In the first episode of Let's Get Lit, ACLS staff recommend spooky titles just in time for Halloween!

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🔥TITLES (IN ORDER BY MENTION)🔥
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: https://shorturl.at/jrsHR

Something is Killing the Children by James Tynion IV and Werther Dell'Edera
Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/series/something-is-killing-the-children/4706654818/titles
Catalog: https://shorturl.at/azABX

The Graveyard Book by Neil Gaiman: https://shorturl.at/jlS69

Lincoln in the Bardo by George Saunders: https://shorturl.at/bgHS0

Stephen King Titles:
If It Bleeds: https://shorturl.at/lBC89
Different Seasons: https://shorturl.at/gBCHW
Full Dark No Stars: https://shorturl.at/mxA79

Zodiac
Kanopy: https://alleganycounty.kanopy.com/product/zodiac-0
Catalog: https://shorturl.at/eyBQ9

I’ll Be Gone in the Dark by Michelle McNamara: https://shorturl.at/gBLV1

Ruth Ware titles:
Turn of the Key: https://shorturl.at/uDHI9
One by One: https://shorturl.at/dBITX
In a Dark, Dark Wood: https://shorturl.at/qKRW8

The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova: https://shorturl.at/iwzKZ

The Lovely Bones by Alice Sebold (book & movie): https://shorturl.at/cfF68

The End of October by Lawrence Wright: https://shorturl.at/iyFMS

World War Z by Max Brooks (book & movie): https://shorturl.at/bopLU

Chanel Cleeton titles: https://shorturl.at/hAX15

They Went Left by Monica Hesse: https://shorturl.at/ceu47

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman: https://shorturl.at/uRV27

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman: https://shorturl.at/ilMQT

Shadows in Death by J.D. Robb: https://shorturl.at/kGJS1

Troubled Blood by Robert Galbraith: https://shorturl.at/rFLM5

Camino Winds by John Grisham: https://shorturl.at/dflBQ

Fair Warning by Micheal Connelly: https://shorturl.at/esOTZ

The Law of Innocence by Micheal Connelly: https://shorturl.at/jvyFL

All the Devils are Here by Louise Penny: https://shorturl.at/guBQ8

All that Glitters by Danielle Steel: https://shorturl.at/dmzY2

Troubles in Paradise by Elin Hilderbrand: https://shorturl.at/hWY13

The Evening and the Morning by Ken Follett: https://shorturl.at/iuA19

The Book of Two Ways by Jodi Picoult: https://shorturl.at/inHMV

The Midnight Library by Matt Haig: https://shorturl.at/fxAR1

Harrow the Ninth by Tamsyn Muir: https://shorturl.at/jCFIM


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Spooky Titles

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🔥TITLES (IN ORDER BY MENTION)🔥
The Castle on Sunset by Shawn Levy: https://tinyurl.com/y5d2x5vx

The Splendid and the Vile : a saga of Churchill, family, and defiance during the Blitz by Erik Larson: https://tinyurl.com/y4q9qkq9
Devil in the White City : murder, magic, and madness at the fair that changed America by Erik Larson: https://tinyurl.com/y3e7jv4a

Stamped From the Beginning by Ibram X. Kendi: https://tinyurl.com/y6pjzrl4
Audio on Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11812946
Stamped by Jason Reynolds: https://tinyurl.com/y5vs5xmt
Stamped book discussions: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLYEHZVMCUkfS2QTcyKUGbDgSZvmD1T92N

The Fire This Time : a new generation speaks about race: https://tinyurl.com/y2b395rv
Audio on Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13520676

The Five : the untold lives of the women killed by Jack the Ripper by Hallie Rubenhold: https://tinyurl.com/y3572g3k
eVersions on Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/artist/260689675

From Hell by Alan Moore, illustrated by Eddie Campbell: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11342575

Killing Crazy Horse: the merciless Indian wars in America by Bill O'Reilly: https://tinyurl.com/yy6397n7

Killers of the Flower Moon: the Osage murders and the birth of the FBI by David Grann: https://tinyurl.com/yxfmyud7

The Rise and Fall of the Dinosaurs : a new history of a lost world by Stephen Brusatte: https://tinyurl.com/y4o6kef5

You Never Forget Your First : a biography of George Washington by Alexis Coe: https://tinyurl.com/y2d6krnt

