The Pilgrim’s Progress – John Bunyan (1678)
The Pilgrim's Progress by John Bunyan is an allegory of Christian salvation, following Christian’s journey from the City of Destruction to the Celestial City.
Classics
Supernatural
Restart Reading
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World – Haruki Murakami (1985)
A data agent’s mind splits between a noir Tokyo and a surreal walled town, where memory, identity, and reality dissolve into a haunting, dreamlike mystery.
Fantasy
Science Fiction
Supernatural
Elevation – Stephen King (2018)
Elevation by Stephen King is a supernatural novel about a man experiencing unexplained weight loss, forming unexpected connections in his town while confronting prejudice and change.
Fantasy
Supernatural
Thriller
Desperation – Stephen King (1996)
Desperation by Stephen King is a horror thriller set in a remote Nevada town where a malevolent force possesses a monstrous cop, trapping travelers in a fight for survival.
Fantasy
Supernatural
Thriller
The Dark Half – Stephen King (1989)
The Dark Half by Stephen King explores a writer’s nightmare when his discarded pseudonym takes on a violent life of its own, committing gruesome crimes in his name.
Fantasy
Supernatural
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow – Washington Irving (1820)
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving follows Ichabod Crane’s eerie encounter with the spectral Headless Horseman in a secluded Hudson Valley village.
Romance
South of the Border, West of the Sun – Haruki Murakami (1992)
A man haunted by the echoes of a lost childhood love drifts through memory, desire, and regret in search of the elusive piece that might finally make him whole.
Mystery
Thriller
The Chamber – John Grisham (1994)
A young lawyer confronts deep family secrets and the legacy of hate as he races against time to save a death row inmate tied to a brutal act of racial violence.
Mystery
Satire
Science Fiction
Dirk Gently’s Holistic Detective Agency – Douglas Adams (1987)
Dirk Gently, an eccentric detective, investigates time travel, ghosts, and impossible coincidences in a mystery where everything is interconnected.
Mystery
Satire
Science Fiction
The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul – Douglas Adams (1988)
Dirk Gently tackles a bizarre mystery involving Norse gods, mysterious deaths, and a chaotic blend of fantasy, mythology, and existential absurdity.