Booktacular Halloween Books for Teens

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

Updated October 6, 2025
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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, Emily
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," in print for the first time. Journey through the woods in this sinister, compellingly spooky collection that...
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...
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
An all-girls school is struck with mysterious cases of screaming hysteria in this chilling dark academia thriller haunted by a deeply buried history clawing to the light. For over a hundred years, girls have fought to attend St. Bernadette's, with its reputation for shaping only...
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....
A monster calls
Ness, Patrick
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times bestseller! An unflinching, darkly funny, and deeply moving story of a boy, his seriously ill mother, and an unexpected monstrous visitor. At seven minutes past midnight, thirteen-year-old Conor wakes to find a monster outside his bedroom...
Night of the witch /
Raasch, Sara
Paper Book
An instant New York Times bestseller! Their love could never be forbidden. Book one in the Witch and Hunter duology, an epic enemies to lovers fantasy romance from New York Times bestselling authors Sara Raasch and Beth Revis. Fritzi is a witch. The lone survivor of a brutal attack...
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
Paper Book
The New York Times #1 best-selling series To find their friends, Jacob, Emma, and Addison go to Devil's Acre, a crime-ridden Victorian underworld, but they uncover an operation far more sinister than they imagined . . . In Victorian England, Jacob...
Miss Peregrine's home for peculiar children /
Riggs, Ransom
Paper Book
The #1 New York Times best-selling series An abandoned orphanage on a mysterious island holds the key to supernatural secrets in this unusual and original first book in the one-of-a-kind Miss Peregrine's Peculiar Children series A captivating blend of horror, dark...
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...
Pumpkinheads,
Rowell, Rainbow
Paper Book
A 2020 Tayshas Reading List Selection A 2020 Maverick Graphic Novel Reading List Selection In Pumpkinheads, beloved #1 New York Times bestselling author Rainbow Rowell and Eisner Award-winning artist Faith Erin Hicks have teamed up to create this...
Hour of the Pumpkin Queen /
Shepherd, Megan
#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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