Best Horror Books of the 21st Century

1.
NOS4A2
NOS4A2
by: Joe Hill
4.08 avg rating — 139,875 ratings
2.
House of Leaves
House of Leaves 4.09 avg rating — 191,484 ratings
3.
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1)
Bird Box (Bird Box, #1) 4.04 avg rating — 205,149 ratings
4.
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War
World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War 4.02 avg rating — 556,654 ratings
5.
Heart-Shaped Box
Heart-Shaped Box
by: Joe Hill
3.84 avg rating — 148,823 ratings
6.
Let the Right One In
Let the Right One In 4.04 avg rating — 118,298 ratings
7.
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2)
Doctor Sleep (The Shining, #2) 4.13 avg rating — 286,804 ratings
8.
Horns
Horns
by: Joe Hill
3.93 avg rating — 118,557 ratings
9.
The Road
The Road really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1,001,806 ratings
10.
The Terror
The Terror 4.09 avg rating — 70,644 ratings
11.
The Passage (The Passage, #1)
The Passage (The Passage, #1) 4.05 avg rating — 220,300 ratings
12.
The Ruins
The Ruins 3.69 avg rating — 63,274 ratings
13.
A Head Full of Ghosts
A Head Full of Ghosts 3.78 avg rating — 100,595 ratings
14.
John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1)
John Dies at the End (John Dies at the End, #1) 3.87 avg rating — 81,905 ratings
15.
Under the Dome
Under the Dome 3.93 avg rating — 317,802 ratings
16.
Full Dark, No Stars
Full Dark, No Stars 4.08 avg rating — 115,762 ratings
17.
American Gods (American Gods, #1)
American Gods (American Gods, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 978,833 ratings
18.
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
Locke & Key, Vol. 1: Welcome to Lovecraft
by: Joe Hill
4.15 avg rating — 98,992 ratings
19.
Dark Places
Dark Places 3.94 avg rating — 816,124 ratings
20.
The Troop
The Troop 3.84 avg rating — 114,101 ratings
21.
Cell
Cell 3.66 avg rating — 233,465 ratings
22.
Penpal
Penpal 3.86 avg rating — 55,504 ratings
23.
Revival
Revival 3.81 avg rating — 137,079 ratings
24.
This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2)
This Book Is Full of Spiders (John Dies at the End, #2) 4.26 avg rating — 33,617 ratings
25.
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1)
Annihilation (Southern Reach, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 281,971 ratings
26.
Night Film
Night Film 3.78 avg rating — 94,540 ratings
27.
20th Century Ghosts
20th Century Ghosts
by: Joe Hill
3.90 avg rating — 46,894 ratings
28.
The Strain (The Strain #1)
The Strain (The Strain #1) 3.80 avg rating — 89,390 ratings
29.
Joyland
Joyland 3.93 avg rating — 173,545 ratings
30.
Haunted
Haunted 3.59 avg rating — 109,650 ratings
31.
The Fisherman
The Fisherman 3.86 avg rating — 39,607 ratings
32.
The Ritual
The Ritual 3.57 avg rating — 31,372 ratings
33.
From a Buick 8
From a Buick 8 3.49 avg rating — 73,524 ratings
34.
Lisey's Story
Lisey's Story 3.70 avg rating — 92,733 ratings
35.
The Girl With All the Gifts
The Girl With All the Gifts 3.95 avg rating — 240,829 ratings
36.
The Walking Dead, Book One
The Walking Dead, Book One 4.35 avg rating — 37,621 ratings
37.
The Twelve (The Passage, #2)
The Twelve (The Passage, #2) 4.03 avg rating — 104,804 ratings
38.
Horrorstör
Horrorstör 3.65 avg rating — 115,499 ratings
39.
Teatro Grottesco
Teatro Grottesco 4.10 avg rating — 5,666 ratings
40.
The Croning
The Croning 3.72 avg rating — 6,079 ratings
41.
Everything's Eventual
Everything's Eventual 3.97 avg rating — 107,014 ratings
42.
The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1)
The Monstrumologist (The Monstrumologist, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 20,417 ratings
43.
Ghost Road Blues (Pine Deep, #1)
Ghost Road Blues (Pine Deep, #1) 3.79 avg rating — 8,881 ratings
44.
Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4)
Still Life With Crows (Pendergast, #4) 4.21 avg rating — 41,114 ratings
45.
The Summer I Died (The Roger Huntington Saga, #1)
The Summer I Died (The Roger Huntington Saga, #1) 3.88 avg rating — 7,287 ratings
46.
Zombie Survival Guide, The: Complete Protection From The Living Dead
Zombie Survival Guide, The: Complete Protection From The Living Dead 3.86 avg rating — 105,085 ratings
47.
The Library at Mount Char
The Library at Mount Char 4.07 avg rating — 72,440 ratings
48.
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon
The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon 3.64 avg rating — 174,621 ratings
49.
The Imago Sequence
The Imago Sequence really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4,689 ratings
50.
The Devil All the Time
The Devil All the Time 4.14 avg rating — 39,425 ratings
51.
14 (Threshold, #1)
14 (Threshold, #1) 3.97 avg rating — 38,673 ratings
52.
Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1)
Rot & Ruin (Rot & Ruin, #1) 4.10 avg rating — 36,601 ratings
53.
