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Cozy Fall Season Book Club Books Everyone Will Fall For
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items It’s snuggle season! Grab a good book, a cozy blanket, and cuddle up with a dragon! Oh wait maybe not a dragon…how about a hero?! Happy reading, let me know what you think!
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One and Done
Books that DO NOT have a sequel. Best for a book club read. Celebrates standalone books that tell complete, satisfying stories without needing sequels (while acknowledging your heart always wants more)
This is NOT your typical celebrity memoir and I mean that in the best way. McConaughey is philosophical, weird, and surprisingly deep. It's part life story, part philosophy book, with random poems and journal entries thrown in. His whole "greenlights...
Greenlights by Matthew McConaughey
This dystopian thriller is BRUTAL and I mean that in the best way. It's a speculative thriller in the vein of The Handmaid's Tale about girls banished to survive a year in the wilderness because society believes they have dangerous magic that needs t...
The Grace Year by Kim Liggett
This contemporary fantasy about a girl who can turn invisible hits different - it's not your typical superhero story but more of a quiet, introspective look at what it means to be seen and unseen. The magic system is subtle and the emotional core is ...
The Invisible Wild by Nikki Van De Car
This book is blisteringly funny and filled with sharp insight about a 20-year-old single mom trying to make ends meet. When Margo's wrestling-star father-in-law moves in to help with the baby, things get complicated fast. It's raunchy, funny, and unf...
Margo's Got Money Troublesby Rufi Thorpe
This debut thriller completely blindsided me in the best way possible. Evie, an underachieving SAT tutor, walks into her wealthy employers' house to find them brutally murdered and a bound woman she rescues from the scene. What follows is part road t...
Killer Potential by Hannah Deitch
A gripping thriller about Joan, a NASA scientist in the 1980s working on a space mission while her personal life falls apart. Reid expertly weaves together workplace drama, family secrets, and the high-stakes world of space exploration. Joan is a com...
Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid
A unique epistolary novel told entirely through the items left behind after an affair is discovered - emails, receipts, notes, photos. It's a quick read that packs an emotional punch as you piece together what happened between David and Carla through...
evidence of the affair by Taylor Jenkins Reid
I devoured this in one sitting. Evelyn Hugo is iconic, complex, and unapologetic. The mystery of why she chose this random journalist to tell her story kept me guessing, and the reveal absolutely wrecked me. It's glamorous Old Hollywood but also a he...
The Seven Husbands of Evelyn Hugo by Taylor Jenkins Reid
Such a fun book! All about friendship and finding your independence. Short read, you'll get through it quickly. It's a newer release, so you could one of the first to recommend!
My Friends by Fredrik Backman
Okay, this one's controversial now because of everything that happened with Rachel Hollis later, but I'm reviewing the book itself. It's very "rah-rah you can do it" energy, which worked for me at the time I read it. She tackles common lies women tel...
Girl, Wash Your Face by Rachel Hollis
This book surprised me - I thought it would be all about video games but it's actually about friendship, creativity, and how art shapes us. Following Sam and Sadie from childhood through their game development careers was emotionally devastating in t...
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow by Gabrielle Zevin
This book is pure California summer vibes wrapped in family drama and I devoured it in one sitting. Following the four Riva siblings through one epic party night in the 1980s while flashing back to their parents' tumultuous love story was addictive s...
Malibu Rising by Taylor Jenkins Reid
This book is atmospheric horror perfection and I was completely obsessed. Noemí travels to a creepy English manor in the Mexican countryside to check on her cousin, and everything about this place is WRONG in the most delicious way. The gothic mansio...
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia
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Series can be nice to read with book club - no one ever has to choose what to read next. Captures that addictive quality of series that completely consume you and make you neglect real life while waiting for the next installment
Alex Stern is probably one of the most realistic protagonists I've ever read - flawed, sarcastic, and dealing with real trauma. Dark academia but make it actually dark and scary. The ghost stuff genuinely creeped me out and the critique of Yale's eli...
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
As a huge Hunger Games fan, I was nervous about this prequel. But Collins delivered! Getting Haymitch's backstory was brutal and heartbreaking in all the right ways. It adds so much depth to his character from the original series and the 50th Games w...
Sunrise on the Reaping (A Hunger Games Novel)|Hardcover
Ok, I’m going to be one of those people, but I read this book before it was cool. It was totally my favorite book as a kid! I wanted (want) to be like Belly so bad! Living at a beach house during the summer with cutest boys and nothing but sand in my...
The Summer I Turned Pretty #1 by Jenny Han
The magic system in this is WILD - power literally flows up through social classes. Vis is hiding his identity while trying to climb the ranks and get revenge. It's like if ancient Rome had magic and social commentary. The academy setting gives me Ha...
The Will of the Many (Hierarchy # 1) by James Islington
BOOK 1: Okay, I'll be honest - this started slow for me. It's basically Beauty and the Beast but with fae, and Feyre can be pretty whiny at first. But once she gets dragged into the magical world and meets Tamlin, things get interesting. The romance ...
A Court of Thorns and Roses (A Court of Thorns and Roses Series #1)
Another nostalgia book! I tried to consider myself a chameleon but I could never be a spy. This book is girlhood at its finest and I truly recommend anyone read this series. It’s an easy read, but may take a while for how many books are in the series...
I'd Tell You I Love You, But Then I'd Have to Kill You by Ally Carter
This series is just the beginning of the Sarah J Maas Universe! I'm on the side that Throne of Glass should be read before moving to ACOTAR or Crescent City. Check out my Sarah J Maas Universe section to guide you to the right book in the right order...
Throne of Glass Book Series by Sarah J. Maas
These books just keep on giving! It's a strong lead character who shows you what bravery can really bring. This world makes me wish I could be that strong.
Fourth Wing Series (The Empyrean) by Rebecca Yarros
Victorian boarding school with magic, séances, and secret societies? This trilogy was everything my teenage gothic heart needed. Gemma's visions and the mysterious realms had me completely hooked, and the friendship dynamics between the girls felt so...
A Great and Terrible Beauty by Libba Bray
Zombies in a post-apocalyptic village surrounded by fences? This book was haunting and beautiful in a way that stuck with me for years. Mary's longing for the ocean she'd never seen while being trapped by the Unconsecrated was so atmospheric and trag...
The Forest of Hands and Teeth by Carrie Ryan
My gateway drug to urban fantasy and the reason I spent way too much time thinking about Shadowhunters. Clary and Jace had me convinced that toxic dynamics were romantic (yikes, younger me). But honestly? The world-building was incredible and it made...
City of Bones (The Mortal Instruments # 1) by Cassandra Claire