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
8075 The Great Derangement Matt Taibbi 2008 American English
8212 Collected Stories Of Richard Matheson Richard Matheson 1989 American English
8313 The Bottoms Joe R. Lansdale 2000 American English
8367 Watchers Dean R. Koontz 1987 American English
8430 A Running Duck Paula Gosling 1978 American English
8441 The Diary Of A Gulag Prison Guard 1935 6 Ivan Chistyakov 2016 Russian Russian
8461 The Successor Ismail Kadare 2003 Albanian Albanian
8544 Monster Walter Dean Myers 1999 American English
8569 Fear Itself Ira Katznelson 2013 American English
8590 The Wise Man's Fear Patrick Rothfuss 2011 American English
8614 The Queue Basma Abdel Aziz 2013 Egyptian Arabic
8671 Collected Poems Wilfred Owen 1963 British English
8834 The Axeman's Carnival Catherine Chidgey 2023 New Zealander English
8843 Seeing Red Lina Meruane 2012 Chilean Spanish
8907 The Night Guest Fiona McFarlane 2013 Australian English
8973 Clavícula Marta Sanz 2015 Spanish Spanish
9188 Nemesis Philip Roth 2010 American English
9257 The Memory Police Yōko Ogawa 2024 Japanese Japanese
9372 Can Such Things Be? Ambrose Bierce 1893 American English
9372 In The Midst Of Life Ambrose Bierce 1891 American English
9372 Incredible Adventures Algernon Blackwood 1914 British English
9372 The Haunted Hour Margaret Widdemer 1920 American English
9532 The Tiger John Vaillant 2010 Canadian English
9621 Suddenly In The Depth Of The Forest Amos Oz 2005 Israeli Hebrew
9634 The Playboy Book Of Horror And The Supernatural Ray Russell 1967 American English
9681 Broken Glass Arthur Miller 1994 American English
9715 The Crucible Arthur Miller 1953 American English
9717 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
9752 The Denial of Death Ernest Becker 1973 American English
9759 The Armies Evelio Rosero 2007 Colombian Spanish
9882 The Wall Jean Paul Sartre 1939 French French
9926 Streamers David Rabe 1976 American English
9959 Going After Cacciato Tim O'Brien 1978 American English
10007 Tamas Bhisham Sahni 1974 Indian Hindi
10079 The Girl With All The Gifts M. R. Carey 2014 British English
10116 Through The Woods Emily Carroll 2014 Canadian English
10135 Badenheim 1939 Aharon Appelfeld 1978 Israeli Hebrew
10164 Harvest Jim Crace 2013 British English
10416 Matterhorn Karl Marlantes 2010 American English
10448 Nothing to be Frightened Of Julian Barnes 2008 British English
10490 A Dictator Calls Ismail Kadare 2023 Albanian Unknown
10567 The Censors Luisa Valenzuela 1976 Argentinian Spanish
10735 The Fifth Child Doris May Lessing 1988 British English
10808 Tomorrow, When The War Began John Marsden 1993 Australian English
10900 The Drone Eats With Me Atef Abu Saif 2015 Palestinian English
10964 The Hunger Alma Katsu 2018 American English
11027 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11061 Fire Down Below William Golding 1989 British English
11156 The Dark Forest Cixin Liu 2008 Chinese Chinese
11161 Ghost Wall Sarah Moss 2018 British English
11231 The Horla Guy de Maupassant 1887 French French
11267 The Need Helen Phillips 2019 American English
11325 The Abominations Of Yondo Clark Ashton Smith 1960 American English
11360 The Dead Man Unknown Unknown Unknown
11413 When No One Is Watching Alyssa Cole 2020 American English
11427 The Troop Nick Cutter 2014 Canadian English
11436 Il Colombre Dino Buzzati 1966 Italian Italian
11536 Benito Cereno Herman Melville 1855 American English
11537 Perdido Street Station China Miéville 2000 British English
11544 A Madman's Diary 狂人日記 Lu Xun 1918 Chinese Chinese
