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Autumn for us begins on the 1st September – BRING ON THE PUMPKINS, and as a book lover it is only right that I share my favourite books to curl up with this Autumn. I have included a mixture of genres including heart-warming fiction and atmospheric thrillers so there is something for everyone. What is your favourite season to read? I personally love nothing more than curling up on the sofa, with my Autumn candles lit, with my book (once the kids are in bed of course, it’s just not the same vibe when they are charging around after each other LOL).
The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue By V.E.Schwab // Link
When Addie La Rue makes a pact with the devil, she trades her soul for immortality. But there’s always a price – the devil takes away her place in the world, cursing her to be forgotten by everyone.
Addie flees her tiny home town in 18th-Century France, beginning a journey that takes her across the world, learning to live a life where no one remembers her and everything she owns is lost and broken. Existing only as a muse for artists throughout history, she learns to fall in love anew every single day.
Her only companion on this journey is her dark devil with hypnotic green eyes, who visits her each year on the anniversary of their deal. Alone in the world, Addie has no choice but to confront him, to understand him, maybe to beat him.
Until one day, in a second hand bookshop in Manhattan, Addie meets someone who remembers her. Suddenly thrust back into a real, normal life, Addie realises she can’t escape her fate forever.
These Witches Don’t Burn By Isabel Sterling // Link
A Sapphic witchy romance? YES PLEASE.
These Witches Don’t Burn follows an Elemental witch named Hannah, who lives in Salem, Massachusetts. At first it seems like the hardest thing she’ll have to do that summer is avoid her ex-girlfriend, but her problems become much worse when evidence of dark magic begins to appear all over Salem, and Hannah’s sure it’s the work of a deadly Blood Witch. The issue is, her coven is less than convinced, forcing Hannah to team up with the last person she wants to see- Veronica.
While the pair attempt to smoke out the Blood Witch at a house party, Hannah meets Morgan, a cute new ballerina in town. But trying to date amid a supernatural crisis is easier said than done, and Hannah will have to test the limits of her power if she’s going to save her coven and get the girl, especially when the attacks on Salem’s witches become deadlier by the day.
Little Women By Louise May Alcott // Link
I couldn’t share Autumn favourites and NOT include a classic could I?! Especially an edition as beautiful as this one.
It describes the family of the four March sisters living in a small New England community. Meg, the eldest, is pretty and wishes to be a lady; Jo, at fifteen is ungainly and unconventional with an ambition to be an author; Beth is a delicate child of thirteen with a taste for music and Amy is a blonde beauty of twelve.
The story of their domestic adventures, their attempts to increase the family income, their friendship with the neighbouring Laurence family, and their later love affairs remains as fresh and beguiling as ever.
The Wedding Date By Jasmine Guillory // Link
On the eve of his ex’s wedding festivities, Drew Nichols is minus a plus one. Until a power outage strands him with the perfect candidate for a fake girlfriend…
Agreeing to go to a wedding with a guy she gets stuck with in an elevator is not something Alexa Monroe would normally do. But Drew’s proposal proves hard to resist.
After their wedding date turns into a whole weekend of fun in San Francisco, Drew and Alexa return to their all-consuming careers – his in LA and hers in Berkeley. Too bad they can’t stop thinking about each other…
It could be the long-distance dating disaster of the century – or Drew and Alexa could be just a flight away from what each of them truly wants.
Pumpkinheads By Rainbow Rowell // Link
Deja and Josiah are seasonal best friends.
Every autumn, all through high school, they’ve worked together at the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world (not many people know that the best pumpkin patch in the whole wide world is in Omaha, Nebraska, but it definitely is). They say goodbye every Halloween, and they’re reunited every September.
But this Halloween is different – Josiah and Deja are finally seniors, and this is their last season at the pumpkin patch. Their last shift together. Their last goodbye.
Josiah’s ready to spend the whole night feeling melancholy about it. Deja isn’t ready to let him. She’s got a plan: what if instead of moping, they went out with a bang? They could see all the sights! Taste all the snacks! And Josiah could finally talk to that cute girl he’s been mooning over for three years . . .
What if their last shift was an adventure?
Little Fires Everywhere By Celeste Ng // Link
Everyone in Shaker Heights was talking about it that summer: how Isabelle, the last of the Richardson children, had finally gone around the bend and burned the house down.
In Shaker Heights, a placid, progressive suburb of Cleveland, everything is meticulously planned – from the layout of the winding roads, to the colours of the houses, to the successful lives its residents will go on to lead. And no one embodies this spirit more than Elena Richardson, whose guiding principle is playing by the rules.
Enter Mia Warren – an enigmatic artist and single mother- who arrives in this idyllic bubble with her teenage daughter Pearl, and rents a house from the Richardsons. Soon Mia and Pearl become more than just tenants: all four Richardson children are drawn to the mother-daughter pair. But Mia carries with her a mysterious past, and a disregard for the rules that threatens to upend this carefully ordered community.
With The Fire On High By Elizabeth Acevedo // Link
Ever since she got pregnant, seventeen-year-old Emoni’s life has been about making the tough decisions – doing what has to be done for her young daughter and her grandmother. Keeping her head down at school, trying not to get caught up with new boy Malachi. The one place she can let everything go is in the kitchen, where she has magical hands – whipping up extraordinary food beloved by everyone.
Emoni wants to be a chef more than anything, but she knows it’s pointless to pursue the impossible. There are rules she has to play by. And yet, once she starts cooking, and gets that fire on high, she sees that her drive to feed will feed her soul and dreams too. And anything is possible.
