my bookshelf

Annihilation

Jeff VanderMeer • 2014

Sunreach (Skyward Flight: Novella 1)

Brandon Sanderson • 2021

The Angel of Indian Lake

Stephen Graham Jones • 2024

The Secret History

Donna Tartt • 1992

<b><b><b><b>ONE OF <i>TIME MAGAZINE</i>'S 100 BEST MYSTERY AND THRILLER BOOKS OF ALL TIME • </b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER • A contemporary literary classic and "a<b>n accomplished psychological thriller ... absolutely chilling" (<i>Village Voice</i>)</b>, f<b>rom the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of <i>The Goldfinch.<br><br></i></b></b></b>One of <i>The Atlantic</i>’s Great American Novels of the Past 100 Years</b><br><br>Under the influence of a charismatic classics professor, a group of clever, eccentric misfits at a New England college discover a way of thought and life a world away from their banal contemporaries. But their search for the transcendent leads them down a dangerous path, beyond human constructs of morality.<br><br><b>“A remarkably powerful novel [and] a ferociously well-paced entertainment . . . Forceful, cerebral, and impeccably controlled.” —<i>The New York Times</i></b>

Black Chalk

Christopher J. Yates • 2015

Vengeful (Villains Book 2)

V. E. Schwab • 2018

*NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER*<br/>*2018 GOOD READS CHOICE AWARD WINNER FOR BEST SCIENCE FICTION CATEGORY*<br/><br/>A super-powered collision of extraordinary minds and vengeful intentions―#1 New York Times bestselling author V. E. Schwab returns with the thrilling follow-up to Vicious.<br/><br/>Magneto and Professor X. Superman and Lex Luthor. Victor Vale and Eli Ever. Sydney and Serena Clarke. Great partnerships, now soured on the vine.<br/><br/>But Marcella Riggins needs no one. Flush from her brush with death, she’s finally gained the control she’s always sought―and will use her new-found power to bring the city of Merit to its knees. She’ll do whatever it takes, collecting her own sidekicks, and leveraging the two most infamous EOs, Victor Vale and Eli Ever, against each other.<br/><br/>With Marcella's rise, new enmities create opportunity--and the stage of Merit City will once again be set for a final, terrible reckoning.<br/><br/>Entertainment Weekly's 27 Female Authors Who Rule Sci-Fi and Fantasy Right Now<br/><br/>“Readers won't be able to put down this dark and riveting tale of power and revenge.”―Kirkus Reviews, starred<br/><br/>Praise for Vicious<br/><br/>“Schwab's characters feel vital and real, never reduced to simple archetypes...In a genre that tends toward the flippant or pretentious, this is a rare superhero novel as epic and gripping as any classic comic. Schwab's tale of betrayal, self-hatred, and survival will resonate with superhero fans as well as readers who have never heard of Charles Xavier or Victor von Doom.”―Publishers Weekly (starred review)<br/><br/>"V. E. Schwab's Vicious is the superhero novel I've been waiting for: fresh, merciless, and yes, vicious. Wow."―Mira Grant, New York Times bestselling author of Blackout<br/><br/>Villians<br/>#1 Vicious<br/>#2 Vengeful<br/>"Warm Up" (short story)

At Midnight: 15 Beloved Fairy Tales Reimagined

Dahlia Adler • 2022

An Absolutely Remarkable Thing

Hank Green • 2018

The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

V. E. Schwab • 2020

Ninth House (Alex Stern, 1)

Leigh Bardugo • 2020

The Rib From Which I Remake the World

Ed Kurtz • 2016

The Supernatural Enhancements

Edgar Cantero • 2014

The Turn of the Screw, the Aspern Papers and Two Stories (Barnes & Noble Classics)

Henry James • 2003

Carmilla

Joseph Sheridan Lefanu • 2019

<p><i>"To this hour the image of Carmilla returns to my memory with ambiguous alternations--sometimes the playful, languid, beautiful girl; sometimes the writhing fiend I saw in the ruined church. Sometimes, I start from a reverie, certain I heard the light step of Carmilla at the drawing-room door."</i><br></p> <p><p>Isolated in a remote mansion in a central European forest, Laura longs for companionship--until a carriage accident brings another young woman into her life: the secretive and sometimes erratic Carmilla. As Carmilla's actions become more puzzling and volatile, Laura develops bizarre symptoms, and as her health goes into decline, Laura and her father discover something monstrous.</p> <p><p>Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu's compelling tale of a young woman's seduction by a female vampire was a source of influence for Bram Stoker's <i>Dracula</i>, which it predates by over a quarter century. <i>Carmilla</i> was originally serialized from 1871 to 1872 and went on to inspire adaptations in film, opera, and beyond, including the cult classic web series by the same name.</p>

