Happy Sunday everyone! I hope you enjoy these autumn book recommendations. You may download your free Autumn Commonplace book by signing up to my free newsletter here: www.mirandajanemills.com/autumncommonplacebook
Preparation for a Miranda Mills video: 1. Make a cuppa tea. (cake optional).🫖🍰 2. Grab a notebook and pen to jot down recommendations. There will be many!📓🖊 3. Get comfy.🛋 Enjoy!
This vlog truly shows Miranda at her best! A wonderful parade of books described with wit, elegance and competence… Thank you Miranda, so grateful for the gorgeous Autumn Commonplace Book too❤
I love that you dont shared many halloween kind of stories and that you focused more on autumn season instead of a one day celebration which personally I dont like and autumn is such a lovely season! Thank you, hope you have a good sunday💜
Oh my goodness what a wonderful selection full of old favourites and new discoveries. Just makes me want to run off, grab a book and settle down in a cosy corner - with my knitting as well, of course.
If there is a heaven on earth, surely it is autumn. I will be thrilled when we move beyond the stubborn humidity that has settled here in New England and into the season of colored leaves, crisp air, and cosy evenings by the fire. A Wrinkle in Time was such a childhood favorite. The children have that appealing combination of pluck, independence and curiosity that I think resonates so much with young readers, much like the characters in Alan Garner's The Owl Service and John Verney's Friday's Tunnel. You capture the essence of a book so eloquently that I think you could convince me to brew a cup of tea and curl up with a car repair or tractor supply manual! I hope you and Donna have a wonderful week head. 📚 🍁
😂 you're so sweet, Pamela - thank you!! Although don't worry, I don't think I'll ever be seen with a car repair manual in hand 😂 You're so right about A Wrinkle in Time, and I loved your comparison to other favourites - The Owl Service and Friday's Tunnel. I love the combination of pluck, independence and curiosity too! Thank you so very much indeed for your amazing support as always! It really means the world to me ♥️ Hope those crisp autumn days arrive for you soon!! Miranda xxx
Autumn is my favorite time in the year, as well. The beautiful autumnal colors of the oranges, purples, reds and yellow captures my heart, and poignant life.
Hi Miranda! I've just come across your channel and I can honestly say what a delight it is! I live in Brazil and unfortunately, we don't have the season changes as in the northern hemisphere. I felt transported to England (my favorite country in the world) by watching your videos. I want to buy all the books you recommend and I wish I could live the ambiance and coziness of fall. You are a true inspiration and you bring me such peace and warm feelings. All the best to you!
I haven't even watched your video yet but I just couldn't wait to thank you for your Autumn Commonplace Book! It's full of so many beautiful and evocative poems, quotes, and artworks that I just want to inhale them all at once. I appreciate your commonplace books, and your channel, so, so much. They always make such a warm and lovely bright spot in whatever day they appear.
Goodbye Mr. Chips is one of my favorite books ever! I am so glad you included it in your listing. Also, I must say, one can never go wrong reading Agatha Christie and her Miss Marple series! Of course, Sherlock Holmes is just the perfect way to spend a lazy autumn afternoon. Persausian and the Bronte sisters are the perfect way to enjoy an autumn read. Thank you so much for this listing.
Dear Miranda! This is just incredible!!! Thank you so so much!!! I wasn't expecting a video since you announced last week that there maybe couldn't be one because of your workload, and now there is a new BEAUTIFUL commonplace book AND a video! How delightful. These kind of videos are my very favourite of yours and I always add a lot to my reading (and book buying😀) list! It is so enjoyable how you enrich people's lives! I hope you will have a calmer upcoming week though! Take good care of yourself. Our schoolyear is starting tomorrow here in southern Germany and it will get busy. But I am determined to carry all your inspirational ideas with me and to make more space for just looking around and appreceating the beauty of life. The seasonal reading, which I started since I found your channel helps with that and it slows me down! Have a lovely week, both you and your mother!❤️
Thank you for your very kind, generous support and words, Inga! I am so very grateful ❤️ I didn't think I'd be able to do a video, but somehow I managed one, and I'm really glad you enjoyed it!! Very pleased you like the Autumn Commonplace Book too. Wishing you a wonderful week and autumn ahead 🧡 🍁
I was thrilled to her you mention September by Rosemunde Pilcher. I readbit every September. I also read Winter Solstice every December. I love all her books!❤
I love 84 Charing Cross Road and have read it many times. I love the sequels: The Duchess of Bloomsbury and Q’s Legacy. I once wrote to Helene Hanff and she kindly wrote back. There’s a blue plaque at 84 Charing Cross Road memorializing the shop and book. The movie with Ann Bancroft and Anthony Hopkins is wonderful.
