I really love the way you describe plots of books, I’ve seen so many booktubers read and recommend the same books that I’ve looked passed.. and yet I immediately added multiple books you mentioned to my immediate tbr. You have a gift ❤️ (happy I already know bunny was too weird for me, your disclaimer was perfect)
I just finished Dear Mothman. I picked it because I adore Mothman, and it was on a list for scary middle grade books. It is so good! Be prepared to be more emotional than afraid, but you’ll definitely hold your breath a few times. It’s beautiful and sad and creepy and wondrous. Highly recommend
I read The Only Good Indians on audio last week. Stephen Graham Jones is SUCH a great writer, and this indigenous take on horror is just so good! I am not a fan of gore but I pushed through it for this book because it was just so brilliant, creepy, and profound! I cried at the end... 😭 Highly recommend! 💯💕
This came at the perfect time. Dealing with some health challenges and this is the perfect video to distract me from real life stuff. Love you, Lexi! 🦊❤️❤️
I read The Shining when I was about your age, home alone on a darkening afternoon, sitting in a chair that backed up to nothing but the dining nook and back door. I was so scared I had to move to a different chair that backed up against the wall. I recommend to you a British author, Michelle Paver, title is Dark Matter.
I don’t see many folks talking about this one, but I read “Schrader’s Chord” a few months ago and it is FANTASTIC. If you’ve got an appreciation for music and ghosts, it’s perfect. Five star read and now an auto-buy author for me!
I loved Bloom so much! Definitely a 5-star. All vibes and so beautifully written. Frankenstein is one of my favorites too. I’ll read any retelling of it as well. All of the movies and plays get it so wrong. Definitely adding These Fleeting Shadows to my list! My favorite book of the year so far has been Summer of Night by Dan Simmons. Nostalgic, atmospheric, excellent character development and scene setting, and super creepy!
I read My Best Friend's Exorcism because you raved about it ..and it is now one od my favorite books ever!! ❤ i have read the same 3 that you have. I kind of want to check out Horrorstoor and will definitely chrck out his new one!
👻 My recs: "Horns" or "Heart-Shaped Box" by Joe Hill (really anything by him) "Lisey's Story" and "'Salem's Lot" by Stephen King "Kiss the Girls" by James Patterson Any of the Hannibal books by Thomas Harris.
The Haunting of Hill House is so good! The Shining is my favourite. You’re not supposed to die tonight was so fun, however, I hated the epilogue. When I re-read I’m skipping it.
So proud to have guessed you two authors! 🥰 You'll love the vibes, you'll love the quotes, you might lose your lunch. 😂😂😂 I just love your recommendations... And that background!! I'm in no hurry to see you switch it up for Christmas! 😉 But why didn't you use that beautiful spooky intro this year?! 😢 👻 Don't really have anything to recommend but picked up recommendations! ❤
House of Furies is part of a Trilogy, YA has spooky vibes, haunted house vibes. It kind of reminds me of Rosemary’s Baby. Also, the new Rosemary’s Baby mini series is an excellent modern take on the original! It’s on prime and stars Zoe Saldana.
Oooo I'll have to check House of Furies out!! I've always been a little too scared to read Rosemary's Baby lol is the mini series as scary as the book/ movie???
The mini series is less creepy. Zoe does an amazing job making you feel Exactly what she is going through which can be a little stressful 😂and make you angry!
omggg!! Caitlin I've heard that ones good! And Mora Grant is Seanan McGuire right??? I loveeeee the Every Heart a Doorway series! I should check that one out too!
Loved this video! Just like I love all your videos. Your videos are really such a source of comfort for me. Thank you for the recommendations, they all sound amazing and will definitely be adding them to my TBR. Love you Lexi!
