Hannah im so grateful to you for introducing Rebecca to me. I read it nearly 2 years ago and i still remember being so enthralled by its haunting & gothic atmosphere like it was just yesterday. Rebecca, Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights are my ultimate fall classics. I love them beyond measure.
I love the idea of picking books to go with the season! The only problem is I feel like I can't read them for the rest of the year - I guess you'll have to do a spring and summer edition ha
@@Shrraddha__ ahahaha go girl!! I gave that book 3 stars, it's interesting like you'll want to keep reading it, but dark academia isn't really my thing so maybe that's why I didn't like it that much.
@@emogoesboom I find it really difficult to buy books cause of varied opinions but I like the way you put it, at the end it all depends on our own likings. I am a newbie in this book world, I am exploring, u can say. I get tensed and indecisive about what category I might like 😅 any tips, hacks, suggestions for me?
@@Shrraddha__ Honestly, if you're a newbie, you should try exploring different genres of literature. With time, you'll discover what you're more into, and that will help you pick up books that resonate with your taste in literature. If you want any book recommendations, then please consider reading As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Gone Girl, The Kite Runner, All the Lovers in the Night, and Sadie if you haven't already. These are some of my favorites
I got almost ferally excited when you mentioned A Dowry of Blood and The Last Tale of the Flower Bride! I read both for the first time this past October and absolutely ADORED them!! (S.T. Gibson has another novel--An Education in Malice--coming in February 2024. It's apparently going to be a sapphic Carmilla retelling, and, I think, a companion to A Dowry of Blood!) If you want a recommendation for more vampire content, another book I read in October was The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis. I very strongly recommend it if you like historical supernatural fiction with mystery, romance, vampires, and witches!
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride wrecked me. I loved it so so so much that after I read it I couldn’t find another book as good as that one and am still in the reading slump. I read it in July! And Rebecca and Juniper and Thorn I absolutely adored too. ❤
I highly recommend The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell. I finished it yesterday after being literally glued to it for two to three days. There are witches, wooden figures, mysterious deaths in a gloomy mansion, hallucinations, a psych ward... Loved it so much
i’m reading and loving an arc of we ate the dark by mallory pearson and it sounds JUST your vibe. sapphic southern gothic eerie horror. monstrous ghosts, obsessive female friendships, female rage, a family of witches, magic and otherly worlds- and to top it all off BEAUTIFUL lyrical prose. it comes out february 2024 i think and i’m only half way through but it is just so good
I started reading If we were villains because of you and I’m enjoying it so far! I can’t wait to read the rest, I also have yet to read the other books in your previous videos but I can say I trust you with my book choices
dorian gray is my patreon buddy read this month so PERFECT 'cause it'll be my first read! Rebecca is also on my 23 for 2023, so these recs are very validating lol
mexican gothic by silvia moreno garcia is one of my favorite eerie/gothic books! i read it a couple of years ago and i still think about it all the time. the vibes and themes were so haunting i just loved it so so much
Oh, how I knew "If We Were Villains" was going to be on the list! I agree it's the perfect fall book! I read it beginning of this year on a very gloomy, rainy, stormy weekend, which fitted also very well! Haven't stopped thinking about it ever since. It ruined me 💔
if you want to get back into vampire content, i always highly recommend Interview With The Vampire, especially the tv show! the new season is coming out next year ahh so excited 🫶🏻
I also highly recommend reading house of hollow!! It’s gothic and eerie and ethereal and a page turner. It’s a gothic fairy tale and kept me up at night.
Love how I've read half these books already and most are my favs. A recommendation I would give is The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein, it's about vampires and takes place in a boarding school. One of my all time favorites!
My absolute favorite modern gothic is Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. I never see people talking about this on booktube or bookstagram but it is SO GOOD. The vibes are immaculate AND the plot is great. I also love Plain Bad Heroines, another I don’t see talked about much. Dark academia, gothic vibes, 10/10 snarky narration style.
In terms of good vampire content, I absolutely recommend the 2022 series adaptation of Interview with the Vampire. It’s pretty much solely responsible for making me want to consume vampire content again for the first time since I was a teenager 😂
To be honest maybe it's because I haven't read too many eerie books, I haven't really been scared by books before. Looking forward to being spooked by this list.
