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Ken Kesey
4.15 · 118 ratings
fiction · literary-fiction · adult · literary · classics · book · humor · psychological · drama · dark · historical-fiction · male-author · mystery · transgressive-mc · university · historical · audiobook · season-summer · mental-illness · 20th-century
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
4.06 · 456 ratings
fiction · mystery · historical-fiction · fantasy · suspense · action-adventure · magical-realism · book · historical · gothic · drama · horror · audiobook · crime · 20th-century · literary-fiction · dark · young-adult · adult · urban-fantasy
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Rene Denfeld
3.98 · 112 ratings
crime · book · adult · mystery · fiction · audiobook · contemporary · drama · suspense · abuse · supernatural · literary-fiction · psychological · female-author · realistic · dark · 21st-century · killer · mental-illness · kidnapping
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Cormac McCarthy
3.98 · 501 ratings
literary-fiction · audiobook · drama · fiction · book · adult · classics · literary · dark · historical-fiction · western · gothic · contemporary · crime · industrial-era · 20th-century · southern-gothic · action-adventure · mystery · horror
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Marlon James
3.97 · 154 ratings
fiction · dark · adult · poc-mc · book · audiobook · literary-fiction · magical-realism · historical-fiction · action-adventure · historical · lgbtq · fantasy · 21st-century · retellings · male-author · poc-author · horror · dark-fantasy · black-mc
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Tana French
3.86 · 404 ratings
law-enforcement · fiction · book · thriller · crime · suspense · literary-fiction · adult · mystery · audiobook · contemporary · dark · female-author · murder · death · realistic · drama · killer · police-procedural · 21st-century
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Diane Setterfield
3.82 · 164 ratings
fiction · fantasy · book · mystery · drama · family · female-author · historical-fiction · historical · magical-realism · dark · supernatural · gothic · 21st-century · literary-fiction · audiobook · paranormal · suspense · literary · womens-fiction
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Agustina Bazterrica
3.78 · 106 ratings
fiction · horror · adult · literary-fiction · contemporary · poc-mc · latinx-mc · female-author · dark · spooky · sci-fi · terror · gothic · book · audiobook · dystopia · hispanic · spirituality · mystery · social-commentary
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Max Porter
3.77 · 101 ratings
fiction · adult · literary-fiction · book · contemporary · audiobook · 21st-century · gothic · supernatural · fantasy · dark · historical-fiction · mental-illness · ghosts · paranormal · coming-of-age · family · drama · mystery · magical-realism
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Elizabeth Kostova
3.70 · 138 ratings
gothic · book · literary-fiction · audiobook · 21st-century · suspense · action-adventure · mystery · fiction · drama · female-author · historical-fiction · historical · epic · realistic · epistolary · horror · adult · dark-academia · dark
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Natsuo Kirino
3.69 · 102 ratings
feminism · mystery · literary-fiction · contemporary · fiction · female-mc · book · crime · drama · horror · psychological · poc-mc · adult · female-author · noir · dark · poc-author · family · thriller · suspense
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Dennis Cooper
3.69 · 151 ratings
fiction · lgbtq · transgressive-mc · literary-fiction · adult · dark · contemporary · horror · book · substance-abuse · anthologies · spirituality · steamy · cults · crime · 21st-century · psychological · death · drama · 20th-century
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Iain Reid
3.66 · 129 ratings
book · literary-fiction · psychological · audiobook · contemporary · suspense · mystery · fiction · horror · adult · dark · spooky · 21st-century · unreliable-narrator · drama · thriller · male-author · mental-illness · terror · gothic
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S.J. Watson
3.63 · 114 ratings
fiction · dark · audiobook · murder · mystery · psychological · crime · thriller · literary-fiction · contemporary · book · suspense · horror · killer · secrets · death · 21st-century · friendship · abuse · womens-fiction
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Glen Duncan
3.61 · 144 ratings
fiction · horror · contemporary · adult · fantasy · book · literary-fiction · supernatural · dark · paranormal · dark-fantasy · urban-fantasy · death · humor · mystery · 21st-century · audiobook · shapeshifters · vampires · magic
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Bret Easton Ellis
3.61 · 284 ratings
book · fiction · contemporary · literary-fiction · literary · classics · dark · audiobook · psychological · mystery · transgressive-mc · crime · drama · adult · satire · horror · spirituality · postmodernism · substance-abuse · cults
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Christina Dalcher
3.59 · 115 ratings
family · female-mc · fiction · mystery · dark · sci-fi · horror · feminism · suspense · audiobook · contemporary · dystopia · social-commentary · futuristic · lgbtq · alternate-history · female-author · adult · post-apocalyptic · book
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Ottessa Moshfegh
3.57 · 172 ratings
fiction · adult · dark · literary-fiction · 21st-century · female-author · mental-illness · book · horror · psychological · audiobook · historical-fiction · humor · realistic · feminism · mystery · unreliable-narrator · drama · crime · historical
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Keith Donohue
3.53 · 112 ratings
fiction · literary-fiction · magic · magical-realism · fantasy · mystery · audiobook · supernatural · dark-fantasy · dark · contemporary · paranormal · suspense · book · adult · horror · low-fantasy · family · young-adult · psychological
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Megan Abbott
3.42 · 267 ratings
fiction · crime · mystery · thriller · suspense · book · female-author · literary-fiction · audiobook · dark · psychological · noir · adult · drama · 21st-century · womens-fiction · horror · historical · realistic · young-adult
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