Devour Your TBR discussion

Readers, beware... it's time for the annual return of Ominous October! This month's theme is all about ominous reads, whether your preference is mysteries, thrillers, horror, or eerie fantasy tales.

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!

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Happy haunting — err, I mean, reading! 🎃

Not too sure on what I'm going to read yet but I think I'll definitely get to these in October.

Read


Doesn't fit theme

I'm planning on reading this month:

* The Flight Attendant

More to come...

I'm going to do a few read the last chapters of books and unhaul them if I'm not interested in it. These will be on my kindle tho.

| TBR |


these will be the first batch... not counting the readathons

TBR:
✨ Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
✨ Puzzle by Franck Thilliez
✨ The Hacienda by Isabel Cañas
✨ 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
✨ (not in theme) The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Currently reading:
✨ Tender is the Flesh by Agustina Bazterrica
✨ 'Salem's Lot by Stephen King
✨ (not in theme) The Lightning Thief by Rick Riordan

Read:
✨ Winter Harvest by Ioanna Papadopoulou (4★; my review)
✨ (not in theme) Legends & Lattes by Travis Baldree (5★; my review)

TBR:


Finished:

Prompt
- The Shape of Darkness
- The Excursion Train
- Master of Iron
- This Book Kills
- If We Were Villains (reread)
- A Bitter Remedy

Other
- The After School Crime Club
- Happy Place

My book goals:

The Library of Shadows

Seven Girls Gone

The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches

Mother-Daughter Murder Night

The last book has a long wait since its a Reese Witherspoon pick but lets hope it comes in time: )

Darque wrote: ""

I love how this is set out!

Darque wrote: ""

I love the little pinup witch, too cute!

currently reading:

anything ominous:


other:

Mysteries? A couple even ghostified or witchy? No prob! ;)

Ominous October 2023

Books/authors linked when read

Murder by the Seashore Samara Yew 10/14/23
Murders of a Feather Eileen Brady 10/4/23
Overdue or Die Allison Brook 10/10/23
The Fatal Folio Elizabeth Penney 10/24/23
Murder Uncorked Maddie Day 10/30/23
Halloween at the Haunted House Cindy Bell 10/6/23
Pumpkin Spice Murder Laura Pauling 10/11/23
Halloween at the Haunted House Cindy Bell 10/6/23

Outre October TBR:
Something Wicked, Something Dark Single-Author Short Stories Horror
Something Wicked This Way Comes Horror/Classic
The September House Libby Virtual. NG.
The Haunting NG ARC Current
A Haunting on the Hill . Own. Release October 4.
She Is a Haunting. Own.
The Night House NG ARC Current
Hokuloa Road
Dean Koontz "Marathon":
Twilight Eyes Reread own
After Death own
The House at the End of the World own
Elsewhere
Iceboundown. New. Reread.
Dead Silence Horror
Slender Man. Own. New.
Elmwood Scribd Virtual
FEARFUL Scary Stories of the Evil App
Device Free Weekend Libby Virtual, NG ARC Mount TBR
Find Him Where You Left Him Dead. Own. New
Cutter's Deep: Welcome to Hell KU/Group Read
Beneath the Stairs own. Mount TBR.
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir: Vintage Movie Classics (I adored the classic film as a child)
A Haunting in the Arctic NG new
The Hacienda NG new
This Thing Between Us NG Mount TBR
The Reformatory NG. Oct. 31 release
Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror Oct. 24 Release
What October Brings: A Lovecraftian Celebration of Halloween
The Last Night Of October Horror/Karma
The October Men SF/Time Travel/Quantum
The Witches of London Trilogy, #1-3
The Witches of St. Petersburg Historical/Horror
Dreams from the Witch House: Female Voices of Lovecraftian Horror
Stephen King "Marathon":
Elevation Stephen King
Revival Stephen King
It Came from the Garage!: An Anthology of Automotive Horror
The Institute Stephen King

Titles Accomplished In Outre October:
1. **** The September House Libby Virtual. NG.
2. **** THE EERIE BROTHERS and THE WITCHES OF AUTUMN. KU. Virtual. Author Request.
3. ***> Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror NG ARC Current. Release October 3.
4. **** The Lover . Kindle First Read. Release November 1.
5.**** A Haunting on the Hill.
6. **** The Night House Release October 3
7. ****Becoming the Boogeyman Release October 10
8. ****BrainwyrmsNG ARC Release October 10
9. **This Thing Between Us NG ARC Mount TBR
10. Device Free Weekend
11. ****Black Sheep
12. **** They Stalk the Night
13. ****Hatchet Girls
14. Lavender House
15.The Bell in the Fog
16. Hokuloa Road
17. Beneath the Stairs
18. The Hampton House Mystery
19. The Haunting
20. Cutter's Deep: Welcome to Hell
21. The Moving House
22. Ghostland
23. Tavern of Terror Vol. 10: Short Horror Stories Anthology
24. Last Light
25. Elsewhere
26. Christmas and Other Horrors: An Anthology of Solstice Horror
27. The Lodge
28. Walking After Midnight: Tales for Halloween
29. Walking After Midnight: Tales for Halloween Part III
30. Project Jotunheim
31. Haunted Souls
32. Machine Vendetta
33. A Season of Monstrous Conceptions
34. Hallowe'en Party
35. The Reformatory
36. Eversion
37. The Revenge of the Clowns
38. Jigglyspot and the Zero Intellect KU
39. Midnight Is the Darkest Hour Libby
40. Sherlock Holmes and The Arcana of Madness

Cobwebby Eldritch Reading Reindeer wrote: "Outre October TBR"
Love this 💀

Horror is my favourite genre so this'll be easy

My themed reads (including some with general fall vibes) will be:
- The Bellwoods Game by Celia Krampien
- Big Bad by Lily Anderson
- Camp Sylvania by Julie Murphy
- Dead Eleven by Jimmy Juliano
- Delicate Condition by Danielle Valentine
- Doctor Who Meets Scratchman by Tom Baker
- Funeral Songs for Dying Girls by Cherie Dimaline
- The Ghost of Spruce Point by Nancy Tandon
- Grumbones by Jenn Bennett
- If It Bleeds by Stephen King
- The Lake House by Sarah Beth Durst
- The Lost Library by Rebecca Stead
- The Midnight Club by Christopher Pike
- Paola Santiago and the River of Tears by Tehlor Kay Mejia
- Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- The Spirit Glass by Roshani Chokshi
- The Stitchers by Lorien Lawrence
- Submechanophobia: An AFK Book by Scott Cawthon
- The Tale of the Gravemother (Are You Afraid of the Dark #1) by Rin Chupeco
- These Fleeting Shadows by Kate Alice Marshall
- This Coven Won't Break by Isabel Sterling
- Truly, Madly, Sheeply by Heather Vogel Frederick
- Winston Chu vs. the Whimsies by Stacey Lee

Currently reading:
- The Apollo Murders by Chris Hadfield
- Blood Like Magic by Liselle Sambury
- Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas
- Holly by Stephen King
- Queerly Beloved by Susie Dumond

Other reads will be:
- All the Sinners Bleed by S.A. Cosby
- The Brothers Hawthorne by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
- By the Book by Jasmine Guillory
- Disability Visibility: First-Person Stories from the Twenty-first Century by Alice Wong
- The Drift by CJ Tudor
- Emma of 83rd Street by Audrey Bellezza
- The Eternity Code by Eoin Colfer
- Firekeeper's Daughter by Angeline Boulley
- Going Dark by Melissa de la Cruz
- Harley Quinn: Reckoning by Rachael Allen
- An Improbable Season by Rosalyn Eves
- Indian Horse by Richard Wagamese
- Into the Bright Open: A Secret Garden Remix by Cherie Dimaline
- Love & Luck by Jenna Evans Welch
- Love & War by Melissa de la Cruz
- Missing Clarissa by Ripley Jones
- Murder on a School Night by Kate Weston
- My Imaginary Mary by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows
- Nic Blake and the Remarkables: The Manifestor Prophecy by Angie Thomas
- Nigeria Jones by Ibi Zoboi
- Nine Lives by Peter Swanson
- Panic by Lauren Oliver
- The Poet X by Elizabeth Acevedo
- Seven Days in June by Tia Williams
- What's Coming to Me by Francesca Padilla
- Women Talking by Miriam Toews

I'm not sure what I have for this theme. I have a few upcoming reads that should fit, I think. I'll update as I go.

Ominous reads:
The Bourne Identity - FINISHED
Doll Bones - FINISHED
Long Way Down - FINISHED
Point Pleasant - FINISHED

Other stuff:
Piecing Me Together - FINISHED
Damia
The Priory of the Orange Tree
The Incredible Journey - FINISHED

Avid's Ominous October 2023

This is my month to shine, LOL, especially after September!

