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24 books with the same feel
Include books by the same authorThe Dead Fathers Club
Matt Haig · 336 pages
A ghost story with a twist—a suspenseful and poignantly funny update of HamletA triumph of originality and humor, this clever novel by British author Matt Haig gives us Hamlet redux with an unforgettable voice all his own. When eleven-year-old Philip Noble is confronted by the ghost of his recently deceased father and asked to avenge his death, the boy finds himself in a thorny dilemma. Revenge, a
The Widow's Season
Laura Brodie
A mesmerizing debut novel about love, grief, and the ghosts who show up where we least expect them.Sarah McConnell’s husband had been dead for three months when she saw him in the grocery store.What does a woman do when she’s thirty-nine, childless, and completely alone for the first time in her life? Does it mean she’s crazy to think she sees her late husband beside a display of pumpkins? Or is i
Grave Peril
Jim Butcher · 405 pages
Now in hardcover from the New York Times bestselling author of The Dresden Files.Harry Dresden's faced some pretty terrifying foes during his career. Giant scorpions. Oversexed vampires. Psychotic werewolves. All par for the course for Chicago's only professional wizard.But in all of Harry's years of supernatural sleuthing, he's never faced anything like this: the spirit world's gone postal. All o
When the Wind Blows
John Saul · 319 pages
The children were waiting. Waiting for centuries. Waiting for someone to hear their cries. Now nine-year-old Christine Lyons has come to live in the house on the hill -- the house where no children have lived for fifty years. Now little Christie will sleep in the old-fashioned nursery on the third floor. Now Christie's terror will begin.
The Kurosagi Corpse Delivery Service Omnibus, Book 1
Eiji Otsuka · 664 pages
The Story of Edgar Sawtelle
David Wroblewski · 566 pages
A tale reminiscent of "Hamlet" that also celebrates the alliance between humans and dogs follows speech-disabled Wisconsin youth Edgar, who bonds with three yearling canines and struggles to prove that his sinister uncle is responsible for his father's death.
Plain Bad Heroines
Emily M. Danforth · 640 pages
Beyond Black
Hilary Mantel · 451 pages
Alison Hart is a medium by trade: dead people talk to her, and she talks back. With her flat-eyed, flint-hearted sidekick, Colette, she tours the dormitory towns of London's orbital road, passing on messages from dead ancestors: 'Granny says she likes your new kitchen units.' Alison's ability to communicate with spirits is a torment rather than a gift. Behind her plump, smiling and bland public pe
Four Great Tragedies: Hamlet / Othello / King Lear / Macbeth
William Shakespeare · 847 pages
THE GREAT TRAGIC PLAYS OF SHAKESPEARE What is tragedy? The Elizabethans defined it as a "lofty" play showing "personages of great state" caught up in a "lamentable" action that "beginners prosperously and endeth unfortunately." Whether judged by this or any other standard, the plays selected for this collection -- Hamlet, Othello, King Lear, and Macbeth -- are considered to be the four central wor
Dona Flor and Her Two Husbands
Jorge Amado · 553 pages
*Dona Flor* is (literally) an adorable woman—with a body made for love, a mind of her own, a cozy disposition, a witty tongue, a kissable face, high moral principles— and she can cook, too. (Her cooking school is all the rage in Salvador.) One wants her to have everything. One wants her to escape from her monumental dragon of a mother into the arms of the best of husbands. One wants her to hav
The Uninvited Guests
Sadie Jones · 262 pages
Her Fearful Symmetry
Audrey Niffenegger · 400 pages
The Ghost Orchid
Carol Goodman · 352 pages
In her enthralling novels of literary suspense, Carol Goodman writes stories that resonate with emotion set in lush landscapes that entice the senses. Now, with The Ghost Orchid, a narrative that seamlessly weaves together the past and the present, Goodman creates her most lyrical and haunting work to date. For more than one hundred years, creative souls have traveled to Upstate New York to work u
The Invention of Sound
Chuck Palahniuk · 240 pages
Lost
Gregory Maguire · 384 pages
E-book extras: The full text of A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens; reading group guide.Winifred Rudge, a bemused writer struggling to get beyond the runaway success of her mass-market astrology book, travels to London to jump-start her new novel about a woman who is being haunted by the ghost of Jack the Ripper. Upon her arrival, she finds that her stepcousin and old friend John Comestor has di
Once Burned
Jeaniene Frost · 373 pages
SHE'S A MORTAL CURSED WITH DARK POWER... After a tragic accident scarred her body and destroyed her dreams, Leila never imagined that the worst was still to come: terrifying powers that let her channel electricity and learn a person's darkest secrets through a single touch. Leila is doomed to a life of solitude...until creatures of the night kidnap her, forcing her to reach out with a telepathic
Thirteen Doorways, Wolves Behind Them All
Laura Ruby · 384 pages
The Mercy of Thin Air
Ronlyn Domingue · 328 pages
Anna Dressed in Blood
Kendare Blake
For three years, seventeen-year-old Cas Lowood has carried on his father's work of dispatching the murderous dead, traveling with his kitchen-witch mother and their spirit-sniffing cat, but everything changes when he meets Anna, a girl unlike any ghost he has faced before.
Baby of the Family
Tina McElroy Ansa · 265 pages
All Hallows' Eve
Charles Williams · 263 pages
Psychic experiences in London of two young women who have been killed in an accident.
Aftertaste
Daria Lavelle · 400 pages