Now, there's the yearly lists:
Booklist Queen's Reading Challenge
and then some other interesting things:
The 2025 Pantone Color Challenge
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Sunday, January 26, 2025
Wednesday, January 15, 2025
Suomalaisia lukuhaasteita 2025
Northern Reading Challenge 2025
1. Fear or phobia is associated with the book
2. Collection of essays
3. In the book a museum is visited
4. A book by a Finnish-Swedish or Swedish-Finnish author
5. The book has friendship across borders
6. In the book, character(s) move on skis
7. A book recommended by a colleague/schoolmate/student friend
8. A book in which music plays an important role
Terry Pratchett Soul Music
9. Character-driven book
10. A book I would like to be the main character of
11. Domestic picture book
12. Bildungsroman
At the Sign of the Naked Waiter
13. The book takes place in the Arctic region
14. The book is associated with a swamp
15. In the book, the character(s) is/are isolated
16. Read a poem from the work nominated for the Tanssiva Karhu (Dancing Bear) award
17. A book related to Raahe
- Marjetta, patruunan tytär
- Margareta Keskitalo; Satamakylän serkukset, Tyttö kuunarilaiturilla
- Heidi Köngäs: Vieras mies
18. A book that makes you hungry
19. The book is associated with nostalgia
20. There is a fruit on the cover or title of the book
21. Read a classic comic book
22. Watch a documentary on an interesting topic
23. The name of the book starts with a vowel
24. The title of the book reminds you of a song
25. A book whose name you have to google/look up in the dictionary
Lanark (Apparently it's a town in Scotland)
Helmet-lukuhaaste 2025
1. Kirjan nimessä on alistuskonjunktio (että, jotta, koska, kun, jos, vaikka, kuin, kunnes)
2. Fantasiakirja
3. Kirjan päähenkilö on nuorempi kuin sinä
4. Kirjassa valvotaan yöllä
5. Kirja, jonka joku muu on valinnut sinulle
6. Kirjassa on prologi eli esipuhe
7. Hyvän mielen kirja
8. Kirjan kannen pääväri on vihreä tai kirjan nimessä on sana vihreä
9. Kirjassa on konflikti
10. Kirjassa käydään elokuvissa
11. Tietokirja, joka on julkaistu 2020-luvulla
12. Kirjassa on ilkeä tai paha naishahmo
13. Kirjailija on työskennellyt kirjastossa
14. Kirjan kääntäjä on voittanut Mikael Agricola -palkinnon tai muun käännöspalkinnon
15. Kirjassa ajaudutaan haaksirikkoon
16. Kirja, jossa on sukupuu tai hahmoluettelo
17. Kirjan päähenkilöllä on lemmikkinä kissa tai koira
18. Kirjailijan nimessä on enemmän kuin kaksi osaa
19. Kirja on Keltaisen kirjaston kirjalistalla
20. Kirjasta tulisi mielestäsi hyvä elokuva tai tv-sarja
21. Kirjassa on muusikko
22. Kirjassa lomaillaan
23. Pidät kirjan nimestä
24. Kirjassa tehdään laittomuuksia
25. Kirjan kannessa tai nimessä on käärme
26. Kirjassa on itse valittu perhe
27. Jossain maassa kielletty kirja, joka on julkaistu 2000-luvulla
28. Kirjassa ollaan järvellä
29. Kirjailijan viimeisin teos
30. Kirjassa on häät tai hautajaiset
31. Kirjan päähenkilölle ura on tärkeä
32. Kirja liittyy jollain tavalla Tove Janssoniin
33. Kirjassa ratsastetaan
34. Kirjassa on tunnettu rakennus
35. Kirjan nimessä on sana ”mies” tai ”poika” tai niiden taivutusmuoto
36. Kirjassa opiskellaan sisäoppilaitoksessa
37. Kirjailija on maasta, jossa haluaisit käydä
38. Elämäkertaromaani
39. Kirjassa etsitään ratkaisua arvoitukseen
40. Kirjassa ajalla tai kellolla on tärkeä merkitys
41. Kirjan tapahtumat sijoittuvat aikakauteen, jolla et haluaisi elää
42. Kirjan päähenkilö tekee huonoja valintoja
43. Kirjan nimessä, kannessa tai kuvauksessa on jokin mauste
