October 2026

Monthly Themed Reading Lists for Adults

Themed lists curated by your local librarians. Discover and rediscover books in the local collection based on monthly reading themes!

Cursed Stories

Think you know what to expect from a curse? These 12 "cursed" selections may surprise you!

• Camino Ghosts

•  Fantasy Lover

• Dark Witch

• Plain, Bad Heroines

• Cursed Luck

• Curse of Salem

• The Christie Curse

• Persephone's Curse

• LightLark

• Just for the Summer

• The Unraveling of Julia

• The King's Curse

Twisted Tales

It's a tale as old as time...but you've never read this version before!

• The Book of Lost Things

  The Charmed Wife

  The Witch of Maracoor

  A Spindle Splintered

  Spinning Silver

  Order of Swans

  The Witch's Heart

  We Kept Her in the Cellar

  Princess of the Midnight Ball

  The Ancestor

  The Snow Child

  Nettle & Bone