What to Read This Spooky October
It's finally spooky season! Light your pumpkin spice candle, grab your TBR list and your favourite blanket, and start reading!
Looking for something cozy, spooky, and whimsical to read? These 5 books will surely hit the spot. I absolutely love reading them during late September and October, and I hope you will enjoy them too.
The Bellwoods Games
Genre: Middle Grade Horror
Tone and Mood: Beautifully creepy, suspenseful
This middle grade novel is full of beautiful illustrations to capture an eerie and suspenseful story about Falls Hallow, a haunted town with a forest that holds secret games.
The Saturday Night Ghost Club
Genre: Lit-Fiction, Supernatural
Tone and Mood: Coming-of-age, feel-good 80s, mysterious, bittersweet
This coming-of-age novel is about a group of misfits who spend their summer investigating local ghost stories and urban legends.
Hooky Vol. 1
Genre: Middle Grade, Fantasy, Graphic Novel
Tone and Mood: Exciting, Whimsical
This colourful and fun graphic novel is about a brother and sister who go on a magical adventure to find out how to be the best witches they can be. When a certain prophecy comes to light, things take a fun, intense, magical turn.
Proctor Valler Road
Genre: Horror, Graphic Novel
Tone and Mood: 70's Teenage Vibes, Thrilling
This graphic novel follows a group of friends who organize a Spook Tour on America's most haunted stretch of road, but when it turns deadly, they must fight their way through and rescue missing students.
Wildwood
Genre: Fantasy, Adventure
Tone and Mood: Magical, Mysterious
This beautifully written, illustrated novel draws on classic fantasy novels and folktales. This story is about two seventh graders who are drawn into a hidden forest while trying to rescue a baby kidnapped by crows.
I hope that one of these books sparked joy for you and will inspire you to have the perfect spooky/whimmsy October you desrve!
Which one will you be reading?
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