What to do next? I went online to get some inspiration for this year’s pumpkin, and after an hour of browsing all I have to say is this: Thanks, Internet, for giving me an inferiority complex about carving pumpkins. Check out these incredible literary jack o’lanterns! the pin Alice in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll the pin Curl Up With a Good Book the pin Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson

— Quirk Books (@quirkbooks) November 6, 2012 Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak (Not a jack o’lantern, I know, but it was too cute not to include) the pin Beautiful Creatures by Kami Garcia and Margaret Stohl the pin The Gruffalo by Julia Donaldson

— Scott Martin (@RaceWx4You) October 25, 2014 The Wizard of Oz by L. Frank Baum the pin The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins the pin Coraline by Neil Gaiman the pin The Hobbit by J.R.R. Tolkien by For more bookish jack o’lanterns, check out Kelly’s 15 Awesome Bookish Jack O’Lanterns, Wallace’s two part series here and here, and Rita’s guide to book-o-lanterns. What about you? Are you thinking of carving a literary-themed jack o’lantern this year?

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