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Insomnia - Stephen King

Genres: Horror, Fantasy, Thriller, Mystery, Science Fiction, Suspense

Keywords: Supernatural/Paranormal, Slow Burn, Derry Maine, Alternate Dimensions

Length: Long

Rating: 4/5

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The Paper Magician Series - Charlie N. Holmberg

The Paper Magician (The Paper Magician #1)

The Glass Magician (The Paper Magician #2)

The Master Magician (The Paper Magician #3)

Genres: Fantasy, Young Adult, Historical Fiction

Keywords: Magic, Romance, Apprenticeship

Length: Short

Rating: #1 - 3/5, #2 - 4/5, #3 - 4/5

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Nothing More to Tell - Karen M. McManus

Genres: Mystery, Young Adult, Thriller, Contemporary

Keywords: Solving Mysteries, Female Lead, Murder Mystery

Length: Medium

Rating: 4/5

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I Can’t Remember the TItle but the Cover Is Blue - Elias Gehrig

Genres: Nonfiction, Humor, Memoirs

Keywords: Bookstore, Retail

Length: Short

Rating: 4/5

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The Hacienda - Isabel Cañas

Genres: Horror, Historical Fiction, Mystery

Keywords: Gothic, Thriller, Mexico, Haunting

Length: Medium

Rating: 4/5

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The Bluest Eye - Toni Morrison

Genres: Classics, Historical Fiction

Keywords: Race, Female Lead, 1940s America

Length: Short

Rating: 4/5

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The Willows - Algernon Blackwood

Genres: Horror, Classics, Short Stories

Keywords: Unsettling Island, Survival, Psychological Horror

Length: Very Short

Rating: 3/5

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The Maid - Nina Prose

Genres: Mystery, Thriller, Crime

Keywords: Suspense, Murder Mystery, Hotel Maid, Female Lead

Length: Medium

Rating: 4

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One Last Stop - Casey McQuiston

Genres: Romance, LGBTQ, Contemporary, Lesbian

Keywords: Supernatural Romance, Unconventional Love Story, Time Travel, New York City

Length: Medium

Rating: 3/5

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It Ends With Us - Colleen Hoover

It Ends With Us (It Ends With Us #1)

It Starts With Us (It Ends With Us #2)

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Keywords: Lost Love, Abuse

Length: Medium

Rating: #1 - 4/5, #2 - 5/5

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10 More Books to Get You in the Mood for the Spooky Season

Ascension - Nicholas Binge

“Nobody spoke. Words felt insufficient, out of place. In the face of its magnitude, simple and metaphor felt ridiculous.”

Plot: The lost letters of a long-lost brother who went insane after being on an expedition to climb a mountain that appeared in the middle of the Pacific Ocean.

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Intensity - Dean Koontz

“She wasn’t clay in the hands of others; she was rock, and with her own determined hands, she could sculpt the person that she wanted to be.”

Plot: A woman with a difficult past goes toe-to-toe with a serial killer in a fast paced novel that takes place within 24 hours.

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The Maidens - Alex Michaelides

“There was a word for this moment in Greek tragedy: anagnorisis—recognition—the moment the hero finally sees the truth and understands his fate—and how it’s always been there, the whole time, in front of him. Mariana used to wonder what that moment felt like. Now she knew.”

Plot: A woman becomes obsessed with a college professor’s guilt after a friend of her niece is murdered on campus.

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At the Mountains of Madness - H. P. Lovecraft

“It is absolutely necessary, for the peace and safety of mankind, that some of earth’s dark, dead corners and unplumbed depths be let alone; lest sleeping abnormalities wake to resurgent life, and blasphemously surviving nightmares squirm and splash out of their black lairs to newer and wider conquests.”

Plot: A team uncovers the ruins of a lost civilization while on an expedition in Antarctica.

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The Hacienda - Isabel Cañas

“But if God is the Father, Son, and Holy Spirit, if He is three in one in the Trinity, then God knows nothing of loneliness...God knows nothing of loneliness, because God has never tasted companionship as mortals do: clinging to one another in darkness so complete and sharp it scrapes flesh from bone, trusting one another even as the Devil's breath blooms hot on their napes.”

Plot: A woman finds more than she bargains for when she marries a rich man and goes to live on his massive and unsettling estate.

