Books for my favourite season of all! These books contain themes of derailment and delusion, transitional periods, a slow descent into darkness or obscurity, the taboo and the monstrous, autumnal aesthetics, turning inward, a slowing down, older age or a point of maturity, or a midpoint between life and death.

"Confronting political violence, historical atrocities, & social inequalities through ghosts, decay, & the uncanny." Reading list for Fall 2026 (all credit to Classically Clare on tiktok)

Vampires, because who doesn’t love a good vampire book?

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Personally my favourite time of year is the autumn, when the evenings are dark, I can curl up with a blanket, whack the fairy lights on, and play Stardew Valley while listening to gothic / spooky / dark academia fiction. These are the books for that.

Women’s fiction reads with hints of magical realism

Whether you are a horror lover, a thriller fanatic, a psychological suspense connoisseur, or you would rather something lighter for your October reads like a cosy fantasy or a comedic murder mystery, the PG Book Club has you sorted! Here you will find fiction recommendations across a broad range of genres, and maybe even a new favourite to share with your friends and family.

Some of my favorite books

Just some recommendations of my fav spicy books that will have you blushing and fanning yourself. Probs wouldn’t read them in public btw. List is a work in progress. Also, if the book is in a series then my suggestion would be to read the whole series.

Queer, radical and progressive books set and/or written in the 40s, 50s and 60s.

liminal spaces

Horror novels that were so horrific they got adapted for the silver scream! Only select Stephen King titles to keep this from being The Stephen King Show :')

location based horror

women who lose the plot, lose people, lose themselves a little, and eventually find their way back

Books that combine horror and romance. HEA (or HFN) guaranteed.

Horror books that take place around or during Halloween! Quite a lot of anthologies. Please feel free to suggest more :)

Mlm books that are bittersweet. You might cry, but you’ll still have hope at the end :,)

I’m writing a book where something similar to the rapture happens, so I want to read more books with that concept! Most of these I haven’t read yet, but they popped up when I was googling the subject!

This will include fiction, sci-fi, fantasy, dystopia, and general apocalypse type books. Anything involving a huge amount of people suddenly vanishing and those left behind have to survive.

Please let me know if you have recommendations, especially books where aliens are disappearing people!

If you have read Bill Bryson A Short History of Nearly Everything and/or are craving an existential crisis, these books should do the trick (so I’m told).