By: Grace W.

 

If you are looking to read something spooky to get into the Halloween spirit, try one of these books.

 

The Taking of Jake Livingston by Ryan Douglass (YA FIC DOUGLASS, also available on Overdrive)

Jake already has a hard time fitting in at school, but to make matters even more complicated he can see the dead. Most of them are harmless and don’t interact with people. But then he meets Sawyer. In life, Sawyer was a troubled teen who shot and killed six kids at a local high school before taking his own life. Everything Jake thought he knew about ghosts goes out the window as Sawyer begins to haunt him.

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Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell (YA GN ROWELL, also available on Overdrive)

Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends. They work at a pumpkin patch together every year and say goodbye on October 31. However, this Halloween is different; they are finally seniors and this is their last season at the pumpkin patch. Josiah is ready to spend the whole evening feeling melancholy about it, but Deja isn’t ready to let him. She’s got a plan. What if their last shift together isn’t sad, but it’s an adventure?

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House of Salt and Sorrows by Erin A. Craig (YA FIC CRAIG, also available on Axis 360 and Overdrive)

Annaleigh lives a sheltered life at Highmoor, a manor by the sea. There used to be twelve sisters in the home, but after four of the girls’ lives have been cut short, loneliness fills the grand halls. Each death was more tragic than the last, and there are whispers throughout the surrounding villages that the family is cursed. Disturbed by a series of ghostly visions, Annaleigh becomes increasingly suspicious that the deaths were no accident. When Annaleigh’s involvement with a mysterious stranger intensifies, it’s a race to unravel the darkness that has fallen over her family.

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Stalking Jack the Ripper by Kerri Maniscalo (YA FIC Maniscalo, also available on Overdrive)

Audrey Rose Wadsworth leads a life of wealth and privilege, but between the social teas and silk dress fittings, she leads a secret life. She often slips away to her uncle’s laboratory to study forensic medicine. When her work on a string of savagely killed corpses drags Audrey into the investigation of a serial murderer, her search for an answer brings her close to her own sheltered world.

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There’s Someone Inside Your House by Stephanie Perkins (YA FIC PERKINS, also available on Overdrive)

Makani Young is settling into her new home in rural Nebraska with her grandmother. She’s found new friends and has started to fall for mysterious outsider Ollie Larson, but her past isn’t far behind her. Then, one by one, the students at her high school begin to die in a series of gruesome murders. As terror grows closer, Makani is forced to confront her own dark secrets. When you finish this book, check out the Netflix movie.

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White Smoke by Tiffany D. Jackson (YA FIC JACKSON, also available on Overdrive and Axis 360)

Marigold is running from ghosts. The phantoms of her old life keep haunting her, but a move with her new blended family to a Midwestern town might be the fresh start she needs. But her new house has some problems; doors open on their own, lights turn off, voices can be heard in the walls, and there’s a foul smell seeping in through the vents.  Mari begins to see that her new house is not the only dangerous place in her new town. And secrets always find their way in through the cracks.

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