The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix This horror-comedy novel follows a book club of Southern housewives who discover that their neighbor is actually a vampire. As they attempt to stop him, they must confront demons of their own. {Patricia Campbell’s life has never felt smaller. Her husband is a workaholic, […]
The Ring by Koji Suzuki A classic Japanese horror novel that inspired the popular Japanese horror movie franchise. The story follows reporter Asakawa who investigates a cursed videotape that kills anyone who watches it after seven days. [A mysterious videotape warns that the viewer will die in one week unless a certain, unspecified act is […]
Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix A horror-comedy novel set in a haunted Ikea-like store, which shares Khaw’s ability to describe unsettling and eerie atmospheres. [From the New York Times best-selling author of The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires comes a hilarious and terrifying haunted house story in a thoroughly contemporary setting: a furniture superstore. […]
The Queen’s Poisoner by Jeff Wheeler This book is the first in a series and follows a young boy who becomes the hostage of a dangerous ruler after his family is betrayed. Graceling by Kristin Cashore This book is the first in a YA fantasy series and follows a young girl with the ability […]
The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins This is another thrilling YA novel that features a dangerous competition. The Hunger Games are a fight to the death between young people from different districts, and the story is full of danger, suspense and well-drawn characters. The Raven Cycle by Maggie Stiefvater If you like Stiefvater’s writing […]
Sleep, Savannah, Sleep by Alistair Cross “The Dead Don’t Always Rest in Peace Jason Crandall, recently widowed, is left to raise his young daughter and rebellious teenage son on his own – and the old Victorian in Shadow Springs seems like the perfect place for them to start over. But the cracks in Jason’s new […]
Where the Red Fern Grows by Wilson Rawls ‘Billy has long dreamt of owning not one, but two, dogs. So when he’s finally able to save up enough money for two pups to call his own—Old Dan and Little Ann—he’s ecstatic. It doesn’t matter that times are tough; together they’ll roam the hills of the […]
