Recs if you like Invisible Monsters...

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!

Tier 1 from the disturbing novels iceberg. Iceberg was created in response to the disturbing movie iceberg. These are the 'beginner' books with difficult themes and some gore.

Explorations of identity, vanity, the fragility of beauty, and mental decay through a dark lens. A multi-genre list that includes literary, contemporary, horror, etc.

exactly what it says on the tin

stories with lots of twists and turns, including (but not limited to) murder mysteries

An early-2000s rock/pop-punk reading list: books that various songs, albums, and artists have taken inspiration from.

Books with a very satisfying or wholly unexpected plot twist (or even better, more than one), even if it made you cry, angry, feel creeped out, or cause you to throw your book across the room. Recommendations welcome!

Books across all genres, set in Washington state.

childhood reads that birthed a bibliophile and are worth rereading, remembering, or revisiting!

books all published in 1999. making this for a book club but check it out if you need your Y2K fix

please recommend an addition if you have one!

Books everyone should be required to read before being accepted into the general population of planet Earth. The kind of stories that change the way you see or interact with the world.

just a list of the books i want to read at some point

Sometimes they get it right.