Books like Desperation

12 books to read next

• Whispers Dean Koontz 9.2 h
• The Other Thomas Tryon, William Dufris 5.3 h
• House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 13.5 h
• The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe 42 min
• Works Richard Matheson 5.8 h
• The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, M. R. James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, E. Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Dick 13.8 h
• The Call of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft 1.2 h
• Great American Short Stories Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Hamlin Garland, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Conrad Aiken, Katherine Anne Porter, James Thurber, William March, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Paul Horgan, John O'Hara, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Eudora Welty, Hortense Calisher, Mary (editor) Stegner 9.4 h
• Suicide Med Freida McFadden 9.6 h
• Cross James Patterson 7.3 h
• Intensity Dean Koontz 7.0 h
• Hannibal Thomas Harris 9.4 h

How long each takes

Whispers Dean Koontz 9.2 h The Other Thomas Tryon, William Dufris 5.3 h House of Leaves Mark Z. Danielewski 13.5 h The Fall of the House of Usher Edgar Allan Poe 42 min Works Richard Matheson 5.8 h The Dark Descent David G. Hartwell, Stephen King, John Collier, M. R. James, Lucy Clifford, Russell Kirk, H. P. Lovecraft, Shirley Jackson, Harlan Ellison, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Ray Bradbury, Michael Shea, E. Nesbit, Karl Edward Wagner, Robert Aickman, Fritz Leiber, Robert Bloch, Charles L. Grant, Manly Wade Wellman, Thomas M. Disch, Theodore Sturgeon, Clive Barker, Edgar Allan Poe, J. Sheridan Le Fanu, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, William Faulkner, Robert Hichens, Richard Matheson, Joanna Russ, Dennis Etchison, D. H. Lawrence, Tanith Lee, Flannery O'Connor, Ramsey Campbell, Henry James, Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Joyce Carol Oates, Walter De la Mare, Ivan Turguenev, Robert Chambers, Oliver Onions, Fitz-James O'Brien, Ambrose Bierce, Edith Wharton, Algernon Blackwood, Philip K. Dick 13.8 h The Call of Cthulhu H. P. Lovecraft 1.2 h Great American Short Stories Wallace Stegner, Mary Stegner, Washington Irving, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar Allan Poe, Herman Melville, Mark Twain, Bret Harte, Ambrose Bierce, Henry James, Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman, Hamlin Garland, O. Henry, Edith Wharton, Stephen Crane, Sherwood Anderson, Wilbur Daniel Steele, Conrad Aiken, Katherine Anne Porter, James Thurber, William March, William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, Paul Horgan, John O'Hara, Walter Van Tilburg Clark, Eudora Welty, Hortense Calisher, Mary (editor) Stegner 9.4 h Suicide Med Freida McFadden 9.6 h Cross James Patterson 7.3 h Intensity Dean Koontz 7.0 h Hannibal Thomas Harris 9.4 h

Bar height shows length. Estimated at 250 words a minute.