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Books to read in Autumn
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items The best time of the year in book form! Grab your cozy blanket and a warm drink and pick a book. This is a list of books I have enjoyed, are on my TBR and some that I think you may like for the season.
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Fantasy
Pumpkins, vampires, ghouls, and witches oh my!
A warm, spellbinding tale about a witch and the secrets her coven has been keeping from her, with echoes of the classic Hades and Persephone story, in the tradition of Practical Magic and Witch of Wild Things.
A Dark and Secret Magic
Deborah Harkness’s sparkling debut, A Discovery of Witches, has brought her into the spotlight and galvanized fans around the world. In this tale of passion and obsession, Diana Bishop, a young scholar and a descendant of witches, discovers a long-lo...
A Discovery of Witches
An ancient witch explores the thrills—and perils—of online dating with hilarity and heart in a charming rom-com perfect for fans of cozy fantasy and witchy romance.
An Ancient Witch's Guide to Modern Dating by Cecilia Edward
A hotshot young attorney. An enigmatic billionaire accused of murder. To uncover the truth, she’ll have to play his game—and try not to fall in love with the devil.
Salem's Fall: A Dark Psychological Thriller
A young woman living in a rigid, puritanical society discovers dark powers within herself in this stunning, feminist fantasy debut.
The Year of the Witching (Bethel, #1) by Alexis Henderson
Welcome to the whimsical world of Tangleroot Valley, where magic thrives in every corner, and witch Aloysia Papplewick tends to her Prattling Pumpkin patch. But there’s one thing Aloysia doesn’t have – her familiar. The magical folk of the valley tak...
Cat Dragon: Cozy Romantasy for Ghibli Fans
In this cozy, witchy romcom, a young woman works to turn a run-down small-town video store into the bookshop of her dreams, only to discover a powerful magic that’s been lying dormant—and a forbidden love she can’t resist.
Books & Bewitchment by Isla Jewell
Elspeth Spindle needs more than luck to stay safe in the eerie, mist-locked kingdom she calls home—she needs a monster. She calls him the Nightmare, an ancient, mercurial spirit trapped in her head. He protects her. He keeps her secrets. But nothing ...
One Dark Window (The Shepherd King, #1) by Rachel Gillig
Cambridge professor Emily Wilde is good at many things: She is the foremost expert on the study of faeries. She is a genius scholar and a meticulous researcher who is writing the world’s first encyclopaedia of faerie lore. But Emily Wilde is not good...
Emily Wilde's Encyclopaedia of Faeries by Heather Fawcett
As one of the few witches in Britain, Mika Moon knows she has to hide her magic, keep her head down, and stay away from other witches so their powers don't mingle and draw attention. And as an orphan who lost her parents at a young age and was raised...
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
The gods sent monsters to the five kingdoms to remind mortals they must kneel. I’ve spent my life kneeling—to their will and to my father's. As a princess, my only duty is to wear the crown and obey the king. I was never meant to rule. Never meant to...
Shield of Sparrows #1 - Devney Perry
Get ready for a bewitching tale of love, laughter, and supernatural shenanigans in the heart of Maple Hollow! The last thing apothecary witch, Jordyn, had on her mind was romance, but when she got witchy-wasted, she cracked open the coffin of her lov...
Pumpkin Spice & Poltergeist (Maple Hollow #1)
Romance
Cozy vibes and romance in the air!
A COZY, GHOSTLY LGBTQIA+ ROMANCE
The Most Unusual Haunting of Edgar Lovejoy
One determined party planner + one grumpy pumpkin farmer = a fall to remember
There's Pumpkin About You
For all the friends who love a cozy read
The Pumpkin Spice Café (Dream Harbor, #1) by Laurie Gilmore
The swoony single-dad firefighter needs my help, but he might be too hot for me to handle. I’m in Cozy Creek for two To get over my breakup and help my grandmother run her bakery while she recovers from a sprained ankle.
Fall at Once: Small Town Autumn Firefighter
A cosy, small-town romance full of autumn vibes, opposites-attract chemistry
Love and Lattes at Pumpkin Hollow: Autumn Romance
Grab your favorite fall candle, cuddle into a comfy blanket, and travel back in time to 1997 in this cozy, slow-burn romance set in the autumn glow of small-town Vermont.
