Summer is over, and it is impossible to ignore autumn. Its approach is important. You can sullenly wait for grayness and slush, killing time in a real money casino, or you can enjoy the yellow leaves, fresh air, and coolness. Autumn is romance, lyricism, quiet and peaceful joy, summing up, a cosy time for housework, books, warmth, and tea. 

That’s why so many people adore it and cherish the most atmospheric books until fall. They can’t be lumped into one genre. Perhaps the time of year in the novel even diverges from what’s on the calendar, but there’s an incredible lightness and contentment with the period you’re in from reading it at once. We’ve compiled for you a list of the most appropriate books to welcome fall.

1. “Blackberry Wine” by Joanne Harris 

Basically, any book by Joanne Harris can be read avidly all fall and winter. They are incredibly atmospheric, cozy, warming, and giving a peaceful glow. They can be compared to a cup of the most fragrant cocoa. They have the smell of baked goods, the rustle of leaves or the howling of the wind, the rich harvest of fruit, the crispness of apple pie crust. The author of the famous book “Chocolate”, on the basis of which there is no less stunning film adaptation, all his works are written in this vein. By the way, if you like movies with tasty plots, check out this selection of gourmet movies (Joan’s chocolate hit is there, too). 

“Blackberry Wine” is Harris’ most autumnal novel. After all, when better to sip the fragrant and tart house wine of the summer harvest than in the fall? Writer Jay, now in crisis and not writing, find six bottles of old wine. They are miraculously preserved from his childhood days, and each sip reeks of nostalgia and the bitterness of lost years. This drink was created by a strange old man, a neighbor who practically raised Jay and made him who he is. Afterward, he disappeared without a trace, and all his stories seem like smoke and illusion. Living in his embittered and disillusioned world, Jay has no idea that soon every sip of found wine will change his life.

2. “Orphan’s Tales” by Catherynne Valente

In the fall, it’s best to read fairy tales. But not simple ones, but gloomy ones designed for adults. When the rain is drumming on the windows and it gets dark early, what could be better than this? Acclaimed storyteller Catherine Valente does it best with her books to help you create an ineffable atmosphere.

A strange girl with tattoos (even on her eyelids!) tells her incomprehensible, frightening, yet eerily appealing tales to a prince in the garden. All these stories of distant lands and unknown heroes are woven into a graceful narrative, taking the boy into a dream world that is more frightening and bizarre. Here you will find echoes of Oriental legends, Grimm Brother’s tales, the mythology of various countries, and Anderson’s work. Dragons, princesses, pirates, adventures, witches. All of these are children’s stories, but behind them lurk adult fears and dreams.

3. “The Screaming Staircase” by Jonathan Stroud

Stroud is an acclaimed fiction writer who has finally begun to be translated here, much to the delight of fans. He creates compelling and unusual stories, which is why he is now so popular all over the world and his novels are becoming bestsellers. The first volume of the Lockwood Agency trilogy, The Screaming Staircase, has been translated into dozens of languages. 

In addition, Autumn is also drawn to mystical stories about ghosts and ghosts. In an alternate reality, these creatures dwell among us and can make life very difficult for mere mortals. Fortunately, if the whole agency, which will help you get rid of uninvited guests from the otherworldly world. There’s just a catch: ghosts can only see children and teenagers, adults do not have such a gift. The Lockwood Agency, consisting of the owner himself and two other children, travels to the mansion with the Screaming Staircase, from which no one has ever returned alive.

4. “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro

This author’s books (Japanese by birth) are filled to the brim with the melancholy of autumn, pensive and measured. They are best suited for philosophical and leisurely reading as the leaves fall and the day grows shorter. Not for nothing, the author won the prestigious Booker Prize. And before you is perhaps the most autumnal of all his novels.

“Never Let Me Go” is a nostalgia book, a book of memories. In it, the past is intertwined with the present, which pales before the events of bygone days. This story is filled with dark secrets and skeletons in closets, summer has gone by and the eternal autumn of life. At thirty, Katie recalls her life, or rather her childhood, at an elite school. That’s not to say it was a bright childhood. It was filled with misunderstandings, secrets, and danger. But it was filled with love and wonderful friendships.

5. “Titus Groan” by Mervyn Peake

A gloomy, gloomy story about a gloomy, gloomy castle, which is great if you want to catch a gloomy, gloomy fall mood. And jokes aside, what we have before us is another, beautiful and engaging adult fairy tale. Moreover, the novel was written 70 years ago and was at the origin of the birth of modern fantasy.

For over 60 generations of the Groan family, they have ruled Gormenghast Castle. The existence of this block owes its existence to the ancient Ritual and its consequences, which subdue the lives of the inhabitants of the castle and envelope it all, like a spider’s web. All quarrels, passions, feelings seem small and insignificant against the old and black walls of the castle. However, when the unusual boy Titus is born here, the usual course of things changes.