One thing readers like to do almost as much as finding their next read is seeing what other people are reading—which is why we love reporting on the most popular books on Libby.
- With the more than 22,000 libraries it serves and the 820.5 million checkouts from 2025 alone, it’s easy to see why Libby is such a treasure trove of reader data.
Since we are at the tail end of spooky season, we thought it was a great time to share the most popular horror books on Libby.
- There’s a mix of classic horror—like Frankenstein by Mary Shelley and The Shining by Stephen King—and more recent titles that feel like new classics, such as The Reformatory by Tananarive Due and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones.
- They imagine the future of medical marvels, revisit past traumas, and time travel. They are mostly located in the US, but a couple of them venture out to places like England and Japan. A few have even been adapted.
Libby’s Most Popular Horror Books:
- The Unknown by Riley Sager
- The Buffalo Hunter Hunter by Stephen Graham Jones
- One by One by Freida McFadden
- Never Flinch by Stephen King
- The Southern Book Club’s Guide to Slaying Vampires by Grady Hendrix
- We Used to Live Here by Marcus Kliewer
- The Only One Left by Riley Sager
- Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
- The Caretaker by Marcus Kliewer
- There Is No Antimemetics Division by qntm
- Dracula by Bram Stoker
- Incidents Around the House by Josh Malerman
- Hidden Pictures by Jason Rekulak
- Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison
- The Shining by Stephen King
- Japanese Gothic by Kylie Lee Baker
- Wolf Worm by T. Kingfisher
- The Reformatory by Tananarive Due
- Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman
- Victorian Psycho by Virginia Feito
- The Stand by Stephen King
- Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
- It by Stephen King
- King Sorrow by Joe Hill
- Sometimes I Scare Myself by Jeneva Rose
- The House Across the Lake by Riley Sager
- Hungerstone by Kat Dunn
- Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
- The Bewitching by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
- Carrie by Stephen King
- Molka by Monika Kim
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