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The Road
1984
I Who Have Never Known Men
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West
The Stranger
The Handmaid's Tale
No Longer Human
The Bell Jar
Never Let Me Go
Tender Is the Flesh
A Little Life
Lapvona
Lord of the Flies
The Book Thief
The Metamorphosis
Blood Meridian, or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthyTrue Grit by Charles PortisLonesome Dove by Larry McMurtryDeadwood by Pete DexterDesperadoes by Ron Hansen
Grim Western Fiction
13 books — 2 voters
Dracula by Bram StokerHell Bound by Andrew P. WestonThe Short Life of Sparrows by Emm ColeThe Historian by Elizabeth KostovaRebecca by Daphne du Maurier
ULTRA-GOTHIC!
115 books — 20 voters

American Psycho by Bret Easton EllisFahrenheit 451 by Ray BradburyA Clockwork Orange by Anthony BurgessOne Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest by Ken KeseyNot Okay by Brett Axel
Dark Literary Fiction
136 books — 53 voters

Neal Shusterman
finding easy scapegoats for complicated problems had been a human pastime since the first mob of cavemen struck someone down with a rock.
Neal Shusterman, Thunderhead

Iris Murdoch
That this world is a place of horror must affect every serious artist and thinker, darkening his reflection, ruining his system, sometimes actually driving him mad. Any seriousness avoids this fact at its peril, and the great ones who have seemed to neglect it have only done so in appearance.
Iris Murdoch, The Black Prince

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