I love these recommendations!! I love that you choose real "autumnal" books instead of of Halloween feel books(which I also do love but still! I want more than just Halloween books). You also always recommend such a wide variety of books as well! As always your videos are so cozy and always make me want to curl up and drink a cup of tea!
Confessing that I hit the like button before the video even started - but I stand by that decision! Heading to the library today to pick up The Fortnight in September. I am house/dog sitting this week for my parents and need something to curl up with while the pups are napping. Ishiguro is one of my favorite authors so the comment about its influence on him has me extra interested to dip into this one! Thank you for making Sundays a bright spot of the week, Miranda, with your beautiful and thoughtful videos!
The Autumn Commonplace Guide is wonderful. I think it was my favorite one yet! I’ve got my pen and paper handy to jot down your recommendations and am settling in now for what I know is going to be my favorite video of the week. Thank you, Miranda. And I adore your little pin🥰
I am so happy I discovered your delightful channel. I am already for weeks catching up with one lovely episode after another and my tbr list is growing and growing 😂 This Autumnal episode is just what the doctor ordered for a girl longing for Autumn finally to start in hot South Carolina🧡
I am not generally a fan of science fiction or fantasy, but I have such fond memories of reading A Wrinkle in Time with my grandson years ago. It's an amazing story that I believe has a much deeper meaning that what may appear on the surface. Thanks for your video and blog...I love them both!
The Yellow Wallpaper is just so...chilling. Once read, not forgotten. Thank you for all the book recommendations. Some I've already read, some will be going on my tbr list. I really thought autumn had arrived last week when I saw the misty mornings, and got my jumpers out in anticipation - then we had this heatwave. It will arrive soon, I'm sure. x
I am a new viewer to your channel, and I always appreciate your thoughtful book recommendations. This list was no different with a great variety of choices that one doesn’t see mentioned a whole lot by other Book Tubers. I’ve already added 2 to my TBR list!😊
Miranda, I just had to write you and tell you how much I LOVED The Fortnight in September by R C Sherriff. What a WONDERFUL, sweet, heartwarming story. I drank in every moment of it. Thank you so much for recommending it. I have it on my autumn reading list for every year. I love how you introduce me to books I have never heard of that are amazing. Keep up the great content. I look forward to it whenever I get a notification. Have a lovely rest of your week x
What a great list of books! I am looking forward to enjoy them all. Thank you for the recommendations! 🍁🍂 I have just finished the 4th instalment of the Cazalet Chronicles. For me, this is another great read to get lost in during the long evenings.
Thank you for producing an Autumn edition of your Commonplace Book series. I am looking forward to spending time with it. I had to laugh at “The Squirrel and the Lost Treasure” and your observations of them burying nuts at the moment. We were eating dinner this week and noticed a squirrel outside carrying something bigger than itself. It then began to bury it in our flowerbed. At the same moment my husband and I both said “That’s a potato! Our potatoes!!!” The squirrel had dug them out of our potato pots so he could plant them in the flowers!
I loved your beautiful Autumn Commonplace Book. Your selection of quotes and artwork fed my soul on Sunday and gave me a much needed half hour respite during a very hectic day. Today, I am in "booklover's heaven", as I watched your vlog after returning from the library with a stack of new books. Thank you, Miranda! 💕
What a wonderful video Miranda. I don’t know how I missed it when it when it first came out. I’ve had guests and it got my routine a bit out of of sync. Hope your workload has eased off. 84 Charring Cross Road is an all time favourite. Love the idea of re-reading it. I love September by Pilchard. Loved the reading of Letters from New York. Quite a few new seasonal books to get. Will get the audio book for Halloween Party. Thank you for the inspiration. The Virago Book of Witches sounds like fun, and I might try to get it this month. How to be a Moonflower looks absolutely beautiful. Definitely getting it at some point - can’t resist the illustrations. Hope you and Donna have a wonderful week.x
I’ve been listening to all the recommended books for autumn but I haven’t found any I wanted to read! Until I listened to yours! I want to read all you recommended! Thank-you! Always enjoy your videos! Tell your Mom hello!!
