Planning a month of spooky reading / creeping through my bookshelves for haunted books

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welcome to this year's october tbr full of spooky reads
In this video...
Nicholas Nickleby tidd.ly/3jRYpfQ
Thus Were Their Faces tidd.ly/3FiJ4xE
Nevernight tidd.ly/3abzBtw
King Lear tidd.ly/3FgM3GO
The Faerie Queene tidd.ly/3laU4VG
Paradise Lost tidd.ly/3Dg6vWm
The Bloody Chamber tidd.ly/3a5Sw9j
The Haunting of Hill House tidd.ly/3iTvyqP
The Monk tidd.ly/3a9BCXq
Hurricane Season tidd.ly/3mIrGKn
My Dark Vanessa tidd.ly/3lePBRK
Titus Groan tidd.ly/3a8z37J
The Scarecrow and his Servant tidd.ly/3BiklqL
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[@danaegeorgakopoulou2483]

This is the year that I'm going to give exams, to go to the uni, I don't have any time to read books and when I do have time I am exhausted. Watching your videos makes me feel close to books ❤ I miss reading so much

[@honeysuckle888]

I feel the same way. Trying to get tons of reading before uni 😭

[@leshawna5052]

i relate this so much🥺😭

[@balanfelicia4445]

Omg! Same!! Let’s try to keep each other accountable somrhow

[@Inkedgoldiwisp]

Me also, just graduated today but having my exams in a couple of weeks...

[@imandy8740]

Same situation. im so exhausted, but i still have to go for 4-5 months.

[@honeysuckle888]

Ooh wishing Emma and everyone here the best autumn this year! Have lots of hot chocolate , coffee and an overall cozy reading season. 🍂🌟

[@denisefreitas6727]

Same to you!💖🤗🌷🦋

[@2009ashmi]

You too!! ,🎃🐛📙🧡

[@elisazouza]

I love ur pfp

[@honeysuckle888]

@@elisazouza Thank you sm I agree Sophie is such a delicate beauty ❤️

[@maanya__742]

Hi Emma, I am going to read Phantom of the Opera this month. Your passion about it has really sparked my interest for it since the last year when you read it in October. I am finally reading it this month and I am so excited for it, all thanks to you!🥀

[@rehabyasser2990]

omg me too! happy reading ✨

[@irenenieto9006]

Omgg same, I saw it the other day in my library and I pick it!! happy reading

[@maanya__742]

I think we all are going to have a blast reading it and maybe it can become a new favorite... 💗

[@theelegantcouplesbookrevie8734]

You're absolutely going to love it! It's such a cozy/spooky story!

[@cinnamonteeth]

I just read The Haunting of Hill House yesterday and ADORED it! I think you will love it if you have an appreciation for psychological horror

[@honeysuckle888]

I'm reading Dracula currently. It's my 3rd book for October and it's just so atmospheric and amazing for this beautiful season. And it's my birthday in two days! 🍂🌟

[@additiyasinha7457]

Happy Birthday in advance 🎉

[@maanya__742]

Happy early birthday , may all your wishes come true!🎊

[@reese4182]

Happy early birthday to you!! 💛💛

[@diwan2017]

happy early birthday! 🤍

[@saharnajeeb]

Is your birthday on october 9th?! Happy early bday

[@theeldritchfox]

My spooky/cozy TBR for the month: Mexican Gothic - Silvia Moreno-Garcia The Cybernetic Tea Shop - Meredith Katz Nothing But Blackened Teeth - Cassandra Khaw Once Upon A River - Diane Setterfield Small Spaces - Katherine Arden The Bone Mother - David Demchuk Song for the Unraveling of the World - Brian Evenson

[@TheHeythererachel]

The cybernetic teashop is SO good and cozy!

[@elegance1717]

Ooh I have Mexican Gothic on my shelves as well! I think I'll also add that one

[@anonanon2712]

I've had good things about Mexican gothic. thank you!

[@thisisme28]

Ooh. I read Mexican Gothic. I really really liked it!

[@user-rw6qm3eo4v]

Okay, now I feel like I have to write another comment... I highly appreciate your way of telling about books! It feels like talking to a friend. Your inner warmth and cosiness has been keeping me happy since this summer. It's such a blessing finding your channel randomly in "recommendations" section Thanks for being your wonderful self :"3 Have some awesome reads is SpOoKy SeAsOn🎃💜

[@emmiereads]

That makes me so happy so glad you found your way here💕 wishing you the most wonderful spooky season too!!

