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Dubliners
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3.84 avg rating — 171,596 ratings
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Oedipus Rex (The Theban Plays, #1)
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Diary of a Lost Girl: The Autobiography of Kola Boof
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The Fuck-Up
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The Crying of Lot 49
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Crank (Crank, #1)
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Ellen Hopkins (Goodreads Author)
4.16 avg rating — 153,891 ratings
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Invitation to a Beheading
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Asylum
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The Name of the Rose
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The Painted Bird
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Survival in Auschwitz
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Different Seasons
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.36 avg rating — 218,215 ratings
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I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream
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Lady Oracle
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Margaret Atwood (Goodreads Author)
3.67 avg rating — 15,375 ratings
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The Legend of Sleepy Hollow
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Wake the Wicked
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Christian Baloga (Goodreads Author)
3.45 avg rating — 76 ratings
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The Club Dumas
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The Surgeon (Rizzoli & Isles, #1)
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Tess Gerritsen (Goodreads Author)
4.10 avg rating — 173,977 ratings
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Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
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Peter Watts (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 51,750 ratings
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Endless Night
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Sleepers
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El silencio de todos los muertos
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Sandra Becerril (Goodreads Author)
4.06 avg rating — 49 ratings
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Tu cadáver en la nieve
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Sandra Becerril (Goodreads Author)
4.19 avg rating — 27 ratings
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Y is for Fidelity
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Logan Ryan Smith (Goodreads Author)
4.41 avg rating — 32 ratings
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The Diary of Ellen Rimbauer: My Life at Rose Red
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Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas: A Savage Journey to the Heart of the American Dream
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You (You, #1)
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Caroline Kepnes (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 285,738 ratings
score: 287,
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Sexing the Cherry
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3.84 avg rating — 18,877 ratings
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| 428 |
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Voluntary Madness
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3.68 avg rating — 330 ratings
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Brother
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Ania Ahlborn (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 66,757 ratings
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Antigone (The Theban Plays, #3)
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3.68 avg rating — 171,785 ratings
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My Idea of Fun
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3.53 avg rating — 2,516 ratings
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The Elephant Tree
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Cosmic Banditos
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4.06 avg rating — 2,565 ratings
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Les Fleurs du Mal
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4.20 avg rating — 78,477 ratings
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Postmortem (Kay Scarpetta, #1)
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Patricia Cornwell (Goodreads Author)
4.03 avg rating — 253,067 ratings
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Sick Bastards
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Matt Shaw (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 3,384 ratings
score: 275,
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Snow Crash
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Neal Stephenson (Goodreads Author)
4.01 avg rating — 294,653 ratings
score: 271,
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One Hundred Years of Solitude
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4.12 avg rating — 1,079,626 ratings
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The Tommyknockers
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.60 avg rating — 162,734 ratings
score: 270,
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Soft
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3.53 avg rating — 735 ratings
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The Wire in the Blood (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #2)
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4.16 avg rating — 20,006 ratings
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The House
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3.76 avg rating — 777 ratings
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A Decent Ride (Terry Lawson, #3)
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3.90 avg rating — 3,626 ratings
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Magnolias in Paradise
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Leonard Seet (Goodreads Author)
3.75 avg rating — 1,860 ratings
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Dreams of Leaving
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3.87 avg rating — 626 ratings
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I Miss The World
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Violet LeVoit (Goodreads Author)
3.76 avg rating — 589 ratings
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The Analyst
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4.12 avg rating — 66,920 ratings
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Clockwork Orange
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4.24 avg rating — 13,988 ratings
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The Coma
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3.39 avg rating — 9,265 ratings
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Darkness Visible
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3.50 avg rating — 1,762 ratings
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A Certain Age
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3.41 avg rating — 769 ratings
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The Corrections
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3.84 avg rating — 195,398 ratings
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Death Without Weeping: The Violence of Everyday Life in Brazil
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4.21 avg rating — 1,148 ratings
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The Zombie Room
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3.91 avg rating — 38,149 ratings
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The Last Temptation (Tony Hill & Carol Jordan, #3)
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4.02 avg rating — 10,197 ratings
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The Day of the Triffids
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4.01 avg rating — 115,780 ratings
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A Prayer for the Dying
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Stewart O'Nan (Goodreads Author)
3.99 avg rating — 3,389 ratings
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Thérèse Raquin
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3.73 avg rating — 37,142 ratings
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A Demon Lies Within
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Tony Hubbard (Goodreads Author)
3.96 avg rating — 47 ratings
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Adjustment Day
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.20 avg rating — 9,788 ratings
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Notes from Underground
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Savages (Savages #2)
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3.86 avg rating — 20,383 ratings
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The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
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3.89 avg rating — 1,577,026 ratings
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The Basketball Diaries
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3.99 avg rating — 31,545 ratings
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Afraid (The Konrath Dark Thriller Collective #3)
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J.A. Konrath (Goodreads Author)
3.92 avg rating — 9,683 ratings
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2666
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Heart of Darkness and The Secret Sharer
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Mygale
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Ecstasy
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The Mezzanine
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Nicholson Baker (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 10,127 ratings
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Suicide Casanova
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Fight Club 2
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Chuck Palahniuk (Goodreads Author)
3.05 avg rating — 9,766 ratings
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The Outsiders
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4.14 avg rating — 1,554,169 ratings
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Also sprach Zarathustra. Ein Buch für Alle und Keinen
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Cell
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
3.66 avg rating — 234,475 ratings
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NOS4A2
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Doctor Faustus
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The Ocean at the End of the Lane
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4.02 avg rating — 652,282 ratings
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The Lies of Locke Lamora (Gentleman Bastard, #1)
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4.30 avg rating — 330,943 ratings
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Hannibal Rising (Hannibal Lecter, #4)
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe
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Learning to Kiss in the Snow
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Night Shift
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Stephen King (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 195,196 ratings
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The Girl on the Train
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3.96 avg rating — 3,225,810 ratings
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Horns
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The Idiot
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Torch Song Trilogy
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The World as Will and Representation, Volume I
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Waiting Period
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The City of Ember (Book of Ember, #1)
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The Sweet Far Thing (Gemma Doyle, #3)
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Libba Bray (Goodreads Author)
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Article 5 (Article 5, #1)
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At the Mountains of Madness
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The Magicians (The Magicians, #1)
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The Cipher
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The Purloined Letter (C. Auguste Dupin, #3)
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Watership Down?? Really??
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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!
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.
Stephanie wrote: "Watership Down?? Really??"I disagree, I think Watership Down is really dark.
For me, Slaughterhouse Five is the tippy top. Most despairing, nihilistic book I've ever read.
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!
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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.
The Far Side is an odd choice. I mean, some of the jokers kinda dark, but it isn't all that bleak.
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.
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.
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
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
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.
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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most books on the top 50 of this list aren't even remotely dark... wuthering heights??
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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.
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.
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.
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.
If anyone didn't find Watership Down dark, they weren't reading very carefully. What did you think it was a kids book? ROFLMAO
Stef wrote: "If anyone didn't find Watership Down dark, they weren't reading very carefully. What did you think it was a kids book? ROFLMAO"*snerk!* Right you are, Stef. A terrible secret: some people vote on these things when they have never even opened the book. A dark truth to go with the dark list.
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