Hello from Northern California. Fall is my favorite time of year and I am currently looking for books, that are warm and cozy...even if it is still too warm in my personal opinion. Anyway, thank you for the book recommendations, I enjoy listening to you speak about books, I am having a cup of coffee whilst listening to you speak about my favorite topic BOOKS. Thank you again, for another lovely video.
So good to see Katie Daisy's "How to Be a Moonflower" here. I love this book so much. It's great for those times when you feel too tired or listless to read but want to be inspired!
Thank you for a lovely video! The book recommendations are incredible and my TBR pile just got a lot bigger! And thank you also for the autumn Commonplace Book download. 😊
Hi Miranda, Thank you for the many recommendations for our Fall reading. I'm very interested in "The Yellow Wallpaper". "Goodbye Mr.Chips" was a wonderful movie (the 1939 version with Robert Donat, and Greer Garson), I think we can all relate to a teacher who had an impact on our education as well as our outlook on life. I also love "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" another wonderful movie with the great Maggie Smith. Have you read the Donna Tartt novel "The Secret History" ? I enjoyed that one too. Hope you and your Mom are enjoying the approaching "Cozy" season. It's rainy, humid, and in the 80's here in the U.S. I'm looking forward to the cooler weather ! Love the little bird on your jumper ! Happiness, Cindy 🌻🍁🍂🐿
Autumn is also my favourite season and I am so looking forward to your autumnal content. Wonderful book recommendations in this video, as always. Just signed up for your newsletter too. Btw, I love your new hair colour Miranda. ❤
Hi Miranda, Thanks so much for your Comment place Autumn booklet. The content and photography was stunning, l was absolutely overwhelmed by your attention to details and beautiful presentation. I have purchased the Good bye Mr Chip book and looking forward to our book club discussions. Thanks so much for putting so much effort and energy in the videos and all you do. My favourite from your recommendations is yellow wall paper, l have it in my Amazon basket awaiting purchase. Much love to you and your lovely mum. 🍁🍂🍄🪴🌿🪻🦋🦉💛💚🩷
Among your recommendations there is The Fortnight in September, which is one of my favorite books and also a few books that I love. But there is a lot of brilliant suggestions and I am definitely going to read many of these books. Thank you so much, Miranda! And many thanks for your Autumn Commonplace book.
I agree. I just loved A Fortnight in September. Though it is one that is hard for me to recommend to a lot of people, as I don’t think everyone would “get it”. People are so different. But it’s one that I feel really stays with you. I find myself thinking of it every now and then. It was a lovely read.
Thank you Miranda for this marvellous selection of fantastic books to read this autumn. I've finished absolutely marvellous "Goodbye Mr. Chips", I'm' already reading "MARPLE" and I'm loving it! I have written down some titles to buy ("The Fortnight in September" for sure) and, about "SEPTEMBER" by Rosamund Pilcher, I love it too! So do I "Shell seakers", it was one of my favourite novels some years ago, but now that I'm older, I feel more identified with September's plot. Thank you again, Miranda!!
Thank you for all the recommendations! This video was amazing! Now I only need that this very late and unexpected heatwave pass here and then I am ready for tea, chocolate and all.these good books. I can start to browse my shelves and the bookshops in the meantime.
Yay! I love books and I love fall (I put my fall wreath on my front door on September 1st), and this was a lovely video to watch. So many books are either already favorites of mine or got instantly added to my TBR. Persuasion is my favorite Jane Austen novel too, and I LOVE Bleak House. I recently finished reading the Marple story collection and that was wonderful - looking forward to the CBC discussion. Happy Sunday and thank you for all you do! 😊 ❤
What a lovely video, Miranda, full of the promise of Autumn - although I had to giggle at all those mentions of cosy cups of tea, cocoa and fires when I am gulping iced water to cool down in this sudden heatwave! My copy of Marple arrived on Friday and, along with several of your other recommendations, I can't wait to start my Autumn reading.
