Popular North American Horror Books

Find horror books written by authors from North America for the next part of the Read Around The World Challenge. (92)

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Fauna by Christiane Vadnais EN

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In a near-future world ravaged by climate change, who will win in the struggle between humanity and nature? A thick fog rolls in over Shivering Heights. The river overflows, the sky is streaked with toxic green, parasites proliferate in torrential rains and once safely classified species - humans included - are evolving and behaving in unprecedented ways. Against this poetically hostile backdrop, a biologist, Laura, fights to understand the nature and scope of the changes transforming her own body and the world around her. Ten lush and bracing linked climate fictions depict a world gorgeous an... continue

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Feral Creatures by Kira Jane Buxton EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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MOST ANTICIPATED by Bustle • "Sci-Fi Thriller" recommendation from Buzzfeed • An Indie Next Pick In this stunning follow-up to Hollow Kingdom and Seattle Times/Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association bestseller​, the animal kingdom's "favorite apocalyptic hero"is back with a renewed sense of hope for humanity, ready to take on a world ravaged by a viral pandemic (Helen Macdonald). Once upon an apocalypse, there lived an obscenely handsome American crow named S.T. . . . When the world last checked-in with its favorite Cheeto addict, the planet had been overrun by flesh-hungry beasts, and natu... continue

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Green Fuse Burning by Tiffany Morris EN

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A Mi'kmaw artist struggles with grief after the death of her father and finds answers in the transformative powers of the swamp. Contains art from 3 Indigenous artists in exterior and interior covers and chapter decorations.

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Hadriana in All My Dreams by René Depestre EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Legendary Haitian author Depestre combines magic, fantasy, eroticism, and delirious humor to explore universal questions of race and sexuality.

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Her Body and Other Parties : Stories by Carmen Maria Machado EN

Rating: 4 (1 vote)
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Finalist for the National Book Award for Fiction “[These stories] vibrate with originality, queerness, sensuality and the strange.”—Roxane Gay “In these formally brilliant and emotionally charged tales, Machado gives literal shape to women’s memories and hunger and desire. I couldn’t put it down.”—Karen Russell In Her Body and Other Parties, Carmen Maria Machado blithely demolishes the arbitrary borders between psychological realism and science fiction, comedy and horror, fantasy and fabulism. While her work has earned her comparisons to Karen Russell and Kelly Link, she has a voice that is al... continue

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Hollow Kingdom by Kira Jane Buxton EN

Rating: 5 (1 vote)
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"The Secret Life of Pets meets The Walking Dead" in this big-hearted, boundlessly beautiful romp through the Apocalypse and the world that comes after, where a foul-mouthed crow is humanity's only chance to survive Seattle's zombie problem. (Karen Joy Fowler, PEN/Faulkner Award-winning author of We Are All Completely Beside Ourselves) S.T., a domesticated crow, is a bird of simple pleasures: hanging out with his owner Big Jim, trading insults with Seattle's wild crows (i.e. "those idiots"), and enjoying the finest food humankind has to offer: Cheetos ®. But when Big Jim's eyeball falls out of ... continue


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House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski EN

Rating: 5 (2 votes)
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A family relocates to a small house on Ash Tree Lane and discovers that the inside of their new home seems to be without boundaries

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I Feed Her to the Beast and the Beast Is Me by Jamison Shea EN

Rating: 3 (1 vote)
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There will be blood. Ace of Spades meets House of Hollow in this villain origin story. Laure Mesny is a perfectionist with an axe to grind. Despite being constantly overlooked in the elite and cutthroat world of the Parisian ballet, she will do anything to prove that a Black girl can take center stage. To level the playing field, Laure ventures deep into the depths of the Catacombs and strikes a deal with a pulsating river of blood. The primordial power Laure gains promises influence and adoration, everything she’s dreamed of and worked toward. With retribution on her mind, she surpasses her b... continue

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I'm Thinking of Ending Things : A Novel by Iain Reid EN

Rating: 4 (4 votes)
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Includes Reader's Guide with discussion questions.