Books

A

A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness

A Head Full of Ghosts by Paul Tremblay

A Roman Tale by Carroll Baker

Alburquerque by Rudolfo Anaya

The Alienist by Caleb Carr

American Gods by Neil Gaiman

The Angel’s Game by Carlos Ruíz Zafón

The Anubis Gates by Tim Powers

Aphrodite: A Memoir of the Senses by Isabel Allende

The Apprentice by Jacques Pepin

B

Beauty by Robin McKinley

Behind Closed Doors by B.A. Paris

The Bible

Bless Me, Última by Rudolfo Anaya

The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter

The Book of Unholy Mischief by Elle Neumark

Bridget Jones’ Diary by Helen Fielding

C

The Canterbury Tales by Geoffrey Chaucer

Casino Royale by Ian Fleming

The Chef’s Secret by Crystal King

Cinnamon and Gunpowder by Eli Brown

Circe by Madeline Miller

The City of Mist by Carlos Ruíz Zafón

The Clockmaker’s Daughter by Kate Morton

The Coincidence of Coconut Cake by Amy E. Reichert

Cooking with Fernet-Branca by James Hamilton-Paterson

Coraline by Neil Gaiman

Corelli’s Mandolin by Louis de Bernieres

The Curse of the Blue Figurine by John Bellairs

D

The Dead House by Billy O’Callaghan

Death Comes for the Archbishop by Willa Cather

Delicious! by Ruth Reichl

The Debt to Pleasure by John Lanchester

The Demonologist by Andrew Pyper

The Devil’s Larder by Jim Crace

The Dinner List by Rebecca Serle

Don Quixote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes

Don’t Look Now by Daphne DuMaurier

Dracula by Bram Stoker

Duma Key by Stephen King

Dune by Frank Herbert

E

The Enchanted April by Elizabeth von Arnim

Exit to Eden by Anne Rampling (Anne Rice)

The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty

F

The Face by Dean Koontz

The Farolitos of Christmas by Rudolfo Anaya

Feast of Sorrow: A Novel of Ancient Rome by Crystal King

The Fifth Gospel by Ian Caldwell

The Final Girl’s Support Group by Grady Hendrix

G

Gabriela, Clove and Cinnamon by Jorge Amado

Garden Spells by Sarah Addison Allen

The Gashlycrumb Tinies by Edward Gorey

The Ghost Bride by Yangsze Choo

Ghost Story by Peter Straub

The Godfather by Mario Puzo

The Goldfinch by Donna Tartt

The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald

Grimm Tales by Phillip Pullman

Girl on the Train by Paula Hawkins

Girl With a Pearl Earring by Tracy Chevalier

The Golem and the Jinni by Helene Wecker

Gwendy’s Button Box by Stephen King and Richard Chizmar

H

The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas

The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark by William Shakespeare

Haroun and the Sea of Stories by Salman Rushdie

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone by J.K. Rowling

The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson

Heartburn by Nora Ephron

The Help by Kathryn Stockett

Help for the Haunted by John Searles

Her Fearful Symmetry by Audrey Niffenegger

Heroines of the Medieval World by Sharon Bennett Connolly

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

The Homecoming by Andrew Pyper

Homme Fatal by Paul Mayersberg

The House of Lost Souls by F.G. Cottam\

House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig

How The Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss

Hex by Thomas Olde Heuvelt

I

In the Company of the Courtesan by Sarah Dunant

J

Jane-Emily by Patricia Clapp

Jane Eyre: An Autobiography by Charlotte Bronte

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke

K

Karma and the Art of Butter Chicken by Monica Bhide

Kitchen Confidential by Anthony Bourdain

L

The Labyrinth of the Spirits by Carlos Ruíz Zafón

La Cucina by Lily Prior

Lamb: The Gospel According to Biff, Christ’s Childhood Pal by Christopher Moore

Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge by Paul Kruger

The Last Days of Jack Sparks by Jason Arnopp

The Last Painting of Sara de Vos by Dominic Smith

The Last Temptation of Christ by Nikos Kazantzakis

The Library at Mount Char by Scott Hawkins

Like Water for Chocolate by Laura Esquivel

Lisette’s List by Susan Vreeland

Little Birds by Anais Nin

The Little Paris Bookshop by Nina George

The Little Stranger by Sarah Waters

Little Women by Louisa May Alcott

The Lord of the Rings by JRR Tolkien

The Lost Book of the Grail by Charlie Lovett

Love in the Time of Cholera by Gabriel García Márquez

M

Madeleine’s Ghost by Robert Girardi

The Maidens by Alex Michaelides

Maledicus: The Investigative Paranormal Society by Charles French

The Master’s Apprentice by Oliver Potzsch

The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love by Oscar Hijuelos

The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov

Medium Raw (My Aim is True) by Anthony Bourdain

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-García

The Milagro Beanfield War by John Nichols

Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children by Ransom Riggs

The Mistress of Spices by Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell

My Name is Red by Orhan Pamuk

N

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco

The Namesake by Jhumpa Lahiri

Neverwhere by Neil Gaiman

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo

O

The Ocean at the End of the Lane by Neil Gaiman

Ode to Tomatoes by Pablo Neruda

Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield

One Thousand and One Nights (The Arabian Nights) as retold by Hanan al-Shaykh

The Oracle Glass by Judith Merkle Riley

P

Perfume: The Story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind

The Pit and the Pendulum by Edgar Allan Poe

Portnoy’s Complaint by Philip Roth

Possession by A.S. Byatt

The Prince of Tides by Pat Conroy

The Prisoner of Heaven by Carlos Ruíz Zafón

R

Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier

Rio Grande Fall by Rudolfo Anaya

The Rules of Magic by Alice Hoffman

S

‘Salem’s Lot by Stephen King

Salt: A World History by Mark Kurlansky

A Scandal in Bohemia (Sherlock Holmes) by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

The Scottish Prisoner by Diana Gabaldon

The Sea, The Sea by Iris Murdoch

The Secret Supper by Javier Sierra

The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruíz Zafón

The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris

The Sixteen Pleasures by Robert Hellenga

The Shining by Stephen King

The Snow Queen by Hans Christian Andersen

The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix

Strange Highways by Dean Koontz

Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel García Márquez

T

The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith

Talking to the Dead by Helen Dunmore

Taste by Stanley Tucci

Tipping the Velvet by Sarah Waters

The Tuscan Child by Rhys Bowen

U

The Unburied by Charles Palliser

Under the Tuscan Sun by Frances Mayes

V

The Vacationers by Emma Straub

Vampires in the Lemon Grove by Karen Russell

Vaporetto 13 by Robert Girardi

Voyager by Diana Gabaldon (Outlander Series)

W

Watching Glass Shatter by James J. Cudney

We Have Always Lived in the Castle by Shirley Jackson

When in Florence by Richard Cortez Day

The Witching Hour by Anne Rice

The Wonder Worker by Susan Howatch

Winter’s Tale by Mark Helprin

Z

Zia Summer by Rudolfo Anaya

Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis