#AuldLangSpine2026

I love this list! I‘ve read and loved a bunch of books on this list! The ones pictured are the ones I‘m going to try and read in January!

I may give one dark window another try. I attempted to read it when it first came out and didn‘t get very far.

Great list Chrissy!

Saw and met Mary Pearson last night! It was a good conversation and can‘t wait to pick up this book and finish this duology.

I won a Goodreads giveaway!! 🎉

This is only the 2nd or 3rd time I‘ve ever won one!

This happened over the weekend! I honestly didn‘t think I was going to make it this year! 🎉🥳

November #bookspin picks! Looking forward to them!!

The tagged book was my favorite read of October. However, I think I liked Fear the Flames more, which made it into the final round.

Didn‘t get a lot of sleep in October apparently! I somehow read 41 books!

Finished in October but it was a #bookspin for August. This is long but I really liked it. And the way it ended, I‘m going to need to pick the next book up!

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Currently obsessed with this series. Finished 3 in October and currently reading the 4th one. This is my first real dark fantasy. I had to realize the MCs can kill and pretty much won‘t go to jail or get caught because it‘s still a Romance.

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I read the first 4 books in this series in October. I love a good succubus story and haven‘t really found one until now. The MC hates that she‘s a demon and just wants to open a bakery. She does but she also has to help 3 higher demons with their energy. Can‘t wait to read the rest!

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Read the first 3 books in this series in October. The MC‘s mom dies and leaves her a house/store in this little town. She also can see ghosts and talk to them. There are all sorts of magical creatures in this town, vampires, werewolves and more. This series is a lot of fun and can‘t wait to pick up the rest.

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Low pick. I liked the first book a lot more! This one is a second chance romance. Caroline can‘t leave the island or she‘ll die in some strange way. Ben has gotten divorced and moves his kids back to the island. Witchy/ghost mysteries. Trying to solve the curse on Caroline‘s family. I felt like the romance kind of took a backseat and then all of a sudden they were together. Like everything was happening off page.

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Loved this! Set in Scotland. Sloane‘s family is cursed and can‘t stay in 1 place for long. They decide to go back to their original home to try and break the curse. The town is pissed because it hasn‘t stopped snowing since they showed up. Knox is a guardian and wants her family out of here but also wants to kiss her. Lots of small town drama, coven drama and just figuring out how to stop running long enough to fall in love.
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This book was great. Edgar sees ghosts and he‘s always terrified he‘s going to see them so he doesn‘t go out. He decides to try to go out and meets Jamie. They start getting to know each other and build a relationship. Jamie builds haunted house attractions and their family sucks. Ghosts, family drama on both sides, and a love story.

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Meh. This was okay. A magical reality tv show like GBBO but with magical spells. It‘s a romance and a mystery when everything starts going wrong. The characters were really annoying to me so I didn‘t really like this one.

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How is it already November?! Here‘s my November #bookspin list!

Opening day! #AHRS #AllHallowsReadSwap

I‘m so excited by the tagged book and intrigued by the other! I really liked Montana when we visited, so excited to pick up a book set there.

Thanks so much for everything!

I do not like zombies but I‘m glad I picked up this book. It‘s got other supernatural creatures besides zombies. There are vampires, witches, trolls, etc. It was really good on audio. The narrator was so good with voices!

#screamteam #litsyatoz #witchathon #trappedinaspookyhouse

Vada is a professional mourner. She gets paid to go to people‘s funerals and finish their last requests. She meets Dominic on her way into town to meet with someone and they have amazing chemistry. 11 months later, turns out it was his mom. His mom leaves her a cottage to fix up and starts haunting her. Dominic is in grief but he‘s SO mean to Vada when she‘s just following his mom‘s wishes.

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This was a quick read. The audio was only about 4 hours. Fake dating, ghosts, hauntings, and fall festival.

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This went out today! Should be there in a couple days! I think I forgot to put my Litsy handle on it!

#AHRS2025

My #ahrs2025 package was delivered yesterday! Can‘t wait for the 31st!

I‘m hoping to get mine out by Tuesday!

#allhallowsreadswap

This was just way too YA for me. Just not for me.

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This was a low pick. The audiobook and story were a bit meh. I wasn‘t trying to find times to listen to it and was a bit bored at times.

I‘ve apparently been reading a lot of cursed family books.

This family is cursed to never fall in love. They either have to ensnare someone to get married or they die at 30. Doreen decides to try and break the curse before her 30th bday.

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This was pretty good. A take on beauty and the beast. Briar‘s dad who is an inventor basically sells her away to get married as an omega to alphas. He did a lot of experimenting on her to keep her “healthy”. She‘s never eaten real food. She used to do ballet but got injured and can no longer perform. She has to navigate her new world and figure out who these 3 guys are to her.

