What are YOUR FAVORITE AUTUMN READS? Add them to the comments below and browse the others for inspiration. Leave a like with those you've read and loved, so everyone can be inspired and maybe find their own next favorite book!
Your enthusiasm and suggestions for reading make me want to gather all the books and hibernate for the next few months and read with my new autumn blanket, a cat in my lap, and a bottomless cup of tea!!! Thank you!! 🍂🧡🍁
Oh my goodness, thank you so much for mentioning Lockwood and Co!!!! We are trying to save the tv show. Feel free to check the website link in our bio!!!
I was at an author talk/book signing this summer for J Ryan Stradel, and he was asked what book he would recommend, and it was The Kamogawa Food Detectives. I have never heard anyone else talk about this book. I hope to get to it soon.
I enjoy your channel so much. I love how you gave the recommendation based on the reader's preferences, including their possible dislikes. I don't believe I've seen that elsewhere. I dig it.
@@cafeaulivre Absolutely true! Breaks my heart when I adore a book and no one else gets it, if they deem to read it at all ("Timothy or Notes of an Abject Reptile," comes to mind). And conversely, when a friend recommends a book that I loathed and then have to couch my reaction of it to them. No one wants to be told that their recommendation was just awful even if it's true, Ha. (I'm looking at you "Fifty Shades of Gray" and friend "L".) Thank heaven there is something for everyone who wants to read. It's a lovely, big world.
When autumn arrives I always feel like rereading the Wicca-series (I think it’s called Sweep in English), it just gives autumn vibes + it’s quite nostalgic to me. Maybe I’ll give Frankenstein a chance this year. 👀 Addie LaRue has also been on my tbr forever.
I'm planning on doing a "Frankentober" challenge this year--reading the 1818 Frankenstein, and then several books inspired by it or about Mary Shelley.
@@cafeaulivre I've only read A Farewell to Arms but fell in love so I'm excited for this! Nonfiction November will be perfect. I moved it around on my shelf with the other 3 I will read that month.
It’s not because I love a certain book, others will too. It’s not about being wrong or right, but about getting the right books in front of the right audience. That’s what I try to do at least ☺️ so thank you for watching
This summer I bought Autumn Chills, what a coincidence! 😅 I also want to read The Secret History by D. Tartt and Simon by Narine Abgaryan. Enjoy reading this cozy season! 📖🍁
Lots of great suggestions! I’d have to add H.P. Lovecraft to this list, especially for fans of Poe. He is the master of existential dread and perfect for autumn/Halloween reading!
Thank you for the recommendations. I think the Agatha Christie book will be perfect for my father. He loves her books, but I don't think he has read many of her short stories. His birthday just happens to be in the autumn. Thank you for the gift idea.😊
A book for foodies? Well don’t mind if i do 👀 the only book I already own is The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab and so many people have recommend this to me that it’s definitely going on my autumn TBR 🧡
Agreed: dark academia, supernatural tales, gothic horror, Frankenstein, Poe, Ogawa, Jackson, etc. I’d add a couple of works that I turn to in the fall: The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - a twisted philosophical murder mystery set in a 14th century Italian abbey on the edge of the Alps. A labyrinthine library hiding forbidden texts. Grotesque monks with dark pasts and shady motivations. A Franciscan friar and his Benedictine novice (think Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson) must get to the bottom of a diabolical series of murders amid a theological disputation between Pope John XXII and the Franciscans over the question of apostolic poverty. This book has everything I need for a cozy fall read. The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake - a quasi-medieval castle (a sprawling, crumbling labyrinth in itself) populated by grotesqueries dark and surreal. Peake was a poet, illustrator, and author, and he penned a story cycle like no other in the English language. I read one of these novels every fall when the sun fades away leaving the wind to blow fallen leaves about. And whenever it gets dark, my mind turns to Thomas Ligotti…and I shiver.
Excellent additions, both of them. I’m a big fan of The Name of the Rose fan and I guess I’m due a reread. However, it is one of those books…once you know the ending/solution…
@@cafeaulivre Bart, when you get to Winter and Christmas time, I hope you'll consider including A Christmas Memory by Capote. Nothing captures that season for me as much as that novella does. I'd enjoy hearing your take on it.
