Darkest Books Of All Time

1	1984 by George Orwell 4.19 avg rating — 3,818,956 ratings score: 26,147, and 265 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
2	American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis 3.81 avg rating — 267,371 ratings score: 22,974, and 239 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
3	The Road by Cormac McCarthy 3.98 avg rating — 796,663 ratings score: 22,217, and 228 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
4	A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 656,622 ratings score: 21,594, and 228 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
5	Lord of the Flies by William Golding 3.69 avg rating — 2,570,728 ratings score: 19,588, and 202 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
6	Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury 3.98 avg rating — 2,020,362 ratings score: 13,914, and 154 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
7	Animal Farm by George Orwell 3.97 avg rating — 3,268,369 ratings score: 13,565, and 143 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
8	Brave New World by Aldous Huxley 3.99 avg rating — 1,639,368 ratings score: 11,363, and 121 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
9	Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 539,113 ratings score: 11,243, and 124 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
10	The Handmaid's Tale (The Handmaid's Tale, #1) by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 1,740,091 ratings score: 11,164, and 117 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
11	One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest by Ken Kesey 4.20 avg rating — 680,485 ratings score: 10,505, and 119 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
12	Requiem for a Dream by Hubert Selby Jr. 4.09 avg rating — 57,884 ratings score: 9,471, and 103 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
13	The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks 3.79 avg rating — 88,579 ratings score: 9,224, and 102 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
14	The Shining by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 4.25 avg rating — 1,293,055 ratings score: 9,123, and 97 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
15	Frankenstein by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley 3.84 avg rating — 1,347,300 ratings score: 8,399, and 90 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
16	Invisible Monsters by Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author) 3.99 avg rating — 134,326 ratings score: 8,344, and 93 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
17	Crime and Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.24 avg rating — 746,770 ratings score: 7,910, and 84 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
18	Trainspotting (Mark Renton #2) by Irvine Welsh 4.08 avg rating — 159,604 ratings score: 7,847, and 89 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
19	Blood Meridian, or the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarthy 4.16 avg rating — 125,042 ratings score: 7,765, and 79 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
20	The Elephant Tree by R.D. Ronald 4.08 avg rating — 48,512 ratings score: 7,582, and 84 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
21	Dracula by Bram Stoker 4.01 avg rating — 1,085,299 ratings score: 7,579, and 82 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
22	Factotum by Charles Bukowski 3.93 avg rating — 64,370 ratings score: 7,209, and 79 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
23	Skagboys (Mark Renton #1) by Irvine Welsh 3.98 avg rating — 18,239 ratings score: 6,840, and 77 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
24	Lunar Park by Bret Easton Ellis 3.62 avg rating — 28,605 ratings score: 6,801, and 75 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
25	Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad 3.43 avg rating — 464,694 ratings score: 6,739, and 73 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
26	Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë 3.88 avg rating — 1,560,835 ratings score: 6,675, and 70 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
27	The Metamorphosis by Franz Kafka 3.84 avg rating — 802,521 ratings score: 6,612, and 69 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
28	It by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 4.24 avg rating — 945,314 ratings score: 6,487, and 70 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
29	The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde 4.10 avg rating — 1,202,710 ratings score: 6,379, and 69 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
30	The Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath 4.03 avg rating — 724,957 ratings score: 6,345, and 69 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
31	The Silence of the Lambs (Hannibal Lecter, #2) by Thomas Harris 4.22 avg rating — 512,060 ratings score: 6,044, and 64 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
32	The Stranger by Albert Camus really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 856,344 ratings score: 6,020, and 65 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
33	The Trial by Franz Kafka 3.96 avg rating — 270,325 ratings score: 5,920, and 64 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
34	Night (The Night Trilogy, #1) by Elie Wiesel 4.35 avg rating — 1,101,909 ratings score: 5,689, and 61 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
35	Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 570,542 ratings score: 5,653, and 61 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
36	The Stand by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 4.34 avg rating — 689,801 ratings score: 5,621, and 61 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
37	The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty 4.19 avg rating — 204,269 ratings score: 5,551, and 59 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
38	Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 834,593 ratings score: 5,339, and 56 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
39	Misery by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 4.19 avg rating — 586,935 ratings score: 5,247, and 57 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
40	Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 4.04 avg rating — 101,227 ratings score: 5,006, and 53 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
41	The Diary of a Young Girl by Anne Frank 4.17 avg rating — 3,242,683 ratings score: 4,945, and 55 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
42	Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov 3.88 avg rating — 744,321 ratings score: 4,907, and 54 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
43	Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Süskind 4.03 avg rating — 392,636 ratings score: 4,869, and 53 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
44	Slaughterhouse-Five by Kurt Vonnegut Jr. 4.09 avg rating — 1,183,521 ratings score: 4,755, and 53 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
45	The Complete Stories and Poems by Edgar Allan Poe 4.38 avg rating — 235,593 ratings score: 4,085, and 45 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
46	No Country for Old Men by Cormac McCarthy 4.12 avg rating — 171,233 ratings score: 4,084, and 44 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
47	Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson 3.83 avg rating — 469,925 ratings score: 3,843, and 44 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
48	The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo (Millennium, #1) by Stieg Larsson 4.15 avg rating — 2,903,408 ratings score: 3,829, and 44 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
49	Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author) 4.11 avg rating — 2,674,590 ratings score: 3,691, and 42 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
50	All Quiet on the Western Front by Erich Maria Remarque 4.02 avg rating — 393,057 ratings score: 3,687, and 41 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
