It’s October! Not only are we in full fall mode – the leaves have changed, the colors are gorgeous, a crisp is in the air, Hocus Pocus is playing practically every other day. October is also full blown spooky season with Halloween at the end of the month. I have decided to dedicate all of the books I am reading this October to be spooky! Really get myself into the spirit.
I asked last week for y’all’s reccommendations on your favorite spooky reads and there were so many! I rounded them up, also with some that I found that look like they would be good!
The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires
This southern-flavored supernatural thriller set in the ’90s about a women’s book club that must protect its suburban community from a mysterious and handsome stranger who turns out to be a blood-sucking fiend.
The Other Woman
In this suspenseful debut, one woman will have to compete with a woman she never saw coming: her boyfriend’s mother. Having finally found a healthy relationship, Emily can’t imagine letting it slip away but her boyfriend’s mother disapproves of her and will do anything to make sure Emily is not the woman her beloved son ends up with.
Gone Girl
It is Nick and Amy Dunne’s fifth wedding anniversary. Nick’s clever and beautiful wife disappears from their rented McMansion on the Mississippi River. Nick isn’t doing himself any favors with cringe-worthy daydreams about the slope and shape of his wife’s head, but passages from Amy’s diary reveal the alpha-girl perfectionist could have put anyone dangerously on edge. Nick is oddly evasive, and he’s definitely bitter—but is he really a killer? If Nick didn’t do it, where is Amy? And what was in that silvery gift box hidden in the back of her bedroom closet?
Home Before Dark
Riley Sager, a woman returns to the house made famous by her father’s bestselling horror memoir. Is the place really haunted by evil forces, as her father claimed? Or are there more earthbound—and dangerous—secrets hidden within its walls?
The Girl On The Train
Rachel catches the same train every morning for her commute. She knows it will wait at the same signal each time, overlooking a row of back gardens. She’s even started to feel like she knows the people who live in one of the houses. “Jess and Jason,” she calls them. Their life—as she sees it—is perfect. And then she sees something shocking. It’s only a minute until the train moves on, but it’s enough. Now everything’s changed. Now Rachel has a chance to become a part of the lives she’s only watched from afar.
The Silent Patient
Alicia Berenson’s life is seemingly perfect. A famous painter married to an in-demand fashion photographer, she lives in a grand house with big windows overlooking a park in one of London’s most desirable areas. One evening her husband Gabriel returns home late and Alicia shoots him five times in the face, and then never speaks another word. Theo Faber is a criminal psychotherapist who has waited a long time for the opportunity to work with Alicia. He is determined to get her to talk and unravel the mystery of why she shot her husband.
The Woman In The Window
Anna Fox lives alone in her New York City home, unable to venture outside. She spends her day drinking wine, watching old movies, and spying on her neighbors. The Russells move into the house across the street: a father, a mother and their teenage son. The perfect family. But when Anna, gazing out her window one night, sees something she shouldn’t, her world begins to crumble and its shocking secrets are revealed.
Then She Was Gone
Ellie Mack was the perfect daughter at age fifteen. And then she was gone. Now, her mother Laurel Mack is trying to put her life back together. It’s been ten years since her daughter disappeared. When she meets an unexpectedly charming man in a café, and before she knows it, she is meeting his youngest, Poppy. Looking at Poppy is like looking at Ellie. The unanswered questions she’s tried so hard to stop thinking about, begin to haunt Laurel once again. Where did Ellie go? Did she really run away from home, as the police have long suspected, or was there another reason for her disappearance?
The Guest List
On an island off the coast of Ireland, guests gather to celebrate two people joining their lives together as one. The groom: handsome and charming, a rising television star. The bride: smart and ambitious, a magazine publisher. But perfection is for plans. the groomsmen begin the drinking game from their school days. The bridesmaid not-so-accidentally ruins her dress. The bride’s oldest (male) friend gives an uncomfortably caring toast. Then someone turns up dead.
The Night Swim
After the first season of her true crime podcast became an overnight hit and set an innocent man free, Rachel Krall is now a household name―and the last hope for thousands of people seeking justice. But she’s used to being recognized for her voice, not her face. Which makes it all the creepier when she finds a note on her car windshield, addressed to her, begging for help.
Something In The Water
One couple gets the surprise of a lifetime during their honeymoon in this bestseller. Going on a scuba diving adventure in Bora Bora, the newlyweds find something they were never supposed to see and have to decide whether or not to tell others. But keeping it secret will have catastrophic results.
The Marriage Lie
Iris and Will’s marriage is as close to perfect as it can be: a large house, rewarding careers and the excitement of trying for their first baby. But on the morning Will leaves for a business trip to Orlando, Iris’s world turns upside down. Another plane headed for Seattle has crashed into a field, killing everyone on board, and according to the airline, Will was one of the passengers on this plane. Grief-stricken and confused, Iris is convinced it all must be a huge misunderstanding. But as time passes and there is still no sign of Will, she reluctantly accepts that he is gone. Still, Iris needs answers. Why did Will lie about where he was going? What is in Seattle? And what else has he lied about?
The Seven 1/2 Deaths Of Evelyn Hardcastle
Aiden Bishop knows the rules. Evelyn Hardcastle will die every day until he can identify her killer and break the cycle. But every time morning breaks, Aiden wakes up in the body of a different guest at Blackheath Manor. And some of his hosts are more helpful than others.
When No One Is Watching
Sydney Green is Brooklyn born and raised, but her neighborhood seems to change every day. FOR SALE signs are popping up overnight, and the neighbors she’s known all her life are disappearing. To hold onto her community’s past and present, Sydney starts a walking tour and finds an unlikely and unwanted assistant—her neighbor Theo. The two dive into history that quickly turns into paranoia and fear. Their neighbors may not have moved to the suburbs after all, and the push to revitalize the community may be more deadly than advertised.
Mexican Gothic
After receiving a frantic letter from her newlywed cousin begging for someone to save her from a mysterious doom, Noemí Taboada heads to High Place, a distant house in the Mexican countryside. Mesmerized by the terrifying yet seductive world of High Place, she may soon find it impossible to ever leave this enigmatic house behind.
What spooky read sparks your interest??
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