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Gothic reading list
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Mariana Sousa
Gothic literature is my favourite genre so I’m here to share the ones I love the most, and my list of the books I still want to read. Some of these impacted me on a very personal level and are my favourite books
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These are the gothic books that shaped my taste for the genre and impacted my life somehow
 
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This is my absolute favourite book of all time
Frankenstein (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)|Paperback
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The Picture of Dorian Gray is one of the first classics I read outside of mandatory school reading and I never looked back ever since
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Signature Classics) by Oscar Wilde, Paperback
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My favourite vampire book - yes, I do really love it more than Dracula! Bomus points for lesbian vampires
Carmilla, Deluxe Edition: The Dark Sapphic Romance that Inspired Dracula
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Not as good as Carmilla imo but it’s still such a classic gothic vampire novel that it’s mandatory for any reader into the genre
Dracula (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions) by Bram Stoker, Paperback
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Read this in December and fell in love with it. So ahead of its time with its social critics - which ironically the new movie completely missed
Wuthering Heights (Barnes & Noble Collectible Editions)
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Apparently this one is one of the earliest examples of gothic lit? It’s definitely on my tbr
The Monk: A Romance (Lady Valkyrie Classics) by Matthew Lewis, Paperback
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Fell in love with Wuthering Heights, which means I need to read everything the Brontë sisters have published
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
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Again, need to read more Brontë sisters
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Brontë
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This is often regarded as the very first gothic novel, which means all the gothic cliches are very present. As a lover of the genre, I really want to read this one
The Castle of Otranto: A Gothic Story by Horace Walpole
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