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White Noise
by Don DeLillo
11,060 members
173 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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No Exit
by Jean-Paul Sartre
1,103 members
18 reviews
3.9
2 Members
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The Gunslinger
by Stephen King
22,937 members
495 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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Rose Madder
by Stephen King
7,943 members
75 reviews
½ 3.5
2 Members
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The Master of Ballantrae
by Robert Louis Stevenson
2,224 members
41 reviews
½ 3.6
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Sweetheart
by Chelsea Cain
1,352 members
85 reviews
3.8
Member
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The Dream Peddler: A Novel
by Martine Fournier Watson
88 members
5 reviews
½ 3.7
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Wonderland
by Zoje Stage
241 members
13 reviews
½ 3.3
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The Black Dahlia
by James Ellroy
5,493 members
133 reviews
½ 3.6
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The Hellbound Heart
by Clive Barker
2,604 members
67 reviews
3.8
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Shella
by Andrew Vachss
383 members
2 reviews
4
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Last Exit to Brooklyn
by Hubert Selby Jr.
3,019 members
34 reviews
3.8
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The Girl in a Swing
by Richard Adams
840 members
14 reviews
½ 3.5
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68
The Only Good Indians
by Stephen Graham Jones
2,270 members
101 reviews
3.9
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The Yiddish Policemen's Union
by Michael Chabon
10,428 members
423 reviews
3.8
2 Members
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The Subtle Knife
by Philip Pullman
25,016 members
355 reviews
4.1
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Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows
by J. K. Rowling
97,110 members
1,572 reviews
½ 4.4
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