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Books to Read With a Pumpkin Spice Latte ☕🍂
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items Okay, so this is basically my ideal autumn reading stack. The kind of books I want to curl up with when it’s cold outside, I’ve got a PSL in hand, and I’m pretending my apartment is an old library. It’s a mix of dark academia classics like The Secret...
This book is pure dark academia. It’s moody, intellectual, and a little pretentious in the best way. Every time I read it in autumn, I feel like I should be wandering through campus with a scarf on, clutching a copy of Greek tragedy and a latte that’...
The Secret History
This memoir is stunning in its simplicity and devastating in its honesty. Ditlevsen takes you through her childhood, her youth, and her struggles with addiction in prose that feels both delicate and sharp. It’s not cozy — it’s aching, tender, and bru...
The Copenhagen Trilogy: Childhood; Youth; Dependency
This one feels like sitting across from an old friend you haven’t seen in years, holding your coffee, kind of half-smiling because you’re not sure if you still know each other. It’s about friendship, memory, and all the little betrayals we carry — an...
Catch the Rabbit
This one is heavy and uncomfortable, but also deeply human. It’s about memory, power, and the stories we tell ourselves. For me, it’s an autumn read because fall is when I crave books that challenge me emotionally as much as they captivate me.
My Dark Vanessa: A Novel
Every time I pick this one up, I swear I can hear the sea crashing in the background. It’s gothic and romantic, but in that quiet, unsettling way where you can’t quite relax. Reading it feels like moving through a house full of locked doors and whisp...
Rebeca / Daphne du Maurier
Reading Tess feels like standing in a cold field at dusk — beautiful, quiet, but heavy with something you can’t quite shake off. Tess herself is one of those characters who stays with you, like a ghost you don’t want to forget. It’s not an easy read ...
Tess of the D'Urbervilles
This book feels cold in the best way — sharp, haunting, a little dystopian but too close to reality for comfort. Atwood builds a world that makes you shiver, not just because it’s bleak but because it feels possible. It’s not a cozy read, but autumn ...
Oryx and Crake
This book felt like looking in a mirror I wasn’t sure I wanted to look into. Rooney has this way of writing that makes you feel both exposed and understood at the same time — like she’s captured every awkward silence, every half-felt text, every mome...
Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel
I didn’t expect to be so pulled in, but this book is exactly my kind of read. It’s strange, bleak, darkly funny, and completely hypnotic. The way Moshfegh writes about emptiness and detachment feels almost comforting in its honesty — like she’s putti...
My Year of Rest and Relaxation
Reading Before the Coffee Gets Cold felt like wrapping myself in a blanket on a chilly autumn morning. It’s quiet, tender, and a little bittersweet — a story about second chances and the moments we wish we could hold onto. The café itself feels like ...
Before the Coffee Gets Cold
Reading Misery in October felt so right — the cold, the snow, the isolation. It’s not ghosts or monsters that make it terrifying, it’s Annie Wilkes, who’s both caretaker and captor. The whole book feels like being trapped in a cabin while the world o...
Misery: A Novel|Paperback