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Resilient Grieving

av Lucy Hone • 2024

Resilience after loss is not a character trait. It's a skill set, and it's teachable.

4.29

500+

🕊️ Bereavement Support 🧠 Resilience Science 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth 🧘 Attention Management 😊 Positive Psychology

Resilient Grieving

Resilience after loss is not a character trait. It's a skill set, and it's teachable.

av Lucy Hone 2024 272 sidor

4.29

500+ betyg

🕊️ Bereavement Support 🧠 Resilience Science 🌱 Post-Traumatic Growth 🧘 Attention Management 😊 Positive Psychology

Struck

av Russ Ramsey • 2017

A heart infection nearly kills a pastor. His recovery becomes a reckoning with God.

4.43

253

🕊️ Christian Memoir 🏥 Medical Memoir 💀 Facing Mortality 😢 Grief And Loss 🙏 Lament And Worship

Struck

A heart infection nearly kills a pastor. His recovery becomes a reckoning with God.

av Russ Ramsey 2017 176 sidor

4.43

253 betyg

🕊️ Christian Memoir 🏥 Medical Memoir 💀 Facing Mortality 😢 Grief And Loss 🙏 Lament And Worship

You Invited It In

av Sarah Jules • 2024

A widower fakes a haunting to expose a fraud. A demon answers. His son is prey.

3.79

2 000+

🖤 Demonic Possession 💔 Grief Horror ⚠️ Hoax Gone Wrong 👦 Child In Peril 🔥 Slow-Burn Dread

You Invited It In

A widower fakes a haunting to expose a fraud. A demon answers. His son is prey.

av Sarah Jules 2024 254 sidor

3.79

2 000+ betyg

🖤 Demonic Possession 💔 Grief Horror ⚠️ Hoax Gone Wrong 👦 Child In Peril 🔥 Slow-Burn Dread

The Johnstown Flood

av David McCullough • 1968

2,200 dead, a city erased in ten minutes. The dam's owners were never held accountable.

4.13

25 000+

🌊 Disaster History 🎩 Gilded Age ⚙️ Engineering Failures 🏭 Corporate Negligence 📖 Narrative History

The Johnstown Flood

2,200 dead, a city erased in ten minutes. The dam's owners were never held accountable.

av David McCullough 1968 302 sidor

4.13

25 000+ betyg

🌊 Disaster History 🎩 Gilded Age ⚙️ Engineering Failures 🏭 Corporate Negligence 📖 Narrative History

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

av Junauda Petrus • 2019

Exiled from Trinidad, Audre falls for Mabel, a girl whose love blazes brightest as her body fails.

4.24

6 000+

🌈 Queer Coming-Of-Age 💔 Terminal Illness Romance ✨ Magical Realism Ya 🌴 Caribbean Diaspora 👯‍♀️ Friends To Lovers

The Stars and the Blackness Between Them

Exiled from Trinidad, Audre falls for Mabel, a girl whose love blazes brightest as her body fails.

av Junauda Petrus 2019 312 sidor

4.24

6 000+ betyg

🌈 Queer Coming-Of-Age 💔 Terminal Illness Romance ✨ Magical Realism Ya 🌴 Caribbean Diaspora 👯‍♀️ Friends To Lovers

August Blue

av Deborah Levy • 2023

A pianist fleeing disgrace spots her double in Athens and follows the stranger across Europe.

3.62

14 000+

🪞 Literary Doppelganger 🎹 Pianist Protagonist 🧩 Unknown Origins 🎭 Mentor And ProtéGé 🎼 Artistic Crisis

August Blue

A pianist fleeing disgrace spots her double in Athens and follows the stranger across Europe.

av Deborah Levy 2023 208 sidor

3.62

14 000+ betyg

🪞 Literary Doppelganger 🎹 Pianist Protagonist 🧩 Unknown Origins 🎭 Mentor And ProtéGé 🎼 Artistic Crisis

Tristan and Isolde

av Gottfried von Strassburg • 1988

A knight wins his uncle a bride, then loses his heart on the voyage home.

3.63

1 000+

🏰 Courtly Romance 📜 Medieval Verse 💔 Forbidden Love 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🎭 Secret Identity

Tristan and Isolde

A knight wins his uncle a bride, then loses his heart on the voyage home.

av Gottfried von Strassburg 1988 320 sidor

3.63

1 000+ betyg

🏰 Courtly Romance 📜 Medieval Verse 💔 Forbidden Love 💕 Enemies To Lovers 🎭 Secret Identity

Doctor Glas

av Hjalmar Söderberg • 1905

His diary holds a Stockholm summer, a woman's despair, and the murder he prescribed as mercy.

3.67

17 000+

📖 Diary Novel 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Classic 🔪 Justified Murder 💔 Unattainable Love ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Doctor Glas

His diary holds a Stockholm summer, a woman's despair, and the murder he prescribed as mercy.

av Hjalmar Söderberg 1905 160 sidor

3.67

17 000+ betyg

📖 Diary Novel 🇸🇪 Scandinavian Classic 🔪 Justified Murder 💔 Unattainable Love ⚖️ Moral Ambiguity

Silk & Iron

av Alexis Calder • 2026

Impersonating a dead princess, a rebel enters a gothic court where her jailer becomes her undoing.

4.27

500+

🖤 Dark Romantasy 👑 Court Intrigue 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Forbidden Romance ⚔️ Morally Grey Hero

Silk & Iron

Impersonating a dead princess, a rebel enters a gothic court where her jailer becomes her undoing.

av Alexis Calder 2026 385 sidor

4.27

500+ betyg

🖤 Dark Romantasy 👑 Court Intrigue 🎭 Hidden Identity 💔 Forbidden Romance ⚔️ Morally Grey Hero

The Loser

av Thomas Bernhard • 1983

After his friend's suicide, a failed pianist revisits the Glenn Gould summer that ruined them both.

4.02

13 000+

🎹 Musical Obsession 🎭 Genius And Rivalry 💔 Destructive Friendship 🎨 Failed Artist ⚰️ Suicide And Guilt

The Loser

After his friend's suicide, a failed pianist revisits the Glenn Gould summer that ruined them both.

av Thomas Bernhard 1983 208 sidor

4.02

13 000+ betyg

🎹 Musical Obsession 🎭 Genius And Rivalry 💔 Destructive Friendship 🎨 Failed Artist ⚰️ Suicide And Guilt

Baumgartner

av Paul Auster • 2023

An elderly professor, a decade into widowhood, still makes coffee for his dead wife.

3.72

18 000+

🖤 Grieving Widower 🕰️ Aging And Memory 💔 Embodied Grief 🌙 Dream Visitation 🤝 Intergenerational Friendship

Baumgartner

An elderly professor, a decade into widowhood, still makes coffee for his dead wife.

av Paul Auster 2023 208 sidor

3.72

18 000+ betyg

🖤 Grieving Widower 🕰️ Aging And Memory 💔 Embodied Grief 🌙 Dream Visitation 🤝 Intergenerational Friendship

Ada's Room

av Sharon Dodua Otoo • 2021

Reborn across centuries, a woman is haunted by a golden bracelet stolen from her first life.

3.48

1 000+

🌀 Reincarnation Fiction 🗣️ Unusual Narrators 🌍 Colonial Legacy 🧬 Generational Trauma 💎 Stolen Artifact

Ada's Room

Reborn across centuries, a woman is haunted by a golden bracelet stolen from her first life.

av Sharon Dodua Otoo 2021 352 sidor

3.48

1 000+ betyg

🌀 Reincarnation Fiction 🗣️ Unusual Narrators 🌍 Colonial Legacy 🧬 Generational Trauma 💎 Stolen Artifact

The Air He Breathes

av Brittainy C. Cherry • 2015

A widow and a grieving recluse use each other as stand-ins for their dead spouses.

4.12

74 000+

🏘️ Small-Town Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 👧 Single Parent Romance 🏠 Neighbors To Lovers 😢 Tearjerker Romance

The Air He Breathes

A widow and a grieving recluse use each other as stand-ins for their dead spouses.

av Brittainy C. Cherry 2015 308 sidor

4.12

74 000+ betyg

🏘️ Small-Town Romance ⚔️ Enemies To Lovers 👧 Single Parent Romance 🏠 Neighbors To Lovers 😢 Tearjerker Romance

Gwen, in Green

av Hugh Zachary • 1974

A gentle wife on a ravaged island becomes the bloody instrument of the land's revenge.

3.33

460

🪴 Ecological Horror 🩸 Carnivorous Plants 🏝️ Isolated Island 🏚️ Haunted Land 🌀 Descent Into Madness

Gwen, in Green

A gentle wife on a ravaged island becomes the bloody instrument of the land's revenge.

av Hugh Zachary 1974 192 sidor

3.33

460 betyg

🪴 Ecological Horror 🩸 Carnivorous Plants 🏝️ Isolated Island 🏚️ Haunted Land 🌀 Descent Into Madness

The Living and the Lost

av Ellen Feldman • 2021

A Jewish emigre returns to Berlin to judge Nazis, haunted by the escape that saved her.

3.83

1 000+

🏚️ Postwar Berlin 🪞 Survivor Guilt ⚖️ Denazification ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 👧 Hidden Child

The Living and the Lost

A Jewish emigre returns to Berlin to judge Nazis, haunted by the escape that saved her.

av Ellen Feldman 2021 352 sidor

3.83

1 000+ betyg

🏚️ Postwar Berlin 🪞 Survivor Guilt ⚖️ Denazification ✡️ Jewish Diaspora 👧 Hidden Child

El demonio de Arbennios

av Bernard Torelló • 2021

Framed for murder by his comrades, a soldier stripped of everything returns as a reckoning.

3.19

500+

🇪🇸 Spanish Fantasy ⚔️ Revenge Fantasy 🖤 Fall And Rebirth ⛓️ Wrongful Imprisonment ⚖️ False Accusation

El demonio de Arbennios

Framed for murder by his comrades, a soldier stripped of everything returns as a reckoning.

av Bernard Torelló 2021 303 sidor

3.19

500+ betyg

🇪🇸 Spanish Fantasy ⚔️ Revenge Fantasy 🖤 Fall And Rebirth ⛓️ Wrongful Imprisonment ⚖️ False Accusation

Mère à mère

av Sindiwe Magona • 1998

Her son murdered a white student. She writes the victim's mother, tracing the act to apartheid.

3.39

1 000+

📝 Epistolary Novel 🇿🇦 Apartheid Literature 👩‍👦 Mother And Son 🧬 Generational Trauma 🔄 Cycle Of Violence

Mère à mère

Her son murdered a white student. She writes the victim's mother, tracing the act to apartheid.

av Sindiwe Magona 1998 280 sidor

3.39

1 000+ betyg

📝 Epistolary Novel 🇿🇦 Apartheid Literature 👩‍👦 Mother And Son 🧬 Generational Trauma 🔄 Cycle Of Violence

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

av Maaza Mengiste • 2010

Addis Ababa, 1974: a physician's mercy and his son's rebellion collide, shattering their family.

3.96

3 000+

🇪🇹 Ethiopian Revolution 🏚️ Family Under Tyranny ✊ Student Uprising 💔 Moral Injury 🕰️ Generational Trauma

Beneath the Lion's Gaze

Addis Ababa, 1974: a physician's mercy and his son's rebellion collide, shattering their family.

av Maaza Mengiste 2010 308 sidor

3.96

3 000+ betyg

🇪🇹 Ethiopian Revolution 🏚️ Family Under Tyranny ✊ Student Uprising 💔 Moral Injury 🕰️ Generational Trauma

Strangers in the Villa

av Robyn Harding • 2026

She wanted Spain to save her marriage. The strangers she let in came to end it.

3.57

10 000+

🔪 Domestic Thriller 🎭 Hidden Identities 💰 Blackmail ⚔️ Personal Vendetta 🕯️ Slow Burn Suspense

Strangers in the Villa

She wanted Spain to save her marriage. The strangers she let in came to end it.

av Robyn Harding 2026 336 sidor

3.57

10 000+ betyg

🔪 Domestic Thriller 🎭 Hidden Identities 💰 Blackmail ⚔️ Personal Vendetta 🕯️ Slow Burn Suspense

Griffintown

av Marie Hélène Poitras • 2012

Montreal carriage drivers live by frontier law until a murder starts their final season.

3.28

431

🏙️ Urban Western 🏚️ Outcast Community 👨‍🏫 Mentor Apprentice 🔫 Revenge Quest 🏗️ Vanishing Neighborhood

Griffintown

Montreal carriage drivers live by frontier law until a murder starts their final season.

av Marie Hélène Poitras 2012 210 sidor

3.28

431 betyg

🏙️ Urban Western 🏚️ Outcast Community 👨‍🏫 Mentor Apprentice 🔫 Revenge Quest 🏗️ Vanishing Neighborhood

My Heart and Other Black Holes

av Jasmine Warga • 2015

A suicidal girl and a guilt-ridden boy make a suicide pact and stumble into love instead.

3.95

63 000+

🖤 Suicide Pact 🌐 Online Strangers To Lovers 🥀 Guilt And Grief 💕 Healing Romance 👪 Dysfunctional Family

My Heart and Other Black Holes

A suicidal girl and a guilt-ridden boy make a suicide pact and stumble into love instead.

av Jasmine Warga 2015 302 sidor

3.95

63 000+ betyg

🖤 Suicide Pact 🌐 Online Strangers To Lovers 🥀 Guilt And Grief 💕 Healing Romance 👪 Dysfunctional Family

The Prank

av L.V. Matthews • 2021

To avenge her father's suicide, a waitress infiltrates the mogul whose prank show destroyed him.

3.69

500+

🗡️ Revenge Thriller 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🎭 Assumed Identity ⏳ Slow Burn Suspense 🌫️ Morally Grey

The Prank

To avenge her father's suicide, a waitress infiltrates the mogul whose prank show destroyed him.

av L.V. Matthews 2021

3.69

500+ betyg

🗡️ Revenge Thriller 🧠 Psychological Suspense 🎭 Assumed Identity ⏳ Slow Burn Suspense 🌫️ Morally Grey

Amid the Sinking Dark

av Abe Moss • 2021

Fleeing a custody battle, a mother shelters in a rain-cursed town where the sea devours children.

4.36

500+

🐙 Cosmic Horror 🏘️ Small Town Horror 👶 Ritual Horror 🫂 Found Family 🌧️ Atmospheric Dread

Amid the Sinking Dark

Fleeing a custody battle, a mother shelters in a rain-cursed town where the sea devours children.

av Abe Moss 2021 274 sidor

4.36

500+ betyg

🐙 Cosmic Horror 🏘️ Small Town Horror 👶 Ritual Horror 🫂 Found Family 🌧️ Atmospheric Dread

Jazz Funeral

av Julie Smith • 1993

When a JazzFest producer is murdered, his teenage half-sister runs into the New Orleans night.

3.85

2 000+

🕵️‍♀️ Female Detective 🎷 Southern Noir 👮‍♀️ Police Procedural 🏃‍♀️ Runaway Teen 🎭 Hidden Identity

Jazz Funeral

When a JazzFest producer is murdered, his teenage half-sister runs into the New Orleans night.

av Julie Smith 1993 341 sidor

3.85

2 000+ betyg

🕵️‍♀️ Female Detective 🎷 Southern Noir 👮‍♀️ Police Procedural 🏃‍♀️ Runaway Teen 🎭 Hidden Identity

These Familiar Walls

av C.J. Dotson • 2026

After her parents' murder, Amber moves home. The house remembers everything she tried to forget.

