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This list includes spooky reads from several genres, all appropriate for teen and young adult readers!
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Coraline
Neil Gaiman - Harper Perennial
Format: Paperback
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The day after they moved in, Coraline went exploring....
In Coraline's family's new flat are twenty-one windows and fourteen doors. Thirteen of the doors open and close.
The fourteenth is locked, and on the other side is only a brick wall, until the day Coraline... |
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A Monster Calls: Inspired by an idea from Siobhan Dowd
Patrick Ness - Candlewick
Format: Hardcover
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A #1 New York Times bestsellerAn 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 window. But it isn't... |
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The Diviners
Libba Bray - Little, Brown Books for Young Readers
Format: Book
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Evie O’Neill has been exiled from her boring old hometown and shipped off to the bustling streets of New York City—and she is pos-i-tute-ly ecstatic. It’s 1926, and New York is filled with speakeasies, Ziegfeld girls, and rakish pickpockets. The only catch is that she has to live... |
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Six of Crows
Leigh Bardugo - Henry Holt and Co.
Format: Book
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Ketterdam: a bustling hub of international trade where anything can be had for the right price—and no one knows that better than criminal prodigy Kaz Brekker. Kaz is offered a chance at a deadly heist that could make him rich beyond his wildest dreams. But he can’t pull it off alone.... |
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City of Bones
Cassandra Clare - Margaret K. McElderry Books
Format: Paperback
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When fifteen-year-old Clary Fray heads out to the Pandemonium Club in New York City, she hardly expects to witness a murder much less a murder committed by three teenagers covered with strange tattoos and brandishing bizarre weapons. Then the body disappears into thin air. It's hard... |
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The Obsidian Blade
Pete Hautman - Candlewick; First Edition edition
Format: Book
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The first time his father disappeared, Tucker Feye had just turned thirteen. The Reverend Feye simply climbed on the roof to fix a shingle, let out a scream, and vanished — only to walk up the driveway an hour later, looking older and worn, with a strange girl named Lahlia in tow.... |
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The Forest of Hands and Teeth
Carrie Ryan - Delacorte Press
Format: Book
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In Mary's world there are simple truths. The Sisterhood always knows best. The Guardians will protect and serve. The Unconsecrated will never relent. And you must always mind the fence that surrounds the village; the fence that protects the village from the Forest of Hands and Teeth.... |
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The Scary Stories Treasury: Three Books to Chill Your Bones
Alvin Schwartz - HarperCollins Publishers
Format: Book
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Telling scary stories is something people have always done. It is an old fashioned way of having a good time. Nobody tells scary stories better than Alvin Schwartz, and here, for the very first time, his three most spine-tingling books are together in one volume! Scary Stories to Tell in the Dark... |
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The Jumbies
Tracey Baptiste - Algonquin Young Readers
Format: Book
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Corinne La Mer isn't afraid of anything. Not scorpions, not the boys who tease her, and certainly not jumbies. They're just tricksters parents make up to frighten their children. Then one night Corinne chases an agouti all the way into the forbidden forest. Those shining yellow... |
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The Darkdeep
Ally Condie - Bloomsbury Children's Books
Format: Book
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When a bullying incident sends twelve-year-old Nico Holland over the edge of a cliff into the icy waters of Still Cove, where no one ever goes, friends Tyler and Ella – and even 'cool kid' Opal – rush to his rescue... only to discover an island hidden in the swirling... |
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Thornhill
Pam Smy - Roaring Brook Press
Format: Book
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Parallel plotlines, one told in text and one in art, inform each other as a young girl unravels the mystery of a ghost next door.
Mary is an orphan at the Thornhill Institute for Children at the very moment that it's closing down for good. But when a bully goes too far, Mary's... |
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