Salem Staff Picks – Adult Fiction

Everything's Eventual : 14 Dark Tales by King, Stephen
The Hotel Nantucket : A Novel by Hilderbrand, Elin
How to Sell A Haunted House by Hendrix, Grady
The Dead Zone by King, Stephen
The Good Sister by Hepworth, Sally
The Paris Wife : A Novel by McLain, Paula
Lilac Girls : A Novel by Kelly, Martha Hall
East of Eden by Steinbeck, John
The Paris Library : A Novel by Skeslien Charles, Janet
The Night Swim by Goldin, Megan
What Happened to the Bennetts by Scottoline, Lisa
Twice Shy by Hogle, Sarah
The Haunting of Hill House by Jackson, Shirley
Written In the Stars : A Novel by Bellefleur, Alexandria
Malice by Walter, Heather
The Book of Essie : A Novel by Weir, Meghan Maclean
Leviathan Wakes by Corey, James S. A
The Lying Room by French, Nicci
One Last Stop by McQuiston, Casey
Antkind : A Novel by Kaufman, Charlie
Thornhedge by Kingfisher, T
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires by Hendrix, Grady
The September House by Orlando, Carissa
The Long Walk by King, Stephen
The VIolin Conspiracy by Slocumb, Brendan
The Devil's Bed by Krueger, William Kent
Lisey's Story : A Novel by King, Stephen
A Dangerous Business by Smiley, Jane
Redhead by the Side of the Road by Tyler, Anne
Light From Uncommon Stars by Aoki, Ryka
Black Sun by Roanhorse, Rebecca
Whereabouts by Lahiri, Jhumpa
The Darkness Outside Us by Schrefer, Eliot
A Tale for the Time Being by Ozeki, Ruth L
All That Man Is by Szalay, David
When the Apricots Bloom : A Novel by Wilkinson, Gina
Elizabeth Finch : A Novel by Barnes, Julian
Jonathan Strange & Mr Norrell by Clarke, Susanna
The Wolves of Andover : A Novel by Kent, Kathleen
Killers of A Certain Age by Raybourn, Deanna
The Cat Who Saved Books by Natsukawa, Sōsuke
The Refrigerator Monologues by Valente, Catherynne M
The Institute : A Novel by King, Stephen
This Tender Land : A Novel by Krueger, William Kent
In the Time of Our History by Pari, Susanne
False Witness : A Novel by Slaughter, Karin
The New Wilderness : A Novel by Cook, Diane
This Is How You Lose the Time War by El-Mohtar, Amal
The Arsonists' City by Alyan, Hala
Gilded Mountain : A Novel by Manning, Kate
Cloud Cuckoo Land : A Novel by Doerr, Anthony
Parable of the Sower by Butler, Octavia E
Everyone In My Family Has Killed Someone by Stevenson, Benjamin
Size 12 Is Not Fat : A Heather Wells Mystery by Cabot, Meg
The Kaiju Preservation Society by Scalzi, John
The Island of Sea Women by See, Lisa
The Kill Clause : A Novel by Hurwitz, Gregg
The Marlow Murder Club : A Novel by Thorogood, Robert
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow : A Novel by Zevin, Gabrielle
Theft of Swords by Sullivan, Michael J
The Martian : A Novel by Weir, Andy
The Rim of Morning by Sloane, William
I, Tituba, Black Witch of Salem by Condé, Maryse
The Paris Apartment : A Novel by Foley, Lucy
How the Penguins Saved Veronica by Prior, Hazel
Deacon King Kong : A Novel by McBride, James
The Girl With the Louding Voice : A Novel by Daré, Abi
Welcome to Dorley Hall by Greaves, Alyson
A Psalm for the Wild-Built by Chambers, Becky
Plain Bad Heroines : A Novel by Danforth, Emily M
Stella Maris by McCarthy, Cormac
The Friend by Nunez, Sigrid
The Arsonists' City by Alyan, Hala
The Twyford Code : A Novel by Hallett, Janice
The Final Girl Support Group by Hendrix, Grady
Hamnet : A Novel of the Plague by O'Farrell, Maggie
Going Home : A Novel by Lamont, Tom
Bewilderment : A Novel by Powers, Richard
The Fraud : A Novel by Smith, Zadie
Every Heart A Doorway by McGuire, Seanan
Where the Crawdads Sing by Owens, Delia
Olga Dies Dreaming by Gonzalez, Xochitl
The God of the Woods : A Novel by Moore, Liz
An Elderly Lady Is Up to No Good : [stories] by Tursten, Helene
Margreete's Harbor : A Novel by Morse, Eleanor Lincoln
My Best Friend's Exorcism : A Novel by Hendrix, Grady
The Darkness Outside Us by Schrefer, Eliot
The Song of Achilles by Miller, Madeline
The Passenger by McCarthy, Cormac
'Salem's Lot by King, Stephen
The Thursday Murder Club by Osman, Richard
The Gilded Ones by Forna, Namina
Moonflower Murders by Horowitz, Anthony
The Maidens by Michaelides, Alex
Lucy Undying : A Dracula Novel by White, Kiersten
When We Believed In Mermaids : A Novel by O'Neal, Barbara
Miss Benson's Beetle : A Novel by Joyce, Rachel
Shuggie Bain : A Novel by Stuart, Douglas
Circe : A Novel by Miller, Madeline
Dolores Claiborne : A Novel by King, Stephen
Surface Detail by Banks, Iain
The Women of the Copper Country:   A Novel by Russell, Mary Doria
Thistlefoot : A Novel by Nethercott, Gennarose
The Henna Artist by Joshi, Alka
The Given Day : A Novel by Lehane, Dennis
Separation Anxiety : A Novel by Zigman, Laura
Picnic At Hanging Rock by Lindsay, Joan Weigall, Lady
When Women Were Dragons : A Novel by Barnhill, Kelly Regan
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