LOL, I live in West Texas and it sure feels like that here too. We have short springs, short autumns, usually mild winters, and TWO summers, Summer I and Summer II. 🤪
Hello again friend 👋 I have a few of these books on my kindle and haven’t got to them yet so might bump them up on the reading list based on your recommendation , i have the food detectives and the housekeeper and the professor. I loved the invisible life of addie and the graveyard book. I absolutely love Poe and you’re so right , he’s not talked about enough!! I still haven’t read Dracula (I know , I know)😂 it’s in the post on the way but I have read Carmilla by Sheridan le fanu which I really enjoyed recently. So I definitely will be reading Dracula this year I have to 💯 🫣
What are YOUR FAVORITE AUTUMN READS? Add them to the comments below and browse the others for inspiration. Leave a like with those you've read and loved, so everyone can be inspired and maybe find their own next favorite book!
Your enthusiasm and suggestions for reading make me want to gather all the books and hibernate for the next few months and read with my new autumn blanket, a cat in my lap, and a bottomless cup of tea!!! Thank you!! 🍂🧡🍁
That does sound like an excellent plan actually 🍂
I agree 📚 🫖
Yes! New video! Haha I am so happy I found your channel, such a nice pleasant time❤
Thank you, so kind!
Hmmm the magpie murders! I’m interested! Might have to get that!
I love Horowitz as a crime writer!
Oh my goodness, thank you so much for mentioning Lockwood and Co!!!! We are trying to save the tv show. Feel free to check the website link in our bio!!!
I was at an author talk/book signing this summer for J Ryan Stradel, and he was asked what book he would recommend, and it was The Kamogawa Food Detectives. I have never heard anyone else talk about this book. I hope to get to it soon.
I havn’t seen many others talk about it either, must be one of those books that stayed under the radar
Great suggestions thank you. I will add Autumn is also a great time to read William Blake
I do agree, I didn’t really include poetry as a category, but Blake certainly would have been in it. Keats has some great ‘autumn poetry’ as well.
@cafeaulivre Very true. I don't have a good reason but something about Autumn makes me want to read poetry.
I believe there’s a bundle with a poem a day for every day of autumn 🍂
I enjoy your channel so much. I love how you gave the recommendation based on the reader's preferences, including their possible dislikes. I don't believe I've seen that elsewhere. I dig it.
Thank you…that’s the hard thing about books: I can love a book while you might hate it and we’d both be right. 😋
@@cafeaulivre Absolutely true! Breaks my heart when I adore a book and no one else gets it, if they deem to read it at all ("Timothy or Notes of an Abject Reptile," comes to mind). And conversely, when a friend recommends a book that I loathed and then have to couch my reaction of it to them. No one wants to be told that their recommendation was just awful even if it's true, Ha. (I'm looking at you "Fifty Shades of Gray" and friend "L".) Thank heaven there is something for everyone who wants to read. It's a lovely, big world.
There luckily are enough books, that’s true, but as a UA-camr I know how emotions can flare when you have an opinion others don’t tend to agree with 🤣
@@cafeaulivre And bless YOU, Bart, for sticking your neck out by having an opinion. I couldn't do what you do but am ever so glad you do.
When autumn arrives I always feel like rereading the Wicca-series (I think it’s called Sweep in English), it just gives autumn vibes + it’s quite nostalgic to me.
Maybe I’ll give Frankenstein a chance this year. 👀
Addie LaRue has also been on my tbr forever.
Enjoy fall reading 🍂
A lovely list, thanks! I'd recommend Bulgakov's "The Master and Margarita"
An excellent recommendation and perhaps one that will surface in next week’s episode 👀
@@cafeaulivre I'll keep my eyes peeled for it! This book is a family favorite for three generations now and I love it so much...
Instantly added the first book to my tbr
Just one? 🤭
I'm planning on doing a "Frankentober" challenge this year--reading the 1818 Frankenstein, and then several books inspired by it or about Mary Shelley.
Now that’s a great plan! Enjoy your reading!
Thanks for the push to read A Moveable Feast. I'll definitely read it this fall!
It is possibly one of my favourite Hemingways and definitely the one that feels the least Hemingway 😋
@@cafeaulivre I've only read A Farewell to Arms but fell in love so I'm excited for this! Nonfiction November will be perfect. I moved it around on my shelf with the other 3 I will read that month.
@@Thecatladybooknook_PennyD Love that! And yes, Farewell to Arms is one of those other Hemingway books I always recommend.