Grant by Ron Chernow: https://tinyurl.com/y3rzssyf

Personal Memoirs of Ulysses S. Grant: https://tinyurl.com/y66gw53k
eVersions on Hoopla: https://tinyurl.com/yy4xy765

Memorial Drive : a daughter's memoir by Natasha Trethewey: https://tinyurl.com/y2swdpso

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Nonfiction Recommendations

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🔥TITLES (IN ORDER BY MENTION)🔥
Cemetery Boys by Aiden Thomas: https://tinyurl.com/y3kj6v9x

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman: https://tinyurl.com/y54ke643

The Ancestor by Danielle Trussoni: https://tinyurl.com/y6f9eaao

The Hollow Places by T. Kingfisher: https://tinyurl.com/y3a2rd4t

The New World by Aleš Kot & Tradd Moore: https://tinyurl.com/y4llm9hq
eBook on Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12298400

Silver Surfer Black by Donny Cates & Tradd Moore: https://tinyurl.com/yxz5ex4f
eBook on Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13295242

Hamnet by Maggie O'Farrell: https://tinyurl.com/y4cfuggr

Alma Katsu's books: https://tinyurl.com/y3px62mu
The Deep
The Hunger

This Isn't Happening: Radiohead's "Kid A" and the Beginning of the 21st Century by Steven Hyden: (give us a call to order through our Marina system)

The Orphan Collector by Ellen Marie Wiseman: https://tinyurl.com/y2rj2ke4
eBook on Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13306139
 
The Home edit life : the no-guilt guide to owning what you want and organizing everything by Clea Shearer & Joanna Teplin: https://tinyurl.com/y6qo5pjf

Anxious People by Fredrik Backman: https://tinyurl.com/y3k64lnb

Emma (2020): https://tinyurl.com/y6eez9ha

A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik: https://tinyurl.com/y2z5vcc8

Keep your eyes out for:
This Time Next Year by Sophie Cousens
Pretty Little Wife by Darby Kane (releasing in December)
These Violent Delights by Chloe Gong

The Once and Future Witches by Alix E. Harrow: https://tinyurl.com/y3ffmpdr

Plain Bad Heroines by Emily M. Danforth: https://tinyurl.com/y287l53a

Unspeakable Things by Jess Lourey: https://tinyurl.com/yxz38t3r

Network Effect by Martha Wells: https://tinyurl.com/yxae5kqd

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New & Noteworthy Titles

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🔥TITLES (IN ORDER BY MENTION)🔥
Marley by Jon Clinch: https://tinyurl.com/yy2ccfqk

The Noel Letters by Richard Paul Evans: https://tinyurl.com/y6gv6jjn

In a Holidaze by Christina Lauren: https://tinyurl.com/y5ornlaa

The Long Kiss Goodnight (call to have staff order through ILL)

Kiss Kiss Bang Bang: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13529788

The Afterlife of Holly Chase by Cynthia Hand: https://www.hoopladigital.com/search?scope=everything&q=The%20Afterlife%20of%20Holly%20Chase

A Christmas Carol by Charles Dickens: https://tinyurl.com/y4w4glpz
Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/search?page=1&q=a+christmas+carol&scope=everything&type=direct

Anna and the Apocalypse: https://tinyurl.com/y4f74l7u

Lost by Gregory Maguire: https://tinyurl.com/y2t6uqo3

The Golfer's Carol by Robert Bailey (keep an eye out for it!) 

A Christmas Date by Camilla Isley: https://tinyurl.com/y5gxp6nd

Black Christmas (1974): https://www.kanopy.com/product/black-christmas

A Christmas Carol Movies:
Disney's A Christmas Carol (2010): https://tinyurl.com/y2zhqjt9
Mickey's Christmas Carol (1983): https://tinyurl.com/y64hlkos
The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992): https://tinyurl.com/y2fxsk9e
TNT's A Christmas Carol (1999): https://tinyurl.com/y378egtb
Christmas Carol (1984): https://tinyurl.com/y2vtxmkg
Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol (1938): https://tinyurl.com/y2x7fak2

Frosty the Snowman: https://tinyurl.com/y63rt9jr
A Christmas Story: https://tinyurl.com/yyjjvsly
It's a Wonderful Life: https://tinyurl.com/yyw9ko5t
Miracle on 34th Street: https://tinyurl.com/y3hdlmln
The Year Without a Santa Claus: https://tinyurl.com/y2tm9pp8
The Mistle-Tones (on Freeform & Disney+)