44. Kirjassa hoidetaan ihmistä (Suomen Sairaanhoitajat 100 vuotta)
45. Kirjassa on isä ja tytär
46. Suosittu kirja, jonka kaikki muut vaikuttavat lukeneen
47.-48. Kaksi kirjaa, joissa on samannimiset päähenkilöt
49. Kirja on julkaistu vuonna 2025
50. Kirjaa on suositellut kirjaston työntekijä
Seinäjoen kaupunginkirjaston lukuhaaste
1. sijoittuu Lappiin tai kertoo Lapista
2. Helsinki tai muu suomalainen kaupunki mainittu
3. saaressa tai saaristossa
4. vesillä
5. luonnossa
6. Suomen kehityksen harppauksia tai kohtalonhetkiä
7. eläimet luonnossa tai kotona
8. nähtävää Suomessa
9. ilmasto ja ilmastonmuutos
10. maahanmuuttajana Suomessa
11. ilmestynyt alun perin ruotsiksi
12. sijoittuu Norjaan
13. kertoo jostakin Baltian maasta
14. suomalainen vähemmistö
15. toisellekin kielelle käännetty suomalaisen kirjailijan teos
16. sisältää murretta, puhekieltä tai slangia, tai alkukieli muu kuin suomi
17. perustuu suomalaiseen mytologiaan tai kansantaruihin
18. nykyajan sankari tai legenda
19. uskonto tai herätysliike
20. suomalaisena maailmalla
21. kansalaisvaikuttaminen
22. onnettaren suosikit tai päähänpotkitut
23. oppimassa ja opiskelemassa
24. nykyajan sodat ja seuraukset
25. liikkuminen ja matkustaminen
26. yhteydenpidon tapoja
27. nykyajan vaikuttajat
28. runous 2000-luvulla
29. sarjakuvaromaani
30. Finlandia-voittaja tai -ehdokas
Tuesday, January 14, 2025
Reading a book for every year of my life
1969 Travels with My Aunt by Graham Greene
1970 Love Story by Erich Segal / The Female Eunuch by Germaine Greer / 84, Charing Cross Road by Helene Hanff
1971 The Exorcist by Peter Blatty / The Dice Man by Luke Rhinehart / The Lathe of Heaven by Ursula K. Le Guin
1972 Don't Point That Thing At Me by Kyril Bonfiglioli / Surfacing by Margaret Atwood
1973 The Hollow Hills by Mary Stewart / Rendezvous With Rama by Arthur C. Clarke / Fear of Flying by Erica Jong / Sula by Toni Morrison
1974 The Perilous Gard by Elizabeth Marie Pope / Carrie by Stephen King / The Forever War by Joe Haldeman / The Forgotten Beasts of Eld by Patricia A. McKillip / The Dispossessed by Ursula K. Le Guin
1975 Ragtime by E. L. Doctorow / Jäniksen vuosi by Arto Paasilinna / The Autumn of the Patriarch by Gabriel García Márquez / Tuck Everlasting by Natalie Babbitt / Miestä ei voi raiskata by Märta Tikkanen
1976 Touch Not the Cat by Mary Stewart / Roots by Alex Haley / The Modigliani Scandal by Ken Follett / The Stone Book Quartet by Alan Garner / A Stitch in Time by Penelope Lively / The Woman Warrior by Maxine Hong Kingston
1977 The Shining by Stephen King / Song of Solomon by Toni Morrison / The Women's Room by Marilyn French / Egalias döttrar by Gerd Brantenberg
1978 The Stand by Stephen King / The Westing Game by Ellen Raskin / A Distant Mirror by Barbara W. Tuchman / Shosha by Isaac Bashevis Singer / The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy
1979 The Last Enchantment by Mary Stewart / The Bloody Chamber and Other Stories by Angela Carter / Ghost Story by Peter Straub / Re: Colonised Planet 5, Shikasta by Doris Lessing
1980 The Key to Rebecca by Ken Follett / Peter the Great: His Life and World by Robert K. Massie / The Magicians of Caprona by Diana Wynne Jones
1981 The Hotel New Hampshire by John Irving / Little, Big by John Crowley / Gorky Park by Martin Cruz Smith / Women, Race & Class by Angela Davis
1982 The Blue Sword by Robin McKinley / Fevre Dream by George R.R. Martin
1983 The Wicked Day by Mary Stewart / Hollywood Wives by Jackie Collins / The Woman in Black by Susan Hill / Startide Rising by David Brin / Kalpa Imperial by Angélica Gorodischer
