Summer Scares Resources

Click here to immediately access the Summer Scares Resource page so that you can add some professionally vetted horror titles into your reading suggestions and fiction collections for all age levels.

Summer Scares Resource Page [March 3, 2026]

Summer Scares logo. A haunted book with an eye in the middle, a mouth full of teeth with a tentacle like tongue. Popping out of the box is an evil clown, another tentacle, a skeleton hand, a ghost, and a werewolf hand. The words to the right of the image say-- Summer Scares. In partnership with the Horror Writers Association in partnership with (and these are with their logos) Booklist, iREAD, NoveList and BookRiot

This is the resource page for the 2026 Summer Scares program. Please visit the Summer Scares Archive for access to the resources and titles from 2019-2025 here.

The 2026 Summer Scares Programming Guide is available for free here.

It includes information on each title, readalikes, program ideas, book discussion questions and more. Basically if you want to use these titles for your summer reading plans, this guide has everything you need.

Please click here for access to our free folder of graphics including title collages courtesy of Kelly Jensen.

The 2026 Adult selections are:


A Botanical Daughter, by Noah Medlock (Titan, 2024) 

Never Whistle at Night, ed. Shane Hawk & Theodore C. Van Alst (Vintage, 2023)

Maeve Fly, by CJ Leede (Tor Nightfire, 2023)



The 2026 Young Adult selections are:


What We Harvest, by Ann Fraistat (Delacorte Press, 2022) 

Gorgeous Gruesome Faces, by Linda Cheng (Roaring Brook Press, 2023) 

Our Shadows Have Claws, ed. Yamile Saied Méndez & Amparo Ortiz (Little, Brown Books for Young Readers, 2022)  


The 2026 Middle Grade selections are:


Garlic and the Vampire, by Bree Paulsen (Harper, 2021) 

It Came from the Trees, by Ally Russell (Delacorte Press, 2023)  

This Appearing House, by Ally Malinenko (Harper, 2022)


Watch the authors talk about their books, horror, and libraries via our Free Booklist Webinars:

  • Thursday, March 12, 2026, at 2pm Eastern, featuring our Middle-Grade authors and moderated by Julia Smith. Click here to register.
  • Monday, March 23, 2026, at 2pm Eastern, featuring our Young Adult authors and moderated by Kelly Jensen. Click here to register.
  • Thursday, March 26, 2026, at 2pm Eastern, featuring our Adult authors and moderated by Jennifer McMahon. Click here to register.
.Recordings will be available for on demand viewing after the live events at https://www.booklistonline.com/webinars-archive.

More information will be posted here as it becomes available.

2 comments:

  1. AnonymousJune 6, 2019 at 1:47 PM

    Becky, are there going to be official graphic-y things to play with, or should I just go play with Canva?

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    1. BeckyFebruary 11, 2026 at 2:50 PM

      Each year, we make a graphics folder available. Use the archive (in the right gutter under "Pages" to access that)

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