15 Cosy and Gothic Autumn Books

[@ilmasaavedra3954]

Great comments. Thank you 😊

[@caitlingee]

You have really made me a better reader. I read with a more thoughtful mind and critical eye since watching your videos. I really love what you have done for the reading community ❤

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Oh wow, what a compliment! Thank you 💜

[@jonny2r]

Thanks for the recommendations Willow. I'm itching to read piranesi again, there's something so magical about the house, statues and sea.

[@WillowTalksBooks]

I couldn’t agree more :)

[@rottenmalice]

I have been trying to get back into novels since my reading skills are.. NOT great 😭 Due to the lack of reading I've done these past few years + my screentime. The way you talk about literature has made me want to read them all. I absolutely love your channel and everything about it! I am glad to have found your amazing recommendations 👏

[@helenapaiva860]

Drinking my morning coffee with this 😊😊😊

[@CestKevvie]

I read We Have Always Lived in the Castle, and I didn't really care for the narrator's voice. Also saw the twist coming miles away. Ooh I read Piranesi last year and loved it so much!! Definitely support the decision to include it based on vibes. Still have to read Notes of a Crocodile!

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Vibes are important!

[@wulfbana]

"vibes" is truly one of the best criteria ever haha thanks so much for the lovely list; it's autumn again and i fully intend to read some of these recs 🍂🎃☕ happy vibe season!

[@lindsaydentonsfringe4934]

everything you mentioned in this video are either books i've already read or are on my tbr list! your taste is immaculate and that is why you're my favourite booktuber! ♡

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Omgggggg thank you! 🥹

[@gingerdoll]

"Sink your ~fangs~ into this book." You must stop. 😂

[@krzysamm7095]

Got to read Agatha Christie Hallowe’en Party during October for me it is a treat

[@danaelamond6888]

Wuthering Heights is absolutely THE autumn book! I read it every single October, it’s just INSANELY GOOD! As always thanks for all the wonderful recommendations! ☺️

[@OlenskasBibliotek]

I absolutely adore "We have always lived in the castle" - I've just read it for the fourth time.

[@bobbykeniston7240]

Great List! I was happy to see you included "The Secret History". Donna Tartt went to Bennington a good 14 or 15 years before I did, but she was one of the major literary celebs for all of us. "The Secret History" is fun for Bennington alums because the college in the book is a thinly disguised roman à clef of the school, like Bret Easton Ellis's "The Rules of Attraction" (he and Donna Tartt were classmates and remain great friends, though I think she is the better writer--- still, "Lunar Park" is, I think, his best work, and great Halloween read). I do have to say, though autumn is absolutely beautiful in Vermont, and I love it there, my home state of Maine may even be better because one can visit the ocean.

[@kawaiiwitchbaby]

Love this list! So many to add to my tbr. Also love your jumper! 💛

[@rowdyyates4630]

You make me want to reread The Remains Of The Day and Wuthering Heights even though I didn't enjoy them the first time around. The way you talk about literature is amazing!

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Wow, thank you!

[@z1tkvn]

I always find new reads when I watch your videos, thank you!!!

[@WillowTalksBooks]

You’re very welcome :)

[@Kgstar402]

We've talked about our love for Wuthering Heights so I'm glad you included it in this list. I've also read several others you mentioned & added the others to my tbr. Once again, great recommendations.

[@rubyjreads7503]

Great list. I've found several to all to my list. Dracula is a fantastic read.

[@Salaciousreader]

I’ve just finished Lapvona (loved it), currently reading The Remains Of The Day and then onto The Secret History. Love your channel, keep up the great work!

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Yay, all stellar books!

[@Salaciousreader]

yeah that is a very long message!

[@kathy2539]

Australian here and receiving all of these amazing Autumn recommendations and it's Spring here in this big country, so I'm going to have to save my Autumn TBR for 2023 season. Oh boy! I'm not a horror fan and I'm not into scary, psychological books because they give me nightmares, really do! But saying this there are so many amazing books that I've seen and have TBR'd that can be read over the Autumn season. Thank you for your recommendations-some are making it to my TBR, I like the sound of The Manningtree Witches, really because of its British setting and the idea of a village with all women, intriguing!

