We’ve made it to the best reading month of the year! At least, it is in my life. I save up horror and horror-adjacent books all year and marathon them during Halloween month. The theme and time limit mean I typically read way more than usual, especially since I also celebrate Dewey’s 24-Hour Readathon in October.

I have a far too ambitious TBR for the month, but before we get into that, let’s wrap up our September reading. Which books did you read in September, and which 2026 Read Harder Challenge tasks did they check off? What are you planning to read this month?

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All Access members, read on for my September reading wrap-up and my October TBR.

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