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October 28, 2025


top ten halloweeny books
posted by soe 1:25 am

This week, That Artsy Reader Girl invites us to contribute a Halloween list of our own choosing for Top Ten Tuesday. I’m going to give you ten books that would be a fun, seasonal read during the next week or so that might not appear on more conventional lists:

  1. Tuesday Mooney Talks to Ghosts by Kate Racculia (ghosts, Halloween setting)
  2. The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna (witches)
  3. Thistlefoot by GennaRose Nethercott (“haunted” house)
  4. The Book Thief by Markus Zusak (Death narrates)
  5. Akata Witch by Nnedi Okorafor (African witches)
  6. Greenglass House by Kate Milford (Christmassy ghosts)
  7. The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling (Southern and Scottish witch romances)
  8. The Afterlife of Mal Caldera by Nadi Reed Perez (a whole dead community)
  9. Under the Whispering Door by T.J. Klune (ghosts, sorta)
  10. Carry On by Rainbow Rowell (vampires and witches)

I’m currently reading a seasonal romance and a literary thriller and hope to fit in one more witchy book before next week.

How about you? Do you have anything seasonal in your TBR pile, or do you eschew books of that ilk?

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