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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
Romance
Horror
Young Adult
Fantasy
Pumpkins, vampires, ghouls, and witches oh my!
One of my top reads from 2024
A Dark and Secret Magic
This is on my TBR for 2025
A Discovery of Witches
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
Romance
Cozy vibes and romance in the air!
Gilmore Girls meets Jenny Han in this autumnal teen rom-com about a city girl stuck in a quaint small town who must confront her future and her old flame while the town prepares for an annual fall festival.
Falling Like Leaves by Misty Wilson
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 (Witches of Pleasant Grove Book 1)
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:
Young Adult
For when you need something a little lighter
Enemies-to-lovers doesn't get more high stakes than a witch and a witch hunter falling in love in bestselling author Kristen Ciccarelli's latest romantic fantasy.
Heartless Hunter (The Crimson Moth, #1) by Kristen Ciccarelli
Following a whirlwind courtship with her true love, Jack Skellington, Sally the rag doll has officially stepped into the role of Pumpkin Queen. But while she adores Jack with every inch of her fabric seams, she can't quite say the same for her new jo...
Long Live the Pumpkin Queen: Tim Burton's Nightmare
Effy Sayre has always believed in fairy tales. She’s had no choice. Since childhood, she’s been haunted by visions of the Fairy King. She’s found solace only in the pages of Angharad—author Emrys Myrddin’s beloved epic about a mortal girl who falls i...
A Study in Drowning #1
Welcome to the Centennial. Every hundred years, the island of Lightlark appears for only 100 days to host a deadly game, where the rulers of six realms fight to break their curses and win unparalleled power. Each ruler has something to hide. Each cur...
Lightlark #1 - Alex Aster