Items19The creator’s order
  1. 1Beloved (1987)Beloved (1987) 7.8/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1987Years after escaping slavery, Sethe lives with the presence of the daughter she lost. The haunting makes the past part of the family’s daily life, even when people have good reason to avoid speaking about it. Start here for a ghost story that asks what remembering can cost a mother and the people…0
  2. 2Lincoln in the Bardo (2017)Lincoln in the Bardo (2017) 8.4/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2017After Willie Lincoln dies, his father returns to the crypt, where the boy has joined a crowd of spirits with unfinished attachments of their own. The dead tell much of the story in a chorus that can be funny, quarrelsome, and tender. Read it for the way a private loss sounds when everyone around it…0
  3. 3Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017)Sing, Unburied, Sing (2017) 7.4/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2017Thirteen-year-old Jojo’s family drives to Mississippi’s Parchman prison to pick up his father. There, a boy who died at the prison draws Jojo toward a part of his grandfather’s past that he has only heard in fragments. Ward makes the ghost someone who wants to finish a story the living have…0
  4. 4The Reformatory (2023)The Reformatory (2023) 10.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2023Robbie’s ability to see haints once helped him feel close to his mother. At a Florida reform school, the dead boys he sees give him a way to understand why others have gone missing. His sister Gloria’s effort to get him out makes the danger urgent while the ghosts give the boys the institution…0
  5. 5The ghost bride (2013)The ghost bride (2013) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2013In colonial Malaya, Li Lan is offered a marriage to a wealthy family’s dead son. The arrangement could secure her future, but the dead have their own claims on her. Follow her into the afterlife for a mystery in which finding out what happened to one family also changes what she knows about her own.0
  6. 6The Woman in Black (1983)The Woman in Black (1983) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1983Young solicitor Arthur Kipps hears a child cry in the fog while handling a dead woman’s affairs. The sound and the woman he sees in black are pieces of a story about a family loss that the people around him are reluctant to explain. Pick this for a classic slow reveal in which knowing the ghost’s…0
  7. 7The ghost and Mrs. Muir (1945)The ghost and Mrs. Muir (1945) 8.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 1945A widowed Lucy Muir moves into an inexpensive seaside cottage and discovers that its former owner, a sea captain, still has plenty to say. She works to publish his story while trying to support her children. Their companionship gives both of them a place to be heard, which makes this an unusually…0
  8. 8Ghost Eaters (2022)Ghost Eaters (2022) 7.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2022Erin has spent years answering her ex-boyfriend Silas’s calls for help. After he dies of an overdose, she takes a drug that lets her see the dead, hoping for the conversation they never got to have. Choose this for a grim story about how easily grief can bring back an old pattern of saying yes.0
  9. 9The Haunting of VelkwoodThe Haunting of VelkwoodTalitha lost her mother and young sister on the night everyone in her neighborhood turned into ghosts. Twenty years later, a researcher persuades her to go back, reopening questions about the night she and two friends got away. Read it for the way an old friendship can feel unfinished even when the…0
  10. 10The haunting of Maddy Clare (2012)The haunting of Maddy Clare (2012) 7.0/10 on Open LibraryPublished Jan 1, 2012In 1920s England, a ghost hunter hires Sarah Piper to help investigate the death of a young maid. Maddy will have nothing to do with men, so Sarah has to become the person who listens. The best part of the mystery is watching an overlooked woman figure out how to hear what another overlooked woman…0