Recent Book Lists
Sorry. Can’t. Too Sad. Bye
Some Boys
Lonely and Different
Growing up, Growing Away
“what the eyes see and the ears hear, the mind believes” — Harry Houdini
Old People Misbehaving
I meant to behave. There were just too many other options. –Darynda Jones
Enter if You Dare: Haunted Houses
step into the unknown
Enter if You Dare: More Haunted Houses
home is where the haunt is
because life is scary
modern tales with Gothic vibes
Gothic stories from the recent past, to the Victorian era, to settings shrouded in the mists of time
spooky ghosts and things that go bump in the night
lonely and terrifying tales best read with the lights on
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Book Lists – Fiction
- All Five Senses
- Among the Missing
- Asian-American Fiction: Dark or Dystopian
- Asian-American Fiction: Literary
- Asian-American Fiction: Rom Coms
- Asian-American Fiction: Mysteries and Historical Fiction
- Brothers and Sisters
- Bah! Humbug!
- By the Numbers
- Cosplay @ Comic Con
- Cowboy Fiction – Always Drink Upstream From The Herd
- Cowboy Fiction – Don’t Squat With Your Spurs On
- Cowboy Fiction – Go Where There is no Path and Leave a Trail
- Cowboy Fiction – He’s a Cowboy, Ain’t He?
- Cowboy Fiction – Too Much Tumblewed in Their Blood to Settle Down
- Danger! Plot Twists Ahead!
- Dark Academia – Beyond the Aesthetic Vol. I
- Dark Academia – Classic Titles
- Enter if You Dare: Haunted Houses
- Enter if You Dare: More Haunted Houses
- Foodie Fiction – Cooking Up a Mystery
- Foodie Fiction – Fiction Good Enough to Eat
- Foodie Fiction – Professional Food
- Foodie Fiction – A Taste of Love
- Foodie Fiction – When the Secret Ingredient is… Magic
- Going to the Dogs
- Gothic Fiction – Contemporary Settings
- Gothic Fiction – Historical
- Gothic Fiction – Paranormal
- Gothic Fiction – Southern, Rural , Isolated
- Horror Fiction
- How it all began – Historical Fiction
- How it all began – Fantasy / Sci Fi /Paranormal
- How it all began – Romance and Rom-Com
- How it all began – Mysteries and Thrillers
- An Illusion of Magicians
- I’m Not Much, But I’m All I Have
- Kind of Like a Love Story
- Leelo En Espanol / Read It In Spanish
- Let’s Hear it For Bad Girls & Nasty Women: Ladies we Love to Loathe
- Let’s Hear it For Disobedient Women: Ladies who Stepped out of Line
- Let’s Hear it For Ladies of Hollywood’s Heyday: The Glitz, The Glamour, The Grittiness
- Let’s Hear it For her Majesty: Queens, Princesses, Consorts, and Other Royal Women
- Let’s Hear it For the Muses: Wives, Mothers, Sisiters, Daughters
- Let’s Hear it For Indomitable Women: Ladies who Survived (and Thrived) Against All Odds
- Let’s Hear it For The Silenced: Women with Secrets
- Let’s Hear it For Scandalous Women: Ladies with Less-Than-Perfect Reputations
- Modern Noir
- ‘Most Ardently” – Jane Austen Re-Mixed
- Native American Fiction
- Never the Same River Twice
- Notes to Self: Dear Diary
- Notes to Self: Epistolary Novels
- Old People Behaving Badly
- Once Upon a Time
- Once Upon a Time, Again
- Our Corporate Overlords: It’s Not Easy Working for a Living
- Our Corporate Overlords: Just a Cog in the Late-Stage Capitalism Machine
- Poets and Poetry
- Political Families
- Political Fiction
- Political Plot Twists
- Political Thrillers
- Political Wives
- Popcorn, Peanuts, Cotton Caaaandy!!
- Some Boys: Growing Up, Growing Away
- Some Boys: Lonely and Different
- Some Boys: Sorry. Can’t. Too Sad. Bye
- Such Devoted Sisters
- Such Devoted Sisters Still
- There is No Plan(et) B
- These Are Not “How-To” Books
- Transgender Visibility
- The Truth is Slippery
- Twin Sisters
- Who am I This Time?
- Will of Avon; or, the Bard, Re-Mixed
Booklists – Nonfiction
- Adult Children, Aging Parents
- The African-American Experience in Richmond
- All Great and Precious Things are Lonely
- The Black Family: Representation, Identity, and Diversity
- Both ends of the Leash
- Celebrate National Cocktail Day
- Climate Change: Looking at History (and Politics as a Way Forward)
- Climate Change: What the Experts Have to Say
- Climate Change: What We Can Do Before It’s Too Late
- Cockeyed Optimists
- Costing the Earth
- First, Do No Harm
- Get It Together
- Happiness Happens
- Happiness Still Happens
- The Ignominy of Abundance, The Plight of Plentitude; or, First World Problems
- It’s All Relative – Family Secrets
- It’s All Relative – Families Sure are Funny
- It’s All Relative – Getting Above Your Raising
- It’s Simple Really
- Live to Tell the Tale: Surviving Everything from Late Stage Capitalism to a Zombie Apocalypse
- Lost Time is Gone Forever
- Money! Money! Money!
- Passport Not Necessary
- RPL – Moments in History
- Self-Care: Cooking & Eating
- Self-Care: Habits and Rituals
- Self-Care: Nesting
- Self-Care: Other People Matter
- Self-Care: Your Body
- Self-Care: Your Mind
- So You Want To Be a Writer
- What a Difference a Year Makes
- What Doesn’t Kill You