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The Best Bookish Halloween Costumes of 2018

This year provided the best bookish Halloween costumes. We got Lara Jean Covey. We got Wonder Woman. We got Black Panther. And we got Pennywise.

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Ashley Holstrom

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Ashley Holstrom helps make books at Sourcebooks. She lives near Chicago with her cat named after Hemingway and her bookshelves organized by color. Newsletter: Crooked Reads. Twitter: @alholstrom.

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This Halloween was the best Halloween with the best bookish Halloween costumes. Take notes for next year, book nerds!

We’re starting with the best. Lara Jean Croft:

Also, Jenny Han has a magical thread of every To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before costume she found. You must scroll through the whole thing:

https://twitter.com/jennyhan/status/1056367640778805248

This makeup Wonder Woman:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpdTbIPhpMi

This adorable Thing 1 and Thing 2:

The cutest Ruth Bader Ginsburg you ever did see!

This badass Okoye:

This fabulous Gamora:

This button-eyed Coraline nightmare:

This mother-daughter Wonder Woman duo:

This cutie patootie on an Iron Throne:

This Lara Jean wearing her love letters:

https://www.instagram.com/p/BpfTet5HZQl

This Dracula kitty:

https://twitter.com/AwwwwCats/status/1056207667105067011

These two Pennywises who bumped into each other:

THIS WONDER DOG!

This sad Eeyore pup:

Did you have a great bookish Halloween costume? Share it in the comments!