The Greatest Books of All Time on Fear

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This list represents a comprehensive and trusted collection of the greatest books. Developed through a specialized algorithm, it brings together 759 'best of' book lists to form a definitive guide to the world's most acclaimed books. For those interested in how these books are chosen, additional details can be found on the rankings page.

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Rank Book Authors Year Country Language Actions
8076 The Great Derangement Matt Taibbi 2008 American English
8214 Collected Stories Of Richard Matheson Richard Matheson 1989 American English
8315 The Bottoms Joe R. Lansdale 2000 American English
8370 Watchers Dean R. Koontz 1987 American English
8434 A Running Duck Paula Gosling 1978 American English
8445 The Diary Of A Gulag Prison Guard 1935 6 Ivan Chistyakov 2016 Russian Russian
8466 The Successor Ismail Kadare 2003 Albanian Albanian
8548 Monster Walter Dean Myers 1999 American English
8573 Fear Itself Ira Katznelson 2013 American English
8594 The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss 2011 American English
8618 The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz 2013 Egyptian Arabic
8675 Collected Poems Wilfred Owen 1963 British English
8838 The Axeman's Carnival Catherine Chidgey 2023 New Zealander English
8847 Seeing Red Lina Meruane 2012 Chilean Spanish
8911 The Night Guest Fiona McFarlane 2013 Australian English
8977 Clavícula Marta Sanz 2015 Spanish Spanish
9192 Nemesis Philip Roth 2010 American English
9261 The Memory Police Yōko Ogawa 2024 Japanese Japanese
9262 Nothing to be Frightened Of Julian Barnes 2008 British English
9377 Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1893 American English
9377 In The Midst Of Life Ambrose Bierce 1891 American English
9377 Incredible Adventures Algernon Blackwood 1914 British English
9377 The Haunted Hour Margaret Widdemer 1920 American English
9537 The Tiger John Vaillant 2010 Canadian English
9625 Suddenly In The Depth Of The Forest Amos Oz 2005 Israeli Hebrew
9638 The Playboy Book Of Horror And The Supernatural Ray Russell 1967 American English
9684 Broken Glass Arthur Miller 1994 American English
9717 The Crucible Arthur Miller 1953 American English
9720 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
9755 The Denial of Death Ernest Becker 1973 American English
9762 The Armies Evelio Rosero 2007 Colombian Spanish
9885 The Wall Jean Paul Sartre 1939 French French
9930 Streamers David Rabe 1976 American English
9963 Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien 1978 American English
10011 Tamas Bhisham Sahni 1974 Indian Hindi
10084 The Girl With All The Gifts M. R. Carey 2014 British English
10120 Through The Woods Emily Carroll 2014 Canadian English
10139 Badenheim 1939 Aharon Appelfeld 1978 Israeli Hebrew
10168 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
10421 Matterhorn Karl Marlantes 2010 American English
10495 A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare 2023 Albanian Unknown
10573 The Censors Luisa Valenzuela 1976 Argentinian Spanish
10741 The Fifth Child Doris May Lessing 1988 British English
10814 Tomorrow, When The War Began John Marsden 1993 Australian English
10907 The Drone Eats With Me Atef Abu Saif 2015 Palestinian English
10971 The Hunger Alma Katsu 2018 American English
11034 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11068 Fire Down Below William Golding 1989 British English
11163 The Dark Forest Cixin Liu 2008 Chinese Chinese
11168 Ghost Wall Sarah Moss 2018 British English
11238 The Horla Guy de Maupassant 1887 French French
11274 The Need Helen Phillips 2019 American English
11332 The Abominations Of Yondo Clark Ashton Smith 1960 American English
11366 The Dead Man Unknown Unknown Unknown
11419 When No One Is Watching Alyssa Cole 2020 American English
11433 The Troop Nick Cutter 2014 Canadian English
11442 Il Colombre Dino Buzzati 1966 Italian Italian
