Book Recommendations for Spooky Season - Bookcast Newsletter


It's Spooky Season, Bookcasters!

Hey there Reader,

Every October we ask past guests to share their favorite Halloween reads for spooky season. This year they went above and beyond! Here are 43 recommendations from 22 guests. I've put together a special shop on Bookshop.org where you can check out all of these titles.

From kids's books to horror novels, classics to comics, this should fill up your Spooky Season TBR list:

  • Grace Filer, YNGR: Something Wicked This Way Comes - Ray Bradbury; Rosemary's Baby - Ira Levin; Black River Orchard - Churck Wendig; A Head Full of Ghosts - Paul Tremblay
  • Kathryn Lynn, Chapter 49: Lanny - Max Porter
  • Casie Dodd, Chapter 55: This New Dark - Chase Dearinger
  • Sydney Aerin, Behind the Rain: Dinner for Vampires: Life on a Cult TV Show While Also in an Actual Cult - Bethany Joy Lenz; Darkness in Me - edited by Hamsini Mangalampalli; The Housemaid - Freida McFadden; The 7 & 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle - Stuart Turton; Whistle at Night and They Will Come - Alex Soop
  • Luke Swanson, YNGR and P2P: Vampire on the Orient Express - Shane Carrow; Gold Glamour's Ghost - Neil Adam Ray
  • Jamie Hyde, YNGR: Rust Colored Rain - Otto Schafer
  • Charles Martin, Chapter 1: The Skull Tree - Kristen Grace; Moonlit Massacre - James Cooper
  • Samantha Bailey, Chapter 49: Thirteen - Steve Cavanagh
  • Rob Roensch, Chapter 53: Hemophobia podcast
  • Candace Kade, YNGR: Mortal Sight - Sandra Fernandez Rhoades; The Eternity Gate - Katherine Briggs
  • Betsey Kulakowski, Chapter 27: Autumn Tales III: Return - Anthology
  • Eric Dabney, Chapters 15 and 16 (kids' books): The Scarecrow - Beth Ferry(Author) Eric Fan(Illustrator) Terry Fan (Illustrator); The Stranger - Chris Van Allsburg; There's a Ghost in This House - Oliver Jeffers
  • Britni Brecheen, Chapter 49: Someone You Can Build a Nest in - John Wiswell; Diavola - Jennifer Marie Thorne
  • Lydia Filiou, YNGR: Manhunt - Gretchen Felker-Martin
  • Jeff Provine, Chapter 3: The Fright Before Christmas: Surviving Krampus and Other Yuletide Monsters, Witches, and Ghosts - Jeff Belanger and Terry Reed
  • JJ Johnson, Chapter 41: October Country - Ray Bradbury
  • Clay Mattox, Chapter 61: Batman: The Long Halloween - Jeff Loeb and Time Sale; The Shining - Stephen King
  • Chris Murphy, Chapter 22: Fever Dream - Samantha Schweblin
  • Magen Runyan, YNGR: Murder your Employer - Rupert Holmes; Midnight is the Darkest Hour - Ashley Winstead; What Stalks Among Us - Sarah Hollowell (YA book); Those We Drown - Amy Goldsmith
  • Jamie Ray, P2P: FantasticLand - Mike Bockoven
  • Kami Weems, YNGR: Lockdown: Escape from Furnace - Alexander Gordon Smith
  • Hannah Herron, YNGR: The September House - Carissa Orlando; Horror Movie - Paul Tremblay; Horrorstor - Grady Hendrix; The Ruins - Scott Smith; The Last House on Needless Street - Catriona Ward

On The Okie Bookcast this month:

  • Chapter 64 (10/8)
  • Behind the Rain, Volume 10 (10/15)
  • Your Next Great Read w/ Author S.A. Barnes (10/22)

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Go find something good to read!

J

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