 Hello, hello everyone. My name is Laura. This is my channel Laura's Little Library and welcome to today's video Which are going to be all of my autumn recommendations Before we get started I want to remind you that if you like this video or like the kind of content that I make please feel free to subscribe as I make videos on Sundays and Wednesdays I have so much fun making this content for you all and I would love to build more of a community with you now It is autumn season We had our autumn equinox quite recently or at least recently upon filming this And there are just so many good fall slash autumn cozy books that I have read this past year and Recently and I am so excited to be reading more I feel like I have so many good ones on my TBR that I'm filming this video now But could probably film a part two again in a few weeks once I've read some more than I I think just have the perfect cozy autumn, you know fall colors and just various cozy vibes But today I have ten recommendations that I'm going to give you Comment down below if you do want me to make a part two of this video With more books as I'm reading them and I can do them a little bit later in the season if you need a little pick But let's get right into the video So the first book that I would like to recommend is a dark fantasy romance and I've talked about this book quite a bit on my Channel, so I won't spend too much time on it, but that is for the wolf by Hannah Witton This to me It's the perfect autumn read if you like dark fantasy and some romance because it takes place in a dark wood It has blood and nature magic anything with a wood Strong nature theme. I think to me always tends to be very autumnal And it's very interesting how the author describes color in this book be mostly because there isn't color and So that just gives it like not quite spooky. I would still consider this a cozy read But there are darker elements again. There is blood magic, so just be aware of that, but it is about this fantasy world where there are two daughters and one is For the wolf she is supposed to be a sacrifice to the wolf creature in the woods To keep her village safe for the X amount of time until they get another set of two daughters And then the other daughter is for the throne She is to be the new queen and to continue ruling the land However, this year our daughter who goes for the wolf It's a little bit of a red riding hood kind of vibe because she goes into the woods She realizes that not all is as it seems and maybe that What they're doing is not the best For their society or for the woods and so she teams up with some Interesting cast of characters to try and figure it all out. I like I said I very much loved this and Encaptured me from the very beginning and I would highly recommend it next I have a book called a wolf or spell by Cara Sutton This is a Russian folklore retelling story with Baba Yaga and the wolf and we are following Three POVs for this book So we have a wolf who goes to Baba Yaga to help her with her pack Baba Yaga is concerned about what that side is about to do to the forest and we have the View of a human girl who is come to Baba Yaga for help So it again, it has very woodsy very natural vibes Also, if you hear like creaking in various like shuffling movements It's a very windy day today and everything here is creaking like the blinds, you know, the windows close the door It's it's just a very Windy day here. So anyway, so Baba Yaga and the wolf actually end up switching bodies So the wolf now is figuring out how to pretend to be Baba Yaga and Baba Yaga is using wolf's body to try and save The forest it was such a beautiful It is technically a middle grade But I think even if you're not super into middle grade if you're looking for an autumnal foe cozy read This would be really good. The writing didn't seem Young like it wasn't old. It was just it was very lyrical and easy to Read and go through and it was just so cozy the next recommendation is a little more but it's not a cozy mystery by genre, but it is a mystery slightly thriller II but not Really that is Finlay Donovan is killing it by Ella Cosimano I just read the sequel to this Finlay Donovan knocks them dead And I think Finlay Donovan is killing it is a great one for autumn because it takes place and late summer kind of autumn season and Finlay Donovan is a writer and she reads like Thriller romance or mystery romance books and she is talking with her agent in Panera and is Overheard by a woman and that woman thinks that she's actually a hitman so she tries to hire Finlay Donovan to kill this terrible terrible man as if she's a hitman and Finlay Donovan is very strapped for cash at the moment and Just decides to figure some things out and investigate one thing leads to another and there is a dead body involved This story just goes so much deeper than that. It's it's kind of more of a whimsical Murder mystery I would say which is why it's an autumnal cozy read rather than a Very spooky book that I will put on my spooky book recommendations that I will be putting out later in October Next up if you are a fan of historical fiction, I would highly recommend for you magic lessons by Alice Hoffman So this is actually a prequel or really book one of the practical magic series. There are more books in the series I have not yet read them, but this is a Lifelong book of a witch in Salem. So this follows a Woman and actually it goes through to the life of her daughter as well It's kind of a story that takes place over this long period of time and I I loved The elements of this book there are actual like recipes for spells and things to just kind of help boost Your lifestyle and things like that and it was very autumnal in that sense of being witchy but without being super dark per se. I mean But it's also Salem witch trials. So if you need a good historical fiction to cozy up to this autumn season, I would recommend this one Next up I have another red writing hood retelling that when I read it I fell in love with it and it is red wolf and this is by Rachel Vincent So this has your classic elements of red writing hood You have