3.59

500+

🏚️ Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🩸 Generational Trauma 🔒 Family Secrets

These Familiar Walls

After her parents' murder, Amber moves home. The house remembers everything she tried to forget.

av C.J. Dotson 2026 288 sidor

3.59

500+ betyg

🏚️ Haunted House 🧠 Psychological Horror 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🩸 Generational Trauma 🔒 Family Secrets

A Single Man

av Christopher Isherwood • 1964

Bereaved, a gay professor teaches, drinks, and searches for connection across one day in 1960s LA.

4.05

38 000+

🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🎓 Campus Novel 💔 Age Gap Desire 🖤 Partner Grief 🎭 Performance Of Self

A Single Man

Bereaved, a gay professor teaches, drinks, and searches for connection across one day in 1960s LA.

av Christopher Isherwood 1964 186 sidor

4.05

38 000+ betyg

🌊 Stream Of Consciousness 🎓 Campus Novel 💔 Age Gap Desire 🖤 Partner Grief 🎭 Performance Of Self

Three Weeks with My Brother

av Nicholas Sparks • 2004

Two brothers tour the world's ancient wonders while sifting through a lifetime of shared loss.

4.05

50 000+

🏠 Family Memoir 💔 Grief Memoir 👬 Brotherhood 🔗 Childhood Trauma 🍂 Bittersweet

Three Weeks with My Brother

Two brothers tour the world's ancient wonders while sifting through a lifetime of shared loss.

av Nicholas Sparks 2004 368 sidor

4.05

50 000+ betyg

🏠 Family Memoir 💔 Grief Memoir 👬 Brotherhood 🔗 Childhood Trauma 🍂 Bittersweet

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

av Yukio Mishima • 1956

A stuttering acolyte finds the temple he serves so beautiful it suffocates every other desire.

3.97

25 000+

📚 Postwar Literature ✨ Obsession With Beauty 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 💔 Destructive Idealism 🧘 Zen Buddhism

The Temple of the Golden Pavilion

A stuttering acolyte finds the temple he serves so beautiful it suffocates every other desire.

av Yukio Mishima 1956 247 sidor

3.97

25 000+ betyg

📚 Postwar Literature ✨ Obsession With Beauty 🗣️ Unreliable Narrator 💔 Destructive Idealism 🧘 Zen Buddhism

Until the Storm Breaks

av Nate Wilder • 2025

A bartender's secret tattoo meets its author when a funeral traps them side by side.

4.07

2 000+

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity 🤗 Found Family 🌊 Coastal Small Town

Until the Storm Breaks

A bartender's secret tattoo meets its author when a funeral traps them side by side.

av Nate Wilder 2025 360 sidor

4.07

2 000+ betyg

🏘️ Small Town Romance 🔥 Slow Burn Romance 🏠 Forced Proximity 🤗 Found Family 🌊 Coastal Small Town

Summer of Grace

av Shani Struthers • 2021

Three friends, one golden summer, and the girl who vanished. Ten years later, Jules has to know why.

4.18

439

🏘️ Small Town Mystery 🕵️ Cold Case 🤝 Found Family ✨ Enigmatic Outsider ⏳ Dual Timeline

Summer of Grace

Three friends, one golden summer, and the girl who vanished. Ten years later, Jules has to know why.

av Shani Struthers 2021 330 sidor

4.18

439 betyg

🏘️ Small Town Mystery 🕵️ Cold Case 🤝 Found Family ✨ Enigmatic Outsider ⏳ Dual Timeline

The Collected Regrets of Clover

av Mikki Brammer • 2023

A death doula collects the dying's final regrets. A new neighbor asks what hers are.

4.16

100 000+

🔒 Emotionally Guarded 🫂 Found Family 👯 Unlikely Friendship ☠️ Death Positive 💌 Lost Love Letters

The Collected Regrets of Clover

A death doula collects the dying's final regrets. A new neighbor asks what hers are.

av Mikki Brammer 2023 320 sidor

4.16

100 000+ betyg

🔒 Emotionally Guarded 🫂 Found Family 👯 Unlikely Friendship ☠️ Death Positive 💌 Lost Love Letters

La Antártida del amor

av Sara Stridsberg • 2018

Murdered, she lingers, watching her children inherit the addiction and loss she could not outrun.

3.96

4 000+

👻 Dead Narrator 💉 Addiction And Family 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🖤 Dark And Lyrical 💔 Destructive Love

La Antártida del amor

Murdered, she lingers, watching her children inherit the addiction and loss she could not outrun.

av Sara Stridsberg 2018 263 sidor

3.96

4 000+ betyg

👻 Dead Narrator 💉 Addiction And Family 🧬 Intergenerational Trauma 🖤 Dark And Lyrical 💔 Destructive Love

Delirious

av Damien Wilkins • 2024

Thirty years on, their son's killer wants to meet. Mary and Pete are leaving his home.

3.83

500+

😔 Grieving Parents 👴 Aging Couple 🏘️ Retirement Community 🏠 Melancholy Domestic 🌊 Coastal New Zealand

Delirious

Thirty years on, their son's killer wants to meet. Mary and Pete are leaving his home.

av Damien Wilkins 2024 312 sidor

3.83

500+ betyg

😔 Grieving Parents 👴 Aging Couple 🏘️ Retirement Community 🏠 Melancholy Domestic 🌊 Coastal New Zealand

Los elementales

av Michael McDowell • 1981

A funeral reunites a family on the Alabama coast. The third house was meant to stay buried.

3.98

23 000+

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌊 Gothic Seaside 👻 Haunted House 🩸 Generational Curse 🧿 Folk Magic

Los elementales

A funeral reunites a family on the Alabama coast. The third house was meant to stay buried.

av Michael McDowell 1981 312 sidor

3.98

23 000+ betyg

🏚️ Southern Gothic 🌊 Gothic Seaside 👻 Haunted House 🩸 Generational Curse 🧿 Folk Magic

Finnie Walsh

av Steven Galloway • 2000

A mill-town friendship, sealed on ice and haunted by the afternoon that stole a father's arm.

3.67

275

🍁 Small Town Canada 🏒 Hockey Fiction 🤝 Cross-Class Friendship 💔 Guilt And Atonement 🌅 Bittersweet Nostalgia

Finnie Walsh

A mill-town friendship, sealed on ice and haunted by the afternoon that stole a father's arm.

av Steven Galloway 2000 165 sidor

3.67

275 betyg

🍁 Small Town Canada 🏒 Hockey Fiction 🤝 Cross-Class Friendship 💔 Guilt And Atonement 🌅 Bittersweet Nostalgia

The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride

av Joe Siple • 2018

A hundred-year-old widower ready to die meets a dying boy clutching five impossible last wishes.

4.61

48 000+

🧓 Intergenerational Bond 👦 Childhood Illness 🪣 Bucket List Quest 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ⚾ Baseball Backdrop

The Five Wishes of Mr. Murray McBride

A hundred-year-old widower ready to die meets a dying boy clutching five impossible last wishes.

av Joe Siple 2018 234 sidor

4.61

48 000+ betyg

🧓 Intergenerational Bond 👦 Childhood Illness 🪣 Bucket List Quest 👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Found Family ⚾ Baseball Backdrop

The Truth As He Knows It

av A.M. Arthur • 2015

A cop falls for a stripper he rescues, but their secrets could destroy them both.

3.90

2 000+

🩹 Hurt/Comfort 💋 Sex Worker Hero 🏠 Found Family 💔 Angst With Happy Ending 🫂 Trauma Recovery

The Truth As He Knows It

A cop falls for a stripper he rescues, but their secrets could destroy them both.

av A.M. Arthur 2015 312 sidor

3.90

2 000+ betyg

🩹 Hurt/Comfort 💋 Sex Worker Hero 🏠 Found Family 💔 Angst With Happy Ending 🫂 Trauma Recovery

Die Wise

av Stephen Jenkinson • 2015

Palliative care has made dying longer and more terrifying. A veteran caregiver explains why.

4.34

500+

🩺 Palliative Care 🕯️ Conscious Dying 💔 Grief Work 🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🦴 Ancestral Wisdom

Die Wise

Palliative care has made dying longer and more terrifying. A veteran caregiver explains why.

av Stephen Jenkinson 2015 416 sidor

4.34

500+ betyg

🩺 Palliative Care 🕯️ Conscious Dying 💔 Grief Work 🚫 Anti-Self-Help 🦴 Ancestral Wisdom

Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon

av Mizuki Tsujimura • 2010

Everyone gets one night with the dead. The boy who grants it gets none.

3.97

7 000+

🏯 Japanese Magical Realism 👻 Reunion With The Dead 🪞 Hereditary Gift 💔 Unfinished Business 🔗 Interconnected Stories

Lost Souls Meet Under a Full Moon

Everyone gets one night with the dead. The boy who grants it gets none.

av Mizuki Tsujimura 2010 256 sidor

3.97

7 000+ betyg

🏯 Japanese Magical Realism 👻 Reunion With The Dead 🪞 Hereditary Gift 💔 Unfinished Business 🔗 Interconnected Stories

The Perfect Family Man

av M.M. DeLuca • 2021

Five years after her son vanished, new neighbors move in across the lake, husband's secrets spill.

3.96

2 000+

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔍 Missing Child 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🎭 Husband's Double Life 💔 Grieving Mother

The Perfect Family Man

Five years after her son vanished, new neighbors move in across the lake, husband's secrets spill.

av M.M. DeLuca 2021 233 sidor

3.96

2 000+ betyg

🏠 Domestic Thriller 🔍 Missing Child 🌀 Unreliable Narrator 🎭 Husband's Double Life 💔 Grieving Mother

Beyond the Phantom Glow

av Abe Moss • 2021

A psychic teen must destroy the cursed suitcase that returns the dead before her town vanishes.

4.45

389

👽 Cosmic Horror 💔 Grief Horror 🫂 Found Family 🧳 Cursed Object 🏘️ Small-Town Horror

Beyond the Phantom Glow

A psychic teen must destroy the cursed suitcase that returns the dead before her town vanishes.

av Abe Moss 2021 290 sidor

4.45

389 betyg

👽 Cosmic Horror 💔 Grief Horror 🫂 Found Family 🧳 Cursed Object 🏘️ Small-Town Horror

Antes de ella

av Flor M. Salvador • 2019

Drowning in guilt and addiction, Luke meets a girl whose light makes survival worth the fight.

3.84

11 000+

💔 Tragic Love Story 🖤 Broken Hero 😢 Grief And Guilt 😭 Tearjerker 🩹 Addiction And Recovery

Antes de ella

Drowning in guilt and addiction, Luke meets a girl whose light makes survival worth the fight.

av Flor M. Salvador 2019

3.84

11 000+ betyg

💔 Tragic Love Story 🖤 Broken Hero 😢 Grief And Guilt 😭 Tearjerker 🩹 Addiction And Recovery

Lives of the Soul

av Frederick Dodson • 2010

Your soul forgot itself to make life real. Access the permitted cheat codes for remembering.

4.44

🌌 Afterlife Studies 🕊️ Near Death Experiences 🛌 Lucid Dreaming 🌱 Soul Evolution 👶 Pre Birth Planning

Lives of the Soul

Your soul forgot itself to make life real. Access the permitted cheat codes for remembering.

av Frederick Dodson 2010 251 sidor

4.44

73 betyg

🌌 Afterlife Studies 🕊️ Near Death Experiences 🛌 Lucid Dreaming 🌱 Soul Evolution 👶 Pre Birth Planning

Enormous Wings

av Laurie Frankel • 2026

Retired, in love, and pregnant at seventy-seven: her miracle is a crime in Texas.