[@aimeea8404]

On my TBR this month: Frankenstein, The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Tomie (manga), The Thief, and We Have Always Lived in the Castle which I've been saving for this month! I also read Sheets and I liked it. My heart feels for Wendell. I'm definitely going to read Delicates. Happy reading Emma :)

[@stirlingpiano]

I have never conformed to a strictly spooky theme for my October reading before, but I am trying to do so this year. So my current spooky TBR includes: -Mexican Gothic -Carmilla -The Vampyre -Frankenstein (reread) -The Turn of the Screw -Metamorphosis -Northanger Abbey (reread) -The Haunting of Hill House -Some more Edgar Allen Poe stories So far, I have also already read A Long Fatal Love Chase and The Legend of Sleepy Hollow this month. (By the way, I would highly recommend reading A Long Fatal Love Chase by Louisa May Alcott. It is extremely underrated.) I hope your spooky reading goes well and you are having a wonderful week!

[@selenalee5654]

these monthly planning videos are my absolute favourite!! 🥺

[@JessieJoystick]

I don't have a set tbr, but I'm currently re-reading 1984 and I just started the magicians by Lev Grossman :) thank you for your videos they are so lovely and relaxing 😊

[@Lokster71]

King Lear has moved up my list of favourite Shakespeare plays since I saw Frank Langella as Lear in Chichester and then Simon Russell-Beale as Lear at the National Theatre. The Langella was small, intimate and totally broke me. The Russell-Beale one was huge, director driven (it was a big play about big issues he thought and damn he was going to prove it)and really annoyed me. So, between the two of them I kind of found my way to a new appreciation for Lear as a play.

[@jamesduggan7200]

There are some other BookTubers who have BoMC as a sponsor. For me, the effect is after seeing the ad is a feeling of familiarity with the titles - something like "Oh, I've heard of that!" IMO that's a counterintuitive result, and impressive that the people there understand that BT's plugs can and do have a cumulative effect.

[@jenniferpalmblad9589]

I've got a lot on my TBR this month. Mainly mysteries and gothic classics because that is 100% my mood at the moment. I'm actually reading Phantom of the Opera for the first time ever and I'm really excited about it!

[@azuregiant9258]

Now this is a treat! I’m already feeling festive, snuggled up inside, eating mini gingerbread men with hot milky tea, watching the grey clouds and flecks of rain on the windowpane 🤗

[@emersongrace4815]

what a way to start the day! a cozy video and a cup of tea

[@vonhammershark]

The immense amounts of joy and happiness I feel when I watch your videos, just.. thank you for existing💛

[@merlinisme]

I'm so happy I've been following you since such a while and the way your video aesthetics and content delivery style has developed is so wonderful. You're doing a great job! Much love 💗

[@manasam8868]

BEEN WAITING FOR THIS SINCE FOREVER YESSSSSSS

[@BunsBooks]

I’m fully in the spoopy mood now. I just finished Dracula and now I’m reading Carmilla. I’ve also been listening to The Faerie Queen for some weeks now, I put it on whilst I clean and it makes the menial more fantastical. The Monk is incredible, I’ve not been the same since, and I highly recommend the audio cause the songs in it are performed beautifully

[@myrtolefk]

I started watching you around this time last year so these fall spooky videos feel so cozy and nostalgic to me! also as always i love your recommendations!

[@am13007]

Ah I've been waiting for my dose of coziness today. Just got into my bed, blankets on with a cup of coffee, and your video. Such a special little personal treat 💗 happy fall and spooktober everyone 🎃🍁🍂🕯📚

[@sarahsperusals]

reading we have always lived in the castle this month! glad to hear you speak highly of it, makes me even more excited to read it

[@masumayasmin5515]

Your videos are always full of warmth and comfort. My dark Venessa truly gave me the creeps! Thank you for your recommendations!

[@wiktor5016]

Thank you, Emma. Apart from finishing some books I started in September, I'd really like to read some plays in October, like for instance Pygmalion, which I haven't yet read. My other picks for the month will depend much on time and feeling. Congratulations to 180 000!

[@mirandaseyler3063]

I cant wait to hear your thoughts on My Dark Vanessa!.It was definitely thought provoking and disturbing at times, but it leaves you in awe.I love your content so much and you always give me motivation to read. ❤

[@strider1996]

Glad to see you're enjoying Nevernight, definitely one of the best trilogies I've ever read 📚 ❤

[@floogelhornzzz4770]

Not better than _Lord of the Rings._

[@strider1996]

@@floogelhornzzz4770 which is why I said "one of the best"

[@isabellehall9217]

I'm currently reading Notre Dame de Paris and i rlly like it. On my october tbr are Dance Dance Dance, Carmilla, The Haunting of Hill House, The Picture of Dorian Grey, Bunny, and Things We Lost in the Fire

[@jamesduggan7200]

I read that last year. It's very good. Especially I like how sometimes Paris seems to be in the 15th cent. and sometimes the 19th. I believe that duality was intentional.