1984 The Talisman by Stephen King and Peter Straub / The Unbearable Lightness of Being by Milan Kundera / Legend by David Gemmell / Native Tongue by Suzette Haden Elgin
1985 Contact by Carl Sagan / Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy / Maus by Art Spiegelman / Many Waters by Madeleine L'Engle
1986 It by Stephen King / Speaker for the Dead by Orson Scott Card / The Warrior's Apprentice by Lois McMaster Bujold
1987 Misery by Stephen King / War for the Oaks
1988 The Mezzanine by Nicholson Baker / Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler
1989 The Satanic Verses by Salman Rushdie / The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro / A Prayer for Owen Meany by John Irving / The Chessmen of Doom by John Bellairs
1990 The Flanders Panel by Arturo Pérez-Reverte / Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie / Darcy's Utopia by Fay Weldon / Tigana by Guy Gavriel Kay
1991 American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis / The Kitchen God's Wife by Amy Tan / Barrayar by Lois McMaster Bujold / Cloudstreet by Tim Winton
1992 Red Mars by Kim Stanley Robinson / The Good Fairies of New York by Martin Millar / Doomsday Book by Connie Willis / Bailey's Café by Gloria Naylor / A Calculated Risk by Katherine Neville
1993 Stone Butch Blues by Leslie Feinberg / Parable of the Sower by Octavia E. Butler / The List of Seven by Mark Frost / The Shipping News by Annie Proulx / A Suitable Boy by Vikram Seth
1994 Gender Outlaw by Kate Bornstein / The Book of Secrets by M.G.Vassanji / Corelli's Mandolin by Louis de Bernières / The Wind-up Bird Chronicle by Haruki Murakami
1995 Chronicle of a Blood Merchant by Yu Hua / Der Vorleser by Bernhard Schlink / The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro / The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer by Neal Stephenson
1996 Alias Grace by Margaret Atwood / Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk / Infinite Jest by David Foser Wallace / The Vagina Monologues by Eve Ensler / A Game of Thrones by George R.R. Martin / Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt / The Sparrow by Mary Doria Russell
1997 The Red Wyvern by Katharine Kerr / Killing Floor by Lee Child / Up Island by Anne Rivers Siddons / Ella Enchanted by Gail Carson Levine / The God of Small Things by Arundhati Roy / Tuesdays with Morrie by Mitch Albom
1998 My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk / Sailing to Sarantium by Guy Gavriel Kay / The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver / The Hours by Michael Cunningham ( Also Mrs Dalloway by Virginia Woolf) / The No. 1 Ladies' Detective Agency by Alexander McCall Smith
1999 Daughter of the Forest by Juliet Marillier/ There and Back Again: by Max Merriwell by Pat Murphy / Girl with a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier / Ahab's Wife, or The Star-Gazer by Sena Jeter Naslund / Battle Royale by Koushun Takami / Confessions of a Shopaholic by Sophie Kinsella
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
2010
2011
2012
2013
2014
2015
2016
2017
2018
2019
2020
2021
2022
2023
2024
2025
Suuri Nuorten Kirjakerho
Suuri Nuorten Kirjakerho oli Suuren Suomalaisen Kirjakerhon nuortenkirja-sarja, jota julkaistiin 1976-1980. Luulen että kerho julkaisi kirjan kuukaudessa, mutta en tiedä koska se alkoi, eli kuinka monta kirjaa he julkaisivat 1976. En myöskään tiedä missä järjestyksessä kirjat julkaistiin.
