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It's time for Ominous October!

Ominous October is the perfect time for all those spooky and monstrous reads, but don't be afraid (pun intended) if you don't like horror! You can also read thrillers, mysteries, or even dark fantasy for this challenge.

REMINDER: You don't have to only post the books you read that fit the theme, as long as one or more of your reads during the month match the prompt! (I personally like to notate in my list which of my reads fit the theme and which ones don't!)

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Happy reading, friends!

Horror has always been been my middle name; so TBR will be 1) Horror Blame It on the Pumpkin and 2) SciFi Horror such as Dead Silence and The Luminous Dead and Parasite and Station 331, Station 332, Station 333, Station 334, The Apollo Murders

1. **Evil Trust 4*
2. ** The Scarecrow Snuff Out 4*
3. **Blame It on the Pumpkin 4*
4. **Halloween Party Ideas 4*
5. **The Ghostly Grounds: Murder and Breakfast 5*
6. **Their Ghoulish Reputation
7. **Grimoire
8. **Observer
9. ** Tavern of Terror Vol. 2: Short Horror Stories Anthology
10. **The Furies
11. **October's End: Halloween Horror Stories
12. **The Missing
13. Babel, or the Necessity of Violence: an Arcane History of the Oxford Translators' Revolution
14. **The House at Phantom Park
15. **Inside Out
16. **Halloween Beyond: Piercing the Veil
17. **Night Terrors Vol. 22: Short Horror Stories Anthology
18. **Hidden Pictures
19. **Secluded Cabin Sleeps Six
20. Christmas in The Forgotten Jungle
21. **The Roll-Away Pumpkin
22. **Jane Bakes a Pumpkin Pie: Pumpkin Pie Recipe Rhyming Book
23. **You Are My Pumpkin
24. **Pumpkin Smile Hard
25. The Realms
26. **The Haunting of Abney Heights
27. **The Sequel
28. ** The Mother Next Door
29. **The Haunter
30. **Burn the Negative
31. **Duel of the Damned: Supernatural Suspense Thriller with Ghosts
32. **The Dark Room
33. **Bishop
34. **The Nightmare Hour Tv Tie-in Edition by R. L. Stine
35. **Literally Dead: Tales of Halloween Hauntings
36. **The Vessel

Avid's Ominous October

TBR Books that fit theme
Youngblood ★★★★
Over My Dead Body ★★★
Frightmares DNF
Coven ★★★&1/2
Fraternity ★★★★&1/2
We Were Kings
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Vol. 5: The Biggest Bad
A Flicker in the Dark ★ & 1/2
Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives ★★★★&1/4

TBR Books that don't fit theme
Aces Wild: A Heist
Go Hex Yourself ★★★ & 1/2
After Dark with Roxie Clark

The Law
Nothing More to Tell ★★★★
Heat Wave
The Final Gambit ★★★ & 3/4
Sense & Second-Degree Murder
Glory in Death
Bad Things Happen Here ★★★ & 1/2
Other Ever Afters: New Queer Fairy Tales ★★★ & 1/2

Non-TBR Books that fit theme
Teen Killers in Love
The Butcher and the Wren
Unmasked: My Life Solving America's Cold Cases
Hide ★★★★&1/2
Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty ★★★★- I consider this family monterous!
Trailed: One Woman's Quest to Solve the Shenandoah Murders ] ★★★★

Non-TBR Books that don't fit theme
Finlay Donovan Is Killing It ★★★★&1/4
When a Killer Calls ★★&1/2
The Bodyguard ★★★★&1/2
Stay Awake ★★&3/4
Must Love Books

I’m finally going to tackle my 1000+ page book of Edgar Allen Pie’s complete tales and poems. Even if I don’t finish it, it’s been sitting on my shelf for years and I should start reading 😅

I’m in! TBR to come!