If It Makes You Happy
It’s autumn at the Comfort Food Café and the leaves are golden, the lattes are spiced and love might just be brewing for one new resident…
A Touch of Magic at the Comfort Food Café
A fiery, coffee-loving city girl. A laid-back handyman with irresistible hazel eyes. Is this a recipe for disaster? Find out in this totally cozy and unputdownable enemies-to-lovers romance in the small town of your dreams! Gilmore Girls + spice + ev...
The Cinnamon Spice Inn
Fall is a big deal in Briar Glen, a quaint and charming village in New England. That's when tourists from all over the country descend upon this picturesque town to see the babbling brooks and colorful leaves while sipping hot chocolate or pumpkin sp...
Pumpkin Spice & Everything Nice
A brooding witch and a bubbly mortal must team up during their town's fall festival in this cozy sapphic romance, perfect for fans of Gilmore Girls and Wicked!
Everything She Does Is Magic by Bridget Morrissey
In this sweeping, second-chance romance, a twist of fate forces two former roommates back into their beloved New York City brownstone where they must confront the events that led to their estrangement—and the unresolved feelings lingering between the...
It's Different This Time by Joss Richard
Spookily Yours is a spicy, open-door Halloween themed novel, featuring a witch and the demon who falls in love with her. This book is a complete standalone with a HEA guaranteed.
Spookily Yours (Witches of Pleasant Grove Book 1)
A friends-to-lovers dark romantic comedy full of murder, chaos, and spice, unlike anything you’ve heard before.
Butcher & Blackbird (The Ruinous Love Trilogy, #1) by Brynne Weaver
Fall I Want is a feel-good, spicy small-town, romantic comedy with a billionaire who falls first and harder!
Fall I Want by Lyra Parish
A Love Like Pumpkin Spice: Cozy Autumn Romance
For fans of the Lovelight series and The Pumpkin Spice Café, this cozy and sexy romance follows a young event planner who returns to her family’s inn on an apple orchard to help run their Harvest Festival—only to find herself butting heads with the h...
The Honeycrisp Orchard Inn: Cozy Small-Town Romance
When a struggling potter and a traditional baker accidentally reach for the same pumpkin, they discover that the perfect blend might not just be in their crafts, but in each other's lives.
Pumpkins, Pastries, and Promises: Cozy Romance
When an anonymous love letter tumbles out of my favorite book and straight into my pumpkin spice latte, I’m convinced fate is sending me a sign… I’m Ava James, Fall Queen, pumpkin spice enthusiast, proud owner of Beachy Balls, Biscuits, and Books, an...
J. S. Cooper (Author of To Fall Or Not To Fall)
She’s a little edgy. He’s a lot of sunshine. Love’s about to catch them completely off gourd… A spicy, small town, fall romance you can read in one sitting!
Let's Give 'Em Pumpkin to Talk About - Isabelle Popp
She's all pumpkin spice and pie charts. He's all sharp knives and sharper opinions. The only thing they have in common? Saving Thanksgiving.
Thankful Hearts and Pumpkin Spice Kisses
Horror
The best time for a scare!
It’s been three years since Mila Thomas’ brother Jed went missing and his case went cold. Since then, Mila has fled town, running from the voices of the dead that reach her from the depths of the old family bog, afraid she would hear her brother’s am...
Spit Back the Bones by Teagan Olivia King
A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel. When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale a...
The September House by Carissa Orlando
As a young, queer couple who flip houses, Charlie and Eve can’t believe the killer deal they’ve just gotten on an old house in a picturesque neighborhood. As they’re working in the house one day, there’s a knock on the door. A man stands there with h...
We Used to Live Here:
Seven authors enter the manor Can they survive the story within?
How to Survive a Horror Story by Mallory Arnold
They call them wayward girls. Loose girls. Girls who grew up too fast. And they’re sent to Wellwood House in St. Augustine, Florida, where unwed mothers are hidden by their families to have their babies in secret, to give them up for adoption, and mo...
Witchcraft for Wayward Girls by Grady Hendrix
When Louise finds out her parents have died, she dreads going home. She doesn’t want to leave her daughter with her ex and fly to Charleston. She doesn’t want to deal with her family home, stuffed to the rafters with the remnants of her father’s acad...
Grady Hendrix's How To Sell a Haunted House