- Atwood, Margaret, Stone Mattress
- Bates, H. E., The Woman Who Had Imagination
- Beukes, Lauren, Slipping
- Bradbury, Ray, The Martian Chronicles
- Carter, Angela, The Bloody Chamber
- Cather, Willa, Obscure Destinies
- Christie, Agatha, The Tuesday Club Murders
- Cox, Michael and R.A. Gilbert, The Oxford Book of Victorian Ghost Stories
- Dickens, Charles, The Chimes, A Christmas Carol, The Cricket on the Hearth
- Edwards, Martin (ed.), Murder at the Manor, Silent Nights
- Ellis, Helen, American Housewife: Stories
- Egan, Jennifer, A Visit from the Goon Squad (second review)
- Galgut, Damon, In a Strange Room
- Gaskell, Elizabeth, Tales of Mystery and the Macabre
- Heyer, Georgette, Snowdrift and Other Stories
- Hodgson, W. H., The Casebook of Carnaki the Ghost Finder
- Jackson, Shirley, Let Me Tell You
- James, P.D., The Mistletoe Murder and Other Stories
- Johnson, Craig, Spirit of Steamboat
- Katz, Michael R. (ed.), The Kreutzer Sonata Variations
- Lahiri, Jhumpa, Unaccustomed Earth
- Leonard, Elmore, Raylan
- McCracken, Elizabeth, Thunderstruck and Other Stories
- McCullers, Carson, Collected Stories of Carson McCullers
- Mann, Thomas, Death in Venice
- Mantel, Hilary, The Assassination of Margaret Thatcher
- Munro, Alice, The Beggar Maid, Family Furnishings, The View from Castle Rock
- Niffenegger, Audrey (ed.), Ghostly
- Oliphant, Margaret, The Mystery of Mrs. Blencarrow, Queen Eleanor and Fair Rosamund
- Raybourn, Deanna, Twelfth Night
- Runcie, James, Sidney Chambers and the Shadow of Death
- Russell, Karen, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
- Strout, Elizabeth, Olive Kitteridge
- Szalay, David, All That Man Is
- Toíbín, Colm, The Empty Family
- Tolstoy, Leo (Lev Nikolaevich), Lev Lvovich, and Sofiya, The Kreutzer Sonata Variations
- Walker, Tom, Signed Confessions
