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🍁 The Cosiest Book Recommendations for Autumn 🍁
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items A curated mix of fiction and non-fiction for anyone who wants to slow down this autumn with a book, a cup of tea, and good light. This list brings together immersive stories to lose yourself in alongside non-fiction picks for the more reflective, jou...
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Non-Fiction Autumn Favourites
Fiction Autumn Favourites
Romantasy Autumn Favourites
Ebook Systems
I'll always love a physical book — there's nothing quite like the feel of one in your hands — but an ereader has its place too. It's brilliant for travelling light, reading in bed without a lamp on, or squeezing in a few pages on the go without luggi...
If you like your reading gadgets to feel a little more cosy and a little less corporate, Kobo is a lovely alternative to Kindle. It supports ePub files directly (handy if you borrow ebooks from your local library via OverDrive or Libby), has warm, ad...
Rakuten Kobo
The classic choice, and for good reason — Kindle is by far the most widely used ereader, which means huge book selection, easy syncing across devices, and seamless access to Kindle Unlimited if you want an all-you-can-read subscription for your cosy ...
Amazon - Kindle E-Readers & Accessories
Non-Fiction Autumn Favourites
For the more reflective side of autumn reading — books to help you slow down, reconnect with the seasons, and bring a little more intention into everyday life. This selection covers slow living, seasonal rituals, and nature-led ways of marking the tu...
A warm, practical guide to living more intentionally and finding calm within the busyness of everyday life. Across 32 chapters, Tudorache draws on her own experiences of juggling work, motherhood, and daily life to offer real, relatable strategies fo...
Slow Living for Modern Women: Calm Life Guide by Adriana Tudorache
A beautifully illustrated guide to reconnecting with nature through the Celtic Wheel of the Year, inspired by the Rosie's own Scottish heritage. Organised around the eight seasonal festivals — Samhain, Imbolc, Beltane, Lughnasadh, and the solstices a...
Slow Seasons A Creative Guide To Reconnecting With Nature The Celtic Way by Rosie Steer
A refreshing take on seasonal witchcraft, encouraging readers to build their own personal Wheel of the Year based on their actual local climate and landscape, rather than sticking rigidly to the traditional European sabbat calendar. It covers the his...
Year of the Witch: Nature's Seasons & Magick by Temperance Alden
A comprehensive, practical guide to spell-work and everyday magic, covering traditional spells and rituals for relationships, luck, healing, career, and protection, alongside guidance on magical tools, correspondences, and how to consecrate your own ...
The Book of Practical Witchcraft: Spells & Rituals by Pamela Ball
A beautifully illustrated, gift-worthy guide to weaving magic into everyday life, covering astrology, tarot, crystals, herbs, and ritual work in one accessible collection. It blends astrological correspondences, guidance on creating sacred spaces and...
Magicka: Spiritual Guidance with Plants & Crystals by Carlota Santos
Part manifestation guide, part crash course in the psychology of intuition, from Happy Not Perfect founder and podcaster Poppy Jamie. It lays out eight "secrets" for living magically, leaning on both ancient wisdom and quantum thinking to make the ca...
The Book of Magical Living by Poppy Jamie
Fiction Autumn Favourites
For when you want to properly lose yourself in a story — atmospheric ghost stories, gothic horror, and folk tales steeped in history, landscape, and things best left undisturbed. This selection leans into the eerie and unsettling rather than pure fan...
Set in remote Caithness in October 1871, this atmospheric ghost story follows cartographer Robert Sutherland, who suffers a strange accident on the moor and is taken to recover at Leask House, cared for by Mrs Sinclair and her daughter Isabel. As uns...
Hawthorn a Scottish Ghost Story by Elaine Thomson
A gothic historical horror set in County Clare, Ireland during the Great Famine of 1848. Famine survivor Maggie O'Shaughnessy escapes the workhouse when the mysterious Lady Catherine offers her freedom and land in exchange for impersonating her dead ...
This House Will Feed by Maria Tureaud
A folk horror novel set on a remote sheep farm in the mountains of North Wales, following Carwyn and Rhian, the last generation of farmers on their hillside, as a brutal winter closes in. When Carwyn becomes consumed by a prehistoric ruin he uncovers...
The Hill in the Dark Grove by Liam Higginson
A gothic literary horror novel following Alex Lane, who takes a summer job clearing out a decaying Victorian mansion, Solace House, with fellow students. As they sort through its contents, they uncover the unsettling journals of the house's former ow...
Solace House by Will Maclean
A gothic, genre-bending novel set in a single Edinburgh tenement building, 10 Luckenbooth Close, beginning in 1910 when Jessie — described as the devil's daughter — curses the building and its residents for a century after a bargain goes wrong. From ...
Luckenbooth by Dr Jenni Fagan
A folk horror novel set in a British mining community across five interwoven timelines, from 1865, when a lord pushes to extract coal despite something sinister lurking underground, through to 2025, when a divorced writer returns for his father's fun...
Scratch Moss by David Barnett
A dark, fable-like feminist horror novel set in an isolated cottage on the edge of an English forest, where eleven-year-old Margot and her mother Ruth lure travellers to their home to kill and consume — a disturbing tradition Margot has grown up insi...
The Lamb by Lucy Rose
A gothic romance set in 1928, following Millicent Foxboro, who is recovering from traumatic amnesia, as she takes a position assisting the reclusive Professor Callum Hughes at his decaying estate, Willowfield. As she's drawn deeper into the mansion's...
The Cruel Dark by Bea Northwick
Set in the decaying coastal town of Saltwash on the Lancashire coast in November, this folk horror novel follows two terminally ill men, Tom and Oliver, who meet for dinner at a crumbling seaside hotel after bonding through a cancer clinic pen-pal sc...
