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Books for Fans of Stranger Things

Description: Gathered from various sources, these are books that are recommended if you like the Netflix show Stranger Things. How many have you read?

Rank Title Author Added

1

by J. R. R. Tolkien

94,760 members

1,191 reviews

½ 4.3

4 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, Steven.Eldredge, ManWithAnAgenda

2

A Wrinkle in Time

by Madeleine L'Engle

39,614 members

961 reviews

4

4 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, Steven.Eldredge, ManWithAnAgenda

3

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

14,860 members

964 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, souloftherose, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

4

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

by Shirley Jackson

8,188 members

424 reviews

4.1

4 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, Steven.Eldredge, ManWithAnAgenda

5

The Best of H. P. Lovecraft: Bloodcurdling Tales of Horror and the Macabre

by H. P. Lovecraft

2,911 members

27 reviews

4.2

4 Members: paradoxosalpha, sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

6

by Stephen King

23,250 members

453 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

7

by Stephen King

22,006 members

410 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

8

The Secret History

20,431 members

558 reviews

4.1

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

9

The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay

by Michael Chabon

18,832 members

415 reviews

4.2

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, Steven.Eldredge

10

Something Wicked This Way Comes

by Ray Bradbury

11,411 members

297 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, Steven.Eldredge, ManWithAnAgenda

11

by Stephen King

9,521 members

113 reviews

½ 3.6

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

12

by Justin Cronin

9,421 members

636 reviews

3.9

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

13

A Monster Calls

by Patrick Ness

5,770 members

462 reviews

½ 4.4

3 Members: souloftherose, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

14

by Stephen King

737 members

12 reviews

3.8

3 Members: sturlington, ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

15

Ready Player One

by Ernest Cline

18,567 members

1,280 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

16

House of Leaves

by Mark Z. Danielewski

15,763 members

377 reviews

4.1

2 Members: ahef1963, ManWithAnAgenda

17

by Stephen King

14,669 members

290 reviews

½ 3.7

2 Members: sturlington, ahef1963

18

3,647 members

195 reviews

½ 3.4

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

19

The October Country

by Ray Bradbury

3,526 members

54 reviews

4

2 Members: sturlington, Steven.Eldredge

20

Collected Ghost Stories

2,303 members

44 reviews

4.1

2 Members: sturlington, ManWithAnAgenda

21

Area X: The Southern Reach Trilogy (Annihilation; Authority; Acceptance)

