Top Ten Tuesday was created by The Broke and the Bookish in June of 2010 and was moved to That Artsy Reader Girl in January of 2018. It was born of a love of lists, a love of books, and a desire to bring bookish friends together.
Here’s how it works: Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl assigns a topic for each Tuesday. If you check this link, you’ll find she’s assigned topics for several future weeks so you can plan ahead. She adds, “create your own top ten (or 2, 5, 20, etc.) list . . . Feel free to put a unique spin on the topic to make it work for you!”
Each week Jana posts a Linky on her blog where you can (if you want) share a link to your post and check out other bloggers’ posts.
Today’s assigned topic is Favorite Bookstores OR Bookstores I’d Love to Visit. Once again, this is not a topic I’ve ever thought about. I usually try to visit a local book store whenever I travel, but I’ve never drawn up a bucket list of bookstores to visit.
So, in place of a bookstore list, today I offer you eight sources of suggestions of spooky reading for Halloween.
- A Sudden Light by Garth Stein
- The Unstoppable, Fearsome, Delicious Allure of the Witch
- 10 Eerie Book Club Picks Best Read with Others Nearby
- Why Horror Is Good for Your Mental Health
- 11 Books I’m Excited to Read for Spooky Season
- New in Paperback: 10 October Releases Primed for Autumn
- 10 spooky modern horror books to read this fall
- The 60 Most Popular Horror Books of the Past Five Years
A Sudden Light by Garth Stein
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This captivating page-turner follows Trevor Riddell’s recollection of his childhood visit to the infamous Riddell House two decades prior, accompanied by his bankrupt father, newly separated from his wife. While his father sought to dispatch Trevor’s grandfather to a nursing home and sell off the house for profit, Trevor discovered a ghost in the house that pushed him towards a different agenda. With poetically beautiful scenes and fragments of spiritual clarity woven throughout the hidden stairways and forgotten rooms of the old estate, Stein’s storytelling is enthralling in A SUDDEN LIGHT.
The Unstoppable, Fearsome, Delicious Allure of the Witch
10 Eerie Book Club Picks Best Read with Others Nearby
Why Horror Is Good for Your Mental Health
11 Books I’m Excited to Read for Spooky Season
New in Paperback: 10 October Releases Primed for Autumn
This list of paperback releases offers a little bit of everything for the beginning of autumn: gothic-inspired tales for the spooky season, transporting reads for those who find themselves home-bound, and twisty mysteries for anyone itching for a puzzle. Regardless of what you pick, you’re sure to discover an atmospheric and perfectly plotted read that will keep you turning pages as the leaves start turning colors.
10 spooky modern horror books to read this fall
The 60 Most Popular Horror Books of the Past Five Years
Horror fiction, as a genre, can be fascinating to track over time. The scary stories that we tell ourselves often reflect the anxieties we’re living through as a society. Why do certain books catch on with a large reading audience?
Goodreads considers this question by looking at the most popular horror books of the past five years. “Popularity is measured by total shelvings—books that appear on readers’ Read and Want to Read shelves—and overall star ratings.”
© 2022 by Mary Daniels Brown
How fun! I like spooky stories. 🙂
My post: https://lydiaschoch.com/top-ten-tuesday-fictional-bookstores-id-love-to-visit/
Thanks for visiting, Lydia. And I loved your spin of fictional bookstores!
I am in the middle of a big reading project as a judge for the Cybils Award otherwise I’d pick up this Garth Stein book. It sounds really great.
Your reading project sounds like a big responsibility but also a great learning opportunity, Anne. This book by Garth Stein does sound interesting, doesn’t it? Did you know that he’s a local author? I heard him speak at the Write in the Harbor conference in Gig Harbor several years ago and was impressed enough to read his novel The Art of Racing in the Rain, which I loved. That’s a big part of the reason why I’d also love to read this novel.
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