October 2025
October This or That Reading Challenge
An Alliterative Title
Check out these selections!
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
Genre: Crime
Description: When beautiful Amy Dunne disappears from her Missouri home, it looks as if her husband Nick is to blame. But though he protests his innocence, it’s clear that he’s not being entirely truthful. Gone Girl is not only the story of a disappearance, but a truly frightening glimpse of a souring marriage.
Oona Out of Order by Margarita Montimore
Genre: Fiction
Description: As the countdown to the New Year begins, soon-to-be-19 Oona Lockhart faints and awakens 32 years in the future in her 51-year-old body; and, greeted by a friendly stranger in a beautiful house she’s told is her own, Oona learns that with each passing year she will leap to another age at random.
Spinning Silver by Naomi Novik
Genre: Fantasy
Description: Deciding to collect on the outstanding debts owed her family of moneylenders, a young woman is overheard boasting about being able to turn silver into gold by the creatures who haunt the wood, in a reimagining of the Rumpelstiltskin story.
Bird Box by Josh Malerman
Genre: Horror
Description: In an apocalyptic near-future world, a mother and her two small children must make their way down a river, blindfolded. One wrong choice and they will die. And something is following them — but is it man, animal, or monster?
A Book New to You
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You Know What You Did by K.T. Nguyen
Genre: Crime
Description: When her mother, a Vietnam War refugee, dies suddenly, Annie Shaw finds her OCD coming back with a vengeance, and when the investigation zeroes in on her, her mind increasingly fractures and the only thing she knows is this: she will do anything to protect her daughter even if it means losing herself.
Say You’ll Be Mine by Naina Kumar
Genre: Romance
Description: Theater teacher and playwright Meghna Rama, when Seth, her best friend and secret crush, gets engaged to another, agrees to let her parents introduce her to a potential match, engineer Karthik Murthy, who offers her a fake engagement to help her through Seth’s wedding until an undeniable chemistry emerges between them.
The Mayor of Maxwell Street by Avery Cunningham
Genre: Fiction
Description: In 1921 Chicago, Nelly Sawyer, the daughter of the “wealthiest Negro in America,” works undercover to identify the head of an underground crime syndicate with the help of Jay Shorey, the low-level manager of the city’s swankiest speakeasy, who introduces her to a whole new world.
To Gaze Upon Wicked Gods by Molly X. Chang
Genre: Fantasy
Description: Cursed with the power of Death, Ruying, when her Gift is discovered by an enemy prince, is offered an impossible deal: be his private assassin and her family will never suffer harm again, forcing her to decide if saving her family is worth betraying her country.