Recs if you like Battle Royale...

For all the multitaskers on here (including myself): books featured on 2+ quests! Go get those badges everyone

a collection of novels that use allegory, dystopia, and satire to examine power, control, propaganda, surveillance, and the fragility of truth. blurring the lines between fiction and reality, these stories reflect the political anxieties of both their own eras and ours.

as always welcome to suggestions !

Books in this list are in at least two quests. Thus helping to earn more badges. Books will span different genres. Once I scan through all the quests, I plan to further organize the list. I am thinking of creating a seperate list and moving the books with three or more quests to the new list and keeping the two badge books in this list. Are there other ways you would organize a list this big?

Overlooked, lesser known classics from all over the world and of many genres.

This list also exists as a book club on Fable under the same name.

For when you need to wallow in melancholy and misery: a collection of pessimistic, cynical, downbeat, depressing, doom and gloom fiction for my disillusioned friends.

More to come!

Got the holiday blues? Check out my list Christmas with the Cranks!

if you like tma, some are just vibes, some actual entities

what it says on the tin! i love a good fantasy book but sometimes you want something a little more grounded in reality. please leave recs

Tier 2 from the disturbing novel iceberg, inspired by the disturbing movie iceberg.

More taboo themes, more gore, and books that stick with you long after reading.

Unsettling or gritty books featuring portraits of troubled youth, with varying elements of horror.

Delicious bone-chilling or depressing works from ingenious Japanese Mangaka featuring me trying not to fill this list with my king, Junji Ito 🫦

Books where violence, anger, and revenge are central themes.

I tried to find the latest version (2026).

inspired by me watching youtube videos about literary analysis of villains, here is a list full of books in which i believe their villains to be absolutely ghastly and horrifying; bloody and abusive, terrorizing and killing. if you have any to recommend, please put them in the comments! i'd love to make this list large!

Books where the author dropped a banger and disappeared. Or just never hit the same level of success ever again.

a collection of recommendations from the Made for the Movies forum

Dystopian books that may feel too close to home for us, but also have a lesson or two about human nature.

Ideas for the 'Road Trip' and 'Traipsing Through Regions' squares of the board :) and maybe at a push, the 'Biomes' square too!

Books are set in regions from around the world, countries around the world or states of the USA (outside of the heavily populated NYC/CA)

Roll the confessional tapes! Books featuring reality tv show plots (or subplots). Pop some popcorn and enjoy your favorite guilty pleasure… in book form.

Enjoying life a bit too much? Everything feeling like it's going too well for you? These books show the alternate realities you could've been in, had you not been in your current potential hell hole! Enjoy reading about the potential misery of the future!