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Coraline

Neil Gaiman · 2012

Before the Coffee Gets Cold

Toshikazu Kawaguchi · 2020

Wuthering Heights

Emily Brontë · 1848

The Haunting of Hill House

Shirley Jackson · 2006

The Woman in White

Wilkie Collins · 2006

Jane Eyre

Charlotte Brontë · 1864

The Secret History

Donna Tartt · 2011

<b><b><b>A READ WITH JENNA BOOK CLUB PICK <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>

Dracula

Bram Stoker · 2023

The Virgin Suicides

Jeffrey Eugenides · 2011

Violet Bent Backwards Over the Grass

Lana Del Rey · 2020

Lapvona

Ottessa Moshfegh · 2023

<b>An Instant <i>New York Times</i> Bestseller!<br><br>“<i>Lapvona</i> flips all the conventions of familial and parental relations, putting hatred where love should be or a negotiation where grief should be . . . Through a mix of witchery, deception, murder, abuse, grand delusion, ludicrous conversations, and cringeworthy moments of bodily disgust, Moshfegh creates a world that you definitely don’t want to live in, but from which you can’t look away.” <b>—<i>The Atlantic</i></b><br><br>In a village buffeted by natural disasters, a motherless shepherd boy finds himself part of a power struggle that puts the community’s faith to a savage test, in a spellbinding novel that represents Ottessa Moshfegh’s most exciting leap yet</b><br><br>Little Marek, the abused and delusional son of the village shepherd, believes his mother died giving birth to him. One of Marek’s few consola­tions is his enduring bond with the blind village midwife, Ina, who suckled him when he was a baby. For some people, Ina’s ability to receive trans­missions of sacred knowledge from the natural world is a godsend. For others, Ina’s home in the woods is a godless place.<br><br>The people’s desperate need to believe that there are powers that be who have their best interests at heart is put to a cruel test by their depraved lord and governor, especially in this year of record drought and famine. But when fate brings Marek into violent proximity to the lord’s family, new and occult forces arise to upset the old order. By year’s end, the veil between blindness and sight, life and death, and the natural world and the spirit world will prove to be very thin indeed.

The Phantom of the Opera

Gaston Leroux · 1911

Paradise Lost

John Milton · 1711

Carmilla

J. Sheridan Le Fanu · 2023

The Picture of Dorian Gray

Oscar Wilde · 1908

The Inferno

Dante · 2012

Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde

Robert Louis Stevenson · 1886