The Traveling Vampire Show
The Traveling Vampire Show 3.82 avg rating — 9,363 ratings
54.
A Winter Haunting (Seasons of Horror #4)
A Winter Haunting (Seasons of Horror #4) 3.60 avg rating — 10,699 ratings
55.
The Last Days of Jack Sparks
The Last Days of Jack Sparks 3.85 avg rating — 12,058 ratings
56.
The Deep
The Deep 3.42 avg rating — 38,930 ratings
57.
The Bleeding Season
The Bleeding Season 3.77 avg rating — 1,011 ratings
58.
Kin
Kin 3.88 avg rating — 5,444 ratings
59.
Afraid (The Konrath Dark Thriller Collective #3)
Afraid (The Konrath Dark Thriller Collective #3) 3.92 avg rating — 9,676 ratings
60.
Infected (Infected, #1)
Infected (Infected, #1) 3.83 avg rating — 22,526 ratings
61.
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All
The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All 3.99 avg rating — 4,510 ratings
62.
Uzumaki
Uzumaki
by: Junji Ito
4.45 avg rating — 82,643 ratings
63.
Mexican Gothic
Mexican Gothic 3.67 avg rating — 416,543 ratings
64.
Last Days
Last Days 3.72 avg rating — 13,472 ratings
65.
The Rising (The Rising #1)
The Rising (The Rising #1) 3.80 avg rating — 10,829 ratings
66.
Zone One
Zone One 3.25 avg rating — 26,611 ratings
67.
Handling the Undead
Handling the Undead 3.49 avg rating — 13,294 ratings
68.
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
Angels & Demons (Robert Langdon, #1)
by: Dan Brown
3.95 avg rating — 3,343,989 ratings
69.
Drood
Drood 3.54 avg rating — 17,354 ratings
70.
Coraline
Coraline 4.13 avg rating — 760,592 ratings
71.
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4)
Breaking Dawn (The Twilight Saga, #4) 3.75 avg rating — 1,832,796 ratings
72.
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1)
Into the Drowning Deep (Rolling in the Deep, #1) 3.95 avg rating — 42,655 ratings
73.
My Best Friend's Exorcism
My Best Friend's Exorcism 3.93 avg rating — 140,010 ratings
74.
The Reapers are the Angels (Reapers, #1)
The Reapers are the Angels (Reapers, #1) 3.89 avg rating — 12,472 ratings
75.
The Grin of the Dark
The Grin of the Dark 3.42 avg rating — 771 ratings
76.
Occultation and Other Stories
Occultation and Other Stories 4.07 avg rating — 3,944 ratings
77.
The Wolves in the Walls
The Wolves in the Walls 4.04 avg rating — 18,374 ratings
78.
The Drowning Girl
The Drowning Girl 3.71 avg rating — 5,729 ratings
79.
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires 3.79 avg rating — 279,268 ratings
80.
Hater (Hater, #1)
Hater (Hater, #1) 3.65 avg rating — 10,703 ratings
81.
Blindsight (Firefall, #1)
Blindsight (Firefall, #1) 4.01 avg rating — 50,897 ratings
82.
North American Lake Monsters
North American Lake Monsters 3.95 avg rating — 6,162 ratings
83.
The Sun Down Motel
The Sun Down Motel really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 180,232 ratings
84.
Lockdown (Escape from Furnace, #1)
Lockdown (Escape from Furnace, #1) 4.12 avg rating — 20,481 ratings
85.
The Only Good Indians
The Only Good Indians 3.69 avg rating — 102,687 ratings
86.
The Pilo Family Circus
The Pilo Family Circus 3.82 avg rating — 3,836 ratings
87.
Dark Harvest
Dark Harvest 3.60 avg rating — 12,727 ratings
88.
Just After Sunset
Just After Sunset 3.88 avg rating — 59,317 ratings
89.
Southern Gods
Southern Gods 3.70 avg rating — 2,042 ratings
90.
The Nightmare Factory, Vol. 1
The Nightmare Factory, Vol. 1 3.42 avg rating — 720 ratings
91.
Apartment 16
Apartment 16 3.20 avg rating — 6,058 ratings
92.
A Dark Matter
A Dark Matter 2.97 avg rating — 4,956 ratings
93.
Beneath the Dark Ice (Alex Hunter, #1)
Beneath the Dark Ice (Alex Hunter, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 5,859 ratings
93.
Kill Creek
Kill Creek 3.76 avg rating — 22,447 ratings
95.
Dreamcatcher
Dreamcatcher 3.66 avg rating — 183,548 ratings
96.
The Scarlet Gospels
The Scarlet Gospels 3.50 avg rating — 10,799 ratings
97.
Trapped (The Konrath Dark Thriller Collective #4)
Trapped (The Konrath Dark Thriller Collective #4) 3.86 avg rating — 5,720 ratings
98.
GHOSTS: 2014 edition
GHOSTS: 2014 edition
by: Noel Hynd
3.97 avg rating — 1,325 ratings
99.
Autumn (Autumn, #1)
Autumn (Autumn, #1) 3.67 avg rating — 6,988 ratings
100.
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1)
Anna Dressed in Blood (Anna, #1) 3.91 avg rating — 107,204 ratings
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