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Christmas on Coronation Street by Maggie SullivanLittle Lord Fauntleroy by Frances Hodgson BurnettA Christmas Homecoming by Anne PerryThe Berenstain Bears Save Christmas by Jan BerenstainThe Red Gloves Collection by Karen Kingsbury
Winter Seasonal Reads
5,387 books — 1,455 voters
Wuthering Heights by Emily BrontëThe Handmaid’s Tale by Margaret AtwoodAnna Karenina by Leo TolstoyTess of the D’Urbervilles by Thomas HardyThe Road by Cormac McCarthy
Masters Of Misery
407 books — 100 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
World War Z by Max BrooksThe Road by Cormac McCarthyThe Hunger Games by Suzanne CollinsThe Stand by Stephen KingSwan Song by Robert McCammon
Best Books About the End of Civilization
41 books — 50 voters

Song for the Unraveling of the World by Brian EvensonHer Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria MachadoHeathen's Barrow by Nash NelsonA Short Stay in Hell by Steven L. PeckHarrison Bergeron by Kurt Vonnegut Jr.
Unsettling Fictions: Short Stories that Live Beneath the Skin
139 books — 35 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

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

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