Booktacular Halloween Books for Teens

Explore great young adult fiction and nonfiction books for the Halloween season.

Updated June 18, 2026
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Booktacular Halloween Books for Teens

Explore great young adult fiction and nonfiction books for the Halloween season.

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Luminous beings :
Arnold, David,
Paper Book
"A gorgeously rendered adventure that captures the ache and joy of adolescence in a mad world."--Tillie Walden, award-winning author of On a Sunbeam Ty and Burger have known each other since before they could walk. But this shared history is nothing compared to their plans...
Anna dressed in blood /
Blake, Kendare
Paper Book
From Kendare Blake, the #1New York Timesbestselling author ofThree Dark Crowns, a beautiful and haunting ghost story Cas Lowood has inherited an unusual vocation: He kills the dead. So did his father before him, until he was gruesomely murdered by a...
To the bone /
Bruzas, Alena,
Paper Book
This gripping, shocking, and exquisitely crafted survival story reveals the truth of America's colonial history in a powerful new way--visceral and breathtaking. After the long journey from England, Ellis arrives in America full of hope. James Fort is where a better life will...
Through the woods
Carroll, E. M.
Paper Book
Discover a terrifying world in the woods in this collection of five hauntingly beautiful graphic stories that includes the online webcomic sensation "His Face All Red." Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that features four brand-new stories...
Where he can't find you /
Coates, Darcy
Paper Book
From USA Today bestselling horror/thriller author Darcy Coates comes the chilling legend of a monster no one can escape. DON'T WALK ALONE, OR THE STITCHER WILL FIND YOU. Abby Ward lives in a town haunted by disappearances. People vanish, and when they're found, their bodies have...
Our wicked histories /
Goldsmith, Amy
Paper Book
A teen girl's attempt to make amends with her former friend group takes a sinister turn during a weekend getaway at an ancestral Irish estate in this atmospheric, literary horror from the author of Those We Drown. There's something in the lake at Wren Hall. At...
The hysterical girls of St. Bernadette's /
Hanna Alkaf,
Paper Book
Four starred reviews! An all-girls school is struck with mysterious cases of screaming hysteria in this dark academia "thrilling mix of ghost story and realism" (School Library Journal, starred review) haunted by a deeply buried history clawing to the light. ...
Among ghosts /
Hartman, Rachel,
Paper Book
Set in the world of New York Times bestseller Seraphina, a boy on the run from a dragon--among other dangers--seeks refuge in a haunted abbey in this wholly original ghost story about what haunts us, and what connects us. A few things to know about the town of St....
Songs for ghosts
Kumagai, Clara
Paper Book
A Kirkus Reviews Best Book of the Year A Booklist Editor's Choice Book This genre-bending YA novel follows a boy who finds a century-old diary written by a young woman in Nagasaki, Japan--and becomes haunted by her vengeful...
A monster calls : a novel
Ness, Patrick
Paper Book
A New York Times bestseller! Patrick Ness's Carnegie Medal-winning masterwork is poised to attract a discerning crossover audience. The monster in Conor's backyard is not the one he's been expecting -- the one from the nightmare he's had every night since his...
Secrets never die
Ralph, Vincent
Paper Book
From New York Times bestselling author Vincent Ralph comes Secrets Never Die, a chilling new YA thriller about four teens whose dark secrets come back to terrorize them. Some secrets should never have been buried . . . We call it the...
Library of souls
Riggs, Ransom
CD
Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children /
Riggs, Ransom
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLING SERIES "A tense, moving, and wondrously strange first novel. The photographs and text work together brilliantly to create an unforgettable story."--John Green, New York Times best-selling author of The Fault in Our Stars...
Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children : the graphic novel
Riggs, Ransom.
Paper Book
When Jacob Portman was a boy, his grandfather regaled him with stories of his fantastic life at Miss Peregrine's home during the Second World War, even sharing photos of the remarkable children with whom he resided. As Jacob grew up, though, he decided that these photos were obvious fakes, simple...
American spirits : the famous Fox sisters and the mysterious fad that haunted a nation
Rosenstock, Barb
Paper Book
Finalist, 2026 YALSA Award for Excellence in Nonfiction for Young Adults A Kirkus Reviews Best Book A New York Public Library Best Book of the Year CCBC Choices 2026 A Bank Street Best Book CAN THE DEAD TALK TO THE LIVING? Discover the astonishingly...
Pumpkinheads
Rowell, Rainbow
Paper Book
#1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell and Eisner Award-winning illustrator Faith Erin Hicks team up to deliver a funny, tender, and visually gorgeous coming-of-age story set during one unforgettable Halloween night. Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.
Hour of the Pumpkin Queen /
Shepherd, Megan
Paper Book
#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER * Join Sally on a time-bending adventure to save Halloween Town--and her beloved Jack Skellington--in the hit series based on Disney Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas! And don't miss the first book in the series, Long Live the...
The Raven Boys
Stiefvater, Maggie
Paper Book
An all-new series from the masterful, #1 New York Times bestselling author Maggie Stiefvater!Every year, Blue Sargent stands next to her clairvoyant mother as the soon-to-be dead walk past. Blue never sees them--until this year, when a boy emerges from the dark and speaks to her.His name is Gansey,...
If I have to be haunted /
Sun, Miranda
Paper Book
Cemetery Boys meets Legendborn in this thrillingly romantic, irresistibly fun YA contemporary fantasy debut following a teenage Chinese American ghost speaker who (reluctantly) makes a deal to raise her nemesis from the dead. Cara Tang doesn't want to be haunted. Look, the dead have...
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