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My 2025 Fall TBR 🍁📚
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items October and November 2025 TBR: witchy fantasy, romance, gothic mysteries, and dark thrillers 🦇🧙🏻♀️🖤
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Romance
Fantasy
Romance
Influencer Clio Barnes returns to her childhood home to renovate it for content but soon suspects her mother’s claims of a demonic presence may have been true. As memories surface and sinister activity grows, Clio uncovers dark family secrets that co...
Play Nice by Rachel Harrison
The first book in the Seasons of Carnage trilogy follows a deadly game of cat and mouse in a coastal tourist town, where obsession, dark secrets, and murder blur the line between predator and prey.
Tourist Season by Brynne Weaver
In this paranormal romance, a fiercely independent heroine is unexpectedly mated to a powerful shifter, forcing them to navigate undeniable chemistry, pack politics, and a destiny neither of them planned.
Mate by Ali Hazelwood
A dark romantic thriller where danger, passion, and long-buried secrets collide as two troubled souls are drawn together while confronting violence and betrayal from their pasts.
Brimstone by Callie Hart
A heartfelt contemporary romance about two exes forced to work together after a messy breakup, where old feelings resurface and they must decide if their love deserves a second chance.
Seeing Other People by Emily Wibberley & Austin Siegemund-Broka
A witty romantic comedy where two near-strangers meet during an apocalyptic event and must navigate unexpected chemistry, survival stakes, and the possibility of love when tomorrow isn’t guaranteed.
Dating After the End of the World by Jeneva Rose
A flirty, feel-good romance where sparks fly between two ambitious food lovers, mixing passion, humor, and irresistible chemistry as they discover love in and out of the kitchen.
Sweet Heat by Bolu Babalola
An action-packed fantasy about a fierce princess trained as an assassin who must balance royal duty, deadly skills, and forbidden love while a dangerous destiny unfolds.
Warrior Princess Assassin by Brigid Kemmerer
A cozy contemporary fantasy about a witch who inherits a charming magical inn and must protect its secrets while discovering family bonds, romance, and the true meaning of home.
A Witch's Guide to Magical Innkeeping by Sangu Mandanna
A witty historical romance where two sharp-tongued women locked in rivalry find unexpected passion, turning animosity into a slow-burn love story full of banter and charm.
Ladies in Hating by Alexandra Vasti
A lush, romantic fantasy where ancient magic stirs and long-buried secrets surface as two destined souls are drawn together, risking everything to protect their world and each other.
Wild Reverence by Rebecca Ross
A sharp and witty campus romance where professional rivalries, tangled secrets, and irresistible chemistry ignite between two academics navigating love and ambition.
An Academic Affair by Jodi McAlister
A whimsical fantasy about a former villain trying to live a quiet life, only to be pulled back into magical chaos and unexpected heroism when trouble finds her again.
Violet Thistlewaite Is Not a Villain Anymore by Emily Krempholtz
A darkly enchanting fantasy where a woman with hidden magic must face eerie forests, deadly secrets, and unexpected romance to stop an ancient evil from rising.
Hemlock & Silver by T. Kingfisher
A sweeping, lyrical fantasy about love and immortality, following characters bound across lifetimes as they confront magic, fate, and the price of forever.
The Everlasting by Alix E. Harrow
A darkly witty contemporary novel exploring friendship, ambition, and desire as a group of women navigate messy relationships, sharp secrets, and the hunger for more than what life serves.
Girl Dinner by Olivie Blake
A haunting gothic fantasy about a secluded orchard where dark magic and family secrets intertwine, forcing a determined heroine to uncover the truth before it consumes her.
The Witch's Orchard by Archer Sullivan
A gripping psychological thriller where a seemingly perfect home becomes the scene of terror after an uninvited stranger arrives, unraveling dark secrets and deadly twists.
The Intruder by Freida McFadden
A steamy paranormal romance where fiery passion ignites between a fearless monster slayer and a supernatural lover, blending danger, desire, and dark thrills.
Hot for Slayer by Ali Hazelwood
A tender, character-driven novel exploring love, vulnerability, and the complexities of intimacy as one woman learns to open her heart and embrace new beginnings.
Heart the Lover by Lily King
A warm, magical tale about a lonely witch who finds family, love, and belonging when she agrees to teach magic to three unusual children at a hidden house full of secrets.
The Very Secret Society of Irregular Witches by Sangu Mandanna
A gothic fantasy set in a mysterious Kentucky house where dark secrets, restless spirits, and a forbidden romance draw a determined woman into a world of haunting magic.
Starling House by Alix E. Harrow
In this dark fantasy, a grief-stricken youth journeys into the underworld searching for her dead brother and must face horrors, betrayals, and the moral cost of vengeance.
Katabasis by R.F. Kuang
Burned-out witch Belle must reclaim her magic in just one month after her 30th birthday summons her to a coven trial, or risk losing her powers forever.
Rewitched by Lucy Jane Wood
Four generations of Montrose women in California live with a family curse: anyone a Montrose woman falls in love with will die. When 17-year-old Nickie brings home a boy, long-held secrets, magical heritage, and past betrayals begin to surface.
Black Candle Women by Diane Marie Brown
Fantasy
When revolution burns down the Great Library, librarian Kiela and her sentient spider‐plant assistant flee to her childhood island and open a secret spellshop, risking everything to restore magic and build a new life.
The Spellshop by Sarah Beth Durst
A dark contemporary fantasy set in Los Angeles where Holland St. James must find the mythical Alchemical Heart before midnight to escape a foretold death. As she unravels urban legends and faces a mysterious protector, she discovers that everyone, po...
Alchemy of Secrets by Stephanie Garber