[@isabelab6851]

Totally relate in the scary books …not for me. But also have become a better reader

[@mykenziemasters2793]

I’m going to the bookstore today- this came at a perfect time! You never miss

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Haha thanks!

[@sylvee2]

When you mentioned wuthering heights i thought back to "HEath CLIFF....HEATH CLIFF!!" Lmaoooo

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Omg I forgot I did that lol

[@sylvee2]

@@WillowTalksBooks its forever in my memory lmao

[@DollysGram]

Your videos just could never be too long! I find myself utterly absorbed in whatever you are sharing and then suddenly it's over! So I say bring on the biggest videos you want!!😘

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Awwwww thank you! Longer videos coming your way!

[@princesssparkle1980]

Great video - thanks for the recommendations. More for the tbr pile.

[@jassdad5202]

Well, I did read 5 of the books you listed. Might have to consider reading a few of the others on the list

[@jasmin5246]

Great recommendations! Can't wait to read those I haven't already 😍

[@isabelab6851]

Love the remains of the day. Remember reading when it first came out in 80s. I have read everything he has written

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Me too, he’s my absolute fave

[@CathrynDianne]

Great recommendations! I found The Manningtree Witches for $3 at a used book sale. It’s definitely next on my list

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Nice!

[@patriciaspindle7960]

Loved the video! I knew Frankestein and Wuthering Heights would be up there! 💜 I'm wondering if you have any plans to read Babel? I'd love to hear your thoughts about it.

[@WillowTalksBooks]

I’m probably not gonna read Babel. I thought The Poppy War was fine and didn’t finish the trilogy

[@patriciaspindle7960]

@@WillowTalksBooks aww, I'm sad to hear that. Ever since I heard Babel was like a tone response to The Secret History or a Donna Tart-meets-Susanna Clarke, I've been hyped to read it 😆

[@Fraserhansen]

I read The Remains of the Day earlier this year on your recommendation and was absolutely floored by it. The most interesting part of it for me was how brilliantly it explored the pre-ww2 period from the British perspective. There is such a sense of fragility in stevens' ego that blends both with national pride and a deference to authority that explains just how normalised fascism can become, all while being wrapped up in this sort-of tragic missed-opportunity narrative. Uhghgg so good

[@WillowTalksBooks]

God, how brilliantly put!!

[@bonnieheckman5049]

Willow, interesting Video. I am currently reading "The Manningtree Witches". I get the same reaction from the beautiful writing. Also, I have been doing some digging into the times of James I and the Witch trials. (I also love history). The Burning of Witches - or those perceived to be such - is actually scarier to me than the Witches themselves. (Witches & Vampires actually do not scare me.) Thank goodness I didn't live back in that time!

[@filmaddict143]

i love the way u describe books ❤️

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Oh wow, thank you!

[@leenakoponen5156]

Ohh so many of my favorites here and also some witchy books I haven't read! Highly recommend Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner, "--the witty, eerie, tender but firm life history of a middle-class Englishwoman who politely declines to make the expected connection with the opposite sex and becomes a witch instead" as John Updike perfectly describes it.

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Sounds amazing!

[@wrapped_upinbooks]

I agree with every single word of your review of Dracula. Couldn’t have said it better. Now excuse me as I run to go watch that Witchtober video from last year 🏃‍♀️

[@lindylouwho550]

What a fantastic list! Loved this video. Have you read The Bloody Chamber or The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter? Or any Roald Dahl adult short stories such as Skin or The Landlady? CREEPY!

[@WillowTalksBooks]

I haven’t read any of those! I must fix that!

[@Nixx0912]

There is a very good audiobook version of Bloody Chamber, part is read by Richard Armitage. I love his voice and Carter's retalings perfect match.

[@thegenesis0]

wow, that was a great video! I just suscribed to your channel!

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Thanks!

[@sailorsoph3470]

Well that's 18527899 more books to add to my tbr 😂 great recommendations Willow thanks!

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Haha you’re welcome 😌

[@ozastriza118]

Honestly, you can sell me any book at this point! I have a senseless vendetta against Shirley Jackson and Kazuo Ishiguro because I really didn't like The Haunting of Hill House and Never Let Me Go but the ones you mentioned in this one piqued my interest for the first time ever so thank you, I hope you're right :D

[@Nixx0912]

We have a quite beautiful spring this autumn I'm Lyon, so I get confused what I should be reading. It's 24°, I'm walking around in my t-shirt and considering going for an ice cream.