Babel

R. F. Kuang • 2022

Stoner

John Williams • 1965

The West Passage

Jared Pechaček • 2024

The Haar

David Sodergren • 2022

Skyward

Brandon Sanderson • 2018

Mary

Nat Cassidy • 2022

Lucky Day

Chuck Tingle • 2025

When the Wolf Comes Home

Nat Cassidy • 2025

Meddling Kids

Edgar Cantero • 2017

Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries (Emily Wilde Book 1)

Heather Fawcett • 2023

Vicious (Villains Book 1)

V. E. Schwab • 2013

Turtles All the Way Down

John Green • 2017

Beyond the Black Door

A.M. Strickland • 2019

The Land of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things Book 2)

John Connolly • 2023

The Book of Lost Things (The Book of Lost Things Book 1)

John Connolly • 2006

Yumi and the Nightmare Painter

Brandon Sanderson • 2023

Mexican Gothic

Silvia Moreno-Garcia • 2020

If We Were Villains

M. L. Rio • 2018

<p><b>“Much like Donna Tartt’s <i>The Secret History</i>, M. L. Rio’s sparkling debut is a richly layered story of love, friendship, and obsession...will keep you riveted through its final, electrifying moments.”<br>—Cynthia D’Aprix Sweeney, <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Nest<br></i></b><br><b>"Nerdily (and winningly) in love with Shakespeare...Readable, smart.”</b><br><b>—<i>New York Times Book Review</i></b><br><br>On the day Oliver Marks is released from jail, the man who put him there is waiting at the door. Detective Colborne wants to know the truth, and after ten years, Oliver is finally ready to tell it.<br><br>A decade ago: Oliver is one of seven young Shakespearean actors at Dellecher Classical Conservatory, a place of keen ambition and fierce competition. In this secluded world of firelight and leather-bound books, Oliver and his friends play the same roles onstage and off: hero, villain, tyrant, temptress, ingénue, extras. <br><br>But in their fourth and final year, good-natured rivalries turn ugly, and on opening night real violence invades the students’ world of make-believe. In the morning, the fourth-years find themselves facing their very own tragedy, and their greatest acting challenge yet: convincing the police, each other, and themselves that they are innocent. <br><br><i>If We Were Villains</i> was named one of Bustle's Best Thriller Novels of the Year, and <i>Mystery Scene</i> says, "A well-written and gripping ode to the stage...A fascinating, unorthodox take on rivalry, friendship, and truth."</p>

Between Two Fires

Christopher Buehlman • 2012

We Have Always Lived in the Castle

Shirley Jackson • 1962

<b>Shirley Jackson's beloved gothic tale of a peculiar girl named Merricat and her family's dark secret</b><br><br>Taking readers deep into a labyrinth of dark neurosis, <i>We Have Always Lived in the Castle</i> is a deliciously unsettling novel about a perverse, isolated, and possibly murderous family and the struggle that ensues when a cousin arrives at their estate. This edition features a new introduction by Jonathan Lethem.<br><br>For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson • 1959

Tender Is the Flesh

Agustina Bazterrica • 2020

<b>INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER</b><br> <br><b>Working at the local processing plant, Marcos is in the business of slaughtering humans—though no one calls them that anymore.</b><br><br>His wife has left him, his father is sinking into dementia, and Marcos tries not to think too hard about how he makes a living. After all, it happened so quickly. First, it was reported that an infectious virus has made all animal meat poisonous to humans. Then governments initiated the “Transition.” Now, eating human meat—“special meat”—is legal. Marcos tries to stick to numbers, consignments, processing.<br> <br>Then one day he’s given a gift: a live specimen of the finest quality. Though he’s aware that any form of personal contact is forbidden on pain of death, little by little he starts to treat her like a human being. And soon, he becomes tortured by what has been lost—and what might still be saved.

What Moves the Dead (Sworn Soldier Book 1)

T. Kingfisher • 2022

An Instant USA Today & Indie Bestseller<br/>A Barnes & Noble Book of the Year Finalist<br/>A Goodreads Best Horror Choice Award Nominee<br/><br/>A gripping and atmospheric reimagining of Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Fall of the House of Usher” from Hugo, Locus, & Nebula award-winning author T. Kingfisher<br/><br/>*A very special hardcover edition, featuring foil stamp on the casing and custom endpapers illustrated by the author.*<br/><br/>When Alex Easton, a retired soldier, receives word that their childhood friend Madeline Usher is dying, they race to the ancestral home of the Ushers in the remote countryside of Ruritania.<br/><br/>What they find there is a nightmare of fungal growths and possessed wildlife, surrounding a dark, pulsing lake. Madeline sleepwalks and speaks in strange voices at night, and her brother Roderick is consumed with a mysterious malady of the nerves.<br/><br/>Aided by a redoubtable British mycologist and a baffled American doctor, Alex must unravel the secret of the House of Usher before it consumes them all.<br/><br/>Also by T. Kingfisher<br/>What Feasts at Night<br/>A House with Good Bones<br/>Nettle & Bone<br/>Thornhedge<br/>A Sorceress Comes to Call

