This is your reading list for a cosy AF autumn.
I am too chicken for horror books so these are spooky-adjacent reads that bring all the magic and atmosphere of fall - but won’t keep you up at night.
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Pumpkin Spice & All Things Nice🧣✨
Spooky but not Scary 👻🎃
Pumpkin Spice & All Things Nice🧣✨
Books that are cosy and cute but definitely fall flavoured
A witch who bakes spells into her cakes? A hot museum curator?? YES PLEASE
Best Hex Ever by Nadia El-Fassi
Stop itttttt. She’s spoiling us with more of this!
Love At First Fright: Exclusive Edition (Hardback)
The cutest witchy read you ever did see! Basically a millennial girlie having a crisis as she approaches 30, and has to reconnect with her magic
Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood
Set in the same world as Rewitched, this one follows Annie, a people pleasing perfectionist witch learning to deal with imperfection
Uncharmed by Lucy Jane Wood
This is the PERFECT choice for spooky season, witchy as hell, a touch of dark academia, AND you can real-time read along with the events of the story
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness
It’s a favourite of the season for a reason! Girly comes to run her cute AF cafe - enter burly farmer. Need I say more?
The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore
See above: small town full of autumn leaves and the central location is a bookshop. Cuteness overload.
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store by Laurie Gilmore | Waterstones
The Bronte sisters - but they’re solving a murder.
The Vanished Bride by Bella Ellis
Spooky but not Scary 👻🎃
Slightly spookier but still won’t make you check under the bed
This book is gonna haunt me for the rest of my days. Haunted mansion, unresolved deaths, heartbreak that spans a century? Delicious.
The Haunting of William Thorn by Ben Alderson
Sapphic vampires???? SAY LESSSSSS
Bury Our Bones in the Midnight Soil: Signed Edition (Hardback)
Sapphic vampires? Say less.
Hungerstone by Kat Dunn | Waterstones
A murder mystery, a spooky old house, and a guy obsessed with mausoleum architecture??? Obsessed
The Burial Plot by Elizabeth Macneal | Waterstones
This is one of my favourite books of ALL TIME. Dark academia spooky delights await you here. Alex Stern is part of a magical secret society that polices the magical frat houses of Yale. Perfection.
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
And when you’re obsessed with ninth house (and you will be) this is the follow up - which is EVEN BETTER
Hell Bent (Paperback)
Two serial killers get into a murdery competition and fall in love - need I say more?
