"Autumn is for reading good books
in cozy little nooks."
PIPPI POST, as seen on Instagram
And a Happy October to you! Lots of trees in the neighbourhood now stand leafless while others hold fast their greenery until that first hard frost (which we haven't had yet). With days growing cooler and shorter, 'tis the season for drawing closer to home (at least in our imaginations), for lighting candles or turning on twinkle lights, and for thinking about the books we might want to read as dusk settles in the corners.
Going through my blog archives, I came across an old book meme I once participated in (2009). Remembering it was a fun way to create a reading list, I started thinking up all sorts of titles - some are already on my own shelves, some I could borrow from the library, and others are on 'to be read' lists.
Here is my list. I hope it stirs up ideas for your own list of books to read this autumn.
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A book with a 'profession' in its title
The Artist's Way by Julia Cameron
The Farmer's Wife by Helen Rebanks
A book with a 'time of day' in its title
4:50 from Paddington by Agatha Christie
The Clock Strikes Twelve by Patricia Wentworth
A book with a 'familial name' in its title
The Good Husband of Zebra Drive by Alexander McCall Smith
Feeding My Mother by Jann Arden
The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoevsky
A book with a 'body part' in its title
The Seven Longings of the Human Heart by Mike Bickle
Their Eyes Were Watching God by Zora Neale Hurston
A book using 'one of the five senses' in its title
All the Light We Cannot See by Anthony Doerr
The Scent of Water by Elizabeth Goudge
Simple Acts of Faith: Heartwarming Stories of
One Life Touching Another by Margaret Feinberg
A book with a 'building' in its title
Jamaica Inn by Daphne Du Maurier
The Midnight Library by Matt Haig
House Lessons, Renovating a Life by Erica Bauermeister
A book with an 'animal' in its title
The Comfort of Crows, A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl
Mr. Poppers' Penguins by Richard and Florence Atwater
A book with a 'month' in its title
September by Rosamunde Pilcher
A book with a 'holiday' in its title
Halloween Party by Agatha Christie
A Child's Christmas in Wales by Dylan Thomas
A book with a 'character's name' in its title
The Natural World of Winnie-the-Pooh by Kathryn Aalto
Pippi Longstocking by Astrid Lindgren
Sarah, Plain and Tall by Patricia MacLachlan
Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
A book with a 'famous person' in its title
The Story of Beatrix Potter by Sarah Gristwood
The Last Van Gogh by Alyson Richman
A book with a 'fruit' in its title
The Particular Sadness of Lemon Cake by Aimee Bender
Save Me the Plums, My Gourmet Memoir by Ruth Reichl
A book with a 'vegetable' in its title
The Guernsey Literary and Potato Peel Pie Society
by Mary Ann Shaffer and Annie Barrows
Five Little Peppers and How They Grew by Margaret Sidney
A book with the word 'garden' in its title
A Child's Garden of Verses by Robert Louis Stevenson
War Gardens, A Journey Through Conflict in
Search of Calm by Lalage Snow
A book with a 'girl's name' in its title
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Emma by Jane Austen
Finding Flora by Elinor Florence
Charlotte's Web by E.B. White
A book with a 'boy's name' in its title
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
The Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Stuart White by E.B. White
A book with a 'royal title' in its title
All the Queen's Men by SJ Bennett
A Little Princess by Frances Hodgson Burnett
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And four books coming out this autumn
to add to the list
Black Wolf by Louise Penny
My Beloved by Jan Karon
Death of a Diplomat by former first lady of Iceland Eliza Reid
The Queen Who Came in from the Cold: Her
Majesty The Queen Investigates by SJ Bennett
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Wishing you a beautiful day with hopes you've time to
curl up with a good book and your favourite beverage.
Heart Hugs,
Brenda
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Brenda Leyland @ It's A Beautiful Life
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