[@rachel1021]

Oh I just remembered the book Your House is On Fire, Your Children All Gone by Stefan Kiesbye. That book is definitely perfect for Autumn :)

[@carlospompeu3491]

My favorite autumn book is Moominvalley in November by Tove Jansson, not gothic at all, just really comforting and melancholic. The illustrations are beautiful too.

[@Ashmont27]

Out sounds incredible, hopefully I can pick that one up soon! Have you read Confessions by Kanae Minato?? I feel like you would appreciate it's deranged-ness (which is a compliment)

[@WillowTalksBooks]

I haven’t! Gotta get on it!

[@ujjyaini332]

I read Wuthering Height in class 9 because it was the book Bella was reading in Twilight. So I guess thank you Bella Swan 😂

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Haha I literally just mentioned this in my Twilight video!

[@rachel1021]

I wrote down some of these titles in a notebook so I can better remember them, and I just placed a library hold for Manningtree Witches, yay. Idk if this book would count, I'm not that smart, but I really liked Summer Sons by Lee Mandelo. And I finished What Moves the Dead. It was creepy and fun and Avi Roque did a wonderful job with the narration. Anyway this is an entertaining video :)

[@WillowTalksBooks]

I can’t wait to read What Moved the Dead!

[@bixiella7830]

SO glad you recommended OUT!! I read it a year ago and have not stopped thinking about it since! I physically cringed during the more gore-ish parts but couldn't get enough

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Yeah that book really stays with you!

[@WhiskeyBlack777]

Where did you get that pretty edition of Wuthering Heights!?!?!

[@WillowTalksBooks]

It’s a Chiltern Classics edition :)

[@SuzyYen82]

I want to read Dracula now 😂But I don't have the book. 😭. I am currently reading a korean folklore book about nine tail foxes or as the Koreans call it, gumiho. It's a re-read actually. An enjoyable one. I like it. Hope you have a good Halloween this October, Willow 😊

[@lindylouwho550]

Have you read Suture by Nic Brewer? I have it on my TBR - would love to hear your thoughts on it. 🤔

[@WillowTalksBooks]

I haven’t but I’ll check it out :)

[@Nikita35485]

I really wanna a copy of We Have Always Lived in the Castle as a book cause reading a long literary work in a smartphone is much uncomfortable for English learners like me. It takes a lot of time and you value a copy much more than a file on the Net. Update: what the 214 pages of the novel (info from Wiki page)!? Then I can try to read it as a whole through the screen.

[@CeciliaReads]

I don't know if I'm in the minority but I find beautiful prose off putting. I tried to read The Secret History and couldn't get through it. If you have to rely on slurs to show that your character is a bad person, you're not a good writer.

[@agniguha3002]

Wait that was only 14 books! Am I missing something? 🥺

[@WillowTalksBooks]

Oh whoops! Check out the article in the description for more lol

[@agniguha3002]

Never heard of this one, but you have a way of talking about books that makes me wanna read it! ❤🥴❤

[@bookofdust]

Lol, in the past I thought we were on the same wavelength on most books. But for me Piranesi was just heartbreaking and brutal, sad beyond sad, all about melancholy and isolation. And Lapvona was a laugh out loud riot, like an adult Disney animated film on steroids with gross out potty humor and farce with Quasimodo and the King from Shrek! I was hoping that one of the books you were going to mention was What Moves the Dead, a new book out this summer that retells Fall of the House of Usher. I would be very much interested in what you make of the lead character who is non-binary. I saw what appeared to be two separate marketing threads, one touting it as LGBTQ and another not highlighting that aspect at all. And then there’s the execution of the character in the book itself. I did read one of my favorites authors, Jeanette Winterson’s, FranKissStein, which was both historical about Mary Shelly’s life and writing the book, and speculative about sex robots and AI in the very near future. It’s a very interesting rife on the story and a great seasonal read as well.

[@WillowTalksBooks]

What Moves The Dead isn’t out here yet so I haven’t read it but I’m gonna