Recommendations based on Sense and Sensibility and Sea Monstersby Ben H. Winters

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  1. Pride and Prejudice and Zombies

    by Seth Grahame-Smith
    A classic tale of love and manners, now with added zombies. Elizabeth Bennet and Mr. Darcy fight the undead while navigating societal expectations.

    In early 19th-century England, a zombie plague has spread across the country. Miss Elizabeth Bennet, a young woman, lives with her parents and four sisters. Mr. Bennet drills his daughters in martial ... (Wikipedia)

  2. The Yellow Wall-Paper

    by Charlotte Perkins Gilman
    A woman's descent into madness due to oppressive social expectations.

    A woman and her husband rent a summer house, but what should be a restful getaway turns into a suffocating psychological battle. This chilling account of postpartum depression and a husband's ... (Goodreads)

  3. Northanger Abbey

    by Jane Austen
    A young woman's journey of self-discovery, navigating the complexities of high society.

    Seventeen-year-old Catherine Morland is one of ten children of a country clergyman. Although a tomboy in her childhood, by the age of 17 she is "in training for a heroine" and is excessively fond of ... (Wikipedia)

  4. Fever Dream

    by Douglas Preston
    Thriller of a doctor's investigation into a mysterious murder, revealing a larger conspiracy.

    While visiting his family plantation in New Orleans , Special Agent Aloysius Pendergast inadvertently uncovers evidence that his wife Helen's death whilst on safari in Africa was no accident. He ... (Wikipedia)

  5. Rot & Ruin

    by Jonathan Maberry
    A post-apocalyptic adventure, as a young man traverses the zombie-infested remains of the US.

    In the zombie-infested, post-apocalyptic America where Benny Imura lives, every teenager must find a job by the time they turn fifteen or get their rations cut in half. Benny doesn't want to ... (Goodreads)

  6. The Woman in Black

    by Susan Hill
    A Victorian lawyer is tasked with investigating a mysterious and frightening ghost.

    The novel is narrated by Arthur Kipps, the young lawyer who formerly worked for Mr. Bentley. One Christmas Eve he is at home with his wife Esme and four stepchildren, who are sharing ghost stories. ... (Wikipedia)

  7. Abraham Lincoln: Vampire Hunter

    by Seth Grahame-Smith
    A reimagining of Abraham Lincoln's life, combining history and fantasy in an action-packed narrative.

    Indiana, 1818. Moonlight falls through the dense woods that surround a one-room cabin, where a nine-year-old Abraham Lincoln kneels at his suffering mother's bedside. She's been stricken with ... (Goodreads)

  8. An Ideal Husband

    by Oscar Wilde
    A play exploring the themes of blackmail, political corruption, and the nature of honor and integrity in Victorian society.

    The play opens during a dinner party at the home of Sir Robert Chiltern in London's fashionable Grosvenor Square . Sir Robert, an esteemed member of the House of Commons , and his wife, Lady ... (Wikipedia)

  9. Butterface

    by Avery Flynn
    A romantic comedy about a man who falls for a woman with a great body but an unattractive face.

    It ... (Barnes & Noble)

  10. Everlasting

    by Alyson Noel
    A girl discovers she has the power to reincarnate and must navigate the consequences of immortality.

    Their darkest enemies now defeated, Damen and Ever are free to embark upon their final quest—to free Damen from the poison lingering in his body. If they can just find the antidote, they’ll finally ... (Goodreads)

  11. Sense & Sensibility

    by Joanna Trollope
    Modern retelling of Jane Austen's classic novel, exploring the lives and loves of the Dashwood sisters in contemporary England.

    John Dashwood promised his dying father that he would take care of his half sisters. But his wife, Fanny, has no desire to share their newly inherited estate with Belle Dashwood's daughters. When she ... (Goodreads)

  12. The Face of Fear

    by Brian Coffey
    A psychopath terrorizes a woman and her son, forcing them to confront their deepest fears.

    Graham Harris was once one of the world's foremost mountain climbers, until a fall five years earlier left him with a lame leg, a fear of heights...and a frightening psychic ability in which he can ... (Wikipedia)

  13. Night Star

    by Alyson Noel
    A group of immortals struggle with their past and present while searching for a way to save their dying friend.

    After fighting for centuries to be together, Ever and Damien's future hinges on one final showdown that will leave readers gasping for breath. Don't miss this explosive new installment of the ... (Goodreads)

  14. Greywalker

    by Kat Richardson
    After a near-death experience, private investigator Harper Blaine gains the ability to see and move through the paranormal realm of ghosts and vampires.

    Harper Blaine was your average small-time P.I. until a two-bit perp's savage assault left her dead for two minutes. When she comes to in the hospital, she sees things that can only be described as ... (Goodreads)

  15. The Undead Next Door

    by Kerrelyn Sparks
    A vampire falls in love with a mortal woman, but their relationship is threatened by a group of vampire slayers.

    Three signs that something is very different with your mew man: 1. He sleeps all day . . . which would be annoying except he's so attentive at night. 2. He's attacked by sword-wielding assailants, ... (Barnes & Noble)

  16. Vampire, Interrupted

    by Lynsay Sands
    A vampire wakes up after being frozen for centuries and finds himself in a world he doesn't recognize. He must navigate his new reality while also dealing with a dangerous threat to his kind.

