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Flavorwire's 50 Great Dark Books for the Dark Days of Winter

"We’ve reached the time of year when the days seem impossibly short and the nights never ending. Good if you’re a vampire or like to go to sleep early, less exciting for the rest of us. So what is one to do with all this extra darkness? Well, read some dark books, of course. After all, there’s nothing better to cut through the literal gloom than to curl up with some intellectual doom. All you need is a tiny light to see your book by. After the jump, 50 gloriously dark novels to read during these dark days. After a while, you may even stop wishing for the light to come."
--- Emily Temple, Flavorwire
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The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales (Brothers Grimm)
The Complete Brothers Grimm Fairy Tales
1
Brothers Grimm
Geek Love (Katherine Dunn)
Geek Love
2
Katherine Dunn
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson)
We Have Always Lived in the Castle
3
Shirley Jackson
Disgrace (J. M. Coetzee)
Disgrace
4
J. M. Coetzee
The Virgin Suicides (Jeffrey Eugenides)
The Virgin Suicides
5
Jeffrey Eugenides
The Bell Jar (Sylvia Plath)
The Bell Jar
6
Sylvia Plath
MacBeth (William Shakespeare)
MacBeth
7
William Shakespeare
The Trial (Franz Kafka)
The Trial
8
Franz Kafka
Blindness (José Saramago)
Blindness
9
José Saramago
Black Hole (Charles Burns)
Black Hole
10
Charles Burns
Nightwork
Nightwork
11
Black Water (Joyce Carol Oates)
Black Water
12
Joyce Carol Oates
Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarth
Blood Meridian, Or, the Evening Redness in the West by Cormac McCarth
13
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
Maus: A Survivor's Tale
14
A Game of Thrones (George R.R. Martin)
A Game of Thrones
15
George R.R. Martin
Wittgenstein's Mistress (David Markson)
Wittgenstein's Mistress
16
David Markson
The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe
The Woman in the Dunes Kobo Abe
17
NOX
NOX
18
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
Elect Mr. Robinson for a Better World
19
Where the Red Fern Grows (Wilson Rawls)
Where the Red Fern Grows
20
Wilson Rawls
Lush Life
Lush Life
21
Notes From the Underground (Fyodor Dostoyevsky)
Notes From the Underground
22
Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Whatever
Whatever
23
The Dark Road
The Dark Road
24
American Psycho (Bret Easton Ellis)
American Psycho
25
Bret Easton Ellis
No Exit (Jean-Paul Sartre)
No Exit
26
Jean-Paul Sartre
We Need to Talk About Kevin (Lionel Shriver)
We Need to Talk About Kevin
27
Lionel Shriver
Coin Locker Babies
Coin Locker Babies
28
Trainspotting (Irvine Welsh)
Trainspotting
29
Irvine Welsh
1984 (George Orwell)
1984
30
George Orwell
The Painted Bird (Jerzy Kosinski)
The Painted Bird
31
Jerzy Kosinski
A Clockwork Orange (Anthony Burgess)
A Clockwork Orange
32
Anthony Burgess
The Wasp Factory (Iain Banks)
The Wasp Factory
33
Iain Banks
Coraline (Neil Gaiman)
Coraline
34
Neil Gaiman
Bastard Out of Carolina (Dorothy Allison)
Bastard Out of Carolina
35
Dorothy Allison
Out (Natsuo Kirino)
Out
36
Natsuo Kirino
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Ken Kesey)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
37
Ken Kesey
The Bluest Eye (Toni Morrison)
The Bluest Eye
38
Toni Morrison
My Happy Life
My Happy Life
39
Jesus' Son (Denis Johnson)
Jesus' Son
40
Denis Johnson
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