1980 vaaleanpunainen
Porokylän porukan talvi - Anna-Liisa Haakana
Minustako urheilija?! - Stanislav Rudolf (Julkaistu myös nimellä Tonnikala)
Tähdenlento - K.M.Peyton
(alkuperäisteos Fly-by-Night, ensimmäinen osa 5-osaisesta sarjasta)
Mahdoton Marionetti - Nan Inger
Susikoira Roin tunturiseikkailu - Jorma Kurvinen
Yllä meren, alla kiven - Susan Cooper
Jättiläisen tasku - Anni Lahtinen
Rock & Rocky: sirkus palaa - Wolfgang W. Parth
Varastetun maiseman tapaus - Terrance Dicks
Silta salaiseen maahan - Katherine Paterson
Kätkijät - Mary Norton
Kiljusen herrasväen seikkailut - Jalmari Finne
1979 keltainen
Punaisten apinoitten linna - Wolfgang Ecke
Susikoira Roi Lapissa - Jorma Kurvinen
Viimeiset turnajaiset - Harry Kullman
Kättä päälle, Vasco da Gama - Arto Seppälä
Tom Sawyerin seikkailut - Mark Twain
Lintukansan poika - Anne Aarnio
Seikkailujen sirkus - Enid Blyton
Uhmamielinen syksy - Stanislav Rudolf
Uponnut auto - Arvi Arjatsalo
Villieläinten heimo - René Guillot
Jenni ja nummien villihevonen - Patricia Leitch
Pelastakaa kummitukset - Eva Ibbotson
1978 sininen
Taistelukala - S.E.Hinton
Operaatio Merimies - Tor Edvin Dahl
Takapihan sankareita / Kräki-Kalle ja Limperi - Kaarlo Merimaa
Puumajakesä - Lilian Kallio
Rock & Rocky Gangsterien kannoilla - Wolfgang W. Parth
Taistelu Venuksessa - Robert A. Heinlein
Susikoira Roi ja seikkailu saaristossa - Jorma Kurvinen
Jotkut senkun häipyy - Anna-Greta Winberg
Krokotiilijengi - Max von der Grün
Lähtö kello yksi - Sisko Latvus
Villioriin varsa - Mary Elwyn Patchett
Niin vaelsivat sisarukset - Ann Rutgers
1977 vihreä
Valkoisen suden pako - Mel Ellis
Koko kaupungin Vinski / Vinski ja Vinsentti - Aapeli
Pieni Tuittupää / Tuittupää ja pikku Totsi - Leena Härma
Kahden vuoden loma-aika - Jules Verne
Prinssi ja kerjäläispoika - Mark Twain
Viisikko aarresaarella / Viisikko vanhassa majakassa - Enid Blyton
Ilmasilta / Hiljaisen joen aave - Mikko Samulinen
Vanhan talon kummitus - Penelope Lively
Susikoira Roi - Jorma Kurvinen
Maailman ympäri 80 päivässä - Jules Verne
Palaneen talon salaisuus / Kadonneen kissan salaisuus / Kadonneen kaulakorun salaisuus - Enid Blyton
Ratsukesä - Marvi Jalo
1976 punainen
Viimeiset kaanit / Pertsa ja Kilu - Väinö Riikkilä
Hevoshoitola Varsanjalka - Monica Dickens
Robinson Crusoe - Daniel Defoe
Pääkallokiitäjä - Asko Martinheimo
Saturday, January 11, 2025
GoodReads f'd up, again
I have been using the GoodReads' Reading Challenge page to kind of blog about my reading, and to note interesting reading challenges and ideas, but GoodReads made it so that it isn't possible any longer. Not only that, but if I'm logged in, I can't even see the previous posts. Luckily, one can go to comments and track the URL, so that one can go to Internet Archive and archive the page... but... WHY? Why, GoodReads? It's like with Pinterest, they ignore what people are asking, and put in "improvements" no-one asked for. I suppose it's the advertisers that are prioritized, and the users are being ignored, so in the end the users will leave the site, and the site will vanish. Good job, GoodReads. As if the users weren't p'd off enough already.
Anyway, here's the link to my pages:
Ketutar's Reading Challenge 2019
Ketutar's Reading Challenge 2020
Ketutar's Reading Challenge 2021
Ketutar's Reading Challenge 2022
Ketutar's Reading Challenge 2023
Ketutar's Reading Challenge 2024
I will be blogging here instead from now on.
Monday, April 29, 2024
TBR game
I have been binging the TBR game videos on Youtube :-D
I love the complicated things where people need to do tons of different things, like spin a wheel, cards, tbr jars and everything :-D
To fit these to my TBR list - which is extensive, as you all know - I think I need to do a couple of things.
