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Ghost Story - Extreme Reader 2026

Reading suggestions for anyone to enjoy that also work for the Extreme Reader 2026 challenge!

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  • Aftertaste follows Konstantin "Kostya" Duhovny, a man haunted by the death of his father and the ghosts that have lingered ever since. Though he can't see them, he tastes their favorite foods--flavors that reveal their presence. When Kostya learns…
    Book, 2025New York : Simon & Schuster, 2025. — F LAVEL-D
  • American Ghost

    a Family's Haunted Past in the Desert Southwest

    Nordhaus, Hannah,
    "In American Ghost, Hannah Nordhaus traces the life, death, and unsettled afterlife of her great-great-grandmother Julia, from her childhood in Germany to her years in the American West with her Jewish merchant husband. As she traces the strands of…
    Book, 2015New York, NY : Harper, an imprint of HarpercollinsPublishers, [2015] — 133.109789 N756A 2015
  • On a dark, haunted night, a Russian Oligarch dares a circle of international chefs to play the samurai game of 100 Candles--where each storyteller tells a terrifying tale of ghosts, demons and unspeakable beings--and prays to survive the challenge.…
    Book, 2018Milwaukie, OR : Berger Books, an imprint of Dark Horse Comics, 2018. — GN HUNGR
  • Anya, embarrassed by her Russian immigrant family and self-conscious about her body, has given up on fitting in at school but falling down a well and making friends with the ghost there just may be worse.
    Book, 2011New York : First Second, 2011. — YG ANYAS
  • Cora Zeng is a crime scene cleaner . . . in Chinatown. The bloody messes don't bother her, not when she's already witnessed the most horrific thing possible: her sister being pushed in front of a train. Before fleeing the scene, the murderer…
    Book, 2025Toronto, Ontario, Canada : Mira, [2025] — F BAKER-K
  • Yadriel, a trans boy, summons the angry spirit of his high school's bad boy, and agrees to help him learn how he died, thereby proving himself a brujo, not a bruja, to his conservative family.
    Book, 2020New York : Swoon Reads, 2020. — YF THOMA-A
  • Florence Day is a ghostwriter for one of the most prolific romance authors in the industry, and she has a problem-after a terrible break-up, she no longer believes in love. It's as good as dead. When her new editor, a too-handsome mountain of a man,…
    Book, 2022New York : Jove, 2022. — F POSTO-A
  • Food to Die for

    Recipes & Stories From America's Most Legendary Haunted Places

    Bruni, Amy,
    Paranormal investigator and Kindred Spirits host Amy Bruni brings together haunted history with ghoulish gastronomy in this designed, story-infused cookbook of nearly 60 locations across America. Discover the eerie hotels, haunted homes, hellish…
    Book, 2024[Nashville, Tennessee] : Harper Celebrate, 2024. — 641.509 BRUNI 2024
  • Winifred has lived in the apartment above the cemetery office with her father, who works in the crematorium all her life, close to her mother's grave. With her sixteenth birthday only days away, Winifred has settled into a lazy summer schedule,…
    Book, 2023Toronto : Tundra, [2023] — YF DIMAL-C
  • Fifteen-year-old Chelsea, daughter of a paranormal specialist, risks her hard-won popularity and more when she is drawn into a paranormal romance after discovering her own ability to communicate with ghosts.
    Book, 2024New York, NY : Versify, Harper Alley, imprints of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2024] — YG GHOST
  • Enjoy this spooky romp through a world of restless spirits, from the ghost who warns hikers in the Cascades about a dangerous path, to the phantoms that roam the Seattle Underground. You'll read a fascinating account about a man wrongly lynched near…
    Book, 2000Edmonton, Canada ; Renton, WA : Lone Pine Pub., [2000] — 133.109797 SMITH 2000
  • Catrina and her family have moved to the coast of Northern California for the sake of her little sister, Maya, who has cystic fibrosis. Cat is even less happy about the move when she is told that her new town is inhabited by ghosts, but Maya sets…
    Book, 2016New York, NY : Graphix, an imprint of Scholastic, 2016. — JG GHOST
  • To be a client of Gwendolyn Montgomery's-New York's most powerful publicist at Sublime Media-is to be infused with a certain oomph, a mysterious glamour. She seems to have created the ideal life with her handsome new boyfriend, the perfect match.…
    Book, 2025New York : Legacy Lit, 2025. — F HAYNE-C
  • "Don't talk to day about what we do at night." When aimless twenty-something Mara lands a job as the night-shift production assistant on her cousin's ghost hunting/home makeover reality TV show Haunt Sweet Home, she quickly determines her new role…
    Book, 2024New York : Tordotcom, Tor Publishing Group, 2024. — F PINSK-S
  • From the spirits of frontiersmen and adventurers to specters of soldiers and sailors, chilling tales abound. Ghostly full body apparitions are said to endlessly travel the Oregon Trail, and the doomed 17-man crew of the Andelana, drowned in Tacoma's…
    Book, 2024Charleston, SC : The History Press, 2024. — 133.1097 KITMACHER 2024
  • A Haunted Road Atlas

    Sinister Stops, Dangerous Destinations, and True Crime Tales

    Schiefer, Christine,
    Pack up your Ouija board, wine bra, and squirt guns full of holy water ... we're going on a road trip! From the hit podcast And That's Why We Drink, this is your interactive travel guide to the hosts' favorite spooky and sinister sights. The world…
    Book, 2022Kansas City, Missouri : Andrews McMeel Publishing, [2022] — 133.12 SCHIEFER 2022
  • Bells that ring themselves. Record players that turn on an play music to empty rooms. Ghosts that can climb out of wardrobes... Maggie Holt doesn't believe in these things, even though they are the details of the story that made her family famous.…
    Book, 2020[New York, New York] : Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House LLC, [2020] — F SAGER-R
  • 1806: Astrid Poole sits in her bridal clothes, overwhelmed with happiness. But before her marriage can be consummated, she is murdered, and the circle of gold torn from her finger. Her last words are a promise to Collin never to leave him... Graphic…
    Book, 2023New York : St. Martin's Press, 2023. — F ROBER-N
  • Sully is ready to get out of Hearst, Pennsylvania. With a fashion internship secured, the gender-nonconforming eighteen-year-old is trading in their stifling small town for the big city. Sully even sells their beloved car, to Bread--er, Brad--the…
    Book, 2025New York : Storytide, an imprint of HarperCollinsPublishers, [2025] — YF VANNE-J
  • There are three rules in the neighborhood: Don't cry ; Don't snitch ; Get revenge. Will takes his dead brother Shawn's gun, and gets in the elevator on the 7th floor. As the elevator stops on each floor, someone connected to Shawn gets on. Someone…
    Book, 2017New York : Atheneum, [2017] — YF REYNO-J