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This might be my favorite book I‘ve read in October so far! I love this author. Harry left her hometown after a matching ceremony when she wasn‘t matched with her high school boyfriend and he was matched with someone else. She has to go back to her hometown to help out her friend‘s daughter, who is in her care. I loved the town, the characters, all of it!

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Bought this one last year but finally got to it this year. Delia‘s family was cursed and say that they‘re witches but no one believes them. Max‘s uncle dies and he has to come and clean up his house, etc. He and his brother decide to keep an eye on Delia‘s family to make sure she doesn‘t break the curse before her 30th birthday. It is a witchy romance.

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Short story about a fallen angel/succubus (I think) who can never be noticed but needs sex to live. His curse can‘t be broken until someone actually sees him. He sneaks into a Halloween party and sees a woman and wants to get closer.

This one was pretty good. These are all quick reads.

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Read this novella/short story by Ali Hazelwood. It was okay. Basically a vampire has been running from a vampire slayer her whole life. He loses his memory, so she decides to help him until he gets his memory back.

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This was my #bookspin for October. It was okay. It‘s one of those books I got randomly and for free in those stock up your kindle deals. Basically set on 2 halloweens, magic spells and finding your fated mates.

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Nice wrap up to the end of the series. I‘ve read a lot of books in October and have not really posted anything.

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Another one I can‘t find in the catalog. It was not great. It starts on Halloween, on a ghost tour in a haunted college. They are “ghost hunters” and decide to stay after hours to search for ghosts. They end up getting spirits attached to them and they have to figure out what‘s going on.

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Randomly picked this up on hoopla. Jeanie‘s aunt gifts her a coffee shop. Jeanie moves from Boston to a small town to run it after she found her boss dead on his desk. She figures out how to make friends, run a coffee shop and most likely fall in love. Grumpy sunshine romance.

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An interesting romance book concept. Nora owns a casket shop in a small town in Alabama. Garrett stumbles into her store asking for directions. Nora is suspicious when he starts showing up at places people have died. It appears Garrett works for death. Nora can‘t accept his job. A lot of grief, death and funeral talk in this book.

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Finished these 4 books in October. They aren‘t in the Litsy catalog as far as I can tell. I‘ve been reading a lot of books on KU the last month or so.

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Finished this one last night. It was spicier than I expected but it was still really good. A lot about healing and learning who you are and want to be. It‘s a bit magical realism with premonitions and dreams. Zane and Autumn meet in Cozy Creek and fall in love. They both have bad exes and baggage and have to work through it.

#hauntedshelf #castthedie #screamteam #trappedinaspookyhouse #bookspinbingo

Ahh! I can‘t wait for the next book to come out. Bristol goes into the fae world to search for her father who she has believed is dead. There‘s some romance and steamy scenes. I loved this book. It was also great on audio.

#hauntedshelf #trappedinaspookyhouse #screamteam

Perfect way to start the spooky season. Clara rents a room in a Victorian house and it‘s possibly haunted. This is an omegaverse book, so of course 4 alphas are her roommates. This was a fun, spicy read.

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My October #bookspin and #doublespin picks! I couldn‘t find my bookspin pick in Litsy, but I didn‘t try too hard to find it!

Finished in September. Set in Key West. Katie goes to make a promotional video of the coast guard. Katie has a lot of negative thoughts about herself, her self worth and her body. She works through that throughout the book while falling for Hutch.

Finished in September. Cowboy romance set in Texas.

Finished in September. Haunted town in Florida with 2 competing haunted guided tours. This is a romance.

My #castthedie picks for October!

October is my birthday month, so I get a free book! #botm

October #bookspin list! I‘m having such a hard time not starting all the spooky books I want to read!!

Went to an author even last night for the tagged book. It was a great conversation between Hafsah and her husband.

Can‘t wait to pick this book up!

#anunlikelystory

I told you I‘m currently obsessed with Elsie Silver! This is the 1st book in this series. I wish I would have read it in July before I went to a rodeo, so I would know some of what was going on! Summer is working as Rhett‘s publicist/babysitter to keep him out of trouble, but they end up falling in love.

Low pick but probably because it‘s very different than all the other books I‘ve been reading lately. I picked it up because it was this month‘s pick for #swordandlaserpodcast.

It‘s a magical mystery series. A different type of magical system. Iz gets hired to solve a mystery and is put into a lot of peril. She works with her husband and there is a dragon in a magical world bag.

The second book in this duology. This was still a fun series. I read it 2 weeks ago so I don‘t remember a lot but enjoyed listening to it.

This one just came out in September! The last book in this series. It‘s an age gap romance. It also has wildfires and lots of yoga.

I love all the characters in this town.