A Fall TBR
Today's Top Ten Tuesday topic is Books on my Fall TBR. Fall is 3 months long. I have no idea. So my list will be books that would be good to read in the Fall. I don't want to tip my hand and say what will be on my October TBR, so if any of these books are on that list I won't mention it. Also, that TBR isn't complete anyway.
In the Fall I like to read spooky books around Halloween and more serious literature. Literary Fiction is perfect for a rainy Fall day. Certain types of non-fiction, such as books about books and true-crime, feel good for Fall. Darker mystery books and thrillers and fantasy are also possibilities.
Ok. Now, I've created the list, and honestly, every book on the list is a spooky October book. I could literally create a 10-book list for all three months of Fall. So anyway, here are 10 books that feel to me like they should be read in October.
Morgue: A Life in Death by Vincent DiMaio - DiMaio is a renowned foresnsic scientist and this book is a collection of stories from his decades-long career.
The Quick by Lauren Owen - What better time to read a giant book about vampires?
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo - Dark Academia at Yale.
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides - More Dark Academia in England. Girls are going missing and the main character thinks it's a professor.
Hour of the Witch by Chris Bohjalian - This author usually does pretty high brow stuff, so a literary fiction version of a witch story? Yes, please.
Empire of the Vampire by Jay Kristoff - Again. Vampires. Duh.
Bullet Train by Kotaro Isaka - 6 assassins on a train. Someone is going to die.
Cackle by Rachel Harrison - This is a novel about a sweet, young woman who moves to a small town to be a teacher and meets an outgoing, fashionable woman who takes her under her wing. Except the other citizens seem to be afraid of her.
Book of Night by Holly Black - I don't know what this is about. Something about shadow magic and a low-level con artist. But it screams spooky read.
The Inheritance of Orquidea Divina by Zoraida Cordova - This is more magical realism than spooky, but still. An old matriarch calls her family to her before she dies. Something about she turns into a tree and there is a mystery about all the childrens' inheritance.
Okay there are 10 books that say "Fall Reads" to me.