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June 2025 Group Read Nominations
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14 by Peter Clines
Annihilation by Jeff VanderMeer
At the Mountains of Madness by H.P. Lovecraft
Baby Teeth by Zoje Stage
Bad Dolls by Rachel Harrison
Bag of Bones by Stephen King
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
Below by Laurel Hightower
Between Two Fires by by Christopher Buehlman
Black Mouth by Ronald Malfi
Black River Orchard by Chuck Wendig
Blister by Jeff Strand
The Boatmans' Daughter by Andy Davidson
The Book of Accidents by Chuck Wendig
Boy's Life by Robert McCammon
Boys in the Valley by Philip Fracassi
The Broken Girls by Simone St James
Brother by Ania Ahlborn
Bunny by Mona Awad
The Burning Girls by C J Tudor
Burnt Offerings by Robert Marasco
The Cabin at the End of the World by Paul Tremblay
Carmilla by J. Sheridan Le Fanu
Carrion Comfort by Dan Simmons
The Carrow Haunt by Darcy Coates
Castaways by Brian Keene
The Cellar by Richard Laymon
The Changeling by Victor LaValle
Chills by Mary SanGiovanni
Clown in a Cornfield by Adam Cesare
Clowns Vs. Spiders by Jeff Strand
Colony by Benjamin Cross
Come Closer by Sara Gran
Come With Me by Ronald Malfi
Cunning Folk by Adam L.G. Nevill
Dark Matter by Blake Crouch
Dark Matter by Michelle Paver
Darkness on the Edge of Town by Brian Keene 2X
The Dead Girls Club by Damien Angelica Walters
Dead of Winter by Darcy Coates
Dead Silence by S.A. Barnes
The Deep by Nick Cutter
The Demonic by Lee Mountford
The Descent by Jeff Long
Desperation by Stephen King
The Devil Crept In by Ania Ahlborn
The Devil Takes You Home by Gabino Iglesias
Devil's Creek by Todd Keisling
Diavola by Jennifer Marie Thorne
Dracul by J.D. Barker
Dracula by Bram Stoker
The Elementals by Michael McDowell 2X
Episode Thirteen by Craig DiLouie
FantasticLand by Mike Bockoven
The Final Girl Support Group by Grady Hendrix
Final Girls by Riley Sager
The Fireman by Joe Hill
The Fisherman by John Langan
From Below by Darcy Coates
Full Dark, No Stars by Stephen King
A Gathering of Crows by Brian Keene
Ghost Eaters by Clay McLeod Chapman
Ghost Road Blues by Jonathan Maberry
Ghost Story by Peter Straub
Ghostland by Duncan Ralston
The Girl From the Well by Rin Chupeco
The Girl Next Door by Jack Ketchum
The Girls by Emma Cline
Gone to See the River Man by Kristopher Triana
The Good House by Tananarive Due
The Graveyard Apartment by Mariko Koike
The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman
Growing Things and Other Stories by Paul Tremblay
The Haar by David Sodergren
The Hacienda by Isabel Canas
The Halloween Children by Brian James Freeman
The Halloween Tree by Ray Bradbury
Harvest Home by Thomas Tryon
The Haunted Forest Tour by Jeff Strand and James A. Moore
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay
Heart Shaped Box by Joe Hill
Hell Hound by Ken Greenhall
Hell House by Richard Matheson
The Hellbound Heart by Clive Barker
Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
Hide by Kiersten White
The Hollow Place by T. Kingfisher
Home Before Dark by Riley Sager
Horrorstör by Grady Hendrix
Horseman: A Tale of Sleepy Hollow by Christina Henry
The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
The House Next Door by Anne Rivers Siddons
House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski 2X
How to Sell a Haunted House by Grady Hendrix
The Hunger by Alma Katsu
I Found Puppets Living in My Apartment Walls by Ben Farthing
I'm Thinking of Ending Things by Iain Reid
Imaginary Friend by Stephen Chbosky
In the House in the Dark of the Woods by Laird Hunt
Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant
The Invited by Jennifer McMahon
The Island of Dr. Moreau by H.G. Wells
The Jigsaw Man by Gord Rollo
John Dies at the End by David Wong/Jason Pargin
Kill Creek by Scott Thomas
Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke
Krampus: The Yule Lord by Brom
