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Secrets of the Kharon
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Orpheus Builds a Girl
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Below the Palmettos
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Surviving the Apocalypse: 101
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Crimson Cobblestones
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Marie Lestrange (Goodreads Author)
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Rust & Stardust
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T. Greenwood (Goodreads Author)
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At Dark, I Become Loathsome
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Eric LaRocca (Goodreads Author)
3.26 avg rating — 3,361 ratings
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The Silence Dividend: Science Fiction Dystopian
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Izzy Bond (Goodreads Author)
4.45 avg rating — 56 ratings
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The Golden Rule (Raven's Record #4)
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Debbie Hightower (Goodreads Author)
4.83 avg rating — 6 ratings
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Children of Light
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The Book of Evidence (The Freddie Montgomery Trilogy, #1)
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A Land of Ash
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David Dalglish (Goodreads Author)
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Apostasy (Moon God Trilogy #2)
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Marlene K. Slade (Goodreads Author)
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The Fallen Boys
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Aaron Dries (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 206 ratings
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North
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Fjenden i os selv
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Monsters of Men (Chaos Walking, #3)
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And Then Run
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Eric Hublot (Goodreads Author)
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The Bloody Ripper (Leopard King Saga, #1.2)
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T.A. Uner (Goodreads Author)
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Tagged: The Apocalypse
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Là-Bas
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Creating Monsters
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Christopher Rankin (Goodreads Author)
3.59 avg rating — 187 ratings
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Woman Scorned (Man Hunt, #2)
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K. Edwin Fritz (Goodreads Author)
4.18 avg rating — 44 ratings
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My Body-His (Marcello) (My Body Trilogy, #2)
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Blakely Bennett (Goodreads Author)
4.14 avg rating — 264 ratings
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Demons: True stories of demonic possessions & demonic attacks
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Stephen Young (Goodreads Author)
3.41 avg rating — 151 ratings
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Bear of a Storm
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Sahara Foley (Goodreads Author)
4.86 avg rating — 77 ratings
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Tokyo Year Zero (Tokyo Trilogy, #1)
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Dark Days (Written Pictures, #2)
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H.A. Kotys (Goodreads Author)
3.69 avg rating — 16 ratings
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Hold the Dark
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The Painted Veil
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Plague of Angels (The Descended, #1)
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John Patrick Kennedy (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 1,107 ratings
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The Abominations Of Nephren-Ka & Three More Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos
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Mark McLaughlin (Goodreads Author)
4.08 avg rating — 25 ratings
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Monument
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Signs and Symbols
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Echopraxia (Firefall, #2)
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Peter Watts (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 12,280 ratings
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Superhero Stenchfest
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The Doctor to the Dead: Grotesque Legends and Folk Tales of Old Charleston
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Cows
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Matthew Stokoe (Goodreads Author)
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The 40-Minute War
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Janet E. Morris (Goodreads Author)
3.89 avg rating — 200 ratings
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And the Truth Shall Set You Free
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This Darkness Mine
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Mindy McGinnis (Goodreads Author)
3.22 avg rating — 3,206 ratings
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The Birth of Death (The Wages of Sin, #4)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.56 avg rating — 41 ratings
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¿A quién estás pensando matar?
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Attack on Titan, Vol. 2
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Dessa: Silence in Bloodlust
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Andreya Lombardi (Goodreads Author)
4.60 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Ripper (Next Life, #2)
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James G. Robertson (Goodreads Author)
4.05 avg rating — 21 ratings
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The Siren's Mistress (Water Brides #1)
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Dolly Nightmare (Goodreads Author)
4.04 avg rating — 45 ratings
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Birdsong on Holbeck Moor
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Billy Morris (Goodreads Author)
4.58 avg rating — 19 ratings
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Bloodland Tales
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Confessions Of A Cannibal: The Shocking True Story of Depraved Child-Killer Albert Fish
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3.96 avg rating — 337 ratings
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Tales of Ordinary Madness
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Before The Silence: Prequel to The Silence Dividend
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Izzy Bond (Goodreads Author)
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Purgatory: Manuscript Materials Including the Author's Final Text
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Castle to Castle
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The Vril Codex II
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Ben Manning (Goodreads Author)
4.50 avg rating — 2 ratings
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Ladies' Night
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3.39 avg rating — 1,193 ratings
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The Ask and the Answer (Chaos Walking, #2)
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4.18 avg rating — 101,082 ratings
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Fresh Blood
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4.53 avg rating — 15 ratings
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Satantango
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Something in the Woods is Taking People
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Stephen Young (Goodreads Author)
3.55 avg rating — 420 ratings
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Beneath the Willow
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Germline (The Subterrene War, #1)
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T.C. McCarthy (Goodreads Author)
3.54 avg rating — 1,130 ratings
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Enter the Uncreated Night
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Christopher Rankin (Goodreads Author)
3.50 avg rating — 202 ratings
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Enlightened Nights (Written Pictures, #3)
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H.A. Kotys (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 7 ratings
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When Rabbit Howls
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Daddy Love
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Berserk, Vol. 1 (Berserk, #1)
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The Girl with All the Gifts (The Girl With All the Gifts, #1)
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M.R. Carey (Goodreads Author)
3.95 avg rating — 241,962 ratings
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Despair
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My Love Affair With David Lynch And Peachy Like Nietzsche: Dark Clown Porn Snuff for Terrorists And Gorefiends
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The Oaken Throne (The Deptford Histories, #2)
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Concealed Anguish
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Ashley S. Clancy (Goodreads Author)
3.83 avg rating — 118 ratings
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The Face of Twilight
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Sin
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Blood: Episode 1 - Curse (Blood, 1A)
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D.S. Wrights (Goodreads Author)
4.29 avg rating — 45 ratings
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The 1963 Assassination of President Trump
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G.B. Hope (Goodreads Author)
4.33 avg rating — 42 ratings
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The Fall of Innocence (The Wages of Sin, #3)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.54 avg rating — 41 ratings
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ハイキュー!! 1 [Haikyū!! 1]
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Dessa: Secrets of the Inferno (Shadowland Saga Book 3)
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Andreya Lombardi (Goodreads Author)
4.75 avg rating — 20 ratings
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The Book of Paul
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Richard Long (Goodreads Author)
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Dreams of Morpheus
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Bay of Souls
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Faust, Part Two
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Where Men Win Glory: The Odyssey of Pat Tillman
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Jon Krakauer (Goodreads Author)
4.09 avg rating — 42,933 ratings
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Gargoyles
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Little Star
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Incubi
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Bound By Blood: Volume 2 (Bound By Blood, #2) (The Dracula Chronicles, #7)
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Shane K.P. O'Neill (Goodreads Author)
4.65 avg rating — 158 ratings
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Mysterious Things in the Woods
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Stephen Young (Goodreads Author)
3.52 avg rating — 165 ratings
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The Devil's Bed
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Doug Lamoreux (Goodreads Author)
3.71 avg rating — 138 ratings
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Nineteen Eighty Three (Red Riding, #4)
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The Mosquito Coast
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The Water Mirror (Dark Reflections, #1)
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Kai Meyer (Goodreads Author)
3.88 avg rating — 5,672 ratings
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The Strangest
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Michael J. Seidlinger (Goodreads Author)
3.91 avg rating — 68 ratings
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This Book Hates You
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David L. Tamarin (Goodreads Author)
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Thomas (The Deptford Histories, #3)
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Sheltered Volume 1
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Lazarus
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The Wrath of Truth (The Wages of Sin, #2)
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L.E. Parker (Goodreads Author)
4.51 avg rating — 41 ratings
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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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