The horror renaissance has done new book releases for the last few years good. The titles that have made it to many Goodreads members’ lists have been by mega bestsellers like Stephen King, sure, but they’ve also been by more authors of color, and have explored things like social issues and family trauma through the lens of horror. There also seems to be a thing with mushrooms.
Below is a sampling of the most popular horror books on Goodreads the last five years — a list compiled by looking at horror books with a 3.5 or higher rating that were found on members’ digital shelves the most.
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Institute by Stephen King
Bunny by Mona Awad
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enríquez
The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Cañas
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
House of Hunger by Alexis Henderson
Motherthing by Ainslie Hogarth
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
Never Whistle at Night: An Indigenous Dark Fiction Anthology, edited by Shane Hawk, Theodore C. Van Alst Jr.
Jackal by Erin E. Adams
Monstrilio by Gerardo Sámano Córdova
For the full, 78-book list, visit Goodreads.
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