A Court Of Thorns & Roses By Sarah J Maas // Link
My favourite fantasy series EVER. I am currently rereading this series with some of the That Mama Book Club girls and it has been SO much fun. Some are reading it for the first time and it’s great to see their reactions!
Feyre is a huntress. And when she sees a deer in the forest being pursued by a wolf, she kills the predator and takes its prey to feed herself and her family. But the wolf was not what it seemed, and Feyre cannot predict the high price she will have to pay for its death …
Dragged away from her family for the murder of a faerie, Feyre discovers that her captor, his face obscured by a jewelled mask, is hiding even more than his piercing green eyes suggest.
As Feyre’s feelings for Tamlin turn from hostility to passion, she learns that the faerie lands are a far more dangerous place than she realized. And Feyre must fight to break an ancient curse, or she will lose him forever.
The Bromance Book Club By Lissa Kay Adams // Link
The first rule of book club:
You don’t talk about book club.
Gavin Scott’s marriage is trouble. The Nashville Legends baseball star has recently discovered a humiliating secret: his wife Thea has always faked the Big O. His reaction to the revelation is the final straw for their already strained relationship. Thea asks for a divorce, and Gavin realizes he’s let his pride and fear get the better of him.
Welcome to the Bromance Book Club.
Distraught and desperate, Gavin finds help from an unlikely source: a secret romance book club made up of Nashville’s top alpha men. With the help of their current read, a steamy Regency called Courting the Countess, the guys coach Gavin on saving his marriage. But it’ll take a lot more than flowery words and grand gestures for this hapless Romeo to find his inner hero and win back the trust of his beloved wife.
Ace Of Spades By Faridah Àbíké-Íyímídé // Link
Hello, Niveus High. It’s me. Who am I? That’s not important. All you need to know is…I’m here to divide and conquer. – Aces
Welcome to Niveus Private Academy, where money paves the hallways, and the students are never less than perfect. Until now. Because anonymous texter, Aces, is bringing two students’ dark secrets to light.
Talented musician Devon buries himself in rehearsals, but he can’t escape the spotlight when his private photos go public.
Head girl Chiamaka isn’t afraid to get what she wants, but soon everyone will know the price she has paid for power.
Someone is out to get them both. Someone who holds all the aces. And they’re planning much more than a high-school game…
The Song Of Achilles By Madeline Miller // Link
Greece in the age of heroes. Patroclus, an awkward young prince, has been exiled to the court of King Peleus and his perfect son Achilles. Despite their differences, Achilles befriends the shamed prince, and as they grow into young men skilled in the arts of war and medicine, their bond blossoms into something deeper – despite the displeasure of Achilles’s mother Thetis, a cruel sea goddess.
But when word comes that Helen of Sparta has been kidnapped, Achilles must go to war in distant Troy and fulfill his destiny. Torn between love and fear for his friend, Patroclus goes with him, little knowing that the years that follow will test everything they hold dear.
Deepti Gupta
Some of these look really great reads, thanks for sharing!
Rosie Ireland
I watched Little Fires Everywhere a few weeks ago and have been trying to get a copy of the book to read. I think it would be perfect to curl up on the sofa as the rain falls outside and the fire crackles away while I turn the pages!
This post has given me alllll of the Autumn feels!
Rosie
Cristina Rosano
Love this selection! And I must say that I really need to get to read some of these, Ace of Spades, WIth the fire on high and the bromance book club are up on my list! The song of Achilles is one of my favourites! And still missing on The invisible life of Addie Larue! Thanks for sharing x
Fadima Mooneira
Book no.1, 2 & 4 is definitely on my street! I’m interested to read these three book. Thank you for sharing this list. It’s a good one.
Rayo
Wow… Ace of Spades is easily my favorite out of these selections. Thank you for putting these together
Jenny in Neverland
I love Little Women. I think that’s such a perfect choice for Autumn! Some great suggestions here though, I need some more books to add to my TBR x
Soffy
These all sound great! I’m intrigued by the Little Fires Everywhere book, the tv series was amazing would love to give the novel a go.
Jodie | That Happy Reader
I’ve read a couple of these books already, but thanks for recommending several more! I really enjoyed The Wedding Date series which BTW you don’t have to read in order.
Caroline
Ooh, these books sound good, I particularly like the sound of These Witches Don’t Burn and The Wedding Date! x
readandreviewit
Love this! There’s so many books on here that I still need to read – but I recently finished The Invisible Life Of Addie LaRue and wow, it was good! Thanks for sharing, adding most of these onto my tbr now, haha x
Headphonesthoughts
I love the little women movies I totally need to read the book.
Jaya Avendel
You have got some lovely books here! It brings me such happiness to see Little Women on this list, as it is one of my favorite reads. I look forward to checking out The Bromance Club and, especially, The Fire On High. What a stunning cover!
Thanks for sharing. 🙂
Sue Berk Koch
I enjoyed Little Fires Everywhere, too. I loved A Darker Shade of Magic by V.E.Scwab so I’ll give her latest a go! Thanks for the great line up.
Mummy Conquering Anxiety
Where do I start? Little Women, classic. I loved Little Fires Everywhere on TV & always prefer the book to TV or Film. A lot more detail.
Also want to check out These Witches Don’t Burn. Looks great
Thank you for this list!
Katie
Little Women was one of my absolute favorites growing up. And I also really loved Little Fires Everywhere – but I didn’t ever watch the show. Book is amazing though