Adult Fiction: Sleep Tight by J.H. Markert
Adult Non-Fiction: Erasing History: How Fascists Rewrite the Past to Control the Future by Jason Stanley; Memento Mori: The Art of Contemplating Death to Live a Better Life by Joanna Ebenstein
Teen Fiction: One Last Chance to Live by Francisco X. Stork
Teen Non-Fiction: Spirit Sleuths: How Magicians and Detectives Exposed the Ghost Hoaxes by Gail Jarrow
Children’s Fiction: Give Me Something Good to Eat by D.W. Gillespie; The Haunted States of America by Ellen Hopkins; Hocus and Pocus and the Spell for Home by A.R. Capetta; Impossible Creatures by Katherine Rundell; Ivypool’s Heart by Erin Hunter; The Puppy Place: Trixie by Ellen Miles; Ripley: Fire Station Five by W. Bruce Cameron
Children’s Non-Fiction: How to Build LEGO Robots; Scholastic 2025 Book of World Records
Graphic Novels: The Haunted Mask by R.L Stine; Knots by Colleen Frakes; Sunset of the Sabertooth by Mary Pope Osborne
Picture Books: Bluey’s Halloween Mix-and-Match; Fall Parade by Camelia Kay; It’s Not Easy Being a Ghost by Marilyn Sadler; Little Ghost Makes a Friend by Maggie Willis; Mr. Fox’s Game of No by David LaRochelle; Spooky, Scary Skeletons by Andrew Gold; Trick or Treat on Scary Street by Lance Bass