What is the Read Like Hell-A-Thon?
It’s an a read a thon in October with a Halloween-Horror-esque theme. This is the first year and we’re feeling out what works! Head to this post for the full directions and prompts!
Make sure to give us a follow as well as the official Instagram for the read a thon – @readlikehellathon and join the Facebook group.
The following is my own personal TBR list for the challenge! IF I get through all of these, I’ll go back and do the remaining non-mandatory prompts, but that may be wishful thinking!
My 2020 Read Like Hell-A-Thon TBR List
Frank-N-Furter
- Prompt: Book with an outer space or alien element
- Book: The Space Between Worlds by Micaiah Johnson Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound | Book of the Month
Edgar Allan Poe
- Prompt: Book with death or dying in the title
- Book: The Death of Vivek Oji Akwaeke Emezi
Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound | Book of the Month
Pennywise
- Prompt: Book featuring your worst (or a major) fear
- Book: Salvation Station by Kathryn Schleich Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound
Norman Bates
- Prompt: Book with hotel/inn as setting
- Book: Havenfall by Sara Holland Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound
The Sanderson Sisters
- Prompt: Book with a black cat on the cover
- Book: Will My Cat Eat My Eyeballs? by Caitlin Doughty Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound
Dracula
- Prompt: A book with a red cover or blood on the cover
- Book: Winter Counts by David Heska Wanbli Weiden
Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound
Wednesday Addams
- Prompt: Book where MC stands up for social issues
- Book: Internment by Samira Ahmed
Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound
- Prompt: Book with a hand on the cover
- Book: The Power by Naomi Alderman
Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound
Beetlejuice
- Prompt: Repeated word in the title
- Book: There There by Tommy Orange
Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound
- Prompt: Book with the undead and/or necromancy
- Book: Every Heart a Doorway by Seanan McGuire
Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound
Jack Skellington
- Prompt: MC goes through an identity crisis
- Book: Sybil: The Classic True Story of a Woman Possessed by Sixteen Personalities
Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound
- Prompt: Book with a “simply meant to be” love story
- Book: The Raven Boys by Maggie Stiefvater
Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound
Death (Grim Reaper)
- Prompt: Scythe on Cover
- Book: Scythe by Neal Shusterman
Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound
- Prompt: MC deals with death of someone close
- Book: I Am Not Your Perfect Mexican Daughter’ by Erika L. Sánchez
Amazon | GoodReads | Bookshop | Indiebound
- Prompt: Book featuring a psychopomp other than the Grim Reaper
- Book: From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty
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