Book Recs Based on Your Halloween Costume

Halloween is right around the corner! And although it’s going to look different this year, it doesn’t mean we can’t dress up, stay home, and read a book or two to celebrate ;)

Below are 15 book recommendations based on the Halloween costume you’re wearing!

Cowboy - My Calamity Jane by Cynthia Hand, Brodi Ashton, and Jodi Meadows

Cowgirls, comedy, and werewolves? Yes, yes and yes. 

Flapper - The Lost Girl of Astor Street by Stephanie Morrill

An amateur sleuth teams up with a reluctant detective to find her missing best friend in this 1920s mystery.

Mermaid - All the Stars and Teeth by Adalyn Grace

This is the pirate fantasy full of bloody magic, krakens, mermaids you’ve been waiting for ;)

Zombie - Illuminae by Amie Kaufman and Jay Kristoff

Illuminae has it all: lying governments, rogue and murderous AI, and a zombie sickness spreading through spaceships.

Fairy - An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson

A human painter journeys with the faerie lord of autumn to face trial but discovers there’s more at stake than her livelihood. 

Superhero - Dangerous by Shannon Hale

A girl with no right hand joins a space boot camp and finds love, superpowers, and a plot to annihilate earth.

Witch - Bone Crier’s Moon by Kathryn Purdie

A boy who wants revenge on the witches that killed his father and a girl who must woo and kill her lover to keep balance in the world. Two destined to love, to kill, to die.

Knight - The Guinevere Deception by Kiersten White

This magical King Arthur retelling is told from the perspective of an unreliable narrator... Queen Guinevere herself.

Magician - A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E. Schwab

A fast paced fantasy filled with 4 parallel Londons, a boy with a peculiar coat, a girl who just wants an adventure, and a dark and dangerous magic.

Viking - Sky in the Deep by Adrienne Young

A warrior gets caught in the middle of a clan blood feud when she sees something she shouldn’t and gets taken captive.

Ghost - Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia

Ghosts and missing people are normal in this small tourist trap town. But demon-like creatures hell-bent on burning the place to the ground? Not so much.

Princess - Rogue Princess by B.R. Myers

A gender-bent sci-fi Cinderella retelling with a duty bound princess, a peasant thief, space pirates, and a traitor in the palace.

Sailor - Fable by Adrienne Young 

Left to fight for her life on an island, a young dredger must find her way back to her father and finally get what’s owed her.

Archeologist - The Ten Thousand Doors of January by Alix E. Harrow

A lush portal fantasy full of books, doors, artifacts, and a girl set on finding a new world where she belongs.

Robot - Cinder by Marissa Meyer

The first book in a fairytale sci-if retelling series, Cinder follows a cyborg girl destined to be more than just a mechanic.

BONUS: If you are dressing up as a book character, go read that book ;)

Who or what are you dressing up as this year? What book would go along with it? I’d love to hear!

Until next time!

~ K.J. Haakenson