Category: recommendations

The leaves are changing colour where I live and it’s got me thinking about the kinds of books I love reading when the days start getting shorter and there is a bite in the air. Autumn is settling in so it’s time to get comfortable with a warm blanket or two and a book that matches the atmosphere.

I know many people have wonderful seasonal books they recommend, every season. I’m mostly a mood reader and it takes me on whatever whims each day, even to the last minute right before I pick up a book. However, this autumn, I wanted to curate a number of books that just feel like the perfect fit for this season.

I don’t know how others define an “autumnal” book, but the ones I’m drawn to are those with darker undertones looming in the story to match the shorter daylight hours, or a whimsical fantasy that has just the right amount of hope to lift the spirits from the cold, or a contemporary novel set somewhere between the playfulness of summer and joy of snowy winter days. I’m not sure, actually, if that makes sense to anyone else, but I shall try to justify the following choices below.

Why cozy fall romances though?

I wanted to highlight the beauty of a love story that fits with the emotions an autumn book, as I defined it, would elicit. Although I’d say my genres are more vast than only romances, I find romances are found in a lot of places. And perhaps, it too makes for an additional layer of beauty to appreciate in the autumn season.