3.88

7 000+

⚖️ Reproductive Rights 🚗 Abortion Road Trip 🏡 Retirement Community 💘 Late-Life Romance 🔗 Intergenerational Bond

Enormous Wings

Retired, in love, and pregnant at seventy-seven: her miracle is a crime in Texas.

av Laurie Frankel 2026 304 sidor

3.88

7 000+ betyg

⚖️ Reproductive Rights 🚗 Abortion Road Trip 🏡 Retirement Community 💘 Late-Life Romance 🔗 Intergenerational Bond

The Leopard

av Jo Nesbø • 2009

A detective in exile returns to Norway to catch a killer who drowns women without water.

4.10

64 000+

🖤 Scandinavian Noir 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt 🥃 Damaged Detective 🪞 Dark Mirror 🩸 Generational Trauma

The Leopard

A detective in exile returns to Norway to catch a killer who drowns women without water.

av Jo Nesbø 2009 634 sidor

4.10

64 000+ betyg

🖤 Scandinavian Noir 🔪 Serial Killer Hunt 🥃 Damaged Detective 🪞 Dark Mirror 🩸 Generational Trauma

Playlist for the Dead

av Michelle Falkoff • 2015

A grieving teen follows a suicide playlist into a web of bullying, secret identities, and revenge.

3.28

15 000+

💔 Suicide Aftermath 🎵 Music As Solace 💌 Online Secret Crush ⚔️ Avenging A Friend 🛋️ Grief Counseling

Playlist for the Dead

A grieving teen follows a suicide playlist into a web of bullying, secret identities, and revenge.

av Michelle Falkoff 2015 288 sidor

3.28

15 000+ betyg

💔 Suicide Aftermath 🎵 Music As Solace 💌 Online Secret Crush ⚔️ Avenging A Friend 🛋️ Grief Counseling

Every Silent Lie

av Jodi Ellen Malpas • 2025

Every December she hides in hotel bars. This year, a stranger named Dec finds her.

4.58

2 000+

🎄 Holiday Romance 👨‍👦 Single Dad 🏠 Found Family 💔 Grieving Heroine 🔥 Slow Burn

Every Silent Lie

Every December she hides in hotel bars. This year, a stranger named Dec finds her.

av Jodi Ellen Malpas 2025 512 sidor

4.58

2 000+ betyg

🎄 Holiday Romance 👨‍👦 Single Dad 🏠 Found Family 💔 Grieving Heroine 🔥 Slow Burn

Pine

av Francine Toon • 2020

A woman in white haunts the pines, and a grieving girl hopes the dead return.

3.37

16 000+

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Gothic 🌲 Folk Horror 👻 Grief And Ghosts 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🔮 Protective Rituals

Pine

A woman in white haunts the pines, and a grieving girl hopes the dead return.

av Francine Toon 2020 288 sidor

3.37

16 000+ betyg

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Scottish Gothic 🌲 Folk Horror 👻 Grief And Ghosts 🤫 Small Town Secrets 🔮 Protective Rituals

Toda la felicidad del universo

av César Brandon Ndjocu • 2018

A son pieces together a childhood of violence, searching poetry for the words his family buried.

3.82

411

🖋️ Prose Poetry 🔀 Fragmentary Narrative 💔 Family Trauma 🫂 Chosen Family 🩹 Healing Journey

Toda la felicidad del universo

A son pieces together a childhood of violence, searching poetry for the words his family buried.

av César Brandon Ndjocu 2018 190 sidor

3.82

411 betyg

🖋️ Prose Poetry 🔀 Fragmentary Narrative 💔 Family Trauma 🫂 Chosen Family 🩹 Healing Journey

The Fathers

av John Niven • 2025

Two Glasgow fathers, opposite lives. When one man's world breaks, the other's becomes his to take.

4.20

1 000+

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Contemporary Glasgow ⚖️ Class Divide 🪦 Grieving Parent 👨‍👦 Fatherhood 🖤 Dark Comedy

The Fathers

Two Glasgow fathers, opposite lives. When one man's world breaks, the other's becomes his to take.

av John Niven 2025 363 sidor

4.20

1 000+ betyg

🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 Contemporary Glasgow ⚖️ Class Divide 🪦 Grieving Parent 👨‍👦 Fatherhood 🖤 Dark Comedy

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