My themed reads will be:
- Carnival Chaos by Ron Bates
- Clown in a Cornfield 2: Frendo Lives by Adam Cesare
- The Halloween Moon by Joseph Fink
- The Initial Insult by Mindy McGinnis
- Into the Sublime by Kate A. Boorman
- The Retreat by Sarah Pearse
- The Strange Case of the Alchemist's Daughter by Theodora Goss
- These Witches Don't Burn by Isabel Sterling
- What Moves the Dead by T. Kingfisher

My non-themed reads will be:
- The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield
- The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
- The House of Gucci: A Sensational Story of Murder, Madness, Glamour, and Greed by Sara Gay Forden
- Last Night at the Telegraph Club by Malinda Lo
- My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
- One to Watch by Kate Stayman-London
- Romancing Mr Bridgerton by Julia Quinn
- Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
- Speak by Laurie Halse Anderson

My books that might (or might not) come to the library are:
- Cackle by Rachel Harrison
- Daphne by Josh Malerman
- Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton’s The Nightmare Before Christmas by Shea Ernshaw
- Marple: Twelve New Mysteries by Naomi Alderman et. al

Ok, here’s a HUGE list of books I’m hoping and trying to get to in October. October is always a large TBR month for me bc it’s my fave month of the year due to HALLOWEEN 🎃! I’m also participating in 2 readathons so some of these are only “want to” reads that I probably won’t get to.

▪️Spooky books/Thrillers/Mysteries/Dark Fantasies
1. You’re Invited by Amanda Jayatissa
2. The Drowning Kind by Jennifer McMahon
3. The Cheerleaders by Kara Thomas
4. A Picture of Murder by T.E. Kinsey
5. All These Bodies by Kendare Blake
6. Miracle Creek by Angie Kim
7. It Will End Like This by Kyra Leigh
8. None Shall Sleep by Ellie Marney
9. The Last Housewife by Ashley Winstead
10. Club Dead by Charlaine Harris
11. Heart-Shaped Box by Joe Hill

▪️Other books on TBR
? - Atonement by Ian McEwan
? - Illusionary by Zoraida Cordova
? - You’ll Miss Me When I’m Gone by Rachel Lynn Solomon

1. The Ballad of Never After by Stephanie Garber
2. Princess of Mermaids by A.G. Marshall
3. Stiff by Mary Roach
4. The Book of Life by Deborah Harkness
5. Anatomy by Dana Schwartz
6. The Wicked King by Holly Black
7. Verity by Colleen Hoover
8. Sick Kids in Love by Hannah Moskowitz
9. A Cuban Girls Guide to Tea and Tomorrow by Laura T. Namey

I've said this before, but there's no guarantee that I'll actually get to any of the books on this list since I'm an indecisive mood reader, but I'll give it a shot anyway!

Tentative TBR:
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
The Saturday Night Ghost Club by Craig Davidson
The Legend of Sleepy Hollow by Washington Irving
Horns by Joe Hill
Dracula by Bram Stoker

👻 MY TBR 👻
➽ Top Books I want to read



🎃 PROGRESS 🎃

Ominous October

This'll be easy, all I read are mysteries lol. But the first one does have a ghost who can be creepy if she wants ;) Linked when read

Hints and a Homicide-Emmie Lyn
Kill Them with Canvas-Bailee Abbott
Live and Let Grind-Tara Lush
Crime for the Books-Kate Young
Hands on the Wheel-Karen C. Whalen
High Spirits-Carol J. Perry (sorta ghostified)
Doomful of Sugar-Catherine Bruns
A Trip with Trouble-Diane Kelly

Count me in. Posting my reads as I progress.

anything ominous and dark:


other:

TBR to come!