Saltwash by Andrew Michael Hurley
The 1959 novel that essentially invented the modern haunted house story — and the source material behind Mike Flanagan's Netflix series, though the book itself is a much quieter, stranger thing. Dr. Montague gathers a small group, including the fragi...
The Haunting of Hill House (Penguin Classics) by Shirley Jackson
After Midnight: Thirteen Tales for the Dark Hours by Daphne du Maurier A curated collection of thirteen of du Maurier's darkest short stories, including "The Birds" and "Don't Look Now" — the basis for Hitchcock's and Nicolas Roeg's classic film adap...
After Midnight: Thirteen Tales by Daphne Du Maurier
Jackson's final novel, and by many readers' reckoning her best — narrated by eighteen-year-old Merricat Blackwood, who lives in isolation with her sister Constance and ailing Uncle Julian, shunned by the village ever since most of the rest of the fam...
We Have Always Lived in the Castle - Shirley Jackson
Romantasy Autumn Favourites
For pure, immersive escapism — sweeping fantasy worlds, slow-burn romance, and the kind of books you accidentally stay up far too late finishing. This selection is all about losing an entire cosy weekend to a series, with rich world-building and swoo...
A fantasy romance following Feyre, a huntress who kills a wolf in the woods only to be dragged into the magical, dangerous faerie realm of Prythian as retribution. There, she becomes entangled with Tamlin, the enigmatic High Lord of the Spring Court,...
A Court of Thorns and Roses by Sarah J Maas (ACOTAR Book 1)
The second book in the series, picking up after Feyre's harrowing trials Under the Mountain, now struggling with the trauma of what she survived and going through the motions of an unhappy match with Tamlin. When Rhysand, High Lord of the Night Court...
A Court of Mist and Fury by Sarah J. Maas (ACOTAR Book 2)
The third book in the series, following Feyre as she returns to the Spring Court as a spy to gather intelligence for Rhysand and the Night Court, all while the king of Hybern's forces threaten to plunge Prythian into all-out war. It's the biggest and...
A Court of Wings and Ruin by Sarah J. Maas (ACOTAR book 3)
A quieter, novella-length interlude in the series, set in the aftermath of the war as the Night Court characters try to heal, grieve, and adjust to a fragile new peace in the lead-up to the Winter Solstice. There's far less action here and much more ...
A Court of Frost and Starlight by Sarah J. Maas (ACOTAR Book 4)
A spin-off following Nesta, Feyre's fierce and prickly sister, as she struggles with trauma from the war and turns to training at the House of Wind, where she's forced to confront her grief, anger, and self-worth alongside the gruff, steady Cassian. ...
A Court of Silver Flames by Sarah J. Maas (ACOTAR Book 5)
The sixth instalment in the series, arriving right in time for spooky season. With the ancient threat of Koschei the Deathless stirring after centuries bound away, the Night Court must mend fractured alliances and heal from recent betrayals before th...
A Court of Splintered Harmony by Sarah J. Maas(ACOTAR Book 6)
The direct continuation of A Court of Splintered Harmony, subtitled "The Valkyrie Cycle, Movements II & III." With Koschei the Deathless still looming, the Night Court's Inner Circle scatters across the different courts of Prythian to seek allies...
A Court of Forgotten Melody: Valkyrie II & III by Sarah J. Maas (ACOTAR Book 7)
The first book in the wildly popular Empyrean series, following Violet Sorrengail, who was raised for a quieter life as a scribe but is forced instead into the brutal, deadly world of dragon rider training at Basgiath War College. Physically fragile ...
Fourth Wing: Empyrean, Book 1 by Rebecca Yarros
The second book in the Empyrean series, picking up right where Fourth Wing left off, as Violet enters her second year at Basgiath War College under a brutal new commandant and even higher stakes. With betrayals mounting, secrets about the kingdom unr...
Iron Flame: Empyrean, Book 2 by Rebecca Yarros
The third book in the Empyrean series, taking Violet and the riders beyond the war college walls and into the wider world, as the true scale of the threat facing their kingdom becomes clear — including venturing into enemy territory itself. With high...
Onyx Storm: Empyrean, Book 3 by Rebecca Yarros
Historian Diana Bishop stumbles across a bewitched, long-lost manuscript at Oxford's Bodleian Library, awakening magical powers she's spent her life suppressing — and catching the attention of the enigmatic vampire Matthew Clairmont. As they investig...
A Discovery of Witches by Deborah Harkness (All Souls Series Book 1)
Diana and Matthew time-travel back to Elizabethan London in search of a witch to help Diana master her powers and clues to the manuscript's origins. Along the way they cross paths with Matthew's old circle, the mysterious School of Night, and uncover...
Shadow of Night by Deborah Harkness (All Souls Series, Book 2)
Back in the present, Diana and Matthew face old enemies and new dangers at Matthew's ancestral home, finally uncovering what witches discovered centuries before. A satisfying conclusion to the original trilogy, tying together power, family, and the c...
The Book of Life: A Novel by Deborah Harkness (All Souls Series Book 3)
A companion novel set across Paris, London, and the American colonies during the Revolutionary War, telling the story of how Matthew turned young surgeon Marcus MacNeil into a vampire — and Marcus's own passionate love story as he adjusts to immortal...
Time's Convert: A Novel by Deborah Harkness (All Souls Series Book 4)
Years later, Diana and Matthew's twins are ordered to have their magic tested, sending Diana to her great-aunt Gwyneth's mysterious Ravenswood estate to confront her family's dark history while deepening her own powers. A brilliant continuation for a...
The Black Bird Oracle: A Novel by Deborah Harkness (All Souls Series Book 5)