Thank you Miranda for the wonderful recommendations. We are going into spring, so instead of squirrels gathering nuts, the birds are busy foraging for their nests. I so chuckled when you said you were worried about how you might view your wallpaper after reading the rather aptly titled short story. I always love your floral displays. A particularly beautiful one behind you. Enjoy Autumn. Thank you for the beautiful Autumnal Commonplace Book.
I read Goodbye Mr. Chips this morning and cried throughout the book. It was so precious and richly written. I guess I will checkout The Fortnight in September. Thanks so much for the recs. I'm so glad I found your channel.
Yes, I read it last year, loved it so much that I bought my own copy and sent a September birthday daughter for her own. I'm so glad you brought it up. I'm reading The Hopkins Manuscript right now by R. C. Sheriff and so funny too in the face of doom! Sheriff also worked on the film script of Mr Chips and Mrs Miniver. Quite marvelous how he balances the lovely dailyness with serious concerns. Glad you reminded me to pick up September. A dear friend gave it as a birthday. Your choices are so perfect. I shall always follow you now. Such a pretty Robin pullover!
You have such wonderful taste in books! Autumn is my favourite season as well and this video captures all the feelings of this cozy season. 🍁 Looking forward to reading some of your recommendations! Thank you for all you bring to this channel! 🩷
Hi Miranda Thank you I really appreciate your recommendations! A few I have read! I love Godsford Park.I have watched that film so many times. 🍁🍂. Take Care
Great recommendations. The Shooting Party, Dark Fairytales, The Squirrel and the Lost Treasure, The Wheel Spins, and A Single Thread of Moonlight sounds the most interesting to me.
84 Charing Cross Road is a beautiful book, and I recommend (re)watching the lovely CBC discussion about it 🤍Thank you for the great recommendations Miranda, as always. I could find Books and Libraries poetry online, added to the cart ;) I have downloaded the Autumn Commonplace Book Guide and can't wait to dip into it! Have a lovely day, Vanessa 🐿
Hi Miranda! The Autumn Commonplace book is absolutely beautiful! And, as always, you have a wonderful selection of autumnal books for us to choose from. I will be ordering several of them, Thank you! 📚🍂❤️
Thank you for an inspirational list of autumn reading. I'm especially curious about 'The Shooting Party' and you've reminded me it's time to re-read an old favourite, 'Persuasion'. And what a lovely bird brooch you're wearing!
Thank you, Penny! The Shooting Party is a great read for autumn. I bought the brooch a few years ago from Elizabeth Harbour (of course!); always love her things 🧡
Thank you so much for your very kind support, Sophie! I really appreciate it. Hope you enjoy the commonplace book! I'm really looking forward to cooler weather too 😊
Some great recommendations for fall reading. I can't wait to check some of them out. In case your readers are interested in that Everyman Books and Libraries poetry edition, it is still available from Blackwells. I picked up a copy for myself on a recent visit to an independent bookstore in Columbus, Ohio and look forward to dipping into it.
It must be cold up there in Yorkshire Miranda for you to be gamely wearing a light sleeveless sweater already! 😮Down south we've been battling 30C heat - only just starting to get rid of it now.
Thank you for the teasers by reading to us a little from some of your suggestions. It provides a view of what awaits! I am now interested in getting A Murder is Announced.
When I first saw your wallpaper in a vlog, I was immediately reminded of the short story by Charlotte Perkins Gilman :D What a lovely list or recommendations! Thank you!
I love the Autumn Commonplace book, thank you so much for this beautiful gift. The Fortnight in September and The Wheel Spins sound like books I'd really enjoy (as does everything you suggest, really!) Now I just need the weather to be a little bit less warm!
So glad you like the new Commonplace book! Yes, I'm looking forward to cooler temperatures too. We've just had another thunder storm and more rain here, which is a relief! xxx
Good morning from Wisconsin (USA). I recently found your channel and I love the content and your lovely accent. 😊 Do you happen to have a favorite reading chair or location where you do most of your reading? I love to see the different areas where book lovers like to read.
