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Riot Recommendation: Haunt Us With Books About Spooky Or Dangerous Houses

Jamie Canaves

Contributing Editor

Jamie Canavés is the Tailored Book Recommendations coordinator and Unusual Suspects mystery newsletter writer–in case you’re wondering what you do with a Liberal Arts degree. She’s never met a beach she didn’t like, always says yes to dessert, loves ‘80s nostalgia, all forms of entertainment, and can hold a conversation using only gifs. You can definitely talk books with her on Litsy and Goodreads. Depending on social media’s stability maybe also Twitter and Bluesky.

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This Riot Recommendation asking for your favorite books about spooky or dangerous houses is sponsored by –The Fall of Crazy House.

The Fall of Crazy House cover imageEscape is just the beginning. Twin sisters Becca and Cassie barely got out of the Crazy House alive. Now they’re trained, skilled fighters who fear nothing–not even the all-powerful United regime. Together, the sisters hold the key to defeating the despotic government and freeing the people of the former United States. But to win this war, will the girls have to become the very thing they hate? In this gripping follow-up to James Patterson’s YA blockbuster Crazy House, the world is about to get even crazier.

Is there something under the floorboards? Someone living in the walls? Is the house itself eeeeevil?! We want to be spooked! We want to be haunted! We want to be scared of a house! And we’re turning to you to supply the scares: hop on down to our comments section and tell us your favorite books about spooky or dangerous houses. Next week we’ll be back with an epic list to haunt our souls—and maybe make us side-eye our house or spend way more time outside.