Tag: ghosts

34 books with this tag.

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Twenties Girl

Sophie Kinsella · 2009

Dumped and flailing, Lara Lington is haunted by her great-aunt Sadie, a 1920s ghost who wants her lost necklace back.

2,938-word summary · 13 min read

The Summoning

Kelley Armstrong · 2008

Chloe Saunders sees ghosts and lands in Lyle House, a group home for troubled teens with hidden powers and a secret tied to the Edison Group.

2,579-word summary · 11 min read

The Glass Hotel

Emily St. John Mandel · 2020

A hotel bartender marries a wealthy investor, his fund collapses in 2008, and Mandel traces the money, the guilt, and the ghosts left behind.

2,785-word summary · 12 min read

Grave Peril

Jim Butcher · 2001

Chicago ghosts turn murderous as Harry Dresden faces a vengeful sorcerer and Bianca's vampire trap.

3,484-word summary · 15 min read

The Dead Romantics

Ashley Poston · 2022

A ghostwriter who stopped believing in love goes home to bury her father and finds her editor's ghost waiting at the funeral parlor.

2,634-word summary · 12 min read

Bag of Bones

Stephen King · 1998

A blocked novelist returns to his Maine lake house after his wife dies and faces a custody fight and old ghosts.

2,616-word summary · 12 min read

Odd Thomas

Dean Koontz · 2003

A twenty year old fry cook who sees the dead tries to stop a mass shooting in his desert town.

3,797-word summary · 17 min read

Beloved

Toni Morrison · 1987

Sethe lives with the memory of killing her child to save her from slavery until a young woman named Beloved arrives.

2,586-word summary · 11 min read

The Graveyard Book

Neil Gaiman · 2008

A toddler escapes the murder of his family and is raised by ghosts in a graveyard, learning from the dead while the killer who hunts him waits outside.

2,786-word summary · 12 min read

A Christmas Carol

Charles Dickens · 1843

Scrooge is visited by Marley and three spirits on Christmas Eve.

3,128-word summary · 14 min read