Recs if you like The Autumn Springs Retirement Home Massacre...

A collection of mysteries where the retirees, pensioners, and silver‑haired legends of small towns take crime into their own hands. Sometimes they are solving it, sometimes they causing it, and sometimes they might be doing a bit of both.

It’s a cruel irony that taking a sick day means being at home with nothing to do, but very little brain power with which to read.

Enter this list, a collection of books from various genres that don’t require too much brain power but are still GOOD. Accessible prose, storylines that aren’t overly convoluted, and often short chapters or frequent break points. And of course, easy to pick back up after dozing off!

Suggestions welcome!

Every single Aardvark Book Club book pick since its inception. Updated monthly!

I can't be the only one who want to remember all the books without jumping around in a video, right?

books with the aesthetic of a 70s/80s summer camp, where a mysterious killer is picking off teenagers one by one…

books featuring retired characters or retirement/care homes, plus a dash of chaos to keep things exciting

recs welcome!

Collection of slasher books!

Some will involve the supernatural, some are from the POV of survivors and others from the killer

cozy mystery, horror comedy, witches, fairies, thriller

Slasher - a subgenre of horror involving a killer or a group of killers stalking and murdering a group of people, often by use of bladed or sharp tools.

This is a big list of (almost) all slasher books (only first books in a series). As long as there is a killer(s), victims and blood, it counts!

Horror books with orange covers!

Books mentioned in ToastyGoobus/Gab Smolders book talk videos in 2026

All the books we’ve read in our horror book club 📖🔪🖤

A mix genres TBR for 2026 spooky Season