My TBR:


Not Ominous:


Finished:

Prompt
- The Final Gambit
- The Cut-Throat Cafe
- The Lamplighters (possibly, library loan)

Non-prompt
- The Girl With No Soul
- Defy the Night

Well, I don't usually read horror, or anything really scary. But here's my "lighter" reads for October:

A Gathering of Shadows - FINISHED
A Conjuring of Light
Selected Short Stories of Franz Kafka - FINISHED
The Mystery of the Uninvited Guest - FINISHED
Trixie Belden and the Mystery of the Phantom Grasshopper - FINISHED
Trixie Belden and the Secret of the Unseen Treasure - FINISHED
Obsession - FINISHED
The Cuckoo's Calling - FINISHED
Small Favor

My TBR:

Human Remains by Peter Milligan - 4.5 Stars
Flight 171 by Amy Christine Parker - 5 Stars
Pretty Dead Queens by Alexa Donne - 3.5 Stars
Ace of Shades by Amanda Foody - 4.25 Stars
Eclipse by Stephenie Meyer -
The Second Short Life of Bree Tanner by Stephenie Meyer -
Finders Keepers by Sabine Durrant -
Stealing Greenwich by Brittany Gergotelis - 5 Stars
Going Wild by Brittany Gergotelis - 5 Stars
No Admissions by Brittany Gergotelis - 4.5 Stars
Textrovert by Lindsey Summers - 2.75 Stars
Not Working by Lisa Owens - DNF
The Steep and Thorny Way by Cat Winters - 5 Stars
Frostblood by Elly Blake - 5 Stars
The Stars in Their Eyes by Kristy Gardner - 3 Stars
Savage Indulgence by Shayla Raquel - 5 Stars
Under Her Skin by Toni Miller - 2.5 Stars
An Evening of Romantic Lovemaking by Ben Slotky - DNF
The Prince and the Witch by L. A. Thompson - 4 Stars

I'm reading a dark dystopia.

💀 Ominous October TBR & current reads:
Book of Night
Just Like Mother
The Ghost that Ate Us
House of Earth and Blood
I'll Be Gone in the Dark: One Woman's Obsessive Search for the Golden State Killer
The Dead House
Return To The Black Farm
The Final Girl Support Group
The Gathering Dark: An Anthology of Folk Horror
Frightmares
Tender is the Flesh
Kingdom of the Cursed
Full Throttle
My Heart Is a Chainsaw
The Ghosts That Haunt Me: Memories of a Homicide Detective
Alice
In Darkness, Delight: Creatures of the Night
My Dark Vanessa
The Southern Book Club's Guide to Slaying Vampires
Small Spaces
Below
Hide
Empire of the Vampire
A Dowry of Blood
The Undertaking of Hart and Mercy
Crime Scene
Empathy
Bellamy



🖤 other TBR & current reads:
Sea of Thieves: Athena's Fortune
Dear Medusa
Wolfsong
Pestilence
Sin Eater

I haven't done a lot of challenges this year as I've been doing a lot of mood reading, but I do love adding the spooky to my October reading. So here's a few I'm keen to get through:

Tomie
Shards of Earth
Mythago Wood

💀 Ominous October Reads 💀

Ominous
✦Dark Prince by Michelle Hercules
✦Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia, Margaret Stohl
✦Nevernight by Jay Kristoff
✦Lady Midnight by Cassandra Clare
✦Red Glove by Holly Black
✦Heart of a Witch by Rebecca L. Garcia

Other
✦Well Played by Vi Keeland, Penelope Ward
✦Pucked by Helena Hunting
✦Baby Daddy by Kendall Ryan
✦The Darkest Star by Jennifer L. Armentrout
✦Runaway Groomsman by Meghan Quinn
✦House of Bastiion by K.L. Kolarich
✦The Avery Shaw Experiment by Kelly Oram
✦The Sophomore by Monica Murphy
✦Wildcat by Rebecca Jenshak
✦Boys of Brayshaw High by Meagan Brandy
✦Royally Not Ready by Meghan Quinn
✦The Plight Before Christmas by Kate Stewart
✦Playing for Keeps by Kendall Ryan
✦

All Hallows
The Midnight Club