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"Embers" by Sándor Márai. A lovely book that is set in Hungary and written by a Hungarian author in 1942. It is calm and when you read it, it is like floating in warm, liquid dusk.

Then of course Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's Tales of Sherlock Holmes.

The Narnia Chronicles by C.S. Lewis

Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicls

Bram Stoker's "Dracula"

Gaston Leroux's "Phantom of the Opera"

This one might be hard to get in the US, but it might be possible, "Angels of the Universe" by the Icelandic author Einar Már Guðmundsson. It is a novel he wrote with the life of his brother as an inspiration. His older brother had Scizophrenia, and the story is very personal, and I think it is among the best books I have read, it is very beautiful, and if you are interested, the story has also been filmed and it is a very good film, and the music in the film is better yet. It has very many beautiful metaphors and it is very vivid, and I think it is a good read for those that see the world a little differently than the rest, and for those that see it normally, it is a peek into that which is unknown to them.