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Ken Kesey
116 ratings 4.13 ·
book · literary · classics · fiction · adult · literary-fiction · historical-fiction · dark · male-author · humor · psychological · drama · realistic · 20th-century · contemporary · suspense · season-summer · mental-illness · historical · audiobook
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Carlos Ruiz Zafón
310 ratings 4.00 ·
mystery · gothic · fantasy · historical · action-adventure · suspense · magical-realism · fiction · historical-fiction · drama · horror · audiobook · book · 20th-century · literary-fiction · dark · young-adult · urban-fantasy · crime · supernatural
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Cormac McCarthy
408 ratings 3.97 ·
audiobook · fiction · literary-fiction · drama · book · dark · historical-fiction · adult · classics · literary · western · southern-gothic · action-adventure · gothic · 20th-century · industrial-era · contemporary · horror · crime · philosophy
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Marlon James
124 ratings 3.96 ·
fiction · literary-fiction · book · adult · dark · poc-mc · audiobook · lgbtq · fantasy · 21st-century · historical · magical-realism · historical-fiction · action-adventure · mystery · horror · black-mc · poc-author · dark-fantasy · male-author
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Alex Michaelides
106 ratings 3.89 ·
contemporary · book · suspense · psychological · fiction · thriller · adult · mental-illness · dark-academia · realistic · murder · mystery · spooky · literary-fiction · drama · dark · killer · horror · law-enforcement · crime
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Tana French
330 ratings 3.89 ·
book · mystery · thriller · literary-fiction · crime · contemporary · suspense · fiction · law-enforcement · audiobook · realistic · drama · death · 21st-century · murder · psychological · female-author · adult · dark · killer
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Stuart Turton
131 ratings 3.88 ·
horror · adult · mystery · fiction · supernatural · magical-realism · suspense · book · paranormal · historical · audiobook · historical-fiction · literary-fiction · crime · murder · action-adventure · killer · dark · gothic · spooky
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Yōko Ogawa
137 ratings 3.82 ·
literary-fiction · adult · fiction · poc-author · literary · classics · 20th-century · drama · 21st-century · horror · contemporary · journey · female-author · dark · anthologies · mystery · magical-realism · poc-mc · book · gothic
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J.P. Delaney
134 ratings 3.76 ·
suspense · book · audiobook · adult · crime · thriller · fiction · mystery · psychological · contemporary · horror · drama · dark · secrets · literary-fiction · domestic-drama · female-mc · murder · europe · marriage
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Diane Setterfield
115 ratings 3.76 ·
book · fantasy · fiction · suspense · family · paranormal · historical · 21st-century · audiobook · historical-fiction · dark · drama · gothic · literary-fiction · female-author · mystery · magical-realism · supernatural · fairy-tale · grief
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Paula Hawkins
157 ratings 3.74 ·
audiobook · 21st-century · dark · killer · law-enforcement · female-author · unreliable-narrator · thriller · literary-fiction · adult · crime · drama · murder · mystery · fiction · psychological · suspense · contemporary · book · mental-illness
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Dennis Cooper
121 ratings 3.68 ·
fiction · adult · lgbtq · transgressive-mc · dark · horror · literary-fiction · contemporary · spirituality · substance-abuse · cults · crime · book · steamy · anthologies · psychological · death · mystery · 20th-century · postmodernism
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Bret Easton Ellis
236 ratings 3.59 ·
classics · literary · book · literary-fiction · crime · mystery · contemporary · psychological · fiction · audiobook · dark · drama · transgressive-mc · horror · satire · lgbtq · substance-abuse · cults · postmodernism · adult
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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 · crime · unreliable-narrator · drama · mystery · historical · feminism
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Megan Abbott
252 ratings 3.41 ·
fiction · mystery · crime · suspense · book · thriller · female-author · audiobook · dark · noir · psychological · literary-fiction · adult · 21st-century · drama · contemporary · young-adult · historical-fiction · realistic · historical
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