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Perfect books for Autumn reading

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sunshineandkindle · 05/09/2025 12:10

Let's make a list!

  1. Anne of Green Gables
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Dappy777 · 05/09/2025 15:42
  1. M. R. James: Ghost stories
  2. Dickens: Ghost and Christmas stories
  3. C. S. Lewis: Narnia series
  4. Tolkien: The Hobbit (Lewis and Tolkien tell a great yarn for the fireside – not that I have a fireside🤔)
  5. P. G. Wodehouse: Jeeves and Wooster novels (a bit of light and joy for when the clocks change and we're plunged into darkness)
  6. Oscar Wilde: Dorian Gray (love the macabre darkness)
  7. Patrick Fermor: A Time of Gifts (a travel book that is filled with joy – like Wodehouse, Fermor is a great antidote to the darkness)
ChessieFL · 05/09/2025 15:47

Wuthering Heights

FancyBiscuitsLevel · 05/09/2025 17:08

September always feels like a good time for cost murder mystery books of the Agatha Christie type, before we head into the gothic reads for Halloween.

YeatsWater · 05/09/2025 17:19

Well, it depends whether you want to lean into fading light/seasons of mists and mellow fruitfulness etc, or the reverse.

For the first, I would suggest Bowen's The Last September, Alain Fournier's Le Grand Meaulnes, Olga Tokarczuk's The Empusium, Edith Wharton's The Age of Innocence or The House of Mirth, Ali Smith's Autumn, Donna Tartt's The Secret History, Daphne Du Maurier's My Cousin Rachel, John Updike's The Witches of Eastwick, and The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet by David Mitchell.

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 05/09/2025 17:21

The Fortnight in September, RC Sheriff.

Arraminta · 08/09/2025 19:43

The Binding by Bridget Collins. The perfect Autumnal read. Very atmospheric with gothic overtones.

NewEnglandWeekend · 08/09/2025 19:48

I was going to say The Fortnight in September! A lovely book.

KelsCommemorativeSausage · 08/09/2025 19:52

@NewEnglandWeekend I'm halfway through my annual read of it, I love it.

Colefra · 24/10/2025 11:22

Giving this one a gentle bump, I'm looking for some great autumn reads. I'm over murder and chick lit!

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