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perfect fall reads for chilly days
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items When the weather cools down and the leaves start to change, it’s the perfect time to curl up with a good book. Here are a few that feel just right for fall — grab a blanket and enjoy. 🍂
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I went in hoping for a chilling, twisty psychological thriller, and Feeney knocked it out of the park. This Scottish Highlands anniversary trip gone horribly wrong is packed with tension, secrets, and that perfect slow-burn dread. The mood is eerie, ...
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches was one of the coziest, most heartwarming books I picked up last year, so I was ridiculously excited to revisit it. My hopes were sky-high, and it absolutely delivered.
This story is pure, gentle magic. W...
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
This book is small-town romance at its absolute best. Warm, cinnamon-sweet, and just the right amount of slow-burn tension. Jeanie and Logan are magnetic, their banter hits just right, and that cozy café backdrop? Perfection.
The way Alexander weave...
The Pumpkin Spice Cafe by Laurie Gilmore
Truly, Madly, Deeply is a gut-punch of a second-chance romance. Fiery, flawed, and unforgettable. L.J. Shen gives us two people tangled in a love that never really died, only simmered beneath years of heartbreak and silence.
Old flames? More like em...
Truly Madly Deeply by L.J. Shen
The Naturals is pure YA thriller gold, sharp, fast, and quietly chilling. Imagine being seventeen and pulled into an off-the-books FBI program, not for your grades, but for your uncanny instinct to read people like open journals. That’s Cassie’s worl...
The Naturals by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
The stakes are higher. The killer’s smarter. And this time, it’s personal.
In this chilling sequel to The Naturals, Cassie and her team are thrown into a case that’s darker, messier, and far too close to home. The body count rises, the mind games cu...
The Naturals: Killer Instinct by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Three murders. Three casinos. One killer with a deadly pattern and no remorse.
Cassie and the Naturals are sent to Vegas, but this glittering city hides darkness at every turn. Cryptic clues, coded numbers, and a case that hits close to Cassie’s hea...
The Naturals: All In by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
Cassie’s last case isn’t just another profile, it’s the one that cuts deepest. The mystery of her mother unravels into something darker than she ever imagined, and now the Naturals are on the run from a killer who knows them better than they know the...
The Naturals: Bad Blood by Jennifer Lynn Barnes
A ghostwriter who’s sworn off love… meets her new editor, who just so happens to be a ghost. Florence’s story is witty, heartfelt, and laced with grief, second chances, and the kind of healing that sneaks up on you.
✨ Romantic, a little haunted, and...
The Dead Romantics by Ashley Poston
“I’m in a coma. My husband doesn’t love me. And I lie.” That’s how Amber’s story begins and from there, nothing is what it seems. Told from the chilling stillness of a hospital bed, this psychological thriller peels back the layers of memory, marriag...
Sometimes I Lie by Alice Feeney
Murder, Shakespeare, and the unraveling of friendship, this is dark academia at its most haunting. At an elite conservatory, seven acting students live and breathe their roles… until the line between performance and reality blurs. Obsession builds, l...
If We Were Villains by M. L. Rio
Dark academia at its most intoxicating. When a tight-knit group of classics students commits murder, the real story isn’t what they did, it’s why. As obsession spirals into paranoia and guilt, the lines between brilliance and madness blur. Elegant, e...
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Returning to her hometown to report on a gruesome murder, Camille Preaker is forced to confront the darkness she left behind. Between her manipulative mother, her enigmatic half-sister, and the scars she hides, literally, this story spirals into a ha...
Sharp Objects by Gillian Flynn
Marriage, media, and manipulation, this psychological thriller unspools the story of Nick and Amy Dunne, a seemingly perfect couple with a deeply twisted core. Told through two unreliable narrators, the book keeps shifting your loyalties until you’re...
Gone Girl by Gillian Flynn
A renowned artist shoots her husband in cold blood and then never speaks again. What drove her to silence? As forensic psychotherapist Theo Faber digs deeper into Alicia’s mind, obsession takes root, and the truth becomes more twisted than he ever im...
