April 2026 Group Read Nominations > Likes and Comments

It's time to nominate books for our April group reads. In honor *ahem* of Goodreads' new Did Not Finish shelf, we're looking for books with titles that start with D, N or F. Articles (a, an, the) are ignored, so something like "The Dead Whatever Whatever" is perfectly acceptable.
-Books from previous group reads are NOT eligible. See the next post for our previously read D, N and F titles.
-Authors may NOT nominate their own books.
-Books with the most +1s are more likely to make the poll. The top two vote getters will be our reads.

OK, Aficionados, let's get creative with some good DNF books!

Previous Group Reads, therefore not eligible:

Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene 2X
The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Demonic by Lee Mountford
The Descent by Jeff Long
Desperation by Stephen King
The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
Dracul by J.D. Barker
Dracula by Bram Stoker

Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Nightmare Room by Chris Sorensen
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam L.G. Nevill
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 2X

FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Fisherman by John Langan
From Below by Darcy Coates
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King

I nominate

D: The Drowning Girl by Caitlín R. Kiernan

F: Fever House by Keith Rosson

Nowhere Burning
Two siblings flee to an abandoned ranch in the Rockies, hoping to find refuge among the feral children who've claimed it — only to find something far darker waiting.

The Delicate Dependency
When a vampire abducts his daughter, a Victorian doctor pursues her across Europe, uncovering a secret society of immortals who have quietly shaped human history for centuries.

my suggestion is The Devil's Playground by Craig Russell

Dark Gods by T.E.D Klein

Night Train by Thomas Monteleone

The Devil of Nanking Mo Hayder

+1 The Delicate Dependency

+1 The Drowning Girl
(it's actually in my wishlist)

The Denizens

The Nightmare People

The Family Plot

edit: I have the wrong book listed above. It should be The Nightmare Man. The Nightmare People is the sequel and, as sequel usually do, would probably make more sense if you've read the first book. Sorry about that.

December Park

+1 to The Delicate Dependency

Freak Show

The Devil in Silver by Victor LaValle
The Darkness Greeted Her by Christina Ferko
Don’t Let the Forest In by C.G. Drews
A Dowry of Blood by S.T. Gibson
Fledgling by Octavia Butler

The Dissonance

+1 Fever House

The Night That Finds Us All by John Hornor Jacobs.

+1 The Delicate Dependency

I dare to nominate Night of the Assholes but as I'm sure it doesn't have any chance 😅 I nominate The Divine Farce as well

+1 The Devil of Nanking

I'd like to nominate:


Dark Corners on Flat Surfaces by Adler Tittle


The Day of the Door by Laurel Hightower


Five Nights in a Haunted Cabin by Tamara Thorne

+1 December Park
+1 Fledgling
+1 Night Train
+1 The Night That Finds Us All
+1 The Nightmare People

+1 The Day of the Door

I 2nd Near the Bone

Seb wrote: "I dare to nominate Night of the Assholes but as I'm sure it doesn't have any chance 😅 I nominate The Divine Farce as well"

+The Divine Farce|6693658]

These are the two books that I’ve had to quit because they freaked me out: My Soul to Keep & Cyteen

Two books I wish I had never read because they scarred me, because I closed my eyes and heard the screams long after I finished : The Sparrow & The Hunger

I +1 The Denizens by Brennan LaFaro.

I also nominate The Fog by James Herbert and The Narrows by Ronald Malfi.

The Night That Finds Us All +1

The Day of the Door+1

Dark Gods+1

&
Folk Songs for Trauma Surgeons: Stories

+1 The Devil of Nanking

+1 Near the Bone
+1 Nowhere Burning
+ Fever House

The Delicate Dependency

Near the Bone was really good. +1 there
Night Watcher by Daphne Woolsoncroft looks interesting too.

Nominations:
Dispatch
Nowhere
The Fate of Mercy Alban

+1 the Fog

+1 for Folk Songs For Trauma Surgeons

Dear AI, I Killed Her: 16 Sessions About the Dead Girl in a Blue Dress

I nominate:

The Dead Children's Playground

and

Forsaken

+1 December Park

+1 The Day of the Door
+1 The Denizens

+1 December Park

The Dead Zone by Stephen King is my nomination

+1 December Park, which is brilliant, and I'd love to reread - it's been too long
+1 Night of the Assholes, because I've had it forever, and keep meaning to read it! :-)
+1 Fever House, which I bought last year and haven't read yet

Dear Laura by Gemma Amor

The Need by Helen Phillips

Flesh by Richard Laymon

Also +1 The Fog by James Herbert

What about the tracker by John Hunt?

The Dancing Plague by Jeremy Bates


The No-End House by Jeremy Bates



+1 for Fledgling

Author Jolandi wrote: "What about the tracker by John Hunt?"

That completely misses the theme.

I was a little worried this theme might be too confining, but y'all are proving that not to be so. There's been a real plethora of good suggestions. Keep em coming!

Nerve Endings by Kealan Patrick Burke

@Alan I do A-Z challenges and I love a good theme.

+1 for Nerve Endings by Kealan Patrick Burke, I've been eyeing this one....

Anja wrote: "Nominations:
Nowhere
."

+1

I'll toss in:

No Child of Mine

The Forest

+1 December Park
+1 Nowhere
+1 Nowhere Burning
+1 The Family Plot

Devil of the Pines by James kaine