Okay QOTD Answer: : i haven't read many horrors, still a newbie, and most of those horros have been mentioned on this channel, the ones that i dont remember if its mentioned is "Small Spaces" by Katherine Arden, "The Cavendish home for boys and girls" by Claire Legrand, and "Beyond the black door" by A. M. Strickland (not exactly horror, but horror vibes when i read it. 👻 the way you say "Doctor Frankenstien" tho 😂
If you’re looking for something really creepy, I’m re-reading Brian Lumley’s Necroscope series. It’s been a couple of decades since I first read them, but I remember them being pretty scary. Of course, as always happens when I watch your videos, my list of “gotta haves” just increased by a LOT. Thanks a lot. 😉❤👻
Great recommendations, thank you - many I have read and many others are on my TBR list. If you have not read Dracula it is the OG for a good reason. Just read Carmilla this year and I also loved the gothic vibes of Lady Macbeth and dark romance and atmosphere of Hollow Heathens. 👻
Went straight and clicked to buy Rouge. Loved Bunny. My recommendation is M R James. His collected ghost stories contain some of the best horror that still haunt me. Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You is perfection.
My Stephen King rec is It. This was so time consuming but absolutely worth reading. Episode Thirteen is a really good ghost hunter book, even though I'm only halfway through. Still recommend. YA rec: How To Survive Your Murder, not horror exactly, but this has great slasher vibes. And then I love Dracula & Carmilla! Very beautiful vampire stories.
I love Grady Hendrix ❤ love these videos such great recommendations 😊😊😊😊 i live in Maine so Stephen king is my idol ❤ i love the shining butbthen again i love all his books....i did meet him once when i was in middle school it was the moment i started reading his books 👻👻
❤The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates is a dark, atmospheric read. I would also recommend Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand; not only does it have a scary vibe, it focuses on female love and friendships and has asexual and POC rep. Keep up the good work Lexie, Your fellow Swifty.
you might like Dracula's Child by JS Barnes? it's like the unofficial sequel to the original Dracula, making constant references to to it, and i loved it.
I just LOVED Frankenstein! (the book, not the dude. The doctor sucks.) Didn't we name the creature Paul in a live show? ooooh my dad read 11/22/63, I'm definitely interested! OH! And I read both House of Hollow (forgot the twist, lol) and You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight, short YA horror novels are so fun! 🦊👻 (oh and you already recommended all the horror I've read thus far)
I could see myself in These Fleeting Shadows with the Mother/daughter dynamic who hate her mum's toxic family, and aren't in contact with them any more. Then you mentioned a mansion and money, and that's where the similarities ended. 😅
Eyes Guts Throat Bones. This is a short story collection by Moira Fowley, and is a collection of weird sapphic horror. I loved it personally. It is a new favourite. Please look into it
i have 2 recommendations for you! The first is The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, its the first gothic novel ever written. very ghosty, very dramatic! the other is a dark academia I never hear anyone talking about called Madam by Pheobe Wynne
Stephen King is my absolute favourite horror author! I recommend "Gerald's Game", "Misery" and "Thinner". Totally creepy. And often leave me needing to sleep with a light on (at 50 years old!!). 👻
I finished reading The Shining a couple months ago, loved it. I read Frankenstein a couple years ago and wouldn't read it again because it pissed me off how the doctor treated him. I liked Bunny so much that I named my Mexican Black king snake "Bunny." I just finished Belladonna, liked it.
Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud is a spooky little new release novella I think everyone should check out. It's strange, lyrical, and beautifully horrific, with a story that blends the best parts of classic horror and science fiction into an entirely new commentary on how women and mental illness have been historically treated. 👻
If you liked Stephen King's 11/22/63, I recommend Time and Again by Jack Finney - a time travel story set in Manhattan - not a thriller/horror, but it's such a lovely story!
👻 For beginners, I recommend Darcy Coates. Also I hugely recommend her book Where He Can’t Find You, it a YA but it’s got all the right elements of horror.
A book I would like for you to pick up and try are "The Twisted ones by T. Kingfisher"(if you have not gotten to it yet), and the other book(which comes out 2/25/2025) is"Something in the Walls" by Daisy Pearce
👻 Hi Mom! Great book recs! Any book by Jack Ketchum or JD Barker are sure to pull you in and some are more horror, thriller, or supernatural, or all of the above.