[@girlmeetschaos]

oo! I'm also doing Paradise Lost this term :D university is definitely the spookiest thing this season

[@hyacinthus9609]

My TBR for october (spooky+dark academic+random): The Maidens - Alex Michaelides The Night Circus - Erin Morgenstern The Turn of the Screw - Henry James Troy - Stephen Fry The Invisible Life of Addie Larue - V.E. Schwab The Graveyard Apartment - Mariko Koike Punk 57 - Penelope Douglas One of us is next - Karen M. McManus

[@colourless6312]

I started The Hawthorne Legacy a few days ago, the second book to The Inherintance Games, and I must say I'm very hooked to it for now, as the plot, mysteries and puzzles are getting interesting. The first book was a huge let down for me, that I thought of DNF-ing the series. But I have already bought the second book during its preorder (before cracking the first book), so I'm giving a chance for it to redeem my disappointment and so far as I said, it does. I don't celebrate Halloween, and so I never really thought of October as a spooky month to read spooky books. But I'm very intrigued to see your TBR books. I hope you'll enjoy them all!

[@MilenaReads]

Hoping to read Haunting of Hill House as well this month. The series scared me so much.

[@floogelhornzzz4770]

Series? There are two movies based on this book, one old black and white one, and one modern one. What series?

[@MilenaReads]

@@floogelhornzzz4770 the netflix one…

[@floogelhornzzz4770]

@@MilenaReads: How many seasons are there of that series?

[@SelinHanim]

My Dark Vanessa is literally perfecttt to read this month !!

[@milulila]

Melchor is an amazing writer, i'm very intrigued on the translation of her books. I'm super excited for you to read it, and for all the books in the list!

[@emmanguyen794]

I love your creative intros. It sort of pulls you in in a way 😊❤️

[@2009ashmi]

Hi Emma! Wow! That's a TBR pile for the ages!! I'm currently reading Phantom, will be ordering the Phantom of the Opera book with your forward in it this week. Oh also listening to the Lovely War book that you recommended. I am loving it!! Hope your doing well and take care of yourself! Hugs! 🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️

[@OneDisgrace]

That tree trunk figure with the pumpkins is adorable 🥰

[@TanjimRahman]

I love how often you upload

[@milaces1323]

Yay! You'll finally read The Monk! I read it last October and while it wasn't an all time favourite, it was pretty cool.

[@valeriaacostahernandez1839]

Yey!!!! It's octuber my favorite month, i loved your video Emma 💖

[@euanfreeman179]

omigosh omigosh yay!! I'm so excited for you try Titus Groan. :D It's so _deliciously_ Gothic, and the atmosphere is *chef's kiss*. It's got some of my favourite prose and imagery in any book too, and I love the characters. :) I'm so glad it got to you!!

[@denisefreitas6727]

Love your TBR, Emma! I'm going to pick some titles for mine. Fantastic that you're going to read Agatha Christie & Shirley Jackson. You chose great books of them.🍁🍂✨

[@aditmaryadi6678]

I will having my birthday the end of this Spooktober and seeking through my shelves to find any spooky unread book and.. it's nothing 😂 Seems like i have to buy a spooky book as a gift for myself to celebrate this month 🎃(another reason to buy a book ehh)

[@megjshark]

always love seeing your tbr planning videos, wish so badly bunny had made it onto the stack though!! one of my favs, think you'd love it. this month i've already read at night all blood is black and brood, and will be reading jane eyre, the iliac crest, the hearing trumpet, in cold blood, and never let me go. the very best of the spooky, disturbing, and bizarre on my shelves

[@user-rw6qm3eo4v]

I just started watching your video a, but already love it! I'm already planning a day dedicated to just watching your channel

[@malissamoench8587]

I love you! October is my favorite reading month, too!! Gothic novels are the best. I love to read seasonally. My second favorite reading time is spring.

[@bookishlychelle9434]

I love watching your TBRs, they give me so many classics recommendations. I'm new to classics but just started my BA in English Lit so I'm hoping, by the end, to be slightly more well versed in the classics.

[@Wolfhailstorm]

Adored the way you filmed this!!

[@callukcraft]

I felt it when you said the scariest thing this term is uni work , hope it all goes well, uni work is very spooky indeed.

