13 Halloween Reads!

Hellooooo! It is a week till Halloween so I am here today with 13 halloween reads. They may not be scary but they have a spooky vibe to them I'm not to give much away about these as it may ruin them and some of them I haven't read too :)

• Dracula, Bram Stoker. Introducing Count Dracula!

• The Legend of Sleepy Hollow, Washington Irving. The headless horseman.

• The Women in Black, Susan Hill. An old creepy house all alone on the marshes, isolated by the tide.

• The Women in White, Wilkie Collins. Ghost!

• Edgar Allan Poe, many poems and short stories with dark undertones. The word atmospheric comes to mind with him.

• Inferno, Dante. 14th Century journey into hell.

• Dr Jekyll and Mr Hyde, Robert Louis Stevenson.

• Unrest, Michele Harrison. Haunted houses, mystery and bodies taken over by spirits. (this 1 creeped me out!)

• Frankenstein, Mary Shelley. Its alive!

• Miss Peregrine's Home for Peculiar Children, Ransom Riggs. Time travel and monsters.

• Hollow City, Ransom Riggs. More time travel and monsters. (sequel to the above)

• The Miniaturist, Jessie Burton. Amsterdam, 1686. A dolls house that's seems linked to the  household in mysterious ways.

So why not give 1 or 2 of these a go? Let me know what you think if you do!

Speak soon,

Jade xx

My Summer TBR!

It is officially summer! (even though I've been off school for months but that's  besides the point) Because I'm going  into the dreaded land of English lit. A-level once again where I have no time to read, I am taking this free time to read a ton! I've compiled a list of mainly classics to read during the summer for when I'm not taking part in readathons. And I thought I'd share them with you! (especially since it will make me go through with it) I'm not going to put blurbs or anything because there are quite a few and I don't want this post to be super long. :)

• Jane Eyre, Charlotte Bronte (re-read for school)
• A Streetcar Named Desire, Tennessee Williams (school) 
• Mean Times, Carol Ann Duffy (school)
• A Room with a View, E.M.Forster (school)
• All The Light We Cannot See, Anthony Doerr
• Emma, Jane Austen
• Little Women, Louisa May Alcott
• Wuthering Heights, Emily Bronte
• Villette, Charlotte Bronte
• The Tenant at Wildfell Hall, Anne Bronte
• Dracula, Bram Stoker
• Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy
• Mansfield Park, Jane Austen
• Sense and Sensibility, Jane Austen
• Little Dorrit, Charles Dickens (this is my challenge read this year!)

So only a couple as you can see ;) I want to get as much reading done as possible this summer before school and I am excited about all of these so hopefully I can enjoy them all. I will also have other TBRs up for the readathons left this summer that won't include these so I am being very ambitious. What are plans this summer?
Speak soon

Jade xx