    IT WAS A CASE SHE COULD SINK HER TEETH INTO... After seven hundred years of life, Marguerite Argeneau finally has a career. Well, the start of one, anyway. She's training to be a private ... (Goodreads)

  17. The Unwritten, Vol. 2: Inside Man

    by Mike Carey
    Tom Taylor, the inspiration for a famous boy wizard, navigates a world where fiction and reality blur. He must uncover the truth about his own past to save his friends.

    In this volume, Tom arrives at Donostia prison in Southern France and falls into the orbit of another story: The Song of Roland. Unfortunately for Tom, it's a story that ends with a massacre. .Tom ... (Goodreads)

  18. Absent in the Spring

    by Mary Westmacott
    A woman is stranded in the desert and forced to confront her true self.

    Returning from a visit to her daughter in Iraq, Joan Scudamore finds herself unexpectedly alone and stranded in an isolated rest house by flooding of the railway tracks. This sudden solitude compels ... (Goodreads)

  19. The Merciless

    by Danielle Vega
    A group of teenage girls perform an exorcism on a fellow student, but things quickly spiral out of control.

    Forgive us, Father, for we have sinned Brooklyn Stevens sits in a pool of her own blood, tied up and gagged. No one outside of these dank basement walls knows she’s here. No one can hear her scream. ... (Goodreads)

  20. The Night Season

    by Chelsea Cain
    A serial killer is on the loose in Portland, and detective Archie Sheridan must catch him before he strikes again.

    He captured the Beauty Killer, one of the most deranged serial killers in the country. Now, Portland police detective Archie Sheridan faces a different kind of killer - a brutal rain season that has ... (Goodreads)

  21. Rage

    by Jonathan Kellerman
    A psychologist investigates a murder spree in LA, uncovering a web of secrets and lies.

    In a host of consecutive bestsellers, Jonathan Kellerman has kept readers spellbound with the intense, psychologically acute adventures of Dr. Alex Delaware–and with excursions through the raw ... (Goodreads)

  22. A Kingdom Besieged

    by Raymond E. Feist
    The first book in the Chaoswar Saga, where the Kingdom of the Isles is under attack by an unknown enemy.

    Plagued by rumour and instability. the Kingdom is losing spies in Kesh, disappearing - either murdered, or turned to the enemy side. Information has become scant and unreliable; but dark forces are ... (Goodreads)

  23. The House of Thunder

    by Leigh Nichols
    After a car accident, a woman wakes up in a hospital with no memory of how she got there. Strange occurrences and a sinister conspiracy follow.

    Susan Thorton awakens in a hospital, after a near-fatal car crash, to see four men lurking outside her door–men who exactly resemble those who killed her boyfriend years before. Can these be the same ... (Goodreads)

  24. Sweetheart

    by Chelsea Cain
    A serial killer is on the loose, and detective Archie Sheridan must work with his captor, the beautiful and twisted Gretchen Lowell, to catch him.

    , Portland detective Archie Sheridan, the former head of the Beauty Killer Task Force, hunted Gretchen Lowell for years before she kidnapped him, tortured him, and then let him go. Now that she is ... (Goodreads)

  25. To the Lighthouse

    by Virginia Woolf
    Exploration of the complexities of human relationships and family life.

    The novel is set in the Ramsays' summer home in the Hebrides , on the Isle of Skye . The section begins with Mrs Ramsay assuring her son James that they should be able to visit the lighthouse on the ... (Wikipedia)

  26. Thirteenth Child

    by Patricia C. Wrede
    A girl born unlucky in a world where magic is real must navigate prejudice and danger to find her place.

    #1 NYT bestselling author Pat Wrede returns to Scholastic with an amazing new trilogy about the use of magic in the wild, wild west. Eff was born a thirteenth child. Her twin brother, Lan, is the ... (Barnes & Noble)

  27. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

    by Dale Wasserman
    A power struggle between a rebellious patient and a tyrannical nurse in a mental institution challenges the status quo.

    Comedy Drama / 13m, 4f / Int. w. inset. Kirk Douglas played on Broadway as a charming rogue who contrives to serve a short sentence in an airy mental institution rather in a prison. This, he learns, ... (Goodreads)

  28. A Room with a View

    by E.M. Forster
    A young woman's exploration of love, morality, and societal norms in Edwardian England.

    The novel is set in the early 1900s as upper-middle-class English women are beginning to lead more independent, adventurous lives. In the first part, Miss Lucy Honeychurch is touring Italy with her ... (Wikipedia)

  29. Your Heart Belongs to Me

    by Dean Koontz
    After a heart transplant, Ryan Perry becomes obsessed with the mysterious deaths of his heart donors.

    At thirty-four, Internet entrepreneur Ryan Perry seemed to have the world in his pocket—until the first troubling symptoms appeared out of nowhere. Within days, he’s diagnosed with incurable ... (Wikipedia)

  30. Secondhand Spirits

    by Juliet Blackwell
    Lily Ivory, a witch, opens a vintage clothing store in San Francisco and solves supernatural mysteries.

    Lily Ivory is not your average witch. Her spell-casting powers tend to draw mischievous spirits while keeping normal humans at a distance. But now her vintage clothing store could give her a chance ... (Goodreads)