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Ken Kesey
116 ratings 4.13 ·
fiction · adult · literary-fiction · book · literary · classics · historical-fiction · dark · male-author · humor · psychological · drama · mental-illness · historical · audiobook · mystery · transgressive-mc · university · realistic · 20th-century
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
310 ratings 4.00 ·
historical · action-adventure · suspense · magical-realism · fiction · historical-fiction · mystery · gothic · fantasy · audiobook · drama · horror · dark · 20th-century · book · literary-fiction · young-adult · urban-fantasy · crime · paranormal
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Robin LaFevers
137 ratings 4.00 ·
historical-fiction · alpha-mc · magic · audiobook · alternate-history · assassins · historical · political-intrigue · female-mc · supernatural · romance · fiction · fantasy · myths · book · royalty · high-fantasy · paranormal · action-adventure · young-adult
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Cormac McCarthy
408 ratings 3.97 ·
audiobook · fiction · drama · literary-fiction · book · historical-fiction · dark · adult · literary · classics · western · action-adventure · southern-gothic · 20th-century · industrial-era · gothic · contemporary · philosophy · horror · crime
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Margaret Rogerson
123 ratings 3.96 ·
magic · historical-fiction · historical · audiobook · fiction · supernatural · epic · fantasy · female-author · book · action-adventure · young-adult · high-fantasy · paranormal · dark · demons · found-family · friendship · humor · mystery
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Marlon James
124 ratings 3.96 ·
fiction · dark · audiobook · poc-mc · adult · literary-fiction · book · historical-fiction · magical-realism · action-adventure · historical · 21st-century · lgbtq · fantasy · retellings · male-author · myths · black-mc · horror · mystery
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Laura Purcell
114 ratings 3.92 ·
historical · gothic · historical-fiction · fiction · adult · book · industrial-era · horror · mystery · supernatural · ghosts · paranormal · audiobook · spooky · suspense · dark · victorian · 21st-century · drama · female-author
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Liz Nugent
106 ratings 3.90 ·
thriller · adult · crime · fiction · mystery · psychological · audiobook · dark · suspense · contemporary · book · horror · family · realistic · female-author · drama · murder · killer · historical-fiction · death
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Stuart Turton
131 ratings 3.88 ·
mystery · supernatural · fiction · adult · horror · paranormal · book · suspense · murder · magical-realism · literary-fiction · crime · historical-fiction · historical · audiobook · action-adventure · spooky · gothic · dark · killer
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Clare B. Dunkle
128 ratings 3.83 ·
book · young-adult · fiction · middle-grade · paranormal · dark · historical-fiction · supernatural · action-adventure · historical · fantasy · mystery · children · fairy-tale · romance · audiobook · animals · royalty · coming-of-age · marriage
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Laura Kinsale
199 ratings 3.82 ·
book · adult · fiction · audiobook · historical-fiction · romance · historical · regency · industrial-era · dark · angst · action-adventure · female-author · drama · alpha-mc · abuse · victorian · animals · anti-hero · age-gap
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Jess Kidd
111 ratings 3.78 ·
fantasy · audiobook · fiction · mystery · paranormal · adult · book · historical · horror · gothic · ghosts · supernatural · dark · historical-fiction · magical-realism · magic · literary-fiction · suspense · action-adventure · female-author
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Tom Rob Smith
126 ratings 3.78 ·
mystery · fiction · suspense · drama · horror · book · adult · audiobook · action-adventure · crime · thriller · violent-conflict · dark · historical-fiction · cold-war · historical · 20th-century · politics · war · police-procedural
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Diane Setterfield
115 ratings 3.76 ·
fiction · fantasy · book · dark · historical-fiction · historical · audiobook · 21st-century · mystery · supernatural · magical-realism · literary-fiction · gothic · drama · female-author · suspense · family · paranormal · death · season-autumn
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A.N. Roquelaure
135 ratings 3.61 ·
historical-fiction · historical · retellings · audiobook · lgbtq · fiction · romance · adult · drama · fantasy · medieval · womens-fiction · book · steamy · slavery · wlw · horror · dark · abuse · gothic
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Ottessa Moshfegh
142 ratings 3.56 ·
literary-fiction · 21st-century · adult · fiction · dark · horror · mental-illness · book · female-author · psychological · audiobook · humor · realistic · historical-fiction · contemporary · drama · unreliable-narrator · crime · mystery · historical
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