Happy pumpkin spice season! Autumn (or close enough) is here and it’s my favorite season. It’s time to read spooky books, cozy books, and books with monsters, of course. What kind of monsters do you think of? Some of the monsters I know howl at the moon.
- Shiver by Maggie Stiefvater
Genre: YA Fantasy
Average Goodreads Rating: 3.73
For years, Grace has watched the wolves in the woods behind her house and has come to think of the yellow-eyed one as hers. Sam has lived two lives: in winter he’s in the woods with his pack, then he spends summer months as a human until the cold makes him shift again. When Grace meets a yellow-eyed boy, her breath is taken away in familiarity. Now Sam must fight to stay human or lose Grace forever.
- Blood and Chocolate by Annette Curtis Klaus
Genre: YA Fantasy
Average Goodreads Rating: 3.79
At sixteen, Vivian becomes a beautiful werewolf. But her father is dead, and her pack is leaderless and in disarray. Then Vivian falls in love with Aidan, a human who is curious about magic, and she longs to reveal herself to him. And then there’s a murder that threatens to expose the pack.
- Born at Midnight by C.C. Hunter
Genre: YA Fantasy
Average Goodreads Rating: 4.11
After Kylie goes to the wrong party with the wrong people, her mom sends her to a camp for troubled teens: Shadow Falls. But this camp are full of magical creatures learning to contain and control their magic. Kylie doesn’t believe she belongs her but others insist she does. Then enters Derek and Lucas intwining her in a love triangle between fae and werewolf.
- Paranormalcy by Kiersten White
Genre: YA Fantasy
Average Goodreads Rating: 3.88
Evie’s pretty normal. Sure, she works for the International Paranormal Containment Agency, her ex is fae, her crush is a shifter, and she can see through glamour, but she’s normal. Except she might be the center of a prohecy saying she can destroy all paranormal creatures. Evie is so not normal.
- Sisters Red by Jackson Pierce
Genre: YA Fantasy
Average Goodreads Rating: 3.63
Scarlett is a werewolf hunter. Ever since one took her eye when she defended her sister, she is determined to kill them all. Rosie owes Scarlett her life, and as such hunts with her sister, even as it seems the wolves are getting more powerful. Rosie dreams of a life beyond all this, and she finds herself falling for a young huntsman named Silas. But how can she betray her sister?
- Hex Hall by Rachel Hawkins
Genre: YA Fantasy
Average Goodreads Rating: 3.92
Three years ago, Sophie found out she was a witch and there’s been a few bumps in the road. But when a prom spell goes wrong and attracts too much human attention, her dad decides her punishment: exile to Hex Hall, an exile reform school for magical creatures like her. By the end of her first day, she’s earned three powerful enemies, a crush on a warlock, a vampire roommate, and a tagalong ghost. Then, a mysterious predator starts attacking students her friend is the suspect.
- Wolfsong by T.J. Klune
Genre: Fantasy Romance
Average Goodreads Rating: 4.36
Ox was twelve when his dad left him. Ox was sixteen when he met a silent boy on the road. Ox was seventeen when he learned that boy’s secret and he learned of Alpha, Beta, and Omega. Ox was twenty-three when a murder came to town and the boy chased the monster, leaving Ox to pick up the pieces. Three years later, the boy has returned.
- Need by Carrie Jones
Genre: YA Fantasy
Average Goodreads Rating: 3.71
Zara hasn’t been herself since her stepfather died. To help, her mom sends her to Maine to live with her grandmother. But she finds there’s still someone stalking her, leaving trails of gold dust. Something’s not right and the abnormality points to Zara.
- The Wolfman by Nicholas Pekearo
Genre: Werewolf Fiction
Average Goodreads Rating: 3.92
After Marlowe was dishonarably discharged from a tour in Vietnam, he has been living in different towns, in and out of prison. He never stays in one place for long; every full moon he kills someone. In the small town of Evelyn, he makes a friend, one of the town’s two police detectives. There happens to be another serial killer in town, and Marlowe aims to make him his next target, but on the full moon, things go tragically wrong.
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