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I really love the way you describe plots of books, I’ve seen so many booktubers read and recommend the same books that I’ve looked passed.. and yet I immediately added multiple books you mentioned to my immediate tbr. You have a gift ❤️ (happy I already know bunny was too weird for me, your disclaimer was perfect)
Also I hate that now I feel influenced to read rouge now 😭
Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix is unique but so so good! It’s classic Grady Hendrix meets ikea
I just finished Dear Mothman. I picked it because I adore Mothman, and it was on a list for scary middle grade books. It is so good! Be prepared to be more emotional than afraid, but you’ll definitely hold your breath a few times. It’s beautiful and sad and creepy and wondrous. Highly recommend
I listen to House of Hallow this fall when I went for my evening walks. It was dark out, foggy, so atmospheric. Perfect!
I just finished My Best Friend’s Exorcism yesterday! It was so good I finished it in a day!
👻👻yay for more book recs!! Soon you will be hitting 100k and it's so exciting! Been following your journey since you had like 22k xo
Omgsh no way!! That’s so cool!!!❤❤❤
@alexandraroselyn I'm so happy for you. You have no idea 💕
I read The Only Good Indians on audio last week. Stephen Graham Jones is SUCH a great writer, and this indigenous take on horror is just so good! I am not a fan of gore but I pushed through it for this book because it was just so brilliant, creepy, and profound! I cried at the end... 😭 Highly recommend! 💯💕
My recs 👻
Classic: Hell house by Richard Matheson
2024: I was a teenager slasher
New author: We use to live here
We Used To Live Here! Yes! Truly scary.
@ it should’ve been good reads book of the year but Stephen king fans are relentless
Loved Hell House the movie as a teen. Recently, I read We Used to Live Here. Heard it's being made into a movie. Haven't read I was a Teenage Flasher.
@laurieeyebee Can't wait to see movie We Used to Live Here
Loved movie and book of The Shining!
Thabk you for all these recommendations, Lexi! My fall tbr for next year just got bigger👻👻
Appreciate the Grady representation 😂 2:41
The list wouldn’t be complete without him! 😊
@@alexandraroselyn Yes! We gotta look out for each other 🤝
If you haven’t read The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova, I highly recommend it. It’s one of my favorite books of all time. 🦊🦊
Yes!! Omg I've heard it's so good!! I really have to pick it up soon!!
My dad is weirdly obsessed with that book, he’s read it so many times it’s falling apart.
Agreed I just brought this one in physical copy because I loved it❤
I agree this is one of my favorite books a solid 5. Excellent book.
Yes, The Historian is also one of my favourite books as well!🤗
This came at the perfect time. Dealing with some health challenges and this is the perfect video to distract me from real life stuff. Love you, Lexi! 🦊❤️❤️
Oh no! Hazel I hope everything's okay!
👻 If you haven’t read “Home before dark” by Riley Sager, then you should. It’s a must read, excellent writing I couldn’t put the book down.
I read The Shining when I was about your age, home alone on a darkening afternoon, sitting in a chair that backed up to nothing but the dining nook and back door. I was so scared I had to move to a different chair that backed up against the wall. I recommend to you a British author, Michelle Paver, title is Dark Matter.
👻 great video, will definitely be buying some of these books.
Thank you for the recommendations! My shopping 🛒 on Amazon just got filled! Love you❤❤❤❤❤❤❤❤
you great!
I don’t see many folks talking about this one, but I read “Schrader’s Chord” a few months ago and it is FANTASTIC. If you’ve got an appreciation for music and ghosts, it’s perfect. Five star read and now an auto-buy author for me!
I loved Bloom so much! Definitely a 5-star. All vibes and so beautifully written. Frankenstein is one of my favorites too. I’ll read any retelling of it as well. All of the movies and plays get it so wrong. Definitely adding These Fleeting Shadows to my list! My favorite book of the year so far has been Summer of Night by Dan Simmons. Nostalgic, atmospheric, excellent character development and scene setting, and super creepy!
