The 10 books on this stack
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Margaret Atwood 1986 3 want to read
Why it's on the stack
A threat that keeps growing · a society that controls everything
It shares this with 6 more books on this stack
Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford – her assigned name, Offred, means ‘of Fred’.
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Octavia E. Butler 1993
Why it's on the stack
It tells it straight · fierce and defiant
It shares this with 1 more book on this stack
"In the year 2024, the country is marred by unattended environmental and economic crises that lead to social chaos.
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Annie Jacobsen 2024 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It'll scare you · full of big ideas
It shares this with 7 more books on this stack
Nuclear war begins with a blip on a radar screen. This is a minute-by-minute account of what comes next.
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Whitley Strieber 1987
Why it's on the stack
It won't tell you everything at once · meeting beings from another world
It shares this with 2 more books on this stack
On December 26th 1985 Whitley Strieber was woken in his isolated cabin in upstate New York, he saw a creature in his bedroom.
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Stephen King 1996 2 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Properly scary · it leaves you shaken
It shares this with 7 more books on this stack
A horror story of a children's pet cemetery and another graveyard behind it from which the dead return.
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Josh Malerman 2001 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
Unsettling from the first page · surviving with everything scarce
It shares this with 6 more books on this stack
Josh Malerman’s debut novel Bird Box is a terrifying, Hitchcockesque psychological horror that is sure to stay with you long after reading.
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Thomas Harris 1981 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
It'll scare you · hunting a serial killer
It shares this with 7 more books on this stack
Years later, a serial killer nicknamed 'the Tooth Fairy' is massacring entire families each full moon.
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Stephen King 1992 1 want to read
Why it's on the stack
You read it holding your breath · a haunted house
It shares this with 6 more books on this stack
One of the true classics of horror, THE SHINING is regarded as one of Stephen King's masterpieces.
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Mark Z. Danielewski 1998
Why it's on the stack
Properly scary · a haunted house
It shares this with 7 more books on this stack
Get ready to (re)discover the terrifying, thrilling, and mind-expanding immersive classic horror that redefines the boundaries of a novel .
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Shirley Jackson 2002
Why it's on the stack
You read it holding your breath · you need to know how it ends
It shares this with 6 more books on this stack
Four seekers have arrived at the rambling old pile known as Hill House- Dr. Montague, an occult scholar looking for solid evidence of psychic phenomena; Theodora, his lovely and lighthearted…