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Heart Shaped Box - Joe Hill

“He understood that the ghost existed first and foremost within his own head. That maybe ghosts always haunted minds, not places. If he wanted to take a shot at it, he’d have to turn the barrel against his own temple.”

Plot: An aging rockstar buys a buys a dead man’s suit online and gets more than he bargained for.

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How to Sell a Haunted House - Grady Hendrix

“But she didn’t have a choice. She would have to handle whatever happened. There was no such thing as too much. There was just more and more, and her limits didn’t matter. Life didn’t care. She could only hang on.”

Plot: A woman and her estranged brother want to sell their newly dead parent’s home. The only issue? It’s haunted.

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The Midnight Club - Christopher Pike

“That’s the beauty of meeting in the middle of the story. We already know each other.”

Plot: A group of young adults with terminal illnesses living in a hospice hmeet at midnight to share scary stories.

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Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier

“The road to Manderley lay ahead. There was no moon. The sky above our heads was inky black. But the sky on the horizon was not dark at all. It was shot with crimson, like a splash of blood. And the ashes blew towards us with the salt wind from the sea.”

Plot: A young woman marries a rich widower and finds herself fighting the memory of his dead wife.

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Hexenhaus - Nikki McWatters

“I was no queen or astrologer or writer, nay, nor anything so grand. I would be remembered forever as a witch.”

Plot: The stories of three different women accused of witchcraft.

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thebestbookrecommendations · 7 months

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30 Books to Get You in the Mood for the Spooky Season

1.) The Shining - Stephen King

“Monsters are real. Ghosts are too. They live inside of us, and sometimes they win.”

For: Those looking for a good mix of psychological horror and good old fashioned hauntings.

2.) Kill Creek - Scott Thomas

“And as the hands of the clocks clicked to eight past one, the house awoke to the sudden and definite realization that now was the time. It had waited long enough. It was time to play.”

For: Those looking for a haunted house tale.

3.) Suicide Forest - Jeremy Bates

“We started off, unaware that this would be a one-way trip from which none of us would be returning.”

For: Those looking for a claustrophobic, lost in the woods story.

4.) The Haunting of Hill House - Shirley Jackson

“I am like a small creature swallowed whole by a monster, she thought, and the monster feels my tiny little movements inside.”

For: Those looking for a classic, simple, haunted house read.

5.) The Twisted Ones - T. Kingfisher

“I made faces like the faces on the rocks, and I twisted myself about like the twisted ones, and I lay down flat on the ground like the dead ones.”

For: Those looking for something that will both terrify you and make you laugh, sometime simultaneously.

6.) The Ghost Tree - Christina Henry

“There was one particular tree with branches that curled like sharp claws looking for skin to scrape. All the townsfolk had avoided that tree, for it wasn’t right that a tree seemed to whisper and stare and reach out when a person passed by.”

For: Those looking for something a little creepy, a little suspenseful, and a little magical.

7.) The Ruins - Scott Smith

“Maybe all we can do is wait and hope and endure for as long as we’re able. The food will run out. Our bodies will fail. And the vine will do whatever it’s going to do.”

For: Those looking for a vacation gone wrong, survivalist story, with an interesting twist.

8.) That Which Should Not Be - Brett J. Tailey

For: Those looking for Lovecraftian-style, occult horror.

9.) The Ritual - Adam Nevill

“Fear and big white eyes inside a suit of dirty skin: that’s all he was now.”

For: Those looking for a backpacking trip gone wrong, lost in the woods story, with an occult twist.

10.) The Hollow Places - T. Kingfisher

“If there’s a way into hell, someone will always find it.”

For: Those looking for a frightening alternate dimension story that’s somehow relatable and funny.

11.) It - Stephen King

“What can be done when you’re eleven can often never be done again.”

For: Those looking for a tale of friendship, adventure, and terrifying killer clowns.

12.) World War Z - Max Brooks

“The monsters that rose from the dead, they are nothing compared to the ones we carry in our hearts.”

For: Those looking for a history-book style saga of the zombie apocalypse.

13.) Abandon - Blake Crouch

“The worst moments of your life you never see coming.”

For: Those looking for a book that tells two horrifying stories, one in the past, and one in the present.

14.) Run - Blake Crouch

“There is no decent place to stand in a massacre.”

For: Those looking for a non-stop story of family and survival.