Love Dan Simmons -- A Winter Haunting is VERY scary.
@ Ooohhh…I will definitely add that one to my list!
OMG surprise surprise 👏
Now i can finally get back to reading after this video, just needed this push !!! ❤❤
hahaha yay!!
Loved this video Lexi and I have read several of these thanks to you. You are the best 👻
Aw thank you Eslie!!
My mom is my best friend too...love the vibes💗
I read My Best Friend's Exorcism because you raved about it ..and it is now one od my favorite books ever!! ❤ i have read the same 3 that you have. I kind of want to check out Horrorstoor and will definitely chrck out his new one!
👻 My recs:
"Horns" or "Heart-Shaped Box" by Joe Hill (really anything by him)
"Lisey's Story" and "'Salem's Lot" by Stephen King
"Kiss the Girls" by James Patterson
Any of the Hannibal books by Thomas Harris.
I just finished Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman and it scared me so much! Highly recommend!
OOOO!!! I really liked his novella! I'll check this out thank you Autumn!!
The Haunting of Hill House is so good! The Shining is my favourite. You’re not supposed to die tonight was so fun, however, I hated the epilogue. When I re-read I’m skipping it.
So proud to have guessed you two authors! 🥰
You'll love the vibes, you'll love the quotes, you might lose your lunch. 😂😂😂
I just love your recommendations... And that background!! I'm in no hurry to see you switch it up for Christmas! 😉
But why didn't you use that beautiful spooky intro this year?! 😢
👻 Don't really have anything to recommend but picked up recommendations! ❤
House of Furies is part of a Trilogy, YA has spooky vibes, haunted house vibes. It kind of reminds me of Rosemary’s Baby.
Also, the new Rosemary’s Baby mini series is an excellent modern take on the original! It’s on prime and stars Zoe Saldana.
Oooo I'll have to check House of Furies out!! I've always been a little too scared to read Rosemary's Baby lol is the mini series as scary as the book/ movie???
The mini series is less creepy. Zoe does an amazing job making you feel Exactly what she is going through which can be a little stressful 😂and make you angry!
Classic horror is my favorite type of classics to read. They are the best 👌🏻
👻 Horrorstor by Grady Hendrix…so good!!!
I now have two books I must buy. Wonderful video!👻👻👻
Yay! Mom cameo!
Are you afraid of the dark.... brilliant ... oh the nostalgia 😊
If you liked "The Shining" you probably would also enjoy his sequel to it "Doctor Sleep". I think it is really good. Thanks.
Silver Nitrate by Silvia Moreno Garcia. That was my top pick last year. Blew me away with it creativeness of 90s cinema horror in Mexico 🇲🇽
Another great spooky read (especially for the summer) is Into the Drowning Deep by Mira Grant! Soooo good! 🦊🦊
omggg!! Caitlin I've heard that ones good! And Mora Grant is Seanan McGuire right??? I loveeeee the Every Heart a Doorway series! I should check that one out too!
I love that one. It’s like Jurassic Park on a boat with killer mermaids. So good!
Loved this video! Just like I love all your videos. Your videos are really such a source of comfort for me. Thank you for the recommendations, they all sound amazing and will definitely be adding them to my TBR. Love you Lexi!
Okay QOTD Answer: : i haven't read many horrors, still a newbie, and most of those horros have been mentioned on this channel, the ones that i dont remember if its mentioned is "Small Spaces" by Katherine Arden, "The Cavendish home for boys and girls" by Claire Legrand, and "Beyond the black door" by A. M. Strickland (not exactly horror, but horror vibes when i read it.
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the way you say "Doctor Frankenstien" tho 😂
My heart is a chainsaw! As a horror movie fan I loved this and all the connections to the classic horror movie.👻
I usually don't like horror. When my older kollegue gave me "IT" i got hooked. I like this list. I want to read "Frankenstein" next.
House of Hollow was omg. One of my favourites of the year!! I was HOOKED.