11539 Benito Cereno Herman Melville 1855 American English
11540 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11547 A Madman's Diary 狂人日記 Lu Xun 1918 Chinese Chinese
11663 Staring At The Sun Julian Barnes 1986 British English
11923 The Ritual Adam Nevill 2011 British English
11926 Spirit Hunters Ellen Oh 2017 American English
12018 Infidel Pornsak Pichetshote 2018 Unknown English
12050 Red April Santiago Roncagliolo 2002 Peruvian Spanish
12071 Night Shift Stephen King 1978 American English
12084 Aids And Its Metaphors Susan Sontag 1989 American English
12378 Haunted Chuck Palahniuk 2005 American English
12426 The Taste Of Fear Hugh Lamb 1970 British English
12703 Cold Skin Albert Sánchez Piñol 2002 Spanish Catalan
12821 Rage Steve Gerlach 2006 Australian English
12957 Clown Town Mick Herron 2025 British Unknown
13232 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Iii Richard Davis 1973 British English
13321 The Wanderer Fritz Leiber 1964 American English
13533 The Height Of The Scream Ramsey Campbell 1976 British English
13600 A Father's Love Jacques Chessex 1973 Swiss French
13600 Week End At Zuydcoote Robert Merle 1949 French French
13793 Vampires In The Lemon Grove Karen Russell 2013 American English
13886 The Vanishing Of Katharina Linden Helen Grant 2009 British English
13993 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Viii Karl Edward Wagner 1980 American English
14232 Berlin Antony Beevor 2002 British English
14787 The Beast in the Jungle Henry James 1903 American English
14826 Necronomicon H. P. Lovecraft 1927 American English
14887 Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe 1840 American English
14985 The House Of Splendid Isolation Edna O'Brien 1994 Irish English
14985 The Cabin At The End Of The World Paul Tremblay 2018 American English
14985 The Luminous Dead Caitlin Starling 2019 American English
14985 Before I Go To Sleep S. J. Watson 2011 British English
14985 Sphere Michael Crichton 1987 American English
14985 Nightfall Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg 1990 American English
14985 Armor John Steakley 1984 American English
14985 Tokyo Ghoul Sui Ishida 2011 Japanese Japanese
14985 The Humans Stephen Karam 2014 American English
14985 Metro 2033 Dmitri Glukhovsky 2005 Russian Russian
14985 The Cellist Of Sarajevo Steven Galloway 2008 Canadian English
14985 Cujo Stephen King 1981 American English
14985 Floating Dragon Peter Straub 1983 American English
14970 End Zone Don DeLillo 1972 American English
14985 Siete Casas Vacías Samanta Schweblin 2015 Argentinian Spanish
15614 The Conquest Of Fear Basil King 1921 Canadian English
15676 Through The Wheat Thomas Boyd 1923 American English
15916 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Ernest Hemingway 1936 American English
15916 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Unknown 1903 Multiple Russian
15916 The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll 1876 British English
16502 The Iron Giant Ted Hughes 1968 British English
15916 Old House Of Fear Russell Kirk 1961 American English
15916 The Wheel Spins Ethel Lina White 1936 British English
15916 Above The Dark Circus Hugh Walpole 1931 British English
15916 The Case Of The Abominable Snowman Nicholas Blake 1941 British English
15912 The Complete Stories Edgar Allan Poe 1832 American English
16543 A Mirror for Witches Esther Forbes 1928 American English
16617 The Diary Of Anne Frank Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich 1955 American English
16590 The Halloween Tree Ray Bradbury 1972 American English
16681 The Seven Who Were Hanged Leonid Andreyev 1908 Russian Russian
16726 The Colour Out Of Space H. P. Lovecraft 1927 American English
16764 The Collected Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1908 American English
16776 De Dødes Tjern André Bjerke 1942 Norwegian Norwegian
17162 The Barracks Thief Tobias Wolff 1984 American English
17162 Killshot Elmore Leonard 1989 American English
17162 The Mountain of My Fear David Roberts 1968 American English