Recommending Books For Autumn! 🍁 (& Baking Pumpkin Buns) 🎃 | The Book Castle | 2023

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Grab yourself a cup of something or a snack, and sit back while I recommend you about a gazillion books for fall 🍂
🕯️ BOOKS MENTIONED 🕯️
Legends and Lattes by Travis Baldree
The Secret History by Donna Tