SPOOKY BOOK RECOMMENDATIONS // horror, fantasy, YA
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I decided last week to start Stephen King books in publication order and Carrie should arrive tomorrow! :)
I hope that you enjoy it as i am about to read it next in my Stephen King readathon
I hope you love it Lezlie!!!
awesome!! I've read all of his work so far! you are in for a great ride!!
I tried starting with Carrie a few years ago before I really had read any horror and I just couldn't finish it. I'm sure I'll get back to it someday. I'm about to finish IT today and start The Shining tomorrow. :) I've just decided that I'll always have a King book going to try to finish everything. :)
1. NOS4A2 by Joe Hill
2. Nightmare
3. My best friend's Exorcism
4. The broken girls
5. Carrie, the shining, Salem's lot
6. City of stars
7. Ring Shout
8. Leviathan wakes
9. Kingdom of souls
10. Sawkill girls
How you blend different genres in one video always amazes me... Such a big fan of your videos here ❤️
Aww thank you so much!!
The best horror writer that I’ve tried out this year is Stephen Graham Jones! I would recommend starting with The Only Good Indians, it was such a wildly different horror experience than I’ve ever had. Also, I highly recommend anything by Zoje Stage! She has three books, BABY TEETH, WONDERLAND, and GETAWAY. They’re all sooo good. WONDERLAND in particular is great for this season, it’s sort of modern retelling of the Shining, and then about halfway through the book, it’s gets really weird… lol
Adding all of these to my list!!! I’ve definitely been wanting to check out Stephen Graham Jones!
I just picked this up from the library today. Glad for your recommendation!
I am not a horror/spooky reader, so I'm glad you acknowledged City of Stairs, because this was one of the first books that came to my mind. Also, City of Miracles has some spooky stuff, particularly the villain.
Oooh that makes me even more excited to get to city of miracles!!
I added so many of these to my want to read list. Thanks for the recs!
I agree with you about that twist in Leviathan Wakes, freaky stuff - I read it back in February and remember thinking, “Hm… Not sure that this was the best thing to pick-up in a covid lockdown!” The series as whole has been one of the best things I’ve read this year though!
Omg right?! I need to continue on with the series for sure!
Ring shout definitely sounds so interesting!! Great recommendations and i hope to get to some of these at some point 🥰
Wow your recommendations are fantastic! I have actually read most of these which must mean that you and I have very similar tastes. I'm now very interested in the ones you mentioned that I haven't read yet, namely My Best Friend's Exorcism and Carrie!
Hey Jessie, nice to find you. Excited to watch more. The only good indians is my new fav horror!
I would recommend Mapping the Interior as a short story/novella. It's a great introduction to Stephen Graham Jones, and just a really well-written story.
Definitely adding to my list! Thank you!
This is one of my favorite books !!!! So so GOOD
i always watch all the spooky horror recs!
NOS4A2 is so so good!! Totally perfect for this time of year
Love love all the recommendations
I picked up The Broken Girls after reading and loving the Sun Down Motel. I still want to read it. Loved Ring Shout. It was a good, very fast read.
Loved your list! I have no read Chad Nicholas so I added that one to my list
Yay!! Hope you enjoy!
Thank you for the recommendations! I hope you enjoy a great spooky season! Bookish Drummer's recommendations (below) are also excellent. So many good books! So little time!
I bet you would enjoy Mexican Gothic, too. (And of course I always hope you might check out my books...)
I loved The Girl Who Loved Tom Gordon by Stephen King.
I listened to The Sundown Motel in August and really enjoyed it. Some day I will also check out Broken Girls.
I heard the new YA book White Smoke is also supposed to keep you on the edge of your seat, but I have not checked it out yet.
For thrillers I can recommend, once more, Chris Carter's books. So so damn good! But very graphic descriptions, so not for the faint of heart. I also enjoyed most of Simon Beckett's works.
Ooooh I’ve been hearing a lot of buzz going around for white smoke so definitely need to check it out! Also checking out Chris Carter and Simon Beckett! Any place you’d recommend starting with them?