1) I participate in several reading challenges. I'm obsessed with them. I love reading prompts and trying to find books I'd want to read that fulfill the prompt.
So - I have 5 book-a-week challenges, so I could make each a tbr jar, and pick a prompt from each for each week, and then either read them in one book or more if needed... that would be interesting.
I have my fantasy reading challenge.
2) Then there are the prompts that involve counting bookshelves and books on shelves... That is not a good idea for my shelves, as I don't have shelves of physical books I haven't read. But I have over 1000 books on my digital TBR list. I could divide them into shelves, and use that.
I have enough books on my TBR list to have 24 shelves with over 60 books in each, so I could use the time prompt. (What's the time, hour is the bookshelf, minutes the book)
3) I need to pick out all the series from my TBR list, and number them. (I mean, #1, #2, etc.)
4) genre
5) I have books in different "lists", like on Kindle, Netgalley, etc.
6) There are lists I want to do, like Are You Well Read in World Literature?
7) There's always the Dewey Decimal System :-D
Also, the "punishment" of not having read a book that was on the list.
You have to read it the next month, you have to exchange one book from the TBR list for that, and IF you don't read it, you have to remove it from your TBR list.
Friday, April 19, 2024
Horror MAYhem 2024 is coming!
Themes:
Week 1 - Local Horror
I live in Sweden, so I think Sweden is an area limited enough. Also, we have John Ajvide Lindqvist who writes about Stockholm, so - that's even closer. I am also interested in Feberflickan by Elisabeth Östnäs, and Syggelsen by Amanda Hellberg.
Week 2 - Movie Horror
Now, some great horror novels movies are based on.
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson - the movies suck, the book is good, psychological horror. Nothing paranormal really happens, but the terror is thick!
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
I Am Legend by Richard Matheson (don't bother with the Will Smith movie - if you must, watch Omega Man with Charlton Heston, or The Last Man on Earth with Vincent Price)
American Psycho by Bret Easton Ellis
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker (Hellraiser)
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty - movie is better than the book
There is also a sequel to the book, called Legion
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell - a longer version: Frozen Hell (Thing)
Basically anything by Stephen King has been made into a film
Week 3 - Classic Horror
Anything written before 1980. Preferably anything written before 1950. In my mind it should be even older than that :-D
The Mysteries of Udolpho by Ann Radcliffe, 1794
The Monk by Matthew Lewis, 1796
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley 1818
The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket by Edgar Allan Poe 1938
The Fall of the House of Usher by Edgar Allan Poe, 1839
Good Lady Ducayne by Elizabeth Mary Braddon, 1869
Carmilla by Sheridan le Fanu, 1872
Dracula by Bram Stoker, 1897
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James, 1898
Lair of the White Worm by Bram Stoker, 1911
The Room in the Tower by E.F. Benson, 1912
The Call of Cthulhu and Other Weird Stories by H.P.Lovecraft, 1926
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P.Lovecraft 1931
Collected Ghost Stories by M.R.James 1931
The Woman in Black by Susan Hill. 1947
Week 4 - Contemporary Horror
Presumably, this would be anything written after 1980. Some of the readers weren't even born then, and then it cannot be contemporary, can it? I was born in 1969, so in my case, it should be anything written since then. But - to me, it's something written in the 2020s :-D
Mary by Nat Cassidy, 2022 - it's apparently a... retelling or something, of Carrie, so I think I want to read Carrie first.
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher, 2022
Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente, 2021
When the Reckoning Comes by LaTanya McQueen, 2021
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca, 2021
Near the Bone by Christina Henry, 2021
The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon, 2021
Now, we have the GoodReads Choice Awards winner in the Horror category for 2023, Holly by Stephen King, and I want to read all the books with Holly before I read that.
Also, we have the Bram Stoker Awards, and the winner of 2022 best novel winner was Gabino Iglesias, The Devil Takes you Home
Prompts:
These prompts are very freely interpretable - if you think it fits, it fits.
1 - Universal Monsters
I am going with Universal Studios' classic monster flicks, Dracula, Frankenstein, The Invisible Man, The Phantom of the Opera, The Wolf Man, and The Mummy. Now, the four first ones are based on books, the two last ones are not. There also were Murders in the Rue Morgue and Island of Lost Souls (Island of Doctor Moreau), on the list, and a few of E.A.Poe's short stories and poems, like The Black Cat, and The Raven.