Larry by Adam Millard
Last Days by Adam Nevill
The Last House on Needless Street by Catriona Ward
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
The Lesser Dead by Christopher Buehlman
Let the Right One In by John Ajvide Lindqvist 2X
The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins
The Long Walk by Richard Bachman
The Lost Village by Camilla Sten
Lovecraft Country by Matt Ruff
The Luminous Dead by Caitlin Starling
Maggie's Grave by David Sodergren
Malignant by Michaelbrent Collings
Man, Fuck This House by Brian Asman
Mary by Nat Cassidy
Maynard's House by Herman Raucher
Meddling Kids by Edgar Cantero
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
The Midnight Meat Train by Clive Barker
Misery by Stephen King
Mongrels by Stephen Graham Jones
Moon of the Crusted Snow by Waubgeshig Rice
The Mothman Prophecies by John A. Keel
Murder Road by Simone St. James
My Best Friend's Exorcism by Grady Hendrix
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
Nestlings by Nat Cassidy
Night Film by Marisha Pessl
Nightbitch by Rachel Yoder
The Nightmare Room by Chris Sorensen
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
No One Gets Out Alive by Adam L.G. Nevill
NOS4A2 by Joe Hill 2X
The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman
The Only Good Indians by Stephen Graham Jones
Our Wives Under the Sea by Julia Armfield
The Pallbearers Club by Paul Tremblay
Parasite by Darcy Coates
Pet Sematary by Stephen King
The Rats by James Herbert
Red Dragon by Thomas Harris
The Reddening by Adam Nevill
The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
Relic by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child
Revival by Stephen King
The Ritual by Adam Nevill
The Roo by Alan Baxter
The Root Witch by Debra Castaneda
Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin
The Ruins by Scott Smith
The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
The Secret of Ventriloquism by Jon Padgett
Seed by Ania Ahlborn
The September House by Carissa Orlando
The Shining by Stephen King
The Shuddering by Ania Ahlborn
The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
Sister, Maiden, Monster by Lucy A. Snyder
Slade House by David Mitchell
Something in the Walls by Daisy Pearce
Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
Speaks the Nightbird by Robert McCammon
Stolen Tongues by Felix Blackwell
Stranded by Bracken MacLeod
Strange Weather by Joe Hill
Subhuman by Michael McBride
Suffer the Children by Craig DiLouie
Suffer the Children by John Saul
Suicide Forest by Jeremy Bates
Summer of Night by Dan Simmons
Sundial by Catriona Ward
Survive the Night by Riley Sager
Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon
Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
The Terror by Dan Simmons 2X
Thinner by Richard Bachman
Thirteen Storeys by Jonathan Sims
Those Across the River by Christopher Buehlman 2X
The Troop by Nick Cutter
The Twisted Ones by T. Kingfisher
Usher's Passing by Robert McCammon
Valancourt Book of Victorian Christmas Ghost Stories
Vampire on the Orient Express by Shane Carrow
Vampires of El Norte by Isabel Canas
The Vegetarian by Han Kang
The Vessel by Adam Nevill
The Watchers by A.M. Shine
We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson 2X
We Sold Our Souls by Grady Hendrix
We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
The Wendigo by Algernon Blackwood
What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher
White is for Witching by Helen Oyeyemi
The Winter People by Jennifer McMahon
Winterset Hollow by Jonathan Edward Durham
The Women in the Walls by Amy Lukavics
You Like it Darker by Stephen King
I can’t believe this is not on the previously read list so please correct me if I’m wrong. I’ll nominate The Girl with All the Gifts.
Homegrown Comeuppance
This one fits the theme perfectly, unfortunately its only 39 pages and probably don't suffice as a group read alone.
