Challenge: 101 Horror Books to Read Before You're Murdered
First off, let me say that this is a fantastic resource for any horror lover. Sadie Hartmann has outdone herself with this guide. She has a fresh engaging rhythm that kept me reading about each book, even in the categories of horror that do not really interest me. I recommend grabbing this book in print, rather than e-book, because it makes such a great addition to my library.
That said, before I read this book, I thought of myself as relatively up to date on horror. Hartmann has completely shattered that illusion. Of the 101 horror books listed here, I have read an embarrassing one of them, with one DNF, and two others sitting in my To-be-read pile. To remedy this shame, I have worked my way through the suggested books and the featured authors to curate a list of 32 horror books that I will be reading over the next year.
I had no intention of reading all 101 because then people would be free to murder me. There are also some categories of horror that do not appeal to me such as cosmic and body horror. Despite my love of horror, I am also a bit squeamish, so a lot of the books labelled brutal or blood-soaked did not make it onto my list.
I do love things like haunted houses, ghosts, monsters, coming of age, small towns, and witches, so there were still plenty of books that caught my fancy. See below for the list. I will be reviewing each of these books as I go and will update this post with links to those reviews as I complete them.
Read:
- Children of Chicago by Cynthia Pelayo - Review
To Read (not in order):
- Daphne by Josh Malerman
- Number One Fan by Meg Elison
- The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
- The Children on the hill by Jennifer McMahon
- The Ghost Sequences by A. C. Wise (already owned and in my TBR)
- The Trees Grew Because I Bled There: Collected Stories by Eric LaRocca
- The Deer Kings by Wendy N. Wagner
- The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
- Ring Shout by P. Djèlí Clark
- The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Ancestor by Danielle Trussoni
- The Return by Rachel Harrison
- The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
- Camp Slaughter by Sergio Gomez
- Little Eve by Catriona Ward (already owned and in my TBR)
- The Switch House by Tim Meyer
- The Hunger by Alma Katsu
- Cry Your Way Home by Damien Angelica Walters
- The Laws of the Skies by Grégoire Courtois
- Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
- The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
- Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
- Penpal by Dathan Auerbach
- Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman
- Knock Knock by S. P. Miskowski
- Apartment 16 by Adam L. G. Nevill
- Heart-shaped Box by Joe Hill
- The Good House by Tananarive Due
- Tribal Screams by Owl Goingback
- The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
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