Thank you Miranda for your beautiful podcast.. I can’t wait to read the Autumn newsletter .. I made the Rhubarb custard cake oh my it was delicious.. my husband loves rhubarb but we don’t see it much in our part of Texas so it was a real treat❤️Thank you and your mom❤️
I actually just started reading September yesterday before I saw your video. I've read The Shell Seekers and loved it. We're moving into Spring here so I'll have to rewatch your Spring recommendations.
Hello Miranda, so many wonderful book recommendations for autumn. I look forward to getting cosy with a good book now that the nights are drawing in and the leaves are turning. Thank you for the Autumn Commonplace book guide. Have. wonderful week.
Love your hairdo and fall outfit. Thank you for the Autumn Commonplace Book!! Loving the others already. Your Autumnal video today was a breath of fresh air for my day. Thank you for all you do. Happy Sunday to you and Donna!!
Lovely list. I also wanted to thank you for the autumn 🍁 comman-place book download. It's so beautiful with the art and the quotes. Love it. Just finished re-reading Goodbye Mr. Chips. So good. I do miss autumn from back home. We are still experiencing high heat days here in Arizona .We've had 54 days above 110 degrees, what a summer. So its nice to be able to escape into books with an autumnal theme. Wishing you and your mom everything good. Til next time. 📚🤗💕💕. I had to make a correction on the heat days correction, its 54 days over 110 degrees, not that it matters to everyone else but it bugged me so I fixed it. 😂. It just felt 154 hot days. Im done now.☺️
Another wonderful Vlog. All these books seem interesting. Telling a friend about Agatha Christie books. She has many. I never read any of these. I am not much for Mystery. Book covers are delightful on all these you are showing us.
Dear Miranda, you are such a treasure and as always a wonderful vlog. I was so pleased at how many books you have highlighted that I have loved and reread many times....84 Charing Cross Road, A Wrinkle in Time, September, and all the Agatha Christie's. I must get Letter From New York. Have you read Helene Hanoff's The Duchess of of Bloomsberry Street?
Oh Miranda this makes me so excited for Autumn, also my favourite season! Thank you for the Autumn Commonplace book, it’s a beautiful sight! Today’s video is such a treat. I greedily marked down recommendations as I sip away at my tea. I must say the introduction of “Dark Fairy Tales of Fearless Woman” has me wanting to buy it immediately! I love anthologies for the bedside table. I am also looking forward to reading “Goodbye Mr Chips” (adore the movie!) and “Marple” for the CBC! Autumn really is the time for comfort, atmospheric reads, and a good dose of crime!
Thank you, Antoniette! So glad you enjoyed these recommendations and the Autumn Commonplace Book. I'm looking forward to those CBC reads too, and you're right - autumn is perfect for a dose of cosy crime 😊 🧡
Thank you for ensuring I have a wonderful reading time this autumn. I am going to Bath in October and have written a list of books to buy from your vlog.
Have already downloaded the Autumn Commonplace book and thank you for the work you put into producing it. I am going to print off two copies, one for me and then one for my granddaughter, and I plan on going through the book and doing some journaling, reading, and other activities with her this fall....
Thank you for the great recommendations, Miranda. I will definitely be joining the September Comfort Book Club. I already have my copy. Greetings from Portugal
I look forward for your commonplace books, I love them and I'm sure I'll particularly enjoy the autumn one and the winter one if you'll create it, because these two are my favorite seasons! Thank you for all the book recommendations, my tbr list is going to suffer again, but my heart is happy haha here in Italy is still summer and I'm so ready for it to be over!
Okay so here is something I've never asked before, I love the shade of your nail polish. It seems perfect for fall. Would you share what color/brand it is? Happy Autumn. Still waiting for it to be cool enough to be seasonal here in Kentucky.
Thanks, Miranda, another most enjoyable video. You have reminded me that I should hunt out my copy of 84 Charing Cross Road. I read and reread it about 40 years ago and loved it. I also really like A Murder is Announced and recently enjoyed the Marple collection. Meredith
Thank you for another lovely video! So many lovely suggestions - I have made notes! I also love Autumn/Fall and feel very confused by this warm weather we are having - I think normal service should resume later this week and it should turn cooler! I am definitely off to download the Autumn Commonplace Book now. x
