What Books to Read If You’re Staying In on Halloween!

Happy Halloween everyone! Halloween just so happens to be my favorite holiday and I feel like this entire month has been a celebration! I went to the new Oogie Boogie Trick or Treat Bash at Disney’s California Adventure, I went back to Knott’s Scary Farm for the first time in 13 years and had a total blast. I have a Halloween party to go to this weekend and I’ll be going to the last day of Halloween Haunt at Universal Studios. I normally feel like I just don’t do enough for my favorite holiday but that is definitely not true this year!

Today, though, I plan to stay in and kick off my four day weekend. I may curl up with a book – but what should I read? Here are some perfect reads for those who are staying in tonight, just like me!

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Nerd Girl’s Take on Book Riot’s 50 Must-Read Contemporary YA Novels of the 2010s!

Just about a week, Book Riot put out a list of their top fifty must read young adult contemporary novels of the 2010s. It is crazy to me that this kind of list is even a thing – because in just a couple months the decade is over! WHAT! And it makes sense that this is a huge topic because the 2010s were definitely the boom of YA literature. Twilight came out in 2005 and really helped to create what YA is now and I love that this past decade has been full of fantastic young adult literature.

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