Currently Reading

TBR Reads
😱 Out of the Ashes ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
The Bewitching Hour (A Tara Prequel) ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Manners & Mutiny ⭐⭐⭐⭐
😱The Angel Maker ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
😱 The Cliff House ⭐⭐⭐
😱 Rook ⭐⭐⭐⭐
😱Teen Killers At Large ⭐⭐⭐
😱Bittersweet in the Hollow ⭐⭐⭐⭐

Non-TBR Reads
😱You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight ⭐⭐⭐⭐
😱 Fatal Vision ⭐⭐⭐
😱There's No Way I'd Die First ⭐⭐⭐⭐
😱Slayers: A Buffyverse Story ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
😱 Find Him Where You Left Him Dead ⭐⭐⭐⭐
😱 Manhattan Cult Story: My Unbelievable True Story of Sex, Crimes, Chaos, and Survival ⭐⭐⭐⭐
Cleat Cute ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
😱A Traitor in Whitehall ⭐⭐⭐⭐
😱Dead Girls Can't Tell Secrets ⭐⭐
😱 Lay Them to Rest: On the Road with the Cold Case Investigators Who Identify the Nameless ⭐⭐⭐⭐


😱= fits theme

abi wrote: "Darque wrote: ""

I love how this is set out!"

Thanks!

destiny ♡ wrote: "Darque wrote: ""

I love the little pinup witch, too cute!"

Thanks! Remember Calendar Girls? I still have clipart so I decided to try my hand at making these templates for IG stories, lol.

Darque wrote: "destiny ♡ wrote: "Darque wrote: ""

I love the little pinup witch, too cute!"

Thanks! Remember Calendar Girls? I still have clipart so I decided to try my hand at making these templates for IG sto..."

I do remember Calendar Girls! That's awesome! 🥰

🎃 MY TBR 🎃
➽ Top Books I want to read this month!



👻 PROGRESS 👻


➽ The Haunting of Maddy Clare ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ My Roommate Is a Vampire ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Dead Silence ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Your Lonely Nights Are Over ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Night of the Living Queers: 13 Tales of Terror Delight ⭐⭐⭐⭐
➽ Silver Nitrate ⭐⭐

Marking my spooky reads with a 💀 emoji!

TBR & current reads →
💀 Out There Screaming: An Anthology of New Black Horror (currently reading)
💀 Starling House (currently reading)
💀 Drowning (currently reading)
💀 The Library of Shadows
💀 Frankenstein
💀 A Haunting on the Hill
• Fall of Ruin and Wrath
💀 Snarl
• Fourth Wing (re-read)
💀 The God Provides
💀 Dark Harvest
💀 Hell House
💀 Silver Nitrate
💀 The Good House
💀 The Book of Witches
💀 Literally Dead: Tales of Halloween Hauntings
💀 Full Brutal
💀 Cinema Viscera: An Anthology of Movie Theater Horror



completed reads →
💀 The Skull ⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 The Pram ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Ankle Snatcher ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
💀 Dark Waters ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
• Legends & Lattes ⭐⭐⭐💫
💀 The Woman in Cabin 10 ❌ DNF ❌
💀 Maeve Fly ⭐💫
💀 Empty Smiles ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 A Dowry of Blood ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Off Season ❌ DNF ❌
💀 Hollow ❌ DNF ❌
💀 The Last Haunt ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 The September House ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 There's No Way I'd Die First ⭐💫
💀 The Haunting of Hill House ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 House of Hollow ⭐⭐⭐💫
💀 The Prettiest Girl in the Grave ⭐⭐⭐⭐💫
• Rule of Wolves ⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Do Not Go in That House ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Capturing the Devil ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Becoming the Dark Prince ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 Halloween Fiend ⭐⭐⭐💫
💀 Partying With Pixies: A Sweet Small-Town Single Dad Romance ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐
💀 All Hallows ⭐⭐⭐⭐

I'm planning on doing some binge reading to catch up with my reading challenge. (Starting with my dark romances XD) Update: So far, I think I'm doing pretty good :)

TBR:


Currently Reading:


Finished:


Others Finished:

-- 3.5 Stars
-- 4 Stars
-- 5 Stars
-- 5 Stars
-- 5 Stars
-- 3.75 Stars
-- 4.25 Stars
-- 5 Stars
-- 3.75 Stars

Msg. 13 updated. Got everything read that I originally listed and maybe one extra.