15.) Feed - Mira Grant

“Alive or dead, the truth won’t rest. Rise up while you can.”

For: Those looking for a unique and funny series about two sibling journalists blogging about the post-zombie apocalyptic world.

16.) Desperation - Stephen King

“Dolls with no little girls around to mind them were sort of creepy under any conditions.”

For: Those looking for a story about a group of people put into a terrifying life or death situation.

17.) House of Leaves - Mark Z. Danielewski

“We all create stories to protect ourselves.”

For: Those looking for a truly mind-bending reading experience.

18.) Penpal - David Auerbach

“Sometimes forgetting is the gift that we give ourselves.”

For: Those looking for a horrifying tale about a young boy growing up with a stalker.

19.) Night Shift - Stephen King

“You want to remember that while you’re judging the book, the book is also judging you.”

For: Those looking for a collection of shorter horror stories.

20.) The Devil all the Time - Donald Ray Pollock

“Some people were born just so they could be buried.”

For: Those looking for a deeply terrifying story about the consequences of religion.

21.) The Sundown Motel - Simone St. James

“Some of us like the dark. It’s what we know.”

For: Those looking for a mystery and a haunted house…well, motel story, all in one.

22.) Let the Right One In - John Ajvide Lindqvist

“I’m only twelve. But I’ve been that for a long time.”

For: Those looking for a chilling vampire tale.

23.) A Headful of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay

“On the morning of the exorcism, I stayed home from school.”

For: Those looking for something somewhere between a psychological thriller and a tale of possession.

24.) John Dies at the End - David Wong

“And watch out for Molly. See if she does anything unusual. There’s something I don’t trust about the way she exploded and then came back from the dead like that.”

For: Those looking for their horror and comedy to mix.

25.) Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia

“One could construct a hundred different narratives, it didn’t make them true.”

For: Those looking for a gothic tale of drama and deceit.

26.) Bird Box - Josh Malerman

“It’s better to face madness with a plan than to sit and let it take you in pieces.”

For: Those looking for a tale of survival.

27.) The Cypress House - Michael Koryta

“The big ran the world on the sweat of the small.”

For: Those looking for a mystery/thriller/suspense story with supernatural elements.

28.) When No One is Watching - Alyssa Cole

“People bury the parts of history they don’t like, pave it over like African cemeteries beneath Manhattan skyscrapers.”

For: Those looking for a mystery/thriller about the dangers of gentrification, and letting your guard down.

29.) We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson

“On the moon we wore feathers in our hair, and rubies on our hands. On the moon we had gold spoons.”

For: Those looking for a tale of isolation and fear.

30.) Carrie

“True sorrow is as rare as true love.”

For: Those looking for a classic tale of revenge, and telekinesis.

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Norse Mythology - Neil Gaimon

Genres: Fantasy, Mythology, Short Stories

Keywords: Norse Mythology, Retellings of Myths

Length: Medium

Rating: 3.5/5

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thebestbookrecommendations · 8 months

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Heart Bones - Colleen Hoover

Genres: Romance, Contemporary

Keywords: Broken Trust, Summer Fling

Length: Medium

Rating: 4/5

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Shadow Children Series - Margaret Peterson Haddix

Among the Hidden (Shadow Children #1)

Among the Imposters (Shadow Children #2)

Among the Betrayed (Shadow Children #3)

Among the Barons (Shadow Children #4)

Among the Brave (Shadow Children #5)

Among the Enemy (Shadow Children #6)

Among the Free (Shadow Children #7)

Genres: Young Adult, Middle Grade, Dystopian, Science Fiction

Keywords: Child Limit, In Hiding, Boarding Schools, Revolutions

Length: Medium

Rating: #1 - 3.5/5, #2 - 3.5/5, #3 - 3.5/5, #4 - 4/5, #5 - 3.5/5, #6 - 3.5/5, #7 - 3.5/5

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Upgrade - Blake Crouch

Genres: Science Fiction, Thriller, Mystery

Keywords: Dystopian, Genetics, Biology

Length: Medium

Rating: 4/5

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The Hollows - Mark Edwards

Genres: Horror, Thriller, Mystery, Suspense

Keywords: Father and Daughter, Camp/Resort, Creepy Town, Dark History

Length: Medium

Rating: 4/5

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