11660 Staring At The Sun Julian Barnes 1986 British English
11921 The Ritual Adam Nevill 2011 British English
11924 Spirit Hunters Ellen Oh 2017 American English
12016 Infidel Pornsak Pichetshote 2018 Unknown English
12048 Red April Santiago Roncagliolo 2002 Peruvian Spanish
12070 Night Shift Stephen King 1978 American English
12083 Aids And Its Metaphors Susan Sontag 1989 American English
12376 Haunted Chuck Palahniuk 2005 American English
12424 The Taste Of Fear Hugh Lamb 1970 British English
12701 Cold Skin Albert Sánchez Piñol 2002 Spanish Catalan
12819 Rage Steve Gerlach 2006 Australian English
12954 Clown Town Mick Herron 2025 British Unknown
13229 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Iii Richard Davis 1973 British English
13318 The Wanderer Fritz Leiber 1964 American English
13532 The Height Of The Scream Ramsey Campbell 1976 British English
13599 A Father's Love Jacques Chessex 1973 Swiss French
13599 Week End At Zuydcoote Robert Merle 1949 French French
13792 Vampires In The Lemon Grove Karen Russell 2013 American English
13885 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
14786 The Beast in the Jungle Henry James 1903 American English
14824 Necronomicon H. P. Lovecraft 1927 American English
14886 Tales Of The Grotesque And Arabesque Edgar Allan Poe 1840 American English
14983 The House Of Splendid Isolation Edna O'Brien 1994 Irish English
14983 The Cabin At The End Of The World Paul Tremblay 2018 American English
14983 The Luminous Dead Caitlin Starling 2019 American English
14983 Before I Go To Sleep S. J. Watson 2011 British English
14983 Sphere Michael Crichton 1987 American English
14983 Nightfall Isaac Asimov, Robert Silverberg 1990 American English
14983 Tokyo Ghoul Sui Ishida 2011 Japanese Japanese
14983 The Humans Stephen Karam 2014 American English
14983 Metro 2033 Dmitri Glukhovsky 2005 Russian Russian
14983 The Cellist Of Sarajevo Steven Galloway 2008 Canadian English
14983 Cujo Stephen King 1981 American English
14983 Floating Dragon Peter Straub 1983 American English
14966 End Zone Don DeLillo 1972 American English
14983 Siete Casas Vacías Samanta Schweblin 2015 Argentinian Spanish
15606 The Conquest Of Fear Basil King 1921 Canadian English
15668 Through The Wheat Thomas Boyd 1923 American English
15897 The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber Ernest Hemingway 1936 American English
15897 The Protocols of the Elders of Zion Unknown 1903 Multiple Russian
15897 The Hunting of the Snark Lewis Carroll 1876 British English
16488 The Iron Giant Ted Hughes 1968 British English
15897 Old House Of Fear Russell Kirk 1961 American English
15897 The Wheel Spins Ethel Lina White 1936 British English
15897 Above The Dark Circus Hugh Walpole 1931 British English
15897 The Case Of The Abominable Snowman Nicholas Blake 1941 British English
15895 The Complete Stories Edgar Allan Poe 1832 American English
16520 A Mirror for Witches Esther Forbes 1928 American English
16581 The Diary Of Anne Frank Albert Hackett, Frances Goodrich 1955 American English
16585 The Halloween Tree Ray Bradbury 1972 American English
16648 The Seven Who Were Hanged Leonid Andreyev 1908 Russian Russian
16690 The Colour Out Of Space H. P. Lovecraft 1927 American English
16725 The Collected Tales Of Edgar Allan Poe Edgar Allan Poe 1908 American English
17117 The Barracks Thief Tobias Wolff 1984 American English
17117 Killshot Elmore Leonard 1989 American English
17117 The Mountain of My Fear David Roberts 1968 American English
17117 In A Dark, Dark Wood Ruth Ware 2015 British English
17117 Armor John Steakley 1984 American English