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Mother Horror's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
A comprehensive list of every book recommended in Sadie Hartmann's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered, including side suggestions.
The Shining
Stephen King, 1977
Jurassic Park
Michael Crichton, 1990
The Gunslinger
Stephen King, 1982
Parable of the Sower
Octavia E. Butler, 1993
Interview with the Vampire
Anne Rice, 1976
Beloved
Toni Morrison, 1987
The Passage
Justin Cronin, 2010
The Exorcist
William Peter Blatty, 1971
Bird Box
Josh Malerman, 2014
The Blacktongue Thief
Christopher Buehlman, 2021
The Talisman
Stephen King, Peter Straub, 1984
Rosemary's Baby
Ira Levin, 1967
Swan Song
Robert R. McCammon, 1987
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
Stephen Graham Jones, 2021
Wanderers
Chuck Wendig, 2018
Clown in a Cornfield
Adam Cesare, 2020
Hex
Thomas Olde Heuvelt, 2013
Jaws
Peter Benchley, 1973
Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark: Collected from American Folklore
Alvin Schwartz, 1981
The Year of the Witching
Alexis Henderson, 2020
Books of Blood: Volume I
Clive Barker, 1984
Gone to See the River Man
Kristopher Triana, 2020
The Rats
James Herbert, 1974
My Soul to Keep
Tananarive Due, 1997
§ About this list
- Books
- 239
- Published
- 1967–2021
- Average rating (top 24)
- 3.9 / 5 across 9,851 ratings
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Classics, General, Adventure
Most-rated on Mother Horror's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
- 1The Shining · Stephen King
- 2The Gunslinger · Stephen King
- 3Jurassic Park · Michael Crichton
Common questions about Mother Horror's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
- How many books are on Mother Horror's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered?
- Mother Horror's 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered has 239 books, published between 1967 and 2021.
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- The Shining by Stephen King is the most-rated book on the list, with 1,588 ratings and a 4.2 average.
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- Start with The Shining, The Gunslinger and Jurassic Park: the three most-rated books on the list.
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- The books on this list are tagged Science Fiction, Classics, General and Adventure.
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