The book Weyward by Emilia Hart sounds so similar to the universe that Juniper and thorn is. Weyward was a 5 star read for me and I highly recommend it!
Queen of immaculate taste. One of my fave autumn reads is Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens! It's very sensual, rich and emotional, definitely a lot of shit goes down but it doesn't leave you feeling hopeless at all! I'd say it's the perfect novel to read as the trees change colours 🤎🍂
I have the theory that people who didn't get or think Juniper and Thorn is problematic are way too used to SA and domestic violence being romanticized in popular books by authors like Colleen Hoover, etc
I just started reading If We Were Villains for the third time, it is PERFECT for this time of year… and honestly any time. I love it so much 😅 I just picked up The Ghost Woods by CJ Cooke solely because the cover looked like everything I want in a book right now. Hopefully it lives up to my expectations.
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw has been my most autumnal read thus far! the prose is beautiful, and you follow a vengeful, mute siren & her nonbinary plague doctor maybe-lover through an exquisite gothic hellscape. i can't think of anything even similar to this book-- absolutely worth a read!
Here's a book rec: I don't think I've heard many people talk about What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine. I think it gives off a good fairy-grunge, goth atmosphere which is pretty cool.
Love the fact you began this with Dorian Gray and Rebecca. I've read almost all the books on the list except for Woman, Eating, which is on my tbr, and The Last Tale of the Flower Bride which is a current read that I have barely begun. I agree with you on Juniper and Thorn, and it is my favourite by Ava Reid so far. I especially agree with you on how bizarre the reviews are for this book because it is wildly inaccurate. When I learned what blowback the author got and for what (aka a single paragraph that described the imagining from men about the three sisters and what they do together) I actually got mad. It doesn't feel like people actually sat down to try and read this book.
Thank you for the Vampire recommendations! (Especially since Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3 has me obsessed 😅) I've read the original Dracula and I would love to read a book about the wives. And Woman Eating is now on my list, I can't wait to read it since it's Hannah recommended 😊❤
Recently read If we where Villains and cried my eyes out at the end...so good! Read A Study in Drowning after that and enjoyed it, but wish it would have been fleshed out more...as you say her prose is great, the feeling was great but the worldbuilding a bit lacking and it was a bit short and somethings to simple, and somethings not explained and thought through well enough...I read somewhere that YA books only are "allowed" an amount of pages which is really silly, when i was at that age I devoured a lot of thick books...
i read and annotated rebecca for my english teacherand gave it 3/5 stars don't get me wrong it is really good and twisty! but i think towards the end something was missing and i love descriptive writing but there wasn't enough suspense. anyhoo i hoped my english teacher loved it
I remember reading If We Were Villians years ago before Dark Academia became so popular. I checked to see when I read it... 2017. lol. I was hyping it up then as well.
Hannah: It's amazing to me how many people will complain about the Gothic horror elements in this- Me finishing her sentence for her: Gothic horror book? Yeah! (I love Juniper and Thorn)
To quench your vampire thirst you should check out Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma it’s coming out in 2024 but arcs are out and it’s the most delicious vampire dark academia book
Thank you for sharing another great list of books! Where you do find all of those beautiful editions of your books? I've seen most of the books you mentioned, but their covers do not look like the ones you showed to us.
I love your videos! ❤ you're the only youtuber I watch consistently and your review of Babel has inspired a new book I'm writing. If you love stories about stories you might like "Queen of flowers and pearls". It is truly an amazing poc book by an italian-ethiopian author. Btw, do you have your own house or is this an appartment?
Always excited for your new videos!! Please do these top 'genre" books, because i mostly, immediately put those on my amazon cart. You are the only booktuber I can actually blindly trust with book recommendations. Love the fact that you are so honest and give opinions without being influenced by the internet.
I heard « intense co-dependent toxic female friendship » and « line between platonic and romantic love that you have for a close friend » and immediately added The last tale of the flower bride to my tbr. so reminiscent of my teenage lesbian yearning years lmao