So - any of the originals I have on my horror classics list would do, but also any derivates, like I have Frankenstein in Baghdad and Fables, Vol.1: Legends in Exile, on my TBR list, and then I am somewhat interested in The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss, and Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match by Sally Thorne. Theodora Goss' monster girl book would fit this category pretty nicely anyway, as she based her book series on these classic monsters.
We have The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova based on Dracula. I could reread it. I liked it.
Salem's Lot has vampires, Soulless by Gail Carriger has vampires, and Fledgling by Octavia Butler. All those are on my TBR list.
Now, Theodora Goss and Sally Thorne are not horror, neither is Fables, so I don't count them, but others might.
2 - Graphic Novels/Comics/Alternate Media
I have From Hell by Alan Moore, and Uzumaki by Junji Ito
I could read The Red Mother Vol. 2
and I'm interested in Something Is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera
I could read Neil Gaiman's Snow, Glass, Apples, illustrated by Colleen Doran. It is a true horror story that one :-D
3 - Cult Horror
So... is it a horror novel that has got a cult status, or a horror novel about a cult, or a cult like situation?
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon - this is my yearly tradition, to watch the miniseries for Lammas.
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
The Shining by Stephen King - a true cult classic.
Last Days by Brian Evenson
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
4 - Indie Horror
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
Kealan Patrick Burke's Sour Candy
The Frangipani Hotel by Violet Kupersmith
The Coming Thing by Anne Billson
5 - Personal Horror/Phobias
Insects... and other such things. I can't even stand butterflies and ladybugs. They aren't cute, they are terrifying. This scene in The Temple of Doom... sorry, Indy, I can't. Sorry. Ew.
I think Slugs by Shaun Hutson is enough yucky, but Franz Kafka's Metamorphosis might be bad enough :-D
Parasite trilogy by Mira Grants (pandemic of parasitic worms - yök!)
Now, one could understand this prompt as a book about someone else's personal phobias.
6 - Haunted House
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirely Jackson
The Good House by Tananarive Due
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
7 - Possession
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill
The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Shining by Stephen King
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Pandemonium by Daryl Gregory
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
8 - Religious Horror
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Monk by Matthew Gregory Lewis
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
Last Days by Brian Evenson
The Case Against Satan by Ray Russell
Bunny by Mona Awad
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam Nevill
They Thirst by Robert McCammon
The Library of the Unwritten by A.J.Hackwith
Inferno by Dante Alighieri
Carrie by Stephen King
The Great God Pan by Arthur Machen
The Wicker Man by Robin Hardy and Anthony Shaffer
King David and the Spiders from Mars
Charles Robert Maturin's Melmoth the Wanderer and
Sarah Perry's Melmoth
9 - Body Horror
Books of Blood by Clive Barker
Handling the Undead by John Ajvide Lindqvist
The Complete Works of H.P.Lovecraft
It by Stephen King
The Troop by Nick Cutter
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
The Cipher by Kathe Koja
10 - Slasher
Psycho by Robert Bloch
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
The Shining by Stephen King
Ring by Kōji Suzuki
11 - Killer Animals
The Rats by James Herbert
Slugs by Hutson
12 - Horror Adjacent (SciFi, Romantic, Etc.)
The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
Coraline by Neil Gaiman
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
A Night in the Lonesome October by Roger Zelazny
13 - Translated Horror
Frankenstein in Baghdad by Ahmed Saadawi
Fever Dream by Samanta Schweblin
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
Out by Natsuo Kirino
14 - Diverse Authors
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (Seanan McGuire)
Feed by Mira Grant
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite (Billy Martin)
Her Body and Other Parties by Carmen Maria Machado
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
15 - Kidnappings
The Beetle by Richard Marsh
Misery by Stephen King
16 - Psychological Horror
Misery by Stephen King
The Shining by Stephen King
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski
American Psycho by Breat Easton Ellis
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
It by Stephen King
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric LaRocca
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
17 - Extreme Horror
Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke
The Wasp Factory by Iain Banks
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Blood Meridian by Cormac McCarthy
Let's Go Play at the Adams' by Mendal W. Johnson
One Rainy Night by Richard Laymon
18 - <3 One for Pax <3
Pax Panic was a YouTuber, who passed away a couple of months ago. F Cancer.
