en-US Wed, 05 Nov 2025 14:18:54 -0800 60 144 41 https://www.goodreads.com/images/layout/goodreads_logo_144.jpg 234680059 A Simon & Schuster book. Simon & Schuster has a great book for every reader. ]]> 1 Becky Siegel Spratford 1668148528 Claire 0 to-read 4.09 2025
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]]> 239767827 236 Tiffany Meuret Claire 5 to-read 4.20
author: Tiffany Meuret
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For twenty-five years, Becky Siegel Spratford has worked as a librarian in Reader Advisory, training library workers all over the world on how to engage their patrons and readers, and to use her place as a horror expert and critic to get the word out to others; to bring even more readers into the horror fold.

Why I Love Horror is a captivating anthology and heartfelt tribute to the horror genre featuring essays from several of the most celebrated contemporary horror writers including, Grady Hendrix, Paul Tremblay, Stephen Graham Jones, Josh Malerman, Victor LaValle, Tananarive Due, and Rachel Harrison.]]> 272 Becky Siegel Spratford 1668205092 Claire 0 to-read 4.32 2025
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About the author: Kayli Scholz is the author of Saint Grit (Ghoulish Books, 2023) and Black Rain Season (Curious Corvid Publishing, 2024). Her short fiction has appeared in Dark Moon Digest, A Formal Invitation, and others. Kayli lives and writes in the wilds of Florida.]]> 180 Kayli Scholz Claire 5 cult-classic, horror 4.05 2025
author: Kayli Scholz
name: Claire
average rating: 4.05
book published: 2025
rating: 5
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Yeehaw Junction was a teaspoon of melting road tar in my coffee: full of unexpected twists and noir-dark turns. It’s hard to believe this is Kayli Scholz’s third novel. She writes with such confidence and style, and an ease that suggests she has many more great books ahead.
]]> 235083370 Claire Rudy Foster Claire 5 4.33 2024
author: Claire Rudy Foster
name: Claire
average rating: 4.33
book published: 2024
rating: 5
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]]> 61816196 291 Andy Cox Claire 5 4.00
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name: Claire
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By turns tender and punk-tough, Shine of the Ever is a series of short stories of queer voices out of 1990s Portland. This collection of interconnected short stories explores what binds a community of queer and trans people as they negotiate love, screwing up, and learning to forgive themselves for being young and sometimes foolish.

Narrated by author Claire Rudy Foster.

"the Best LGBTQ Books That'll Change the Literary Landscape in 2019"
— O Magazine ]]> Claire Rudy Foster 1951954181 Claire 5 5.00 2019
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]]> 195648675 98 Kayli Scholz 1943720908 Claire 5 horror, 70s
The descriptions are sultry and the book's scenes are crisply written. Like Nadine, the narrative slides effortlessly between the perverse and the gruesome. Reading, I can't believe that Saint Grit is a first novel. The quality of the writing, its pacing, and the sophisticated layers of the novel are the work of a seasoned author. Kayli Scholz is poised for a great debut, and hopefully many more horror stories in the years to come.]]> 4.10
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I read an advance copy of this book and it was everything I could ask for! Nadine Boone is a sexy, sinister witch in 1970s rural Florida who makes a deal with a ghost to fulfill her darkest desires. Nadine's wickedness taints everything she touches, including her children's psyches and the very land she lives on. Saint Grit takes on themes of inherited or generational trauma, twisted feminism, and revenge for sexual harms. Above it all are Florida's manchineel trees, practically a character in themselves.

The descriptions are sultry and the book's scenes are crisply written. Like Nadine, the narrative slides effortlessly between the perverse and the gruesome. Reading, I can't believe that Saint Grit is a first novel. The quality of the writing, its pacing, and the sophisticated layers of the novel are the work of a seasoned author. Kayli Scholz is poised for a great debut, and hopefully many more horror stories in the years to come.
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name: Claire
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]]> 55521660 72 Dave Ring 1952086043 Claire 5 4.75 2020
author: Dave Ring
name: Claire
average rating: 4.75
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Stories from: Jacob Budenz, kx carys, Meghan Cunningham, Claire Rudy Foster, Caspian Gray, V. Medina, H. Pueyo, M. Raoulee, D.M. Rice, Victoria Zelvin]]> 145 Dave Ring 0996103759 Claire 5 4.21
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]]> 38403458 307 Ryan Hampton 1250196272 Claire 5 4.23 2018
author: Ryan Hampton
name: Claire
average rating: 4.23
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Sharp and insightful, Ryan's voice is fresh and so necessary.
]]> 53125508 Time is running out for the Old Country.
How does one save a nation when the erstwhile gods are against the idea? In the finale of Terribly Serious Darkness, it's up to Sloot Peril--the world's greatest accountant and poorest everything else—to figure it out.
Unfortunately, he'll have help. A philosopher who'd sooner die (again) than do any real work, a bard who can't play his non-instrument, and a spooky wizard who's often mistaken for a vampire may not be ideal allies, but with any luck—which Sloot's never had—they'll occasionally get out of his way.
Does Sloot stand a chance against serpent cults, demons, dragons, and the most sinister financial report every written? Doubtful. If he's even going to survive the dance contest, he'll have to think of something now, before the Dark swallows everything up.]]> 456 Sam Hooker 1645480291 Claire 5 4.07
author: Sam Hooker
name: Claire
average rating: 4.07
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Five stars! Write-up in Foreword Reviews.
]]> 36555616 Becoming Dangerous is a book of intelligent and challenging essays that will resonate with anyone who’s ever looked for answers outside the typical places.

From ritualistic skincare routines to gardening; from becoming your own higher power to searching for a legendary Scottish warrior woman; from the fashion magick of brujas to cripple-witch city-magic; from shoreline rituals to psychotherapy—this book is for people who know that now is the time, now is the hour, ours is the magic, ours is the power.]]> 294 Katie West 0995716439 Claire 5 4.01 2018
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name: Claire
average rating: 4.01
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]]> 37638092 Where's the outrage?

Ryan Hampton is a young man who has made addiction and recovery reform his life's mission. Through the wildly successful non-profit organization Facing Addiction, Hampton has been rocketed to the center of America's rising recovery movement--quickly emerging as the de facto leader of the national conversation on addiction. He understands firsthand how easy it is to develop a dependency on opioids, and how destructive it can quickly become. Now, he is waging a permanent campaign to change our way of thinking about and addressing addiction in this country.

In American Fix, Hampton describes his personal struggle with addiction, outlines the challenges that the recovery movement currently faces, and offers a concrete, comprehensive plan of action towards making America's addiction crisis a thing of the past.]]> 304 Ryan Hampton 1250196264 Claire 5 3.52 2018
author: Ryan Hampton
name: Claire
average rating: 3.52
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]]> 31932496 95 Claire Rudy Foster 0998072710 Claire 5 4.73
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name: Claire
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