Uploaded October 2023 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
It's autumn in the northern hemisphere! To celebrate, I bring you a list of moody, melancholy, cozy, contemplative and eerie books that fit the atmosphere 🍁🍂
Mentioned:
@ivanainthecity
Books:
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au (2022)
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (2014)
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (2011)
The Coming Bad Days by Sarah Bernstein (2021)
Vilette by Charlotte Brontë (1853)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
Mrs. March by Virginia Feito (2021)
Howards End by E. M. Forster (1910)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
Pour un tombeau d'Anatole (For Anatole's Tomb) by Stéphane Mallrmé (1961, pub. posthumously)
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (2020)
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (1957)
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver (2016)
stories by Edgar Allen Poe
Autumn by Ali Smith (2016)
On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2005)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (2009)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (1948)
Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton (1973)
Letters from Maine by May Sarton (1984)
Un chien à ma table by Claudie Hunzinger (2022)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1974)
Three Streets by Yoko Tawada (trans. Margaret Mitsutani) (2022)
Socials:
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StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
It's autumn in the northern hemisphere! To celebrate, I bring you a list of moody, melancholy, cozy, contemplative and eerie books that fit the atmosphere 🍁🍂
Mentioned:
@ivanainthecity
Books:
Cold Enough for Snow by Jessica Au (2022)
An Unnecessary Woman by Rabih Alameddine (2014)
The Sense of an Ending by Julian Barnes (2011)
The Coming Bad Days by Sarah Bernstein (2021)
Vilette by Charlotte Brontë (1853)
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë (1847)
Mrs. March by Virginia Feito (2021)
Howards End by E. M. Forster (1910)
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro (1989)
Pour un tombeau d'Anatole (For Anatole's Tomb) by Stéphane Mallrmé (1961, pub. posthumously)
Death in Her Hands by Ottessa Moshfegh (2020)
Pnin by Vladimir Nabokov (1957)
Upstream: Selected Essays by Mary Oliver (2016)
stories by Edgar Allen Poe
Autumn by Ali Smith (2016)
On Beauty by Zadie Smith (2005)
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk (trans. Antonia Lloyd-Jones) (2009)
The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton (1920)
The Lottery by Shirley Jackson (1948)
Journal of a Solitude by May Sarton (1973)
Letters from Maine by May Sarton (1984)
Un chien à ma table by Claudie Hunzinger (2022)
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard (1974)
Three Streets by Yoko Tawada (trans. Margaret Mitsutani) (2022)
Socials:
Insta (@sdelphis): instagram.com/sdelphis
StoryGraph: @sdelphis
Substack: sophiedelphis.substack.com