The Silent Patient by Alex Michaelides
Murder stalks the halls of Cambridge. When a brilliant but grieving therapist becomes obsessed with the deaths of several students, she’s drawn into the world of secret societies, ancient rituals, and one dangerously charismatic professor. At the cen...
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
What do you get when you throw a vampire, a fake medium, and a haunted house into a cosmic game between gods? Pure chaos and pure brilliance. This story is unapologetically weird, darkly magical, and surprisingly emotional. Think undead bureaucracy m...
Masters of Death by Olivie Blake
Two rival witch families in Manhattan. One ruled by elegant, cunning sisters. The other by brutal, ambitious brothers. When power meets passion, it’s only a matter of time before blood and magic collide. This is a story of pride, legacy, and a love t...
One For My Enemy by Olivie Blake
A tipsy breakup spell gone wrong, a cursed ex back in town, and magic misfiring all over Graves Glen. Vivi didn’t mean to hex Rhys... but now they’re stuck dodging disasters and sparks that never really died.
✨ A cozy, witchy rom-com full of charm, ...
The Ex Hex by Erin Sterling
One crumbling house. One stormy night. One family reunion that turns into a ticking clock of murder. As the tide traps them on the island, old secrets surface and someone starts picking them off, one by one.
✨ A gothic, claustrophobic mystery with c...
Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney
A cozy bookstore. A grumpy-sunshine duo. A treasure hunt written in ink and longing. Hazel’s quiet world shifts when Noah. Tattoos, attitude, and unexpected charm, walks into her shop and into her heart, one clue at a time.
✨ Small-town magic, slow-...
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store by Laurie Gilmore
She’s a messy, magnetic stand-up comic. He’s her steady, overprotective manager. Best friends, with years of tension bubbling just beneath the surface, until one fake relationship threatens to blow it all wide open.
✨ Slow-burn pining, off-the-chart...
Funny Feelings by Tarah DeWitt
Italian family drama, a brother’s best friend, and a love story that simmers behind too many rules. When she falls for Matt, the charming, off-limits guy with a past, everything spirals into stolen glances, hidden moments, and family dinners thick wi...
Fall Into You by Caroline Frank
A tender, enchanting tale of love, family, and quiet magic in a town where the seasons and the Waverley women, never quite follow the rules. Claire’s struggling to find her spark, Sydney’s craving something new, and Bay’s navigating first love and he...
First Frost by Sarah Addison Allen
A grieving medium. A haunted manor. A widow with secrets and a past that won’t stay buried. Roos arrives to help the dead move on but instead, she finds Agnes, a woman cloaked in sorrow and mystery, and a house that breathes with memory, desire, and ...
My Darling Dreadful Thing by Johanna van Veen
A mist-shrouded castle, a brilliant girl raised in isolation, and family secrets that cut deeper than any moat. Charlotte Bell’s world is one of books, bloodlines, and boundaries, but her mind refuses to stay confined. As questions of gender, inherit...
Fayne by Ann-Marie MacDonald
A murderous mermaid and a cryptic plague doctor wander through a world unraveling. When they arrive at a village ruled by saint-worshipping surgeons and reanimated children, the line between creation and destruction begins to blur. Every page hums wi...
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw
Fifteen stories that peel back the human psyche and leave it raw. From flesh turned alien to obsessions that rot from the inside, these tales explore horror through body, mind, and everything in between. Curated by Joyce Carol Oates, featuring voices...
A Darker Shade by Joyce Carol Oates
Orphaned and gifted, Red was raised on the art of cartomancy, reading truths from a deck of cards. Now thrust into the glittering world of Georgian high society, she’s chasing shadows of her past across ballroom floors and crumbling estates. But as s...
The Square of Sevens by Laura Shepherd-Robinson
One apartment, two timelines, and a love story suspended between them. Grieving and guarded, Clementine never expected her late aunt’s apartment to bend time, or for a man from seven years in the past to appear in her kitchen, barefoot and making lem...
The Seven Year Slip by Ashley Poston
A cursed girl. A monstrous voice in her head. And a highwayman who may be her ruin or her salvation. This gothic fantasy drips with shadowy forests, forbidden magic, and slow-burn tension that crawls under your skin.
✨ Things you’ll find in this boo...
One Dark Window by Rachel Gillig