NoveList Reading Challenge: July 2025Like this list

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• Bat Eater and Other Names for Cora Zeng

  a Novel

  Baker, Kylie Lee,

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  Cora Zeng is an underemployed art history major-turned-New York City crime scene cleaner, eking out a living scrubbing bodies off the walls. In early 2020, she's disconcerted to notice an uptick in murdered Asian women.

• When the Wolf Comes Home

  Cassidy, Nat, 1981-

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  One night, Jess, a struggling actress, finds a 5-year-old runaway hiding in the bushes outside her apartment. After a violent, bloody encounter with the boy's father, she and the boy find themselves running for their lives.

• The Country Under Heaven

  a Novel

  Durbin, Frederic S., 1966-

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  Union Army soldier Ovid Vesper survives the Civil War but at a cost. Following a near-death experience in the Battle of Antietam, he sees an unnatural being that he dubs the Craither.

• Eat the Ones You Love

  Griffin, Sarah Maria,

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  Shell Pine has to make a change and bring some good into her life and realizes right away that flowers are just the good thing she's been looking for. Neve, the beautiful florist, needs Shell's help. But a possessive orchid named Baby is growing out…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Staircase in the Woods

  Wendig, Chuck,

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  Five friends on a camping trip in the middle of the forest find something extraordinary: a mysterious staircase to nowhere. One friend walks up and never comes back down. Then, the staircase disappears.

• The Buffalo Hunter Hunter

  Jones, Stephen Graham, 1972-

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  A diary, written in 1912 by a Lutheran pastor, is discovered within a wall. What it unveils is a slow massacre, a chain of events that details the death of 217 members of the Blackfeet reservation.

• Vanishing Daughters

  a Novel

  Pelayo, Cynthia,

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  Haunted by eerie visions and restless spirits, Briar Thorne investigates a string of murders tied to a Chicago serial killer, uncovering a chilling connection between her nightmares and the key to stopping the killer before she becomes his next…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Haunting of Room 904

  a Novel

  Wurth, Erika T.,

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  Olivia Becente was never supposed to have the gift. The ability to commune with the dead was the specialty of her sister, Naiche. But when Naiche died unexpectedly and under strange circumstances, somehow Olivia suddenly couldn't stop seeing and…Read moreRead more of this annotation

• The Pink Agave Motel & Other Stories

  Castro, V.,

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  A creepy and sultry collection of 12 interconnected horror shorts where monsters drawn from Indigenous folklore rise from the shadows to wrest back their power and control over humans.

• The Bewitching

  Moreno-Garcia, Silvia,

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  Three women in three different eras encounter danger and witchcraft.

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