It's featured in the anthology Baker's Dozen, but as the anthology's throne is bakery, I'm not convinced it fit's either in its own.
Baker's Dozen
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Not eligible as it was a previous group read, and doesn't meet the theme. Please fully read the first 2 posts before nominating.
The darkness of Thorn House: Home. Not So Sweet Home by Ryan Holden
Wanderers. Apocalyptic-level fungus infection, but so much more than fungus. Although story is very different, this is on the level of The Stand.
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Cold StorageI'm reading this book now and it has a fungus mostly from outer space. It's not a bad story but beware of all the unnecessary filler and backstory that just take up too many pages.
Also these two books that I think might fit the theme.
Monstrosity and
Point Nemo
WendyB wrote: "Cold StorageI'm reading this book now and it has a fungus mostly from outer space. It's not a bad story but beware of all the unnecessary filler an..."
+1 Cold Storage. I learned about it recently and thought it sounded good :) I don't mind a backstory.
I nominate And the Trees Crept In
The Ghost Tree
Do these fit the theme?
this wretched valley- jenny kiefer
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I'm reading this book now and it has a fungus mostly from outer space. It's not a bad story but beware of all the unnecessary filler and backstory that just take up too many pages.
Also these two books that I think might fit the theme.
Monstrosity by Tim Curran Monstrosity and Point Nemo by Jeremy Robinson Point Nemo."
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The Ghost Tree The Ghost Tree by Christina Henry
Do these fit the theme?."
And the Trees Crept In I would say definitely meets the theme, as the encroaching woods is a key factor.
The other one, I'll need more clarification if anyone has read it, as all the summaries and reviews I read say there's something IN the woods, but not that it's necessarily tree(s) that is/are the horror.
But even if the second one ends up not qualifying, it was a good suggestion.
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It Came from the Pumpkin Patch"Good one! And I recently bought it!
+1
Josh wrote: "The Ruins???"It has already been read by the group and so does not qualify, per the rules listed in message 1.
+1 Malignant Summer+1 Cold Storage
+1 This Wretched Valley
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Was the first post not clear?
" AUTHORS may NOT nominate their own books."
It didn't even meet the theme.
READ THE RULES.
Stay in the Light is a sequel and doesn’t have anything to do with the theme. Only my opinion but I’ve read it so…?Same goes for This Wretched Valley; I’ve read it and while it’s good, it doesn’t fit the theme.
+1 Wanderers+1 Cold Storage
I’ve read them but they are both good and fit the theme.
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Thanks for clarifying. It didn't seem to fit the them, but I wasn't positive. Being it's the middle of a trilogy (probably)would have disqualified it anyway.
+1 The Book of Koli +1 The Day of the Triffids
+1 Overgrowth
+1 Cold Storage
+1 Point Nemo
thirteen stories by Jonathan Sims
oops just realized that is on the list my bad, so i’ll say the haunting of ashborne house by Darcy Coates
I'll nominate The Beauty by Aliya Whiteley. It's a short one that is absolute fantastic fungal horror.
Kenneth wrote: "I nominate Monstrosity by Tim Curran"I haven't read this yet, but I freaking love Tim Curran and haven't read anything of his in a long while. I second Curran's Monstrosity.
I see what moves the dead on the list so, what feasts at night?
How about The Fungus by Harry Adam Knight?
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Good one, and I recently bought it. +1
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The theme in a minute, after a few rules reminders.
- Previous group reads are NOT eligible. Before nominating, a book, please check Post #2 on this thread or the link below for all previously read books.
https://www.goodreads.com/topic/show/...
- AUTHORS may NOT nominate their own books.
- The top 2 vote getters in the poll will be our reads for June.
- Books that receive the most +1s are more likely to make the final poll.
And now for the fun. As spring gives way to summer, we're looking for books with BOTANICAL/FUNGAL horror - plots involving or prominently featuring: plants, trees, flowers, mushrooms/fungi.
So give us your best suggestions for horror involving things that grow.