If you’re looking for something really creepy, I’m re-reading Brian Lumley’s Necroscope series. It’s been a couple of decades since I first read them, but I remember them being pretty scary.
Of course, as always happens when I watch your videos, my list of “gotta haves” just increased by a LOT. Thanks a lot. 😉❤👻
Great recommendations, thank you - many I have read and many others are on my TBR list. If you have not read Dracula it is the OG for a good reason. Just read Carmilla this year and I also loved the gothic vibes of Lady Macbeth and dark romance and atmosphere of Hollow Heathens. 👻
Went straight and clicked to buy Rouge. Loved Bunny. My recommendation is M R James. His collected ghost stories contain some of the best horror that still haunt me. Oh Whistle and I’ll Come to You is perfection.
Always Love your videos😍👻
Aw thank you! 😊❤️
OMG! Love n Academy for Liars one of my favorite books 🎄🎄❤️❤️❤️🎄💚💚🎁❤️❤️🎄🎁🎁💚🎁📚📚📙📙📖📖📚📚📙📖📖📙📚📚📙📖📖💚🎁🎄❤️🎄🎁🎁🎁🎄❤️❤️🎄🎁🎁📚📚📚📙📖💚🎁
I may have laughed out loud when you said „you might loose your lunch“ 🤣
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hahaha!
Darcy Coates is the right vibe to freak me right out
Love all these recs! and love the mom cameo. How fun would it be to do a buddy read with your mom and get her opinion on the books! 👻
omg I would LOVEEE that! Maybe at some point I can convince her or my dad to do a buddy read with me for the channel lol.
@ a family buddy read would be everything
Love the vid! ❤👻
My Stephen King rec is It. This was so time consuming but absolutely worth reading.
Episode Thirteen is a really good ghost hunter book, even though I'm only halfway through. Still recommend.
YA rec: How To Survive Your Murder, not horror exactly, but this has great slasher vibes.
And then I love Dracula & Carmilla! Very beautiful vampire stories.
My favs this year was Daisy Darker and Diavola! Both SO good!
I love Grady Hendrix ❤ love these videos such great recommendations 😊😊😊😊 i live in Maine so Stephen king is my idol ❤ i love the shining butbthen again i love all his books....i did meet him once when i was in middle school it was the moment i started reading his books 👻👻
A new cosy video from Lexi is the perfect birthday gift for me.
Omgsh!! HAPPY HAPPY BIRTHDAY!!! 🎉❤❤❤
@@alexandraroselyn Awww thank you so much ♥♥💚💚
👻 Have you read the Small Spaces series by Katherine Arden? I read the first one and it was creepy! I want to pick up the others!
Definitely check out anything by Camilla Sten! The Lost Village is more horror, but the Resting Place leans more mystery/thriller
Okay really random but I am loving that mug you have, where can we get it?
You NEED to read "Look Again" by Lisa Scottoline! That book was so difficult to put down and it made my heart pound.
👻 great video!
❤The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates is a dark, atmospheric read.
I would also recommend Sawkill Girls by Claire Legrand; not only does it have a scary vibe, it focuses on female love and friendships and has asexual and POC rep.
Keep up the good work Lexie,
Your fellow Swifty.
you might like Dracula's Child by JS Barnes? it's like the unofficial sequel to the original Dracula, making constant references to to it, and i loved it.
I just LOVED Frankenstein! (the book, not the dude. The doctor sucks.) Didn't we name the creature Paul in a live show? ooooh my dad read 11/22/63, I'm definitely interested! OH! And I read both House of Hollow (forgot the twist, lol) and You're Not Supposed to Die Tonight, short YA horror novels are so fun! 🦊👻 (oh and you already recommended all the horror I've read thus far)
👻 I will try Frankenstein again lol. The Shining is on my TBR.
Frankenstein, classic Freudian Uterus envy 😂
👻👻👻 another great list!!
Lexi you HAVE to pick up The Witching by Alexis Hendersen! Its soooo good
Omg agreedddd! I bought it for my kindle so hopefully I can get to it soon!!
