 Hello, hello, everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video which are books that you could read on Halloween. So Halloween is only another week away and I feel that so many of us have been reading so many good spooky books to help get us into the mood. But what about on Halloween day? Are there any books to read on the day? Well, I have some recommendations for you if you want to spend some time or a lot of time reading a spooky book on Halloween. So the first category that I'm gonna start with are shorter books or lighter books. If you love Halloween, but you're a little more Halloween town or hocus pocus, like nothing super dark or gory, like no horror or thriller. Or if you also have plans on Halloween and you don't actually have a lot of time to sit and read a full-length novel. I have three books I've suggest for you for this. The first one is a classic and that and it's a little, it's a lot less spooky. It's more of a fall atmosphere, but it is centered around pumpkins and that is pumpkin heads by Faith, Erin Hicks and Rainbow Row. This is such a cute little graphic novel story to get you in the fall mood. This follows are two main characters who are best friends, but it is their last year working at the pumpkin patch together. And so one of the friends is running around trying to find a girl that he might like and basically they're just coming to terms with no longer being friends or at least working with each other every fall season. The next book that I have to recommend, I have not yet read it, but I will be reading it quite soon. It looks adorable and that is Garlic and the Vampire. This is by Bre Paulson. I mean, it's a little garlic here and there's something about a vampire locally, and so garlic has to go and deal with the vampire. I think it's going to be, again, another adorable, maybe slightly spookier than the last one, but still much more on the calmer, adorable side of Halloween rather than gory and blood. My final graphic novel recommendation for you would be Fangs, and this is by Sarah Anderson. This was so perfect when I read it, and it's one that I read every year. It is the romance between a vampire and a werewolf, and it's just adorable and hilarious. And you want to cry tears of joy and happiness just with their romance, but them being two creatures of Halloween being so spooky. This, if you have not read it, I highly encourage you to read it. Now, if you have a little more time on Halloween to read a full book, but you're still not super into the dark and spooky aesthetic, then I think you should pick up The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston. This is much more for the contemporary romance readers who also kind of want to get into spooky season a little bit. This is definitely much more of a romcom than what I was expecting, but our main character can see ghosts. So there is that spooky element. She is also the daughter of a mortician, and they have their own, her family owns a funeral home. So it is, it's not dark, but it's got that spooky element. So if you're looking for a good Halloween romcom, this is where you should go, because our main character is a writer. She's a ghost writer. This book is full of puns, by the way. And she ends up falling in love for her editor who then dies and becomes a ghost. She is dealing with her own trauma of past relationships, and then her father also has passed away. So she has gone back to her hometown and she is grieving her father, figuring out what to do for the last book that she's ghost writing with her dead editor. It's a lot going on, but it's all very spooky and fun. So if that's what you need, this is the book for you. Now if you also still want to read something romance, maybe something a little more gothic, I would suggest reading Anatomy by Dana Schwartz. This book was perfectly gothic, dark, spooky, but it's still a romance. Our main female character lives in Edinburgh and she wants to study dead bodies and, you know, go into the field of medicine in that way. But because it's in like the 1800s, she is not allowed. And she ends up allowing or striking a deal with a professor that if she can pass the exam, she can get into his class. But in order to pass the exam, she needs to gain knowledge. And so what does she do? She teams up with an illegal grave digger to dig up graves. And along the way, she makes some very interesting career decisions and finds very dark secrets. So if you are looking for gothic romance, this is the way to go. Now the last three books I have to recommend are a little bit darker and they're all different, but they're all books that I read in a day. So I believe that if you have the time, you can read these books on Halloween day. First off, this video would not be complete without a dark academia recommendation, as there are so many good dark academia books. And if you're looking for one to read, I would recommend picking up a lesson inventions by Victoria Lee. This has an unreliable main character with, again, all the writer vibes. She has gone to the school and she was placed in this specialty house with all writing students, the kind of the more prestigious students of the school. And she decides after a huge traumatic incident to go back into that writing community and try and finish high school. At the same time, there is a new student who actually won a prize, a huge prize, with her first ever novel. And this student has transferred to this school. And she is trying to dig up what happened the previous year that caused for some dark secrets to arise. Next is a first book in a series. And I think I have not yet finished the series. I have one more book to go and then I finish it. But I would highly suggest the series leading up to and on Halloween, as I found all the books very easy to read and very bingeable. And that is Stocking Jack the Ripper by Carrie Menis-Galco. This is such a good series. Again, you have a female main character who wants to become a mortician. And she is studying under her uncle. And so we are following various famous Halloweeny figures. So in this one, it's Jack the Ripper. In the second one, it's Dracula. And the third one, Houdini. And the fourth one, the devil. This book has a little bit of mixed media. It has some photos and images of letters that were written. So it really just ties you into the story all the more. I loved reading this a couple of years ago on Halloween. And if you have not picked up this series, I highly recommend it. Especially if you love Carrie Menis-Galco's new series, Kingdom of the Wicked, you will also still love her old series. The last and final book I have to recommend to you is the scariest book of them all. This book freaked me out. No joke. I was nervous. I had all the lights on. I didn't want to look up from the book because I didn't want to look around and see other creepy things in my apartment. But I just needed to keep reading to get to the end of it. And that book is House of Hollow by Crystal Sutherland. This book is so incredibly spooky. If you need a thriller horror, this is the book to go to if you have not already read it. We follow these three sisters who years years ago mysteriously disappeared. And when they did finally come back, they had no memories of what happened. And they turned pale white platinum blonde hair very ghostly. That was in previous years. Now they are older and they are living their own lives. And the oldest sister goes missing. And the younger sisters are very afraid of what this means for them. Are they next? Is it innocent? Is it a recalling from what happened when they were younger? So they have to go and try and find her sister before they also get found. So spooky. So those are all the books I have to recommend to you to read on Halloween this coming year. Thank you all so much for watching this video. If you liked it, let me know by giving it a thumbs up. Comment down below if you already know what you're going to read on Halloween or leading up to Halloween. I would love to know what you all are reading. I have bookish social media linked down below that you can see what I am reading and some of my reading plans as they unfold. Classic mid reader. And I post videos on Sundays and Wednesdays so feel free to subscribe to get more content from me. But until I see you all in the next video, I wish you happy spooky reading.