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Christmas Time Recommendations

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🔥TITLES (IN ORDER BY MENTION)🔥
Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire - https://tinyurl.com/yd4hhsy8
Series audiobooks on Hoopla - https://www.hoopladigital.com/series/wayward-children/2341984426/titles

Isola by Brenden Fletcher - https://www.hoopladigital.com/search?page=1&q=isola&scope=everything&type=direct

Practical Magic by Alice Hoffman - https://tinyurl.com/y85b4brm
Hoopla - https://tinyurl.com/yartc78r

The World That We Knew by Alice Hoffman - https://tinyurl.com/y9vrymp5

C.S. Lewis’ works - https://tinyurl.com/yabjo27f 
Out of the Silent Planet - https://tinyurl.com/y9za2y79
Hoopla - https://tinyurl.com/yakvyx7j
Till We Have Faces - https://tinyurl.com/y8uaohdz
Hoopla - https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12457550

Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkien - https://tinyurl.com/ybe76kka
Hoopla - https://tinyurl.com/yant2ecu 
Lord of the Rings animated classic - https://tinyurl.com/ybqljo4f

Madeline Miller’s works - https://tinyurl.com/yce5sexf
The Song of Achilles
Circe
Hoopla - https://www.hoopladigital.com/artist/2960726589

Snapdragon by Kat Leyh - https://tinyurl.com/yb3sf4gb

The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates  - https://tinyurl.com/ybujsvej

Gregory Maguire’s works - https://tinyurl.com/y84yj58b
On Hoopla - https://tinyurl.com/y858qp97
Works mentioned:
 Wicked
Son of a Witch
A Lion Among Men
Out of Oz
Mirror Mirror
Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister

Ring Shout by  P. Djeli Clark - currently on Overdrive/Libby - https://tinyurl.com/y7nap5c6

Kat Howard's works
An Unkindness of Magicians - https://tinyurl.com/yal2zm3c
A Cathedral of Myth and Bone (audio) - https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13556727
Roses & Rot (audio) - https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12209344

Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke - https://tinyurl.com/y9fllyg5

Witch Hat Atelier series by Kamome Shirahama  - https://tinyurl.com/y9xc6tkc

Strange the Dreamer by Lani Taylor - https://tinyurl.com/y8es7poe

Lone Wolf and Cub by Kazuo Koike - https://tinyurl.com/ya5v75m8

Once Upon a River by Diane Setterfield - https://tinyurl.com/yajfo4uz

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Fantastical Finds

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🔥TITLES (IN ORDER BY MENTION)🔥
The Big Goodbye: Chinatown and the last years of Hollywood by Sam Wasson: https://tinyurl.com/y4tsnfbm

Say Nothing: a true story of murder and memory in Northern Ireland by Patrick Radden Keefe: https://tinyurl.com/y6phmxwu

Wolf Hall series by Hilary Mantel
1. Wolf Hall: https://tinyurl.com/y3c2oj53
2. Bring Up the Bodies: https://tinyurl.com/yy6wwt9n
3. The Mirror and the Light: https://tinyurl.com/y67j8wsw
Audios on Hoopla: https://www.hoopladigital.com/artist/18518078

The Weight of Lies by Emily Carpenter: https://tinyurl.com/y2w6x9jx

The Vanishing Half by Brit Bennett: https://tinyurl.com/y2qsvxdx

The Exiles by Christina Baker Kline: https://tinyurl.com/y598742y

American Dirt by Jeanine Cummins: https://tinyurl.com/y47eswye

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell: https://tinyurl.com/y6aocnvq

Better Call Saul: https://tinyurl.com/y3cd4dwn
season 5: https://tinyurl.com/y6cvpgwa

How to be a Good Creature: a memoir in thirteen animals by Sy Montgomery: https://tinyurl.com/yxfdw6t5
Audio on Hoopla: https://tinyurl.com/y2e9yas4

The Lodge (2020): https://tinyurl.com/y3h42ntm

Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: https://tinyurl.com/yyeextaw

When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole: https://tinyurl.com/y5da98nx

The Guest List by Lucy Foley: https://tinyurl.com/y494xvlv

Nausicaa Valley of the Wind by Hayao Miyazaki: https://tinyurl.com/y37cmf45

The Nice Guys (2016): https://tinyurl.com/yyt6llg6

Jesus and John Wayne : how white evangelicals corrupted a faith and fractured a nation by Kristin Kobes Du Mez: https://tinyurl.com/y32umjcc