Thanks so much for making my book 📕 list even bigger miss teach hear is your apple 🍏 to say thanks 🙏 xx
I could see myself in These Fleeting Shadows with the Mother/daughter dynamic who hate her mum's toxic family, and aren't in contact with them any more. Then you mentioned a mansion and money, and that's where the similarities ended. 😅
The intro! Hahaha ❤
Eyes Guts Throat Bones.
This is a short story collection by Moira Fowley, and is a collection of weird sapphic horror. I loved it personally. It is a new favourite. Please look into it
👻 I don‘t know if you read Cackle, but it is pretty spooky / witchy & it is one of my all time favourite books.
11/22/63 is one of the best books i've ever read as well. so good!
Bloom was crazy but I loved it! Also loved Graveyard Shift. I'm hooked on novellas!
🤮 👻 I'm reading An Academy for Liars now and really into it.
i have 2 recommendations for you! The first is The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole, its the first gothic novel ever written. very ghosty, very dramatic! the other is a dark academia I never hear anyone talking about called Madam by Pheobe Wynne
I love Dean Koontz and if you never read him try The Bad Place or Phantoms
The Whisper Man by Alex North…. I was so creeped out by this book.
Stephen King is my absolute favourite horror author! I recommend "Gerald's Game", "Misery" and "Thinner". Totally creepy. And often leave me needing to sleep with a light on (at 50 years old!!). 👻
My recommendation: Incidents around the house 👻
Ooo, I'm currently reading to break a covenant by Alison Ames. I think you'd really like it Lexi!
ooo okay!! I'll write that down thank you!!
I finished reading The Shining a couple months ago, loved it. I read Frankenstein a couple years ago and wouldn't read it again because it pissed me off how the doctor treated him. I liked Bunny so much that I named my Mexican Black king snake "Bunny." I just finished Belladonna, liked it.
Luv that your snakes name is Bunny!🥰
I recommend the House Across the Lake by Riley Sager 👻
Crypt of the Moon Spider by Nathan Ballingrud is a spooky little new release novella I think everyone should check out. It's strange, lyrical, and beautifully horrific, with a story that blends the best parts of classic horror and science fiction into an entirely new commentary on how women and mental illness have been historically treated. 👻
When you said you have two faves I immediately said "it's going to be Grady Hendrix & Neil Gaiman" haha so close!
Oh I love Neil Gaiman too!! I’d def recommend his middle grade horror to anyone!!
If you liked Stephen King's 11/22/63, I recommend Time and Again by Jack Finney - a time travel story set in Manhattan - not a thriller/horror, but it's such a lovely story!
Dead of Winter- Darcy Coates. 👻👻 its incredible
I recommend Incidents Around the House
Jumping in with another comment, I honestly thought the stand was the best of Stephen King but I have pet cemetery on my TBR.
I like the haunted house book Looks good 👻
Um, did I get all of my TBR list from you?
13:43 tell ‘em Lexi. Team Creature all the way
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For beginners, I recommend Darcy Coates.
Also I hugely recommend her book Where He Can’t Find You, it a YA but it’s got all the right elements of horror.
I recommend Needful Things by Stephen King for you to read. 👍🏾
I want to read An Academy for Liars so badly
A book I would like for you to pick up and try are "The Twisted ones by T. Kingfisher"(if you have not gotten to it yet), and the other book(which comes out 2/25/2025) is"Something in the Walls" by Daisy Pearce
👻I actually got a bit scared just listening to what those books were about😅 I’ll definitaly be reading Frankenstein and These fleeting shadows😱
Vou ler Bunny, parece bom, obrigada pela dica. Um abraço do Brasil.
Rouge was super creepy and odd!! 👻
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Hi Mom!
Great book recs!
Any book by Jack Ketchum or JD Barker are sure to pull you in and some are more horror, thriller, or supernatural, or all of the above.
If you liked my lovely wife, you MUST read 1. My husband by Maud Venture and 2. Never lie by Freida McFadden
Swimsuit by James Patterson and Maxine Paetro - scary serial killer thriller