by Jeff VanderMeer

894 members

27 reviews

3.8

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, sturlington

22

The Dream-Quest of Vellitt Boe

561 members

39 reviews

4

2 Members: paradoxosalpha, sturlington

23

10,281 members

583 reviews

3.8

Member: sturlington

24

Let the Right One In

by John Ajvide Lindqvist

5,727 members

265 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

25

The Girl With All the Gifts

5,350 members

405 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

26

Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark

by Alvin Schwartz

4,128 members

87 reviews

3.9

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

27

Le Grand Meaulnes

by Alain-Fournier

3,452 members

79 reviews

3.8

Member: Steven.Eldredge

28

The Age of Miracles

by Karen Thompson Walker

3,323 members

335 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

29

by Charles Burns

2,744 members

87 reviews

3.8

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

30

by Robert R. McCammon

2,545 members

93 reviews

½ 4.3

Member: sturlington

31

My Best Friend's Exorcism

by Grady Hendrix

2,137 members

114 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

32

by Blake Crouch

2,064 members

140 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: dara85

33

Paper Girls Volume 1

by Brian K. Vaughan

1,971 members

111 reviews

4

Member: souloftherose

34

Broken Monsters

by Lauren Beukes

1,384 members

105 reviews

½ 3.6

Member: sturlington

35

White Is for Witching

by Helen Oyeyemi

1,211 members

51 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

36

The Girl with the Silver Eyes

by Willo Davis Roberts

1,186 members

26 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

37

by Megan Abbott

1,057 members

92 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: dara85

38

The Hollow Places

by T. Kingfisher

1,025 members

65 reviews

4

Member: sturlington

39

X-Men: The Dark Phoenix Saga

by Chris Claremont

857 members

17 reviews

4

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

40

by Andrew Michael Hurley

844 members

48 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

41

by Lauren Oliver

796 members

47 reviews

½ 3.4

Member: sturlington

42

The End of Everything

by Megan Abbott

757 members

58 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: dara85

43

Disappearance at Devil's Rock

by Paul Tremblay

710 members

46 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: sturlington

44

by Daryl Gregory

619 members

36 reviews

3.9

Member: sturlington

45

The Boy Who Drew Monsters

by Keith Donohue

452 members

38 reviews

½ 3.5

Member: sturlington

46

The White People and Other Stories

by Arthur Machen

210 members

3 reviews

½ 3.7

Member: paradoxosalpha

47

Underground Kingdom

by Edward Packard

171 members

1 review

3.2

Member: ManWithAnAgenda

48

5,544 members

121 reviews

4

49

by Marisha Pessl

3,186 members

283 reviews

3.8

50

The Door to December

2,813 members

22 reviews

½ 3.6

51

A Girl of the Limberlost

by Gene Stratton-Porter

2,682 members

46 reviews

4.1

52

The Hellbound Heart

by Clive Barker

2,598 members

67 reviews

3.8

53

2,291 members

203 reviews

4.1

54

Lumberjanes Vol. 1: Beware the Kitten Holy

by ND Stevenson

2,174 members

131 reviews

3.9

55

Summer of Night

1,925 members

46 reviews

3.9

56

Akira, Volume 1

by Katsuhiro Otomo

1,762 members

36 reviews

4.2

57

by Brian Lumley

1,669 members

34 reviews

3.9

58

by Christina Henry

1,563 members

59 reviews

½ 3.7

59

by Edgar Cantero

1,511 members

106 reviews

½ 3.5

60

Foxfire: Confessions of a Girl Gang

by Joyce Carol Oates

1,251 members

17 reviews

½ 3.7

61

Phineas Gage: A Gruesome but True Story About Brain Science

by John Fleischman

968 members

38 reviews

3.8

62

870 members

23 reviews

3.9

63

Midnight Robber

by Nalo Hopkinson

741 members

22 reviews

3.8

64

The Hike: A Novel

711 members

43 reviews

3.8

65

House of Secrets

by Chris Columbus

647 members

30 reviews

½ 3.3

66

Dangerous Laughter: Thirteen Stories

by Steven Millhauser

579 members

29 reviews

½ 3.7

67

by Peadar Ó Guilín

544 members

30 reviews

3.8

68

Signal to Noise

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia

497 members

29 reviews

3.8

69

The Mind Readers

by Lori Brighton

451 members

20 reviews

½ 3.7

70

Slasher Girls and Monster Boys

by April Genevieve Tucholke

449 members

16 reviews

3.9

71

by Robin Wasserman

409 members

25 reviews

½ 3.4

72

The Beautiful Thing That Awaits Us All: Stories

by Laird Barron

392 members

10 reviews

4

73

Edge of Dark Water

by Joe R. Lansdale

383 members

25 reviews

4

74

And the Trees Crept In

by Dawn Kurtagich

321 members

23 reviews

½ 3.3

75

by Robert Jackson Bennett

272 members

15 reviews

½ 3.7

76

Joe the Barbarian

by Grant Morrison

255 members

16 reviews

½ 3.6

77

241 members

13 reviews

3.8

78

by Darcey Steinke

172 members

4 reviews

½ 3.3

79

A Summer of Drowning

by John Burnside

130 members

14 reviews

½ 3.6

80

by T. Chris Martindale

118 members

5 reviews

3.8

81

90 members

2 reviews

½ 4.4

82

by Jean-Christophe Valtat

64 members

3 reviews

½ 3.3

83

by Alexandra Duncan

50 members

1 review

5

84

The Boys of Summer: A Novel

49 members

2 reviews

3.2

About This List

Started: sturlington
October 2017
Type: Unnumbered, Adding restricted

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