51	The Zombie Room by R.D. Ronald 4.09 avg rating — 51,195 ratings score: 3,659, and 41 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
52	Macbeth by William Shakespeare 3.90 avg rating — 777,340 ratings score: 3,592, and 41 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
53	The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides 3.83 avg rating — 260,798 ratings score: 3,389, and 37 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
54	Pet Sematary by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 4.03 avg rating — 496,656 ratings score: 3,325, and 38 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
55	Watership Down (Watership Down, #1) by Richard Adams 4.07 avg rating — 457,631 ratings score: 3,306, and 37 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
56	Inferno by Dante Alighieri 4.01 avg rating — 160,592 ratings score: 3,265, and 35 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
57	House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 148,874 ratings score: 3,208, and 34 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
58	The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum 3.91 avg rating — 30,172 ratings score: 3,034, and 32 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
59	Blindness by José Saramago 4.16 avg rating — 242,521 ratings score: 2,947, and 33 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
60	The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe 4.29 avg rating — 119,723 ratings score: 2,941, and 33 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
61	Oryx and Crake (MaddAddam, #1) by Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author) 4.01 avg rating — 244,590 ratings score: 2,899, and 32 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
62	Last Exit to Brooklyn by Hubert Selby Jr. 3.89 avg rating — 26,487 ratings score: 2,882, and 30 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
63	Child of God by Cormac McCarthy 3.82 avg rating — 40,515 ratings score: 2,881, and 30 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
64	A Child Called "It" (Dave Pelzer, #1) by Dave Pelzer (Goodreads Author) 4.12 avg rating — 405,554 ratings score: 2,793, and 30 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
65	Dark Places by Gillian Flynn (Goodreads Author) 3.94 avg rating — 659,802 ratings score: 2,770, and 31 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
66	The Killer Inside Me by Jim Thompson 3.88 avg rating — 24,200 ratings score: 2,764, and 31 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
67	On the Beach by Nevil Shute 3.95 avg rating — 39,524 ratings score: 2,597, and 28 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
68	The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P. Lovecraft 4.18 avg rating — 42,518 ratings score: 2,539, and 30 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
69	Naked Lunch by William S. Burroughs 3.45 avg rating — 86,108 ratings score: 2,512, and 29 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
70	Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Philip K. Dick 4.09 avg rating — 396,554 ratings score: 2,422, and 29 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
71	Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier 4.24 avg rating — 541,554 ratings score: 2,262, and 27 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
72	The Catcher in the Rye by J.D. Salinger 3.81 avg rating — 3,111,108 ratings score: 2,254, and 27 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
73	Interview with the Vampire (The Vampire Chronicles, #1) by Anne Rice 4.01 avg rating — 531,290 ratings score: 2,245, and 28 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
74	The Cask of Amontillado by Edgar Allan Poe 4.09 avg rating — 69,586 ratings score: 2,184, and 25 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
75	The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe 3.95 avg rating — 9,373 ratings score: 2,171, and 25 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
76	We Need to Talk About Kevin by Lionel Shriver (Goodreads Author) 4.06 avg rating — 183,361 ratings score: 2,093, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
77	As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner 3.72 avg rating — 149,929 ratings score: 2,079, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
78	Hannibal (Hannibal Lecter, #3) by Thomas Harris 3.79 avg rating — 99,863 ratings score: 2,031, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
79	Haunted by Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author) 3.60 avg rating — 99,578 ratings score: 2,014, and 23 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
80	The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein 4.37 avg rating — 1,017,185 ratings score: 1,994, and 22 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
81	Crash by J.G. Ballard 3.64 avg rating — 25,333 ratings score: 1,980, and 22 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
82	Red Dragon (Hannibal Lecter, #1) by Thomas Harris 4.04 avg rating — 304,967 ratings score: 1,944, and 24 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
83	Notes from Underground, White Nights, The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and Selections from The House of the Dead by Fyodor Dostoevsky 4.18 avg rating — 75,539 ratings score: 1,924, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
84	Apt Pupil by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 3.92 avg rating — 32,065 ratings score: 1,870, and 20 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
85	The Amityville Horror by Jay Anson 3.84 avg rating — 117,609 ratings score: 1,862, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
86	Room by Emma Donoghue (Goodreads Author) 4.07 avg rating — 767,998 ratings score: 1,841, and 21 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
87	The War of the Worlds by H.G. Wells 3.83 avg rating — 277,287 ratings score: 1,798, and 22 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
88	Jude the Obscure by Thomas Hardy 3.82 avg rating — 67,914 ratings score: 1,731, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
89	Carrie by Stephen King (Goodreads Author) 3.98 avg rating — 607,305 ratings score: 1,713, and 22 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
90	Battle Royale by Koushun Takami 4.21 avg rating — 68,709 ratings score: 1,690, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
91	The Children of Men by P.D. James 3.68 avg rating — 43,670 ratings score: 1,685, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
92	The Long Walk by Richard Bachman (Pseudonym) 4.09 avg rating — 152,619 ratings score: 1,661, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
93	Less Than Zero by Bret Easton Ellis 3.59 avg rating — 77,654 ratings score: 1,640, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
94	The Yellow Wall-Paper by Charlotte Perkins Gilman 4.11 avg rating — 130,682 ratings score: 1,619, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
95	Les Misérables by Victor Hugo 4.19 avg rating — 738,501 ratings score: 1,601, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
96	The Sinner by K. Trap Jones (Goodreads Author) 3.84 avg rating — 86 ratings score: 1,600, and 16 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
97	The Golden Compass (His Dark Materials, #1) by Philip Pullman 4.01 avg rating — 1,410,359 ratings score: 1,592, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
98	The Turn of the Screw by Henry James 3.40 avg rating — 130,661 ratings score: 1,582, and 19 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
99	The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles 3.90 avg rating — 26,208 ratings score: 1,560, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
100	And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie 4.27 avg rating — 1,062,403 ratings score: 1,539, and 17 people voted	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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message 1: by Taylor (new)

