The Greatest Books of All Time on Monsters

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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
320 Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak 1963 American English
579 The Outsider And Others H. P. Lovecraft 1939 American English
669 Beowulf Unknown 1000 Unknown Old english
710 At the Mountains of Madness H. P. Lovecraft 1936 American English
981 It Stephen King 1986 American English
1372 The Horror Horn And Other Stories E. F. Benson 1931 British English
1420 The October Country Ray Bradbury 1955 American English
1425 And The Darkness Falls Boris Karloff 1943 British English
1880 The Complete John Silence Stories Algernon Blackwood 1908 British English
1919 The Dying Earth Jack Vance 1950 American English
1945 Medusa E. H. Visiak 1929 British English
2146 The Night Land William Hope Hodgson 1912 British English
2435 Nine Horrors And A Dream Joseph Payne Brennan 1958 American English
2450 Worse Things Waiting Manly Wade Wellman 1973 American English
2880 Percy Jackson and the Olympians, Book One Rick Riordan 2005 American English
3256 Goosebumps R. L. Stine 1992 American English
3466 Murgunstrumm And Others Hugh B. Cave 1977 American English
3511 Alone With The Horrors Ramsey Campbell 1993 British English
3583 Two Sought Adventure Fritz Leiber 1957 American English
3861 Forest of A Thousand Daemons Daniel O. Fagunwa 1938 Nigerian Yoruba
3884 The Cellar Richard Laymon 1980 American English
4309 The Lurking Fear And Other Stories H. P. Lovecraft 1923 American English
4471 Nifft The Lean Michael Shea 1982 American English
4604 Swords And Deviltry Fritz Leiber 1970 American English
5230 Dark Feasts Ramsey Campbell 1987 British English
5511 The Shadow Over Innsmouth H. P. Lovecraft 1936 American English
5759 The Scar China Miéville 2002 British English
5809 John Dies At The End David Wong 2007 American English
5960 Swords Against Wizardry Fritz Leiber 1968 American English
6085 Danse Macabre Stephen King 1981 American English
6278 Scary Stories To Tell In The Dark Alvin Schwartz 1981 American English
6294 Miss Peregrine's Home For Peculiar Children Ransom Riggs 2011 American English
6678 The Imago Sequence And Other Stories Laird Barron 2007 American English
6727 The Relic Douglas Preston, Lincoln Child 1995 American English
6951 Mamy Wata and the Monster Veronique Tadjo 1988 French French
7050 The Changeling Victor LaValle 2017 American English
7188 Pet Akwaeke Emezi 2019 American English
7628 The Wee Free Men Terry Pratchett 2003 British English
7819 On The Track Of Unknown Animals Bernard Heuvelmans 1955 Belgian French
7922 Uprooted Naomi Novik 2015 American English
7983 The Ocean at the End of the Lane Neil Gaiman 2013 British English
8189 The Fisherman John Langan 2016 American English
8229 Frankenstein In Baghdad Ahmed Saadawi 2013 Iraqi Arabic
8367 Watchers Dean R. Koontz 1987 American English
9121 Lumberjanes Noelle Stevenson 2014 American English
9236 The Sword Of Shannara Terry Brooks 1977 American English
9698 Beasts Made Of Night Tochi Onyebuchi 2017 American English
9717 Tales of H. P. Lovecraft H. P. Lovecraft 1997 American English
9719 Someone You Can Build A Nest In John Wiswell 2024 Unknown English
10291 The Jumbies Tracey Baptiste 2015 Trinidadian English
11027 The Weird Ann VanderMeer 2011 American English
11262 Trail Of Lightning Rebecca Roanhorse 2018 American English
11325 The Abominations Of Yondo Clark Ashton Smith 1960 American English
11469 Index To The Weird Fiction Magazines T. G. L. Cockcroft 1962 Unknown English
12070 Night Shift Stephen King 1978 American English
12217 Tales Of The Cthulhu Mythos August Derleth 1969 American English
13318 Nettle & Bone T. Kingfisher 2022 American English
13511 Gil's All Fright Diner A. Lee Martinez 2005 American English
13548 Conan The Barbarian Robert E. Howard 1932 American English
13767 Heroes And Horrors Fritz Leiber 1978 American English
13767 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Vi Gerald W. Page 1978 American English
13805 The First Book Of Lankhmar Fritz Leiber 1970 American English
13885 Down Among The Sticks And Bones Seanan McGuire 2017 American English
13904 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Vii Gerald W. Page 1979 American English
13993 The Year's Best Horror Stories: Viii Karl Edward Wagner 1980 American English
14163 D'aulaires' Book Of Greek Myths Ingri d'Aulaire 1962 American English
14358 The Crystal Shard R. A. Salvatore 1988 American English
14824 Necronomicon H. P. Lovecraft 1927 American English
14983 A Wizard's Guide to Defensive Baking T. Kingfisher 2020 American English
14983 My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Vol. 1 Emil Ferris 2017 American English
14983 Lovecraft Country Matt Ruff 2016 American English
14983 Tokyo Ghoul Sui Ishida 2011 Japanese Japanese
14983 Pandora's Jar Natalie Haynes 2020 British English
14983 The Ninth Rain Jen Williams 2017 British English
14983 The Coming Of Conan The Cimmerian Robert E. Howard 2003 American English
14983 Anita Blake Laurell K. Hamilton 1993 American English
14983 Blood Of Elves Andrzej Sapkowski 1994 Polish Polish
14983 The Sea Of Monsters Rick Riordan 2006 American English
17117 Castle Hangnail Ursula Vernon 2015 American English
17117 Monstress Vol. 1 Marjorie Liu 2015 American English
17117 Solo Leveling 02 Dubu, CHUGONG 2020 Korean Korean
17117 Jujutsu Kaisen Gege Akutami 2018 Japanese Japanese
17117 Blackwing Ed McDonald 2017 British English
17117 The Bitter Twins Jen Williams 2018 British English
17117 Somewhither John C. Wright 2015 American English
17117 Battle Ground Jim Butcher 2020 American English
17117 House Of Assassins Larry Correia 2019 American English
17117 Monster Hunter Memories Larry Correia, John Ringo 2016 American English
17117 The Hollow Places T. Kingfisher 2020 American English
17117 The Twisted Ones T. Kingfisher 2019 American English
17117 The Girl Who Drank The Moon Kelly Barnhill 2016 American English
17117 The Lightning Thief Rick Riordan 2005 American English
17117 The Battle Of The Labyrinth Rick Riordan 2008 American English
17117 The Last Wish Andrzej Sapkowski 1993 Polish Polish
17117 Sword Of Destiny Andrzej Sapkowski 1992 Polish Polish
17117 The Book Of Lost Things John Connolly 2006 Irish English
17117 North American Lake Monsters Nathan Ballingrud 2013 American English
17117 Dinner On Monster Island Tania De Rozario 2024 Unknown English
17117 How To Get A Girlfriend Marie Cardno 2022 Unknown English
17117 The Dungeon Anarchist's Cookbook Matt Dinniman 2020 Unknown English
17117 Jabberwocky And Other Nonsense Lewis Carroll British English
17117 Kaiju Matt Dinniman American Unknown
17117 This Savage Song Victoria Schwab 2016 American English
17117 Witcher Series 6 Books Set Collection Andrzej Sapkowski 1986 Polish Polish
17117 The Blacktongue Thief Christopher Buehlman 2021 American English
17117 Shadow Slave Guiltythree Korean English
17117 Fantasticland Mike Bockoven 2016 American English
17117 My Favorite Thing Is Monsters Emil Ferris 2017 American English