Winds of Winter (unconfirmed release)

Later by Stephen King (March 2, 2021) place a hold: https://tinyurl.com/yxvjmt4r

Hidden Valley Road : inside the mind of an American family by Robert Kolker: https://tinyurl.com/y2m3t7t8

Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff (September 7, 2021)

A Lesson in Vengeance by Victoria Lee (August 3, 2021)

The Prophets by Robert Jones Jr. : https://tinyurl.com/y2bhqav3

The Rose Code by Kate Quinn (March 3, 2021) place a hold: https://tinyurl.com/y52jz5kv

The Women of Chateau Lafayette by Stephanie Dray (March 30, 2021) place a hold: https://tinyurl.com/y2384mm7

The Sunflower Sisters by Martha Hall Kelly (March 30, 2021) place a hold: https://tinyurl.com/yxr7hxzv

Eternal by Lisa Scottoline (March 23, 2021) place a hold: https://tinyurl.com/y3vtec56

Moonstruck (1987): https://tinyurl.com/y5o4746z

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Best and Worst of 2020

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🔥TITLES (IN ORDER BY MENTION)🔥
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid: https://tinyurl.com/y5yxkm5f

Mulholland Drive (2001): https://tinyurl.com/y4bosk49

Magic Lessons by Alice Hoffman: https://tinyurl.com/y66utvuw

The Crucible by Arthur Miller: https://tinyurl.com/y4sot5ax
Hoopla audiobook: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/12396502

Catherine House by Elisabeth Thomas: https://tinyurl.com/y2obzshx

Rumors - Fleetwood Mac: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/10887474

Back to Black - Amy Winehouse: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/11373818

Blood on the Tracks - Bob Dylan: available through Marina; give us a call to place a hold

Laura Dean Keeps Breaking Up With Me by Mariko Tamaki: https://tinyurl.com/y6mhdxzo

Memorial Drive by Natasha Trtheway: https://tinyurl.com/y2p86awh

Shake the Devil Off by Ethan Brown: https://tinyurl.com/yx8plu88

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo: https://tinyurl.com/yy28trzf

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (2004): https://tinyurl.com/y3djmycu

Blue Valentine: available through Marina; give us a call to place a hold

My Dark Vanessa by Kate Elizabeth Russell: https://tinyurl.com/y6aocnvq

Mine by Courtney Cole: https://tinyurl.com/y22hkhnj


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Caught in a Bad Romance

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🔥TITLES (IN ORDER BY MENTION)🔥
Storm of the Century by Stephen King: https://tinyurl.com/aclsgetlit
Movie: https://tinyurl.com/14h5zvhu

The Shining by Stephen King: https://tinyurl.com/2qyky2me
Movie: https://tinyurl.com/4r98d8f7

Doctor Sleep by Stephen King: https://tinyurl.com/3sx5r6o3
Show: https://tinyurl.com/fvt2girw

No Exit by Taylor Adams: https://tinyurl.com/1weybvna

Bear Town by Fredrik Backman: https://tinyurl.com/d55k62e0

The Terror by Dan Simmons: https://tinyurl.com/243mcvpy
Show: https://tinyurl.com/1x7cbaip

The Abominable by Dan Simmons: https://tinyurl.com/1icoseix

Calvin & Hobbes by Bill Watterson: https://tinyurl.com/536us4n3

Between Shades of Gray by Ruta Sepetys: https://tinyurl.com/4vukugpo
Ashes in the Snow (movie adaptation): https://tinyurl.com/3ffrs099

Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher: https://tinyurl.com/3dmpcvtw

Into the Wild by Jon Krakauer: https://tinyurl.com/1u8md7k6
Movie: https://tinyurl.com/1w75hz8m

Into Thin Air by Jon Krakauer: https://tinyurl.com/nzlfoygj

Sara by Garth Ennis: https://www.hoopladigital.com/title/13797131

Shadow and Bone by Leigh Bardugo: https://tinyurl.com/3gxm38ow

Cold Mountain by Charles Frazier: https://tinyurl.com/1vltp1t6
Movie: https://tinyurl.com/4zeagftr

Snowpiercer (2014): https://tinyurl.com/ymbse4lw


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