Books like Blythewood by Carol Goodman

During World War II, a foster girl in Nazi Germany steals books to share with neighbors and a hidden Jewish man, proving literature’s power to nourish the soul amid darkness.

In an elite New England college, a charismatic classics professor lures a group of eccentric students into obsessive study, leading them from intellectual curiosity to corruption, betrayal, and ultimately murder.

In a quiet South Carolina town, 16‑year‑old Ethan meets new student Lena, and they share a psychic bond that reveals a family secret set to surface on her 16th birthday.

A family’s idyllic summer party at a grand estate in Cornwall turns into a desperate search when six‑year‑old Theo vanishes, leaving the house abandoned and the siblings torn apart.

Monsieur Perdu, a literary apothecary aboard a Seine barge, prescribes novels to heal broken hearts. When his own love remains a mystery, he journeys south of France to find closure and prove stories can mend souls.

A girl with the power to search alternate futures lives out six weeks of two different lives in alternating chapters.

Clara Gardner discovers she is destined to protect her town from supernatural threats—while navigating first love, family secrets, and an ominous fallen angel.

High‑school senior Jamie navigates feelings for his best friend, sharing his secret with the support of a close circle of friends.

A cancer research lab cracks a promising breakthrough, but envy sparks doubts and suspicion, as Cliff Bannaker’s colleague and girlfriend begins to question the integrity of his work.

A collection of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s most celebrated short stories, including “Young Goodman Brown,” “The Birthmark,” and “Rappaccini’s Daughter,” exploring Puritan life, morality, and the supernatural.

A curated anthology of short stories spanning diverse genres and eras, assembled and contextualized by Ann Charters for study and enjoyment.

A collection of 20 American short stories by Nathaniel Hawthorne, ranging from early 1830s tales of Puritan life to later experiments with the supernatural and science, including the famed *Young Goodman Brown* and *Rappaccini's Daughter*.

"I very much need to be dead." These are the chilling last words left by a man who had everything to live for but took his own life. In the void that remains stands his widow, FBI agent Jane Hawk, surrounded by questions destined to go unanswered unless she does what all the grief and fury inside her demand: Find the truth, no matter what. People of talent and accomplishment, people seemingly happy and sound of mind, have recently been committing suicide in surprising numbers. A disturbing pattern is beginning to emerge. Jane is determined to give up everything to find out why. And if that means going rogue and becoming America's Most Wanted, then so be it. Those arrayed against her are legion, and devoted to protecting something profoundly important-or terrifying-enough to exterminate any and all in their way. But Jane is as clever as these enemies are cold-blooded, as relentless as they are ruthless. And she is driven by a righteous rage they can never comprehend. Because it is born of love.

At the eve of World II, two young girls mistaken for one another at a grand English estate become unexpectedly entwined in romance and intrigue.

In an alternate world ruled by the Franco-British Empire, Princess Marie‑Victoria teams up with her childhood friend, a rogue mage, to thwart a forced political marriage and protect the realm's sole source of magic.

When reclusive novelist Vida Winter’s health wanes, she tasks biographer Margaret Lea with revealing the truth of her life, though Margaret must sift through Winter’s penchant for exaggeration to arrive at facts.

In her senior year at Blythewood Academy, Avaline Hall and friends confront the malevolent Shadowmaster Judicus van Drood, whose plan to spark a war endangers both humans and the realm of Faerie.

A teenage girl, torn between two magical traditions and two boys, struggles with identity and love in her new home on a magical island.

A six‑year‑old lung‑disease patient discovers her true identity when a friend invites her to the sky‑bound world of Magonia.

Grace Wilde flees a stifling family life and the glittering music industry to escape to a boarding school in Korea, seeking a fresh start and to escape the shadow of her famous sibling.

When an orphaned high‑schooler meets her new neighbor, a half‑demon vampire, a dangerous romance ignites, forcing him to choose between duty as her bodyguard and the love that could destroy them both.