As a voracious reader, there have been many books that have touched my life and changed the way I think about things. Some will be known to you, some not. I am not a student of great literature and sadly have not read a lot of the greats. However, as I’ve said, these are my opinion.

Monsters

1. Anne Rice – Memnoch the Devil
2. Anne Rice – The Vampire Lestat
3. Dean Koontz – Frankenstein
4. Bram Stoker – Dracula
5. Stephen King – IT
6. John Saul – The Creature

Post-Apocalyptic

1. Margaret Atwood – Oryx and Crake 
2. Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games
3. Richard Matheson – I am Legend
4. Swan Song by Robert R. McCammon (1987)
5. Stephen King – The Stand
6. David L. Palmer – Emergence
7. Orson Scott Card – Ender’s Game
8. Henry J. Olsen – A Stranger North
9. Earth Abides – George R. Stewart

Sagas

1. Stephen King – The Stand
2. J.K.Rowling – Harry Potter
3. Suzanne Collins – The Hunger Games
4. Stephen King – The Dark Tower Series
5. Stephanie Meyer – The Twilight Saga
6. Anne Rice – The Vampire Chronicles
7. Phillipa Gregory – The Tudor Series
8. Dean Koontz – The Frankenstein Series
9. Maze Runner
10. Red Rising Trilogy By Pierce Brown

Historical

1. Phillipa Gregory – The White Queen
2. Phillipa Gregory – Meridion
3. Phillipa Gregory – The constant princess
4. Mircea Eliade – Maitrey

Inter-dimensional Travel

1. Dean Koontz – 77 Shadow Street
2. Dean Koontz – Odd Apocalypse (Odd Thomas Series)
3. Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar children series

Aliens

1. Dean Koontz – One Door Away from Heaven
2. Pittacus Lore – I am number four
3. Stephen King – Under The Dome
4. Stephen King – Children of the Corn