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Novels featuring spontaneous combustion

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William Edmondstoune Aytoun: The Glenmutchkin Railway
John Banville: Birchwood
Honoré de Balzac: Le Cousin Pons (Cousin Pons)
Madison Smartt Bell: Waiting For The End Of The World
Charles Brockden Brown: Wieland
Charles Dickens: Bleak House
Fyodor Dostoevsky: Crime and Punishment
Laura Esquivel: Como agua para chocolate (Like Water for Chocolate)
Nikolai Gogol: Вий (Viy)
Nikolai Gogol: Мёртвые души (Dead Souls)
Washington Irving: Knickerbocker’s History Of New York
Roxanne Longstreet: Slow Burn
Jonathan Lyons: Burn
Hilary Mantel: Fludd
Captain Marryat: Jacob Faithful
Herman Melville: Redburn
Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child: Brimstone
Arthur B. Reeve: The Silent Bullet
Mark Twain: Life On The Mississippi
Jules Verne: Un capitaine de quinze ans (Dick Sand, A Captain at Fifteen)
Alix Wilber: The Wives’ Tale
Keith Waddington: Spontaneous Combustion
Emile Zola: Le Docteur Pascal (Doctor Pascal)

Note: David B. Feinberg’s Spontaneous Combustion is not about spontaneous combustion.