October Reads
- Sophie Bjorkquist
- Oct 30, 2021
- 1 min read
Updated: Nov 2, 2021
Ms.Bjork here, it’s time for my October Reads on bookstagram! Halloween is one of my favorite times of the year and look forward to reading the spookiest books I can find during this time. This month, the 9 books I read are in tiers of terrifying, lukewarm screams, and either not Halloween-y or *yawn* not creepy enough.
Favorite Book This Month:
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
Runner Up:
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
TIER 1: Terrifying
The Silence of the Lambs by Thomas Harris
An FBI student tries to track down a serial killer with the help of a serial killer.
The Ballad of Black Tom by Victor LaValle
A retelling of H.P Lovecraft's The Horror at Redhook told from the perspective of a black man
Things Have Gotten Worse Since We Last Spoke by Eric Larocca
An online relationship gone wrong.
TIER 2: Lukewarm Screams
Disappearance at Devil's Rock by Paul Tremblay
The search for a missing boy.
My Heart Is a Chainsaw by Stephen Graham Jones
A girl who loves slasher films finds herself in one.
Wylding Hall by Elizabeth Hand
A folk band rents out an old house to make an album but things get weird.
TIER 3: Not Halloween-y or *yawn* not creepy enough
Before I Go To Sleep by S. J. Watson
A woman without a memory thinks her husband might be lying to her.
Dune by Frank Herbert
Set on another planet, a young prince fights the fulfillment of his fate.
How the One-Armed Sister Sweeps Her House by Cherie Jones
Inter-weaving narratives recount violent events in paradise.
Read any of these?
What did you read this month?
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