The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Grady Hendrix
A '90s Southern book club realizes their charming new neighbor is a vampire. Bloody, funny, and secretly about women being dismissed.
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★ 5The Final Girl Support Group
Grady Hendrix
Horror-movie 'final girls' meet in group therapy decades later, then get hunted again. So clever and so fun.
How to Sell a Haunted House
Grady Hendrix
Grady Hendrix does grief through a haunted-house horror full of demonic puppets. Genuinely scary and secretly about family.
My Best Friend's Exorcism
Grady Hendrix
'80s teen friendship plus an actual demonic possession. Hendrix nails the horror and the heart.
★ 5The Correspondent
Virginia Evans
The protagonist of this beautiful novel is a 73-year-old woman processing her life — and regrets — through letters. It’s poignant but not saccharine, specific but universally appealing. I dare you not to cry.
Tom Lake
Ann Patchett
An older woman tells her daughters about the summer she spent performing alongside — and falling in love with — a now-famous actor. My friend Anna said her husband adored this book just as much as she did — impressive, considering he typically reads business non-fiction.