@@JessieMaeBooks With Simon Beckett - The David Hunter series starts with "The Chemistry of Death" and with Chris Carter - The Robert Hunter series starts with "The Crucifix Killer"
Hope you will enjoy them, whenever you get the time to check them out.
Btw. I am almost done with The Bone Season. A quick and fairly easy read (apart from some terminology) but not my cup of tea, so I will not continue on with it.
Happy spooky reading month to you!! 👻🍁🍂
Great show today.
My Best Friends Exorcism is so great! I love the 80s references and it’s funny and I especially love the two main characters relationship. Ty for the recommendation!
Yesss!!! I’m so glad you loved it too!!
I’m half way through, I was a little iffy at 25% but it’s really got me hooked now.
I just finished reading Kin by Kealan Patrick Burke and it was quite good. Definitely needs a warning due to some gory aspects but I enjoyed the story and the various POVs throughout.
I love Grady Hendrix (recently finished The Southern Bookclub’s Guide to Slaying Vampires) so I am definitely adding My Best Friend’s Exorcism to my list!
I love the joe hill NOS4A2 book 📖 love you and your amazing channel please stay safe and enjoy your reading love your Australia fan John xx
I started nos4a2 a couple of years ago and had to stop because it was too creepy for me 😂 I did manage to finish his Heart Shaped Box and I loved it!
Ring Shout is now in my basket, it sounds super cool and creepy! I'm participating in Novellas in November so it fits perfect.
Ahh yay I hope you enjoy Ring Shout!! Oooh I really need to read Heart Shaped Box!
Nightmare introduced me to horror and i had a great time with it! Really made me think about things 🐣🖤
I really enjoyed Salem's lot
Right now I'm reading needful things I'm really am enjoying it 👻🧟♀️
Great video!! I’m so hooked to the NOS4A2 TV serie (in amazon), great visuals!
Btw, I was seeing some of your old videos and found the Disney Villains video (which I loved!)- do you think you can do another one similar to that?
P.S: loved the candle touch!
Aww I’m so glad you loved that one! I did one for our classic Disney crew as well! I’ll have to do another one soon, I had a lot of fun with those!
Lezlie talks about Nightmare!!! I’ll read that one eventually as well.
It’s sooo deliciously creepy!
@@JessieMaeBooks That’s fantastic to hear.
NOS4A2 sounds really interesting! I just read The Devil and the Dark Water and it definitely creeped me out at times. I'm currently reading The Wolf and the Woodsman. I just started but it has some pretty graphic elements and creepy creatures so far. House of Salt and Sorrow is a good one, too, and The Picture of Dorian Grey.
I'm not a big creepy reader, though. For fall, I prefer things like Spinning Silver, The Bear and the Nightingale, and the book I'm currently reading, The Kingdom of Back. I like atmospheric, mystical, elven, folklore type of books for the fall!
I love all those atmospheric reads as well!! All such good ones!
I am not big on horror, but I just read Upon a Burning Throne, which was a perfect choice for this season! I know you’ve read it already, but there were definitely horrific and grotesque scenes!
Ahh I hope you enjoyed it! Oh my goodness yes it really did!
Great list, Jessie! I'm sad Imaginary Friend isn't on here so people could dunk on it. I may or may not have dunked on it myself, despite having not read it in an upcoming haul video. 😛😛
LOL as if it doesn’t already have enough people hating on it Allen!!!! 🤣🤣🤣
@@JessieMaeBooks 🤣🤣
We definitely have similar tastes in books! In the horror/mystery genre, have you read any of Mo Hayder's Jack Caffery series? They are definitely dark, super strange, and every case is very different. I've only read the first three, though I have them all, and I don't recommend them often simply because I don't think they are for everyone. I'd be very interested to know what you think. Another go to horror author for me is Stephen Graham Jones. Every book is better than the last.
I haven’t read that one but I’m definitely adding to my list!
I keep hearing city of stairs has some spooky vibes. I have the ebook.
I'm kind of a wuss for horror, so I like T Kingfisher's horrors like The Hollow Places because her practical protagonists and underpinning sense of humor lighten the load for me! She's got an Edgar Allen Poe retelling out next year that I'm super interested in as well for that reason. For spooky atmosphere without real horror, I really love the Manga series Girl From the Other Side
Ahhh I’ve been wanting to read that one ever since it’s release! That sounds so good!!
After watching this video before. I ordered nos4a2 and nos4a2 wraith today. Sounded a good recommendation
I hope you love it!!
Whew. If you had mentioned Imaginary Friend one more time I probably would have had to pick it up and read it right now. Dodged that bullet ;)
OMG MICHAEL DONT DO THIS TO ME 🤣
@@JessieMaeBooks mwahahahahaha
I keep hearing about Joe Hill!!! One day I’ll read one of his books.
I need to read more of his books for sure!
I really enjoyed nos4o2 💯
A horror writer I like to read for spooky season is Ron Ripley a few of his books have creeped me out
I'm adding The Broken Girls to my TBR. I just finished a great October read and I have to start recommending it to everyone: The Year of the Witching, by Alexis Henderson. It's really good YA fantasy/horror set in a secluded town with a puritanical society ruled by a "Prophet" and surrounded by haunted dark woods. The story is a spooky dark fairytale inspired by the Salem witch trials. I flew through the chapters of this one.
Oooh yes I’ve heard such good things! I definitely need to read it!
I’m reading Shorefall right now and am amazed with how gruesome it is! Foundryside wasn’t as violent, I guess more at the end haha. Now it makes sense that he also writes horror! Works well with his fantasy stories.
Right?! I loved Shorefall, hope you’re enjoying it!!
@@JessieMaeBooks Thank you! I am! Just passed the 200 page mark.
Also…(dramatic pause)…. IMAGINARY FRIEND!!!! Lol A bunch of people in Gregory Laperche’s discord are reading it this month in a horror book club, a lot of people are enjoying it!!!! 😄😄😄
Yay!!!! It makes me soooo happy to hear that people are enjoying it!
I had to dnf Imaginary Friend halfway through. It was really good, but too scary for me.
@@Shelf_Improvement oh no! Lol definitely understandable, I almost never get scared in books, but it was so anxiety inducing!
I definitely recommend The Shadow of the Wind by Carlos Ruiz Zafon. It’s kind of a gothic thriller that’s so well written. Like you said, anything by Stephen King pretty much, but Cujo, Pet Sematary, and Salem’s Lot are all really creepy. And if you loved The Shining you have to read Doctor Sleep. So good!
Yes!!! I’ve heard soo many good things and definitely need to read the shadow of the wind 🤩
Dr Sleep the book was amazing. The film not so much.....
@@elliotgregory3356 agree 100%. I didn’t think the movie would ever end. And I love me some Ewan McGregor so that’s saying something.
@@Bloomgirl_books Agree 💯. It just plodded along with no real direction. And compared to the book was actually pretty bad. The actress who played Rose the hat was good as was Mgregor but they left so much out
@@elliotgregory3356 she was really good, and probably the only reason I watched until the end. It’s so frustrating to see such amazing material translated to the screen so badly.
I don’t read horror, but the historian by kostova is one of the best suspense slightly thrillerish books I’ve read, & the butterfly garden was permeated with ‘disturbing’ .😨
Oh my goodness the butterfly garden was so dark but I really enjoyed that one!
NOS4A2 is a great read have you read the prequel graphic novel Wraith?
😱😱😱 I didn’t know there was a prequel!! Totally going to check that out! Thank you for putting it on my radar!
Have you read Book of Accidents? Also Kill Creek is good too
Oooh no I haven't but I've added both to my list!
Kingdom of souls was really good so is barren of souls 😊
Scare Me!!!!!!
Hey, just wanna add a trigger warning for Kingdom of souls for an event that takes place in the second half that I wasn't expecting when I read it.
I think The Founders Trilogy is perfect for fall even though it’s not horror or anything