12 Books to Read During the Fall
Seeing how the coronavirus isn’t going to stop anytime soon, now is the perfect time to pick up a book to start reading. The air is cooler, Halloween is right around the corner, and we all still have more time to ourselves than usual. Although finding the perfect book that captures the aesthetic and feels that autumn brings can be difficult, I’ve discovered 12 beloved autumn-themed books anyone can enjoy.
Some are horror classic, others are romances that take place in autumn, and some are just books that feel like they should be read during the fall. There’s something for everyone to like.
12. Night Circus by Erin Morgenstern
Plot: When the circus arrives, two young magicians, Celia and Marco, must compete in a duel. A duel they’ve been training and preparing for since childhood and will, unknown to them, will only leave one still standing. When Celia and Marco unexpectedly fall in love, everyone lives at the circus are risked.
11. An Enchantment of Ravens by Margaret Rogerson
Plot: Isobel’s job is to create paintings for the fair folk. These clients are obsessed with human craft and pay her very well. One day she is commissioned to paint the autumn prince, Rook, but makes the mistake of putting human emotion into his face. Rook is upset and sends her to his kingdom to stand trial for her crime. When they get there, it becomes obvious something is messed up in his world when they start getting attacked from
every side. Things don’t go smoothly and soon Isobel is stuck with only Rook to depend on.
10. Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Plot: This classic novel tells the story of a young scientist, Victor Frankenstein, and his creation of the monster, Frankenstein.
9. Something Wicked This Way Comes by Ray Bradbury
Plot: In 1962, Cooger & Dark’s Pandemonium Shadow Show has come to Green Town, Illinois. Two thirteen-year-old best friends, Jim Nightshade and William Halloway discover how much of a nightmare the mysterious carnival actually is.
8. Dracula by Bram Stocker
Plot: A young English lawyer, Jonathan Harker, travels to Castle Dracula to finish a real estate transaction with Count Dracula. After meeting the elderly Dracula, Jonathan finds himself a prisoner in the castle. The longer he stays in the castle, the more he discovers how powerful Dracula actually is and how dangerous the situation he’s stuck in actually is.
7. Autumn at Apple Hill by Angie Ellington
Plot: Elise Jacobs is looking for a change after her divorce, and she finds one in relocating to Maine and operating her grandmother’s bed and breakfast, Apple Hill. She’s excited about her fresh start and to get Apple Hill up and running. Everything is going well until she meets Luke Donovan, a somewhat unpleasant and snooty customer until you get to know him. But can Elsie allow herself to trust Luke or will old insecurities come back to haunt her?
6. The Forgotten Garden by Kate Morton
Plot: After her grandmother dies, Cassandra is lost and filled with grief. One of the things she inherits a book of dark fairytales written by a victorian authoress who disappeared in the early twentieth century. This leads her to discover the truth about her family and eventually herself.
5. Dancing at Harvest Moon by K.C. McKinnon
Plot: After Maggie McIntyre lost her husband, she decides to move to The Harvest Moon, a dance hall she worked for in college. When she goes back to the small Canadian town from her past. Will she move on? Will she find new love?
4. Dead Poets Society by Nancy H. Kleinbaum
Plot: A new flamboyant English teacher, John Keating, is working at a dull, high standard preparatory academy. He challenges his students to “make your lives extraordinary” Which causes them to the Dead Poets Society: a secret club where the students can let their passions run wild. Can the club survive or will they be forced to go back to their former ways?
3. The Queen Who Flew by Ford Madox Ford
Plot: This fairytale is about an innocent queen, who spends her time in her garden talking to an old bat. The bat tells her a secret on how to fly. The queen takes this knowledge and starts flying around the world and encountering some enchanting adventures.
2. If We Were Villians by M. L. Rio
Plot: Oliver Marks is a fourth-year student at Dellecher Classical Conservatory with a close group of friends who also happen to all be actors. They’re all sick of playing the same characters, but just when casting changes and background characters start to outshine the former main characters, one of them is found dead. Oliver was sent to prison for the murder he may or may not have committed, but when he is released ten years later, he gets confronted with the man who put him in jail. Before Detective Colborne retires, he just wants to know what really happened ten years ago.
1. And There Were None by Agatha Christie
Plot: A group of strangers is invited to Indian Island by a mysterious host. The evening the guests arrived they hear an unknown recorded voice accusing all of them of murder.