 Hello, hello, everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video Which are my spooky book recommendations? I have here a bunch of spooky books that I have read and really enjoyed and would love to recommend to you guys If you are looking for some spooky books this spooky season for me a spooky season starts in like September but that's not the case for everybody So I thought I'd do this video more so in October a little bit closer to actually Halloween So I have this video divided into two parts the first part that we're gonna go through are the just thriller horror Books and then the second half is going to be dark academia as that is one of my favorite spooky specific genres, so I Wanted to have it have its own little section here, but without further ado. Let's get started So first up in the thriller section. I have more of a gothic horror and that is Mexican Gothic by Sylvia Merno Garcia I read this last year. I absolutely loved it. It was so like creepy It's one of those books that gives you creepy vibes like things aren't really wrong until you really find out What's wrong at the end? So if you're just looking to get that little what's going on in this house So with these people That's this is the book that you should pick up it follows our main character that she lives in Mexico City But her cousin recently got married to this very rich white guy and they're a little concerned for her and then she writes a very Concerning letter home. So our main character goes to visit them and figure out if her cousin is okay What's going on? Cetera and so forth. Definitely if you like haunted house or families that are quite right vibes This is definitely the one to go for now if you're not afraid of a little COVID-19 quarantine thriller Then I would recommend 56 days by Katherine Ryan Howard This is it takes place in Ireland as COVID has hit and everyone is going into lockdown and It is a dual timeline of this couple Just just barely met each other And we're just starting to go out when all of a sudden quarantine hits and they decide to move in together and quarantine together So this is at the very beginning of that and in the second half when one of them I winds up dead and it takes them a very long time to figure out what happened Because it's quarantine nobody's doing anything So you've just got a body sitting there in an apartment So if you like quarantine thrillers or dual timeline This would be a good one for you to pick up if you can handle the COVID-19 aspects which COVID-19 isn't too prevalent, but like we all lived through it So we know if you like Family drama in your thrillers Then I've got two books for you here The first one is The Cousins by Karen and McManus. This deals with the grandkids of a very rich family Grandma had Disinherited all of her children and has made them leave the island that their family owns that they have a little resort on Then all of a sudden one day the grandkids all get a letter inviting them to work for the resort For the grandmother and there as they're working there They're uncovering lots of family secrets with twisty endings and It was it was very good. The other book. I would recommend is Insomnia This book is about the daughter of a woman who when she turned 40 went just Completely insane and lost it. She had really bad Insomnia and she was doing these crazy things in the night muttering things going places doing holding All kinds of creepy things and so we're following her daughter in the week leading up to her 40th birthday as she is afraid That she's gonna end up like her mother And then she stops This book creeped me out like it was so spooky literally from page one It started the spook and just kept up the spook throughout the entire book Creepy things happening her character being like I'm not sleeping. I'm gonna what am I doing? What does have wait a minute and just how she's And it's so creepy and then at the end you're like wait a minute. What wait what wait what? That was my reaction for the ending. So if you look forward to a domestic thriller with just a little bit And that would be a good one for you to pick up if you are a big fan of the Kind of more gory side of horror thriller I would highly recommend House of Hollow by Crystal Sutherland. This book really creeped me out last year And I absolutely adored it for it if we follow three sisters who went missing and then when they came back had like white hair super pale super pretty and They just weren't quite the same and so all of a sudden one of their sisters in modern day goes missing And so they have to go and try and figure out what happened to her that also ends up digging up secrets from their past of what Happened to them because they don't have any memory of what happened. It is Horry there were jump scares in this like even just talking about it. I'm getting spooked out again Just remembering the really creepy figure. Oh my gosh. Oh my goodness. Okay, sorry I think this book scared me the most out of all the books that I recommend So if you love jump scares if you love horror films, if you Like there's a slight nature theme. Oh, it's just so good. Just so good Just pick it up. Just just just pick it up. Okay. Okay, great And then the final thriller horror book that I am recommending for you is if you like Slashers I haven't read a lot of slashers, but I think I do like them So I read this book and I adored it and a lot of people read it last year But if you missed out on that hype Well, here you go the final girl support group by Grady Hendricks It he literally took all of the final girls from various films and movies He took the characters Gave those characters the first name of the actor or actress I think they're all women actress that play them and put them in a support group said, okay, you all survived horrible events Let's process this together. So you've got that wonderful interesting mix of all these different characters and personalities And then on top of that the final girls start getting slaughtered So we follow one final girl who's trying to figure it out Will she be the final girl of the final girls? Will they all make it out alive? Will they all die? You will just have to read the book to find out But I would like I said if you love a thrasher with lots of like red herrings or was it this? Is it this person? What's going on? What who knows about the support group because nobody should have known about the support group And pick this one up my friend You should do it I just watched they slashed them which is a queer thrasher movie and it was not as bad as I was expecting it to be It wasn't super great, but also it was pretty good. I'm just gonna throw that out there. It's like a movie recommendation Because it scares you both in the terms of it's a slasher but also the fact that it's a conversion camp and if you're queer that is Really really scary to watch Anyway, so now let's move on to my favorite genre for spooky season dark academia I've got three dark academia books that I will be recommending to you and they're all very different Types, so hopefully you will find one that peaks your fancy and can pick it up the spooky season I'm gonna start off with my most recently red. I came out earlier this year It's the author's debut novel and that is my dearest darkest by Kayla Cottingham This is the sort of book where you've got two queer girls who and their friends who accidentally summon a demon and Now are getting all these wonderful things from the sea. She can't be a demon, right? She's just a ghost who needs help until she starts asking for body parts Then you're kind of rethinking and then digging into that town lore being like What's going on here? So trigger warnings for body horror, but it is such a gripping Buck it had spooky scenes in there that got me to shiver I could not put it down. I was constantly trying to figure out what was going on. What was happening? Who was Because our main character should have died at the very beginning of the book And then she didn't but her hair turned white. She got super pale. So like She's alive. She's going to the school And there's a ghost so try and figure that one out. Yeah, read this book. It was a good one I liked it a lot. So the first one had really good school school spooky vibes It's on old campus way up north dreary kind of spooky area. This is a very different This is much more of a fantasy dark academia it was my favorite book of last year and I just read the second book in the trilogy and the third one just came out that is a Deadly education and then the second book that I just finished is The Last Graduate and The third book that just came out are the golden enclaves. I Adored this so much you have an unlikable main character who is supposed to become a Dark wizard but doesn't want to become a dark wizard But how this magic system works is that all the kids who are going to the school are randomly stocked up from wherever They are and dropped into a school in the middle of the void with a whole bunch of creatures that are trying to kill you The school is trying to kill you as you learn. There are no adults. There are no teachers There are no professors assignments just appear and you best do them Another reason why I really loved this book is that our main character is on the language track focus and I love languages. It's a personal thing of mine and so much like Babel by RF Kwan That just came out. It is a language heavy dark academia So if you love Babel, I haven't read it yet, but I'm about to read it and I know I'm gonna love it But if that's just the kind of thing that floats your boat This is definitely gonna get you. So it's spooky in a very different way and finally The last book that I have to recommend. I'm being so dramatic in this video Anyway, but the last dark academia and the last book that I'm gonna recommend Is a lesson in vengeance by Victoria Lee. I read this not during spooky season and it creeped me right out I loved it. You've got an unreliable narrator. There was an incident that happened and she is a writer and so How her school works is that you can apply to get into these like really intense communities Like living communities kind of like a special dorm or a house And so she has gotten into the one for writers and everyone has like these really intense like everyone's a writer And it's really cool. And so she is trying to live past the trauma of what happened last year and just finish her schooling There's a new kid and this new kid has already won like the Pulitzer Prize was it for her book And she is now transferred to that school and she is in the same living community as our main character and she Everyone loves this person. They are just they're so looked up to because of their writing success as like a high school student So they are Drinking up details of the traumatic event that happened last year and we are figuring out what happened last year along with our main character because she just she's so unreliable. She doesn't know what's going on at all and I love this. I read it in a day I was gripped from beginning to end. I just could not put it down. It made me so happy the writing aspect because like she uses a typewriter and then the School aspect and just oh it was so good So if you have an artwork if you have not picked this up and love those kinds of vibes like literally as dark and academic as you can get This is the ultimate So those are all the books that I have to recommend to you today I hope you found one from this list that interested you so you can pick it up the spooky season comment down below Let me know what you're reading if you found a book off this list if you've read any of these books I would love to hear your thoughts and opinions if you like this video give it a thumbs up I Absolutely had a blast filming it in case you couldn't tell but feel free to subscribe if you like bookish content I make videos on Sundays and Wednesdays or at least that's when I post them And I'm doing a lot of really fun spooky Halloween content lots of logs and whatnot So if you like that, please subscribe I have bookish social media linked down below where you will get even more content from me and Until I see you in the next video. I wish you happy spooky reading