[@samkim9786]

ahhh loved this video sm, i was waiting for your tbr vid for spooktober! i love this tbr list, all the books together also look so pretty. i hope you're well emma, i'm so happy recently because i am done with college (just had my big final exams) and have all the time in the world to read a lot!

[@alexandraramz]

YES i’ve been waiting for you to put up a spooky video

[@prachikoolwal]

Murder of roger Ackroyd is legit my fav Agatha Christie novel .... I'm so excited for you to read it and come back here with your reviews!!!! 🤌💞

[@venuss18]

I LOVE THIS TIME OF YEAR

[@lei683]

you genuinely have the most soothing voice

[@monsmontage0607]

Couldn't wait!! Love your content Helps me through my day And motivates me to a lot of things.. Love ya From India ❤️🇮🇳

[@hannahwebster5606]

Bloody Chamber is amazing. Glad you are enjoying Nicholas Nickelbey as well. I think Dickens really steps into gear from this book onwards.

[@shrouuuq]

I actually wanna be in your library, you’ve a gorgeous collection 😍 for me I read nonfiction books more so I don’t have loads of novels. I hope you enjoy reading this month✨

[@valel1879]

Unfortunately, being in uni has also gotten in the way of my reading 😪 but your videos are always perfect for filling the reading-void inside of me, so thank you so much

[@AplacecalledBookland]

Ahhh yessss I'm do excited for thissss

[@euanfreeman179]

Oh I was so excited for Titus Groan I didn't even share my spooky TBR. XD My October plans are *House of Leaves, Mexican Gothic, Bunny, and Mr. Fox* (the Helen Oyeyemi book).

[@suzannahdarcy6903]

I adore Red Riding Hood. For me, it's the dark woods and the wolf. I'll have to check out Red Wolf

[@robertwinston2519]

Great work Emma

[@aquaviolin07]

Great list! Assuming my library holds come through, my Oct TBR should include The Picture of Dorian Gray, Morvern Callar, and Bewilderment!

[@whoisshe123]

The scarecrow and his servant was one of my favourite books as a child 🥲

[@FaeryLaume]

Your pile ended up being delightfully color coordinated. I've been craving gothic stories for this year's spooky reading, but so far I've been sidetracked by other themes. I just finished Small Favors which has an amazing slow burn of horror. Now I'm reading A Lesson in Vengeance and really enjoying the DA atmosphere. Next, two more library books - Home Before Dark by Riley Sager and Truly Devious by Maureen Johnson. I'm also reading In the Dream House by Carmen Maria Machado. I'm waiting for a library copy of Bunny by Mona Awad. Books from my shelf I want to get to between now and midNovember - Northhanger Abbey, The Haunting of Hill House, Anne of Green Gables, Thus Were Their Faces, Monsters She Wrote by Lisa Kroger, several spooky middle grades, and two spooky middle grade graphic novels. And many many more, but I'll be lucky if I finish the ones I've already mentioned. Oh, and a book I stumbled upon at a local bookstore the other day - Ghostways: Two Journeys in Unquiet Places by Robert MacFarlane, Stanley Donwood, and Dan Richards.

[@mhairiwalls6509]

my spooky reading tbr included Phantom of the Opera and i loved it!! 👻

[@mrodriguez377]

I started the Haunting of Hill House today! Lovinggg it so far! my fav Jackson is also We Have Always Lived in the Castle. I’m slowly getting through all her works.

[@evilredcaboose]

These books look wonderful

[@maddiestalter1014]

i adore you and your videos!! so calming and i love the more lifestyle-y elements you have been incorporating into your videos!! my october tbr (hopefully) includes frankenstein, rebecca, wuthering heights, the yellow wallpaper, after dark, and the iliac crest :)

[@emmiereads]

ahh I saw iliac crest and I screamed, haha thank you!

[@RoxIsReading]

Haunting of Hill House is on my list this month. I really liked We Have Always Lived in the Castle, so I'm pretty excited. Other books on my tbr for this month include all of Grady Hendrixs backlist, just started Southern Book Club and it's already so good. I also want to read Mexican Gothic, because wow have I been putting that off.

[@maryslibrary101]

I just finished paradise lost, it was very good!

[@readingindefinitely7892]

I am starting off October with A Clockwork Orange as well as continuing to read my collection of stories from Poe.

[@optimistickida12]

Titus Groan is soooooo good!! I’m on the second book now. The audiobooks narrated by Simon Vance are great. Also loved the Agatha Christie book

[@ewelinahernon6556]

Definitely read Bunny when you've got a chance. It's one of my favourites :)

[@tab5870]

Hurricane season is AMAZING. I read it in Spanish but I’m very curious about the English translation. Looking forward to seeing you talk about it

[@ravenleigh9155]

My tbr I already strayed off and now re-reading Carrie

[@ereading512]

13:35 is giving cozy berries and cream 😁 love your videos Emma!

