Gothic & Haunted Houses

The Shadow of the Wind

by Lucia Graves · The Cemetery of Forgotten Books series

Barcelona, 1945: a boy finds a mysterious novel in a secret library and becomes obsessed with its vanished author, only to discover that someone is systematically destroying every copy of the writer's work. A gothic mystery threaded through decades of war, censorship, and forbidden love.

The Cemetery of Forgotten Books in reading order

• 1. The Shadow of the Wind (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #1) — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• 2. The Angel's Game (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #2) — Carlos Ruiz Zafón
• 3. The Prisoner of Heaven (The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, #3) — Carlos Ruiz Zafón

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