The Most Superb Books for Fall and Halloween

This book has a bit of a mysterious vibe to it. It follows a circus that comes without announcement and leaves like it was never there. This circus is like one no one has ever seen, leaving many bitter and perplexed when it is suddenly gone. While visitors are enthralled with the circus the performers are having their own competition of who is the better performer. However, this isn’t some normal, playful competition, it could be life or death.

In a world where magic and darkness is everywhere, these books follow Alina and her best friend Mal. They grew up in an orphanage together and have been inseparable ever since day one. They have learned about the Grisha, those with special magical powers, and have been taught about legends that are truly remarkable. Legends that everyone worships as gods. But for 2 teenagers it was never imaginable that one of them would turn out to be one of those gods.

Witchcraft is written in the walls of Dalloway school, but it is not a thing to practice anymore. Not after things went awry in previous years and now the school is haunted, not after Felicity Morrow’s girlfriend died a tragic death. Felicity is back to school to finish her senior year, having controlled her darkness, leaving the past in the past. However, new student Ellis Haley, won’t let Felicity leave it be.  

5 years ago there was a murder in Pippa Fitz-Amobi’s small town. The case is solved, closed and stored away, Sal Singh having killed his girlfriend, Andie Bell. But, when Pip chooses to dive into this case as her final year school project, she starts to wonder if that’s what actually happened. As she uncovers secrets that don’t add up to the conclusion that is written in the file and the news. 

As a Scooby Doo retelling, this book follows a group of teenagers and their dog after they have grown up and grown out of their detective ways. After high school they all went their separate ways and all are living lives they weren’t expecting. For 13 years, Andy has been going over and over that last case in 1977, having this notion that they missed something; until that notion becomes concrete evidence. He then rallys up the gang one more time to see if it was really just a man in a mask.

In 1926, Evie O’Neill’s parents have had enough of her partying and bad girl ways, so they send her to New York to live with her uncle, who is part of the occult. As someone who has hidden supernatural powers, Evie is worried that her uncle will find out,. But that is her only worry about going to New York. Evie is ecstatic to be in New York, the central for speakeasies and pickpockets. However, when a girl is murdered and her uncle is called to help and brings her along, she realizes that her powers can actually help catch a very dark and dangerous entity. 

This series follows Stevie, who is a true crime enthusiast and aspiring detective. She gets accepted into a special school, Ellingham Academy, for the best thinkers, inventors and artists. Going into her first year, Stevie knows of the mystery leering over the academy, the founder and his daughter being kidnapped and never found. She is determined to solve this cold case but she doesn’t know how deep and challenging this mystery actually goes.