Sep 23, 2011 12:50PM

Watership Down?? Really??

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message 2: by Stephen (last edited Nov 28, 2011 11:36PM) (new)

Nov 28, 2011 11:35PM

Stephanie wrote: "Watership Down?? Really??"

At least Bambi didn't make the list! But then for real Darkness check out plays and non-fiction. Mein Kampf didn't make the list yet either!

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message 3: by Donna (new)

Nov 17, 2012 11:32PM

This is a strong list. There were a couple of titles I didn't agree with, and I have no doubt there were many more that I'd vote for if I'd read them. My main difficulty was in comparing fiction to non. The Holocaust, or Poe? Real-life murder and rape, or Johnny Got His Gun? I also think, from the way the votes fall off drastically after the first couple of pages, that a lot of people either voted in consecutive order w/o checking all of the pages for their #1 vote, or else didn't go past the first 2 pages at all. Still, this is one of the best listopias I have seen.

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message 4: by Madeline (new)

Dec 09, 2013 07:51PM

Stephanie wrote: "Watership Down?? Really??"

I disagree, I think Watership Down is really dark.

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message 5: by Slowlygainingknowlege (last edited Aug 05, 2015 08:19AM) (new)

Aug 05, 2015 08:17AM

For me, Slaughterhouse Five is the tippy top. Most despairing, nihilistic book I've ever read.

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message 6: by Naughtee (new)

Sep 23, 2015 03:19PM

"the road" is a love story

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message 7: by Donna (last edited Sep 23, 2015 06:49PM) (new)

Sep 23, 2015 06:14PM

Madeline wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Watership Down?? Really??"

