I Have No Mouth & I Must Scream

Harlan Ellison

Nausea

Jean-Paul Sartre

Sharp Objects

Gillian Flynn

Helter Skelter: The True Story of the Manson Murders

Vincent Bugliosi

Outer Dark

Cormac McCarthy

Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides

Flux

Orion Carloto

The Violent Bear It Away

Flannery O'Connor

A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories

Flannery O'Connor

Bless Me, Ultima

Rudolfo Anaya

Betty

Tiffany McDaniel

House of Cotton

Monica Brashears

Godshot

Chelsea Bieker

The Healing (Celebrating Black Women Writers)

Gayl Jones

The Night of the Flood

Zoë Somerville

The Book of Goose

Yiyun Li

The Gospel Singer

Harry Crews

Knockemstiff

Donald Ray Pollock

The Devil All the Time

Donald Ray Pollock

Beloved

Toni Morrison

The Battlefield Where the Moon Says I Love You

Frank Stanford

Winter's Bone

Daniel Woodrell

Salvage the Bones

Jesmyn Ward

The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter

Carson McCullers

Bastard Out of Carolina

Dorothy Allison