Either a green cover or one of her five-star reviews:
Tinfoil Butterfly by Rachel Eve Moulton
Uzumaki by Junji Ito
The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
Cackle by Rachel Harrison
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
The Land of Laughs by Jonathan Carroll
Drawing Blood by Poppy Z. Brite
19 - Cozy Horror
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Cackle by Rachel Harrison
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Bunny by Mona Awad
The October Country by Ray Bradbury
Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
20 - Non-Fiction/Based on a True Story
Night Mother: A Personal and Cultural History of The Exorcist by Marlena Williams
Danse Macabre by Stephen King
Monster, She Wrote: The Women Who Pioneered Horror and Speculative Fiction by Lisa Kröger and Melanie R. Anderson
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
21 - Cannibalism
22 - Apocalyptic/Post-Apocalyptic
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
I Am Legend by Richard Matherson
The Stand by Stephen King
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
The Chrysalids by John Wyndham
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Malorie by Josh Malerman
The Passage by Justin Cronin
23 - Elemental/Environment
eco-horror or elemental horror, horror caused by water, air, earth, fire...
The Terror by Arthur Machen
The Road by Cormac McCarthy
The Drowned World
The Crystal World
The Wind from Nowhere by J.G.Ballard
Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin (translated)
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
We Need to Do Something by Max Booth III
Sorrowland by Rivers Solomon
The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley
Slugs by Shaun Hutson
Thin Air by Michelle Paver
The Hollow Places by T.Kingfisher
The Elementals by Michael McDowell
24 - Folk Horror
Rawhead Rex by Clive Barker in Books of Blood Vol 3
25 - Ghost
Dark Matter: A Ghost Story by Michelle Paver
26 - Witches
Cackle by Rachel Harrison
Well Witched by Frances Hardinge
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
The House Witch by Delemhach
Old Virginia by Laird Baron (in the anthology The Imago Sequence)
The Croning
HEX by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
27 - Cryptids
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant (mermaids)
Devolution by Max Brooks (bigfoot)
28 - Cosmic Horror
"The Colour out of Space by HP Lovecraft if you want what is perhaps the best and most cosmic cosmic horror out there IMO."
Call of Cthulhu by HP Lovecraft
The King in Yellow by Robert W. Chambers (and only that short story)
The Cipher by Kathe Koja
A Black and Endless Sky by Matthew Lyons
29 - Home Invasions
Intensity by Dean R. Koontz
30 - Aliens
Who Goes There? by John W. Campbell - a longer version: Frozen Hell
Peter Watts' Blindsight
Bird Box
31 - Curses
The Night Gardener by Jonathan Auxier
Anna Dressed in Blood by Kendare Blake
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt
The Cipher by Kathe Koja.
Ring and Spiral by Kôji Suzuki
Adam Nevill's No One Gets Out Alive
Horrorstör
The King in Yellow
32 - Dolls
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Comfort Me with Apples by Catherynne M. Valente
Night of the Mannequins by Stephen Graham Jones
Dolly by Susan Hill
The Doll Collection edited by Ellen Datlow
33 - Clowns
It by Stephen King
The God of Dark Laughter by Michael Chabon
34 - Holiday Horror
The Shining by Stephen King
NOS4R2 by Joe Hill
Hell House by Richard Matheson
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
35 - Evil Children
Fever Dream by Samantha Schweblin
The Illustrated Man by Ray Bradbury
Sour Candy by Kealan Patrick Burke
The Wasp Factory by Iain Reid
Let's Go Play at the Adams' by Mendal W. Johnson
The Midwich Cuckoos by John Wyndham
The Fifth Child by Doris Lessing
The Turn of the Screw by Henry James
The Bad Seed by William March
The Other by Thomas Tryon
the Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Troop by Nick Cutter
36 - Technological Horror
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
At the Mountains of Madness by H. P. Lovecraft,
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream by Harlan Ellison
Clay's Ark by Octavia Butler
John Dies at the End
The Andromeda Strain by Michael Crichton
I Am Legend Richard Matheson
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