Thanks for saying who would and would not like these books.
It’s not because I love a certain book, others will too. It’s not about being wrong or right, but about getting the right books in front of the right audience. That’s what I try to do at least ☺️ so thank you for watching
This summer I bought Autumn Chills, what a coincidence! 😅 I also want to read The Secret History by D. Tartt and Simon by Narine Abgaryan. Enjoy reading this cozy season! 📖🍁
I reread The Secret History every fall. It’s such a great match with autumn 🍂
@@cafeaulivre Wow! Can't wait to read it! ⌛️
Hope you enjoy it!
Lots of great suggestions! I’d have to add H.P. Lovecraft to this list, especially for fans of Poe. He is the master of existential dread and perfect for autumn/Halloween reading!
He truly is! The only reason I didn’t include him this time is that I already did a full video in him, but couldn’t agree more!
Thank you for the recommendations. I think the Agatha Christie book will be perfect for my father. He loves her books, but I don't think he has read many of her short stories. His birthday just happens to be in the autumn. Thank you for the gift idea.😊
Sounds like a great gift for him. Another idea might be her biography. She was a very interesting lady who lived an extraordinary life!
@@cafeaulivre Thanks!
A book for foodies? Well don’t mind if i do 👀 the only book I already own is The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue by V.E. Schwab and so many people have recommend this to me that it’s definitely going on my autumn TBR 🧡
Especially those who have a love for Asian food 😉
Agreed: dark academia, supernatural tales, gothic horror, Frankenstein, Poe, Ogawa, Jackson, etc. I’d add a couple of works that I turn to in the fall:
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco - a twisted philosophical murder mystery set in a 14th century Italian abbey on the edge of the Alps. A labyrinthine library hiding forbidden texts. Grotesque monks with dark pasts and shady motivations. A Franciscan friar and his Benedictine novice (think Sherlock Holmes and Dr. Watson) must get to the bottom of a diabolical series of murders amid a theological disputation between Pope John XXII and the Franciscans over the question of apostolic poverty. This book has everything I need for a cozy fall read.
The Gormenghast Novels by Mervyn Peake - a quasi-medieval castle (a sprawling, crumbling labyrinth in itself) populated by grotesqueries dark and surreal. Peake was a poet, illustrator, and author, and he penned a story cycle like no other in the English language. I read one of these novels every fall when the sun fades away leaving the wind to blow fallen leaves about.
And whenever it gets dark, my mind turns to Thomas Ligotti…and I shiver.
Excellent additions, both of them. I’m a big fan of The Name of the Rose fan and I guess I’m due a reread. However, it is one of those books…once you know the ending/solution…
Enough books to keep you reading until next Summer.
And we’re not even including Christmas books yet 🤣
@@cafeaulivre Bart, when you get to Winter and Christmas time, I hope you'll consider including A Christmas Memory by Capote. Nothing captures that season for me as much as that novella does. I'd enjoy hearing your take on it.
Jane Eyre, The Night Circus, Uprooted, and anything by Anne Rice.
Anne Rice, there’s a name that takes me back to my teens 🧛♂️
I love Rice’s writing and how much history she puts in her novels.
THE ANATOMY DUOLOGY!!!!
That's it, that's my comment.
I knew it would summon you 😋
There is no autumn where I live, only summer and winter.
And where is that, if you don't mine me asking?
I am so sorry!! 😢🧡🍁🧡🍂
my condolences :(
LOL, I live in West Texas and it sure feels like that here too. We have short springs, short autumns, usually mild winters, and TWO summers, Summer I and Summer II. 🤪
You must live in Oklahoma!
Hello again friend 👋 I have a few of these books on my kindle and haven’t got to them yet so might bump them up on the reading list based on your recommendation , i have the food detectives and the housekeeper and the professor.
I loved the invisible life of addie and the graveyard book. I absolutely love Poe and you’re so right , he’s not talked about enough!! I still haven’t read Dracula (I know , I know)😂 it’s in the post on the way but I have read Carmilla by Sheridan le fanu which I really enjoyed recently. So I definitely will be reading Dracula this year I have to 💯 🫣
Ps I heard I think it was T kingfisher has a book out that she took the inspiration from the fall of the house of usher
High time to read Dracula then 😊
@@cafeaulivre agreed ❤️