This morning, I give you those complete lists and instructions on where to read more about those lists and the books that were included on each. Without further ado, here’s ShortList.com’s “30 Greatest Posthumous Novels” and “The Definitive 30 Scariest Books Ever Written.” (I’ve marked those that I’ve read, to date, with an asterisk.)
SHORTLIST.COM’S “30 GREATEST POSTHUMOUS NOVELS”
1. “The Trial” by Franz Kafka (1925)
2. “Maurice” by E.M. Forster (1971)
3. “Northanger Abbey” by Jane Austen (1817)
4. “The First Man” by Albert Camus (1994)
5. “A Confederacy of Dunces” by John Kennedy Toole (1980)*
6. “Poodle Springs” by Raymond Chandler (1989)
7. “The Canterbury Tales” by Geoffrey Chaucer (1400)*
8. “Gather Yourselves Together” by Philip K. Dick (1994)
9. “They Mystery of Edwin Drood” by Charles Dickens (1870)
10. “Three Days Before the Shooting” by Ralph Ellison (2010)
11. “The Ivory Tower” by Henry James (1917)
12. “The Millennium Series” by Stieg Larsson (2005-2007)
13. “Diary of a Young Girl” by Anne Frank (1947)
14. “The Love of the Last Tycoon: A Western” by F. Scott Fitzgerald (1941)
15. “Between the Acts” by Virginia Woolf (1941)
16. “The Mysterious Stranger” by Mark Twain (1916)
17. “Portrait of an Artist, as an Old Man” by Joseph Heller (2000)
18. “Hadji Murat” by Leo Tolstoy (1912)
19. “The Man with the Golden Gun” by Ian Fleming (1965)
20. “Suspense: A Napoleonic Novel” by Joseph Conrad (1925)
21. “Bouvard and Precuchet” by Gustave Flaubert (1881)
22. “A Moveable Feast” by Ernest Hemingway (1964)
23. “A Death in the Family” by James Agee (1957)
24. “Daisy-Head Mayzie” by Dr. Seuss (1995)
25. “The Lighthouse at the End of the World” by Jules Verne (1905)
26. “You Can’t Go Home Again” by Thomas Wolfe (1940)
27. “The Will to Power” by Friedrich Nietzsche (1901)
28. “The Original of Laura” by Vladimir Nabokov (2009)
29. “The Pale King” by David Foster Wallace (2011)
30. “The Double Tongue” by William Golding (1995)
SHORTLIST.COM’S “THE DEFINITIVE 30 SCARIEST BOOKS EVER WRITTEN”
1. “Rebecca” by Daphne du Maurier (1938)
2. “The Exorcist” by William Peter Blatty (1971)*
3. “Dracula” by Bram Stoker (1897)*
4. “The Handmaid’s Tale” by Margaret Atwood (1985)
5. “American Psycho” by Bret Easton Ellis (1991)
6. “Billy Lynn’s Long Halftime Walk” by Ben Fountain (2012)
7. “The Witches” by Roald Dahl (1983)
8. “Tropic of Cancer” by Henry Miller (1934)
9. “Blood Meridian” by Cormac McCarthy (1985)*
10. “Pollen” by Jeff Noon (1995)
11. “Invisible Man” by Ralph Ellison (1952)*
12. “We” by Yevgeny Zamyatin (1924)
13. “Requiem for a Dream” by Hubert Selby Jr. (1978)
14. “Hell House” by Richard Matheson (1971)
15. “Blindness” by Jose Saramago (1995)
16. “The Trial” by Franz Kafka (1925)
17. “A Scanner Darkly” by Philip K. Dick (1977)
18. “The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo” by Stieg Larsson (2005)
19. “The 120 Days of Sodom” by Marquis de Sade (1905)
20. “Lord of the Flies” by William Golding (1954)*
21. “Cock & Bull” by Will Self (1992)
22. “Disgrace” by J.M. Coetzee (1999)
23. “Pet Sematary” by Stephen King (1983)*
24. “The Stranger” by Albert Camus (1942)
25. “Coraline” by Neil Gaiman (2002)
26. “1Q84” by Haruki Murakami (2009)
27. “Slaughterhouse-Five” by Kurt Vonnegut (1969)*
28. “Naked Lunch” by William Burroughs (1959)
29. “The Silence of the Lambs” by Thomas Harris (1988)
30. “Frankenstein” by Mary Shelley (1818)*
If you’re interested in reading more about these lists and the books mentioned above, check out the following links.
For the greatest posthumous novels list, visit http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/books/30-greatest-posthumous-novels.
To check out the scariest books list, visit http://www.shortlist.com/entertainment/30-scariest-books-ever-written.
In the end, how many of the books mentioned above have you had the chance to read? Which did you like or dislike? Which is your personal favorite? Why? Let us know in the comments section below.
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