The Lit Spot

The Woman by Kristen Hannah

Set during the Vietnam War, 20 year old Frances ‘Frankie’ McGrath nursing student living with her conservative parents in a sheltered Southern California home. Until she hears the call to join the war as a member of the Army Nurse Corps. Alongside the soldiers fighting on the frontlines Frankie see how the war changes those, and how a bit of luck means life or death. Upon coming home, she sees a divided nation that would like to forget Vietnam ever happened. As Frankie’s world becomes darker by the day with every new bout of pain, she learns what kind of hero she needs to be in an everchanging world.

The Familiar by Leigh Bardugo

From the bestselling author of Ninth House, Hell Bent, and the Grishaverse. Set during the Spanish Golden Age in the new capital of Madrid Luzia tries to get through life while being forced to provide miracles for her mistress and hiding her Jewish heritage. She catches the eye of the disgraced secretary to Spain’s king, Antonio Perez, who is desperate to regain his former status. Luzia finds herself thrown into an uncertain dangerous world where she has to use all of her talents to survive, but the most dangerous of all is the immortal familiar she is asking for help.

Bride

by Ali Hazelwood

A marriage alliance between Vampyres and Weres is made to keep the peace, for now. Vampyre Misery Lark is reluctant to be the bride of the Were Alpha leader. A man she has no trust for, but if it means she can be the one to keep the peace to protect those she loves, she will give it her all.

Bury Your Gays by Chuck Tingle

Bestselling author of Camp Damascus brings a story of a jaded writer who is pressured by his producers to kill off a gay character for the sake of “the algorithm”. Misha is finally facing success for all of his hard work, but ghosts from his past have come back to haunt him. He will have to find a way to do the right thing before it is too late.

You Like it Darker by Stephen King

The newest collection of short stories by the master of horror. Twelve new stories that explore the metaphorical and literal darker parts of life. With stories about fate, morality, luck, and how anything can happen, along with a sequel to Cujo.

House of Flame and Shadow by Sarah J. Maas

In the third book of Sarah J. Maas’s Cresent City series brings Bryce Quinlan and Hunt Athalar in very different places trying to find each other. Bryce is stuck on a strange new world and has the difficult task of finding her way back to Midgard with no idea who to trust. Meanwhile, Hunt is in Asteri’s dungeons with no idea if Bryce is still alive but is at the mercy of the Asteri. With the future of their world resting on their shoulders, Bryce and Hunt will need each other more than ever.

Horror Movie by Paul Tremblay

Follow the journey of four young filmmakers as they create the film that became a cult classic, Horror Movie. Thirty years later, Hollywood is pushing for a big budget remake with the only surviving cast member, the man who played ‘The Thin Kid’, but the secrets that led to the tragedy on set of the original all those years ago are coming back.

Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune

The sequel to Klune’s bestselling fantasy novel, The House in the Cerulean Sea. Arthur Parnassus is taking care of six magical, slightly dangerous, children he hopes to adopt and give good lives. He is in the fight of his life when a new magical child who embraces the term ‘monster’ threatens to tear apart the life he is trying to build for his extended family.

The Last Murder at the End of the World by Stuart Turton

The End of the World has happened and all that is left is an idyllic island holding one hundred and twenty-five people. That peaceful view of the world is shattered when one of the scientists is found murdered, and if that is not bad enough the murder triggered a lowering of the island’s security system. With 107 hours to go until the danger that destroyed the world comes to their shores and everyone’s memory suspiciously wiped, including the murderer, no one is sure who to trust.

Lucy Undying by Kiersten White

In this retelling of Dracula, Lucy Westerna takes the stage as we see the story through her eyes after rising from the grave as one of Dracula’s first victims. Fast forward to twenty-first century London, Lucy tries to rediscover who she is and escape from her past. Thinking she’s found love again in health heiress Iris, a woman with her own dark secrets, Lucy wants to give true happiness a try, no matter what it will cost her.