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Essential TBR Adds for Spooky Season and the -ber months
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Halloween and Spooky season reads
Some of my favorite reads!
Halloween and Spooky season reads
A little murder, a couple of ghosts, childhood trauma, you know - the usual.
I started this series in 2015 and it's one of the most unique series I've read to date. The Restorer follows Amelia Gray, a cemetery restorer in Charleston who carries a family secret - she can see ghosts. When she’s pulled into a murder investigatio...
The Restorer (Graveyard Queen, #1)
The cover art alone is worth a spot on your shelf. This is a queer-friendly book which is a love letter to Lucy, one of Dracula's victims that deserved more of a spotlight in the stories. This book has tons of Girl Power appeal, love and romance, an ...
Lucy Undying: A Dracula Novel by Kiersten White
I started this series in 2017 and it still sticks with me. Woman discovers her husband is a cold-blooded murderer with a kill-room in their basement. She and her children's lives are flipped upside down. Her son still misses dad and doesn't understan...
Stillhouse Lake #1 by Rachel Caine
If your relationship with your mother isn't the best, this might be a great or terrible read for you. Depending on your sense of humor. In this eerie short story, a teenage girl grows up convinced her mother is a witch, complete with dire warnings ab...
My Evil Mother: A Short Story by Margaret Atwood
Speaking of Halloween reads: Florida detective Maggie Novak is jolted awake on Halloween when a charred body case turns out to be identified as someone from her past—someone she believed died in a fire 20 years ago. As she digs into high school secre...
Don't Even Breathe (Maggie Novak Thriller Book 1) by Keith Houghton
Tonally this book mixes YA romance with psychological horror and a gothic, eerie atmosphere. Major themes include trauma and memory, the thin line between mental illness and supernatural explanation, identity and agency, and the way teenage love can ...
The Unbecoming of Mara Dyer #1 by Michelle Hodkin
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16-year-old Junie, born into enslavement, is haunted by the death of her older sister Minnie, and when she accidentally awakens Minnie’s ghost, Junie is pulled into a spectral mission that forces her to reckon with love, power, and betrayal. Junie mu...
16-year-old Junie, born into enslavement, is haunted by the death of her older sister Minnie, and when she accidentally awakens Minnie’s ghost, Junie is pulled into a spectral mission that forces her to reckon with love, power, and betrayal. Junie mu...
Junie by Erin Crosby Eckstine
Ophelia Grimm suddenly inherits her mother’s necromancer powers, and massive debt, just as her sister enters the deadly competition called Phantasma in order to save their family home. Thrust into a haunted manor full of shifting horrors, supernatura...
Phantasma by Kaylie Smith
When seventeen-year-old Naya dies on her very first mission, she’s resurrected as a wraith—an existence caught between life and death. Struggling to adjust, she discovers a dark conspiracy that threatens her city and her people, forcing her to choose...
Twice Dead (Necromancer's Song Series #1)
Some of my favorite reads!
Add these to your TBR. You know you want to.
The best short story I've ever read. If you enjoyed The Lake House, or Somewhere in Time, you'll eat up this short story. A military intelligence officer sends a mayday in 2023 before he's killed, which is received by an operator in 1943. Can she sav...
Signal Moon: A Short Story - by Kate Quinn
Cinnelle Barnes has such an interesting story and she tells it well. She's also just genuinely funny and interesting, which you can see on her Instagram page. She stands up for what she believes in and even with all the craziness of her childhood, sh...
Monsoon Mansion: A Memoir by Cinelle Barnes
I read this one while I was camping, an interesting juxtaposition from the fancy gowns and balls of the book, to be sure.
Set in Manhattan in 1899, The Luxe follows the glamorous and scandalous lives of New York’s young social elite. Sisters Elizab...
The Luxe (Luxe, #1) by Anna Godbersen