The Ocean at the End of the Lane

Neil Gaiman • 2013

The Road

Cormac McCarthy • 2007

In a novel set in an indefinite, futuristic, post-apocalyptic world, a father and his young son make their way through the ruins of a devastated American landscape, struggling to survive and preserve the last remnants of their own humanity

A Fig for All the Devils

C S Fritz • 2021

Camp Damascus

Chuck Tingle • 2023

<p><b>INSTANT <i>USA TODAY</i> & INDIE BESTSELLER </b><br>A Best Book of 2023 (<i>Vulture</i>) and a Best Horror Book of 2023 (<i>Esquire, Library Journal</i>) • A Bram Stoker Award Nominee and CALIBA Golden Poppy Award finalist!<br><b><br>Chuck Tingle's debut, </b><b><i>Camp Damascus,</i> is a searing and earnest horror debut about the demons the queer community faces in America, the price of keeping secrets, and finding the courage to burn it all down.</b><br><br>Welcome to Neverton, Montana: home to a God-fearing community with a heart of gold.<br><br>Nestled high up in the mountains is Camp Damascus, the self-proclaimed “most effective” gay conversion camp in the country. Here, a life free from sin awaits. But the secret behind that success is anything but holy.<br><br>And they’ll scare you straight to hell.<br><br>Also by Chuck Tingle:<br><i>Lucky Day</i><br><i>Bury Your Gays</i><br><i>Straight</i></p>

Lakewood

Megan Giddings • 2020

The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

Stephen Graham Jones • 2025

Don't Fear the Reaper (The Indian Lake Trilogy Book 2)

Stephen Graham Jones • 2022

The Only Good Indians

Stephen Graham Jones • 2020

My Heart Is a Chainsaw (The Indian Lake Trilogy Book 1)

Stephen Graham Jones • 2021

<b><b>Winner of the Bram Stoker Award for Best Novel</b><br> <br><b>In her quickly gentrifying rural lake town Jade sees recent events only her encyclopedic knowledge of horror films could have prepared her for in this latest chilling novel that “will give you nightmares. The good kind, of course” (<i>BuzzFeed</i>) from the Jordan Peele of horror literature, Stephen Graham Jones.</b></b><br><br><i>“Some girls just don’t know how to die…”</i><br> <br>Shirley Jackson meets <i>Friday the 13th</i> in <i>My Heart Is a Chainsaw</i>, written by the <i>New York Times</i> bestselling author of <i>The Only Good Indians</i> Stephen Graham Jones, called “a literary master” by National Book Award winner Tananarive Due and “one of our most talented living writers” by Tommy Orange.<br> <br>Alma Katsu calls <i>My Heart Is a Chainsaw</i> “a homage to slasher films that also manages to defy and transcend genre.” On the surface is a story of murder in small-town America. But beneath is its beating heart: a biting critique of American colonialism, Indigenous displacement, and gentrification, and a heartbreaking portrait of a broken young girl who uses horror movies to cope with the horror of her own life.<br> <br>Jade Daniels is an angry, half-Indian outcast with an abusive father, an absent mother, and an entire town that wants nothing to do with her. She lives in her own world, a world in which protection comes from an unusual source: horror movies…<i>especially</i> the ones where a masked killer seeks revenge on a world that wronged them. And Jade narrates the quirky history of Proofrock as if it is one of those movies. But when blood <i>actually</i> starts to spill into the waters of Indian Lake, she pulls us into her dizzying, encyclopedic mind of blood and masked murderers, and predicts exactly how the plot will unfold.<br> <br>Yet, even as Jade drags us into her dark fever dream, a surprising and intimate portrait emerges…a portrait of the scared and traumatized little girl beneath the Jason Voorhees mask: angry, yes, but also a girl who easily cries, fiercely loves, and desperately wants a home. A girl whose feelings are too big for her body. <i>My Heart Is a Chainsaw</i> is her story, her homage to horror and revenge and triumph.

The Last House on Needless Street

Catriona Ward • 2022

The Twisted Ones

T. Kingfisher • 2019

Wilder Girls

Rory Power • 2019

The Blacktongue Thief

Christopher Buehlman • 2021

Clown in a Cornfield

Adam Cesare • 2021

Something Wicked This Way Comes

Ray Bradbury • 2017

The Reformatory

Tananarive Due • 2023