Looking for some titles to spice up your book list? You're in for a treat. I don't spend the better portion of my hours reading for nothing, and I've come across a multitude of under-appreciated books that deserve more recognition. So here's a curated list of strange and beautiful titles to add to your summer fun.

1. "The Night Circus" by Erin Morgenstern.

In the mood for a dark and dazzling departure from everyday life? This novel follows an enchanted circus and the deadly competition that is going on inside of it.

2. "Gilead" by Marilynne Robinson.

This small novel is simply stunning. Written in the form of a letter from an ailing pastor to his young son, this book follows the ins and outs of a small Iowan town. It is a testament to grace.

3. "Pilgrim at Tinker" Creek by Annie Dillard.

This nonfiction piece details the year that the author spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains. She records the natural phenomena that she encounters in her wanderings, and muses on philosophy and religion. Definitely worth a read.

4. "Trigger Warning" by Neil Gaiman.

This is actually a collection of short stories and poetry by the acclaimed author of "The Graveyard Book." The stories are twisted and mythic and gorgeous. Gaiman's way with words is not something you'll soon forget.

5. "The Golem and the Jinni" by Helene Wecker.

This one is really an oddball. Set in fin du siecle New York, where immigrants are arriving in scads, it follows two mythical beings from different cultures as they try to adapt to "modern" American life.

6. "All the Light We Cannot See" by Anthony Doerr.

OK, maybe this one is a bit more popular than the rest, but it absolutely deserves note. It is told from the differing perspectives of a blind French girl in occupied Paris and a talented German boy who is an engineer for the army. It will give you a new perspective of WWII.

7. "All That is Solid Melts into Air" by Darragh McKeon.

With a strange cast of characters, this book gives readers an inside picture into the Chernobyl disaster as they follow a piano prodigy, a Ukrainian boy, and a skilled surgeon trying to alleviate the tragedy.

8. "The Secret Wisdom of the Earth" by Christopher Scotton.

This book deals with several heavy topics (family tragedy, homophobia, and coal mining in the Appalachians) with grace and clarity. It is not a book for the faint of heart, but it absolutely deserves a place on everyone's shelf.

9. "Wolf Hall" by Hillary Mantel.

This book differs from other works of historical fiction by the author's powerful and unique voice, which is part stream-of-consciousness, part poetry. It tells the story of Thomas Cromwell, friend and adviser to King Henry VIII.

10. "Burial Rites" by Hannah Kent.

This book will make you want to pack your bags and take the next flight to Iceland. A fictional account of the last public execution in the country, this work shows Iceland in all of its stark and beguiling beauty.

11. "Something Wicked This Way Comes" by Ray Bradbury.

This is an October book, a Hallowe'en book. It is a classic light-versus-darkness tale, but told in the beautiful prose of Ray Bradbury, full of imagery and poetry and shivery sentences.

12. "Bird, Snow, Boy" by Helen Oyeyemi.

This retelling of Snow White also deals with the issue of race, as a young mother in the '50s finds herself with one pale daughter and one dark daughter. She has to fight not to become the wicked stepmother of the story.

13. "Cold Mountain" by Charles Frazier.

A Civil War story and an epic journey, "Cold Mountain" follows a young girl trying to keep her late father's farm alive, and the confederate soldier who traverses the wide South to get back to her.

14. "Station Eleven" by Emily St. John Mandel.

I believe I've told you about this book before, so if you haven't read it, now is the time. A post-apocalyptic novel filled with sickness and Shakespeare and pure human strength, this one is a keeper for sure.

15. "The Dovekeepers" by Alice Hoffman.

This book covers a period in history that I knew nothing about prior to reading. At the end of the first century A.D., a group of rebel Jews held out against Roman soldiers for several months. This story is told through the mouths of four women who all tend to the doves at the fortress.