Hi! I'm a lover of literary fiction, and I'm already craving books that feel like autumn. I usually love summer til the last drop but this one has just been too hot for even me (South Carolina native).
Last year I read Mona Awad's Bunny and I continue to think about it. (I'll probably listen to the audiobook again this year as a treat for myself.) Awad so perfectly combines bizarre, Halloween-y, magical realism with deliciously autumnal dark academia. This autumn, I'm hoping to read something that gives me the same feeling of delightfully creepy dark academia.
Note: I also enjoyed Mona Awad's other novels (namely Rouge and All's Well) but those feel rooted more in seasons other than fall imo. I've read a good number of dark academia novels (including The Secret History, If We Were Villains, and These Violent Delights,) and those all fit the bill to some degree.
Please hit me with your strange, autumnal, literary suggestions! What books do you love that feel like autumn?
I'm open to cozy and to some degree of genre-fiction, but I tend to be impatient with poorly written prose.
by yunganxiety
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Here are a couple that would make great fall reads and match your criteria.
The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco