Autumn is almost upon us! Fall is my favorite time of year, and it always makes me crave books that are spooky, thrillers, or paranormal (even more so than usual, anyways)!

I have so many unread horror/thriller/paranormal books on my shelves that I knew I wanted to try and work on my backlist as much as possible for the rest of the year, which gave me an idea: why not make a fall-themed TBR jar, just for the next few months?

Then, I had an even better idea… why not make it a seasonal series?

At the end of each season, I’ll be making a TBR jar specifically catered to the following season! I think this will just be such a fun way to help myself work on my backlist, and you guys will get to see what I’ve pulled from the jar at the end of each month.

If you’re interested in watching this all unfold, please follow me on Twitter (@howlinglibrary, or click here), where I’ll be sure to post updates each time I pull a title from the jar throughout the season!

As you can see, I felt it was necessary to procure an appropriately seasonal vessel… (who are we kidding, I’m just going to use this year ’round anyways)

What’s in the Jar?!

I don’t plan for each TBR jar to be nearly this full, but I’m really excited about fall reads, so this first list is pretty hefty!

title color-coding key:
red = horror (including “scary sci-fi”)
blue = thriller
purple = paranormal

1. Adams, John Joseph — By Blood We Live
2. Adams, John Joseph — The Living Dead
3. Adams, John Joseph — Wastelands
4. Adams, John Joseph — What the @#&% is That?
5. Aguirre, Ann — Enclave
6. Ahlborn, Ania — Apart in the Dark
7. Ahlborn, Ania — The Bird Eater
8. Alameda, Courtney — Shutter
9. Balog, Cyn — Alone
10. Barker, Clive — Books of Blood, vol. 1
11. Bishop, Anne — Written in Red
12. Black, Holly — The Coldest Girl in Coldtown
13. Blake, Kendare — Anna Dressed in Blood
14. Bracken, Alexandra — The Dreadful Tale of Prosper Redding
15. Brhel, John — Corpse Cold
16. Brockmeyer, Matthew V. — Kind Nepenthe
17. Burke, Kealan Patrick — Kin
18. Burke, Kealan Patrick — Sour Candy
19. Chupeco, Rin — The Bone Witch
20. Coates, Darcy — Craven Manor
21. Coates, Darcy — Dead Lake
22. Coates, Darcy — The Carrow Haunt
23. Coates, Darcy — The Folcroft Ghosts
24. Coates, Darcy — The House Next Door
25. Cubed, Magen — I Felt Their Teeth in My Bones
26. Cutter, Nick — Little Heaven
27. Cutter, Nick — The Deep
28. Cutter, Nick — The Troop
29. Darnielle, John — Universal Harvester
30. Datlow, Ellen — The Doll Collection
31. Ernshaw, Shea — The Wicked Deep
32. Flynn, Gillian — Dark Places
33. Flynn, Gillian — Sharp Objects
34. Gaiman, Neil — The Graveyard Book
35. Garcia, Kami — Beautiful Creatures
36. Grant, Mira — Kingdom of Needle and Bone
37. Grant, Mira — Rolling in the Deep
38. Griffin, Bethany — The Fall
39. Guilin, Peadar O — The Call
40. Hendricks, Greer — An Anonymous Girl
41. Hendrix, Grady — Horrorstor
42. Hendrix, Grady — My Best Friend’s Exorcism
43. Henry, Christina — Alice
44. Henry, Christina — Lost Boy
45. Heuvelt, Thomas Olde — Hex
46. Hill, Joe — NOS4A2
47. Hill, Joe — The Fireman
48. Hill, Joe — Throttle
49. Janz, Jonathan — Children of the Dark
50. Jones, Stephen — Best New Horror, vol. 25
51. Jones, Stephen Graham — Mapping the Interior
52. Kagawa, Julie — The Immortal Rules
53. Khaw, Cassandra — Hammers on Bone
54. King, Stephen — Everything’s Eventual
55. King, Stephen — The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
56. Koontz, Dean — Intensity
57. Krueger, Paul — Last Call at the Nightshade Lounge
58. Kurtagich, Dawn — And the Trees Crept In
59. Laymon, Richard — The Woods are Dark
60. Little, Bentley — The Haunted
61. Little, Bentley — The House
62. Lo, Malinda — A Line in the Dark
63. Lukavics, Amy — Daughters Unto Devils
64. MacLeod, Bracken — Stranded
65. Malerman, Josh — Bird Box
66. Matheson, Richard — Hell House
67. Mead, Richelle — Vampire Academy
68. Monahan, Hillary — The Hollow Girl
69. Moning, Karen Marie — Darkfever
70. Nevill, Adam — Some Will Not Sleep
71. Nevill, Adam — The House of Small Shadows
72. Oakes, Stephanie — The Sacred Lies of Minnow Bly
73. Palahniuk, Chuck — Haunted
74. Pessl, Marisha — Neverworld Wake
75. Pessl, Marisha — Night Film
76. Plum, Amy — Dreamfall
77. Rio, M. L. — If We Were Villains
78. Roux, Madeleine — Asylum
79. Roux, Madeleine — House of Furies
80. Ryan, Carrie — The Forest of Hands and Teeth
81. Schaeffer, Rebecca — Not Even Bones
82. Schwab, Victoria — The Archived
83. Seltzer, David — The Omen
84. Sirowy, Alexandra — The Creeping
85. Slaughter, Karin — Pretty Girls
86. Smith, Ronald L. — The Owls Have Come to Take Us Away
87. Stine, R. L. — Don’t Stay Up Late
88. Stine, R. L. — The Betrayal
89. Stine, R. L. — You May Now Kill the Bride
90. Straub, Peter — Ghost Story
91. Stroud, Jonathan — The Screaming Staircase
92. Thalassa, Laura — Pestilence
93. Tremblay, Paul — The Cabin at the End of the World
94. Verano, M. — The Diary of a Haunting
95. Wallenfels, Stephen — Bad Call
96. Ward, J. R. — Dark Lover
97. Ware, Ruth — The Death of Mrs. Westaway
98. Ware, Ruth — The Woman in Cabin 10
99. Wesolowski, Matt — Six Stories
100. Witherow, Elias — The Black Farm

In case you didn’t know, over on my main “owned TBR” list, I mark off books as I finish them. I’ll be doing that with this list, too, so that at the end, I can look back and see how many I managed to read in that season’s TBR jar!

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