[@floogelhornzzz4770]

emmie. Or * e m m i e *

[@joychalaby]

I'm currently referring a lot to The Faerie Queene and Paradise Lost for my thesis on Lewis because he was an English Lit scholar of the Renaissance period and particularly loved Milton and Spenser, and my thesis is due at the end of October but I haven't had time to read the Faerie Queene and it's been a while since I read Paradise Lost, and searching through the stanzas without context is a real pain because they're both so huge even though their so beautiful. SO I GET YOU! Will pray =) Love the October/spooky vibes of this video so much.

[@joychalaby]

also absolutely love The Murder of Roger Ackroyd!

[@normmansor1313]

Have been waiting for this

[@alty1234]

ohh you have picked THE BEST novel of Agatha's 😍😍

[@sophhnavarro]

that Ocampo book

[@elegance1717]

I am currently reading We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and I am already getting the 5-star feeling as well! I've also started Frankenstein for the first time for a book club, and I'm almost finished with what I think will be a 3-star horror called The Book of Accidents. Once I get through that pile I hope to read Rebecca for the first time and Macbeth!

[@elegance1717]

Update: We Have Always Lived in the Castle is a new all time favorite 😍

[@floogelhornzzz4770]

@@elegance1717: It's also a movie.

[@mtfc105]

OMG OMG OMG - Hill House is literally my favorite book in existence. Followed by every other Shirley Jackson book...

[@mrodbx]

☺️ happy joy joy

[@MartinDSmith]

That pile of books is like an obelisk!If you get through them you are the infant phenomenon (all growed up).I've picked up Titus Groan,it will have to wait till November.I love your outfit,it reminds me of the child's in Dali's surrealist painting The Spectre Of Sex Appeal.❤️

[@hempstockashley1112]

I AM STRUGGLING WITH DEADLINE NOW BUT I CAN'T NOT HELP NEGLECTING IT TO WATCH YOUR VIDEO 😭😭😭

[@ulfasaska5092]

just... ty sm, so so so much

[@vuvifafe70]

I am reading Dracula, very slowly. I started reading it in the beginning of September, so yeah. I'm enjoying it so far.

[@nereamontane9603]

Hurracaine Season is definitely the best book I’ve read this year. I wish everyone could read this in spanish. It’s beyond words.

[@prachikoolwal]

Haunting of the hill house series on Netflix is so scary but by the end it becomes so sad that I can't ----😭 (i wish you could've watched it it's actually pretty good)

[@eoghansweetman217]

I think you’ll love the haunting of hill house; great psychological horror. Also hurricane season is very good, although it is EXTREMELY obscene and disturbing.

[@eoghansweetman217]

Ps. Roger ackroyd is amazing , it’s unputdownable

[@Jenniferdiz535]

Emma I’m praying for you , good luck with FAERIE QUEEN, I really disliked my professor who attempted to teach it and he chose a not so good translation/edition. Have fun with paradise lost loll

[@RoamingTime]

Ya I also have a long list of books I have to read this month that aren't really meeting my spooky specs. So the only books I have added to my list thematically are House of Leaves and a Ann Radcliffe book. I like the sound of the Monk so that might be a stretch goal.

[@IzzyRain]

I’m rereading Great Expectations this month!

[@emmiereads]

ah I cannot wait to reread that one :')

[@converse036]

my (overly ambitious) scary TBR is The Haunting of Hill House, The Amityville Horror, Ghostland, The Only Good Indians, and Pet Semetary!

[@Jess-cv9gi]

I am not a big spooky book person but I picked up The Haunting of Hill House at my local book shop yesterday to maybe scare myself silly this month

[@suzannahdarcy6903]

Good luck with The Fairy Queen. It's a challenge. But you can do it!

[@callukcraft]

the monk is an interesting read from what I remember.

[@niks961]

i'm so excited to see more reading vlogs! my current read is: Patron Saints of Nothing by Randy Ribay and I'm listening to The Great Gatsby on audiobook my tbr is: Norwegian Wood by Haruki Murakami, The Other Boleyn Girl by Philippa Gregory, and I plan to finally finish The Trials of Apollo this month

[@lepotatoes]

I’m currently reading goth by otsuichi. It’s seriously the creepiest story I’ve read in a long time. It’s gory and atmospheric and I’m fascinated by the characters. I would recommend. Happy October everyone 🎃