read who has a sister and her mom and she has to go to her grandmother's house in the woods And she ends up learning some family secrets So I feel like a lot of the autumnal vibes are evident in the It's in a cabin in the woods But also reds family is our bakers like her mom and herself are bakers And so it talks about them baking bread for everybody in the village And I just loved it very cobblestone streets Vibes and just the warmth that I could feel coming through this book when they were baking bread It just it put me in such a trance of the environment. I I Was just so incredibly happy just I could smell the bread feel the warmth see the woods It was just so vivid of the surrounding to be put in and I Just I this is one I would want to reread this fall just to continue getting me into the fall autumn vibes. So This is This is such a good one Now I do also have a dark academia that I am recommending on this list again It's on this list rather than my spooky books recommendations But it is a little more like on the spookier side. It is the grimmerals girls by Laura pole I have not yet read the second one of this but I very much want to the reason this is on this list Is because it is also very based off of fairy tales and that to me is a more cozy aspect So there are girls at this Academy who are dying, but they also realize that they are kind of reimagining of various fairy tale characters. It's also Queer romance. I'm just gonna throw that out there And so you're going through and you're trying to figure out what's going on with the murders But also what's going on with this whole fairy tale business and it was just a mystery That was wonderful to cozy up to. I read this in spring So I very much felt out of season So if I were to read this now or if I read the next book I think it'll very much more so feel in season to read. Moving on I would recommend to you Warrior of the Wild by Tricia Levenseller This is one of her earlier books, but I just read it recently and This again very much in the woods in a forest So this follows a warrior who is getting ready to take her trial and join her place in society Before she can I believe she's like the daughter of the chief of her clan or something So she is a very important person and she is very good at fighting these demons Now also to know there is this God that demands a sacrifice from all of the villages all the clans Quite frequently and they are huge tools to be taken on the villages so When our main character fails her test and is banished into the woods and can no longer join any clan She needs to solve her incredibly difficult challenge in order to be Re-invited back into society and take her place as she should so there are just many elements of this that I Adored I rated it five stars So she is in the woods trying to do this challenge and helping other people that she met Who were also exiled from the clans complete their challenges? So it's it's a good fantasy for the fall time. Speaking of fall time fantasies I would also recommend these hollow vows by Lexi Ryan So this is your Classic Fae story it is part of a series. I believe a second book. Maybe it's a duology has come out again. I haven't read it yet Wow, I am so bad at continuing a series But you have your main character who is not a fan of the Fae. She hates the Sealy courts But when her friend gets kind of captured and unjustly brought over she tries to go and save them And she gets all caught up in the politics between the two courts as well as getting caught up in a love triangle Which if you know me, I'm not the biggest fan of love triangles But the book was pretty good. So if you need a Fae fantasy this coming fall season Then I would recommend picking this one up and then the final book that I have to recommend on this list is Anatomy by Dana Schwartz. So this is your gothic romance. I I very much enjoyed this book You have your main character who is a woman in some 1800s Scotland and she Wants to work with dead bodies. She is kind of like a mortician but not really she wants to study human biology and You know join that world which is pretty much only for men at this time And so she goes to the professor's class and he said if you can pass the exam You can join my class, but in order to pass the exam. She needs to be able to learn things So she teams up with a grave digger To dig up bodies for her to examine and she starts her own little healing business along the way It was so atmospheric and the love story was so good It had such an interesting ending that I was not prepared for but actually really enjoyed so it is much more in the spooky side, but it's a gothic romance and It was just the perfect for full time with the romance and the Scotland setting where of course It's always cold and slightly dreary, but that's okay. That's what we all love about fall, right? So I just I cannot recommend that book enough if you haven't picked it up Please do the cover of the book is very very accurate on displaying what the book is because she is in this dress and it is in the shape of an Atomically correct heart so it's a heart because romance, but it's atomically correct because of the you know Gothic trying to train as a doctor. So I Loved it and really any book in Scotland just All ready just makes me excited. I believe it takes place in Edinburgh, which is the perfect place to put a autumnal book for the setting so Anyway, thank you all so much for watching this video. I hope you enjoyed it Let me know if you have read any of these books what your thoughts are I would love to talk with them about you or have if you have any autumnal recommendations for me to pick up this season Like I also said at the beginning of the video if you want me to make another one of the autumnal recommendations videos I can probably definitely do that in about a month or so I've just been so excited to read all of these books if you liked this video Give it a thumbs up. Otherwise. I do also have bookish social media link down below where I make all kinds of bookish content as Well, and I love doing it all and until I see you all in the next video. I wish you You