I disagree, I think Watership Down is really dark."
Yeah it is...assuming of course that one finishes it!
I notice that although the list-maker initially just said "Dark" and "Books", the tags say "fiction" and "myth". The tags appear to have lost the struggle, since 40 people have voted for Night, Eli Wiesel's holocaust memoir. I think the tags lost and the general designation won here. In that spirit, I felt free to add the new Stalin bio along with some Nixon stuff. What a fun list!

The system found and eliminated 20 duplicates.

It's a curious question: do you vote in order of which dark books you believe are the best written, or in order of darkness? I mostly went with the latter, because it seemed more interesting.

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message 8: by Chris (new)

Jan 16, 2016 12:10PM

The Far Side is an odd choice. I mean, some of the jokers kinda dark, but it isn't all that bleak.

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message 9: by Tommy (new)

Feb 11, 2016 10:26AM

That lover of horror Stephen King once wrote that his greatest ambition was to undergo the writing of a book that he would find too scary to finish, and I count among my rejections a lover of dark fiction (unable to conceive that my story was true) who wrote that MONSTROUS: The Autobiography of a Serial Killer but for the Grace of God was too dark even for her.

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message 10: by Donna (new)

Feb 11, 2016 12:02PM

Chris wrote: "The Far Side is an odd choice. I mean, some of the jokers kinda dark, but it isn't all that bleak."

"Kinda" dark? I regard Larson as the king of the dark comic. Real gallows humor. "Bleak" is more hopeless, and more specific than "dark"...it is not in the list-maker's subscript; in fact there is no subscript. And I like that the list allows us to include horror, humor, cartoons, nonfiction...if all we wanted was horror, there are multiple listopias already serving that purpose.

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message 11: by [deleted user] (new)

Mar 03, 2016 09:48AM

Stephen wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Watership Down?? Really??"

At least Bambi didn't make the list! But then for real Darkness check out plays and non-fiction. Mein Kampf didn't make the list yet either!"

Mein Kampf is not a 'dark' book in the way meant in this list

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message 12: by Donna (new)

Mar 03, 2016 05:14PM

David wrote: "Stephen wrote: "Stephanie wrote: "Watership Down?? Really??"

At least Bambi didn't make the list! But then for real Darkness check out plays and non-fiction. Mein Kampf didn't make the list yet ei..."
I see the tags include the word fiction, but I wish the list-maker had included this in the subscript. A lot of people--especially those relatively new to Goodreads--are not going to check the tags, and the title simply says "Dark" and "Books", which is a big house with a lot of rooms. I would not add Mein Kampf to this list or vote for it, but at the same time, I wouldn't be comfortable removing it if someone else added it.

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message 13: by ~☆~Autumn♥♥☔ (new)

Jul 09, 2016 05:02PM

Slowlygainingknowlege wrote: "For me, Slaughterhouse Five is the tippy top. Most despairing, nihilistic book I've ever read."

Which is why I will never read it! I suspected as much about it.

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message 14: by Donna (new)

Jul 09, 2016 08:32PM

The system found and removed 1 duplicate.

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message 15: by Joshua (new)

Apr 05, 2017 01:49PM

most books on the top 50 of this list aren't even remotely dark... wuthering heights??

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message 16: by Donna (new)

Apr 05, 2017 02:30PM

The system found and removed 5 duplicates.

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message 17: by Jim (new)

Jul 01, 2018 09:36AM

I'm really disturbed by the number of books on this list that I've read! I'm re-reading 1984 right now (or just finished it) because of the disturbing parallels with the world today, and it's currently at #1.

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message 18: by Donna (new)

Jul 01, 2018 01:04PM

Jim wrote: "I'm really disturbed by the number of books on this list that I've read! I'm re-reading 1984 right now (or just finished it) because of the disturbing parallels with the world today, and it's curre..."

I was required to read it in high school, and at the time I gave it an eye roll. Sure. Right. But now, not so much.

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message 19: by Naughtee (new)

Jan 21, 2019 11:19PM

Donna wrote: "Jim wrote: "I'm really disturbed by the number of books on this list that I've read! I'm re-reading 1984 right now (or just finished it) because of the disturbing parallels with the world today, an..."

re-read brave new world... we're pretty close now. it's almost like this stuff is being rubbed in our faces BEFORE they are enacted.

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message 20: by Donna (new)

Jan 22, 2019 12:44AM

The duplicates link is broken. I entered this problem on the Feedback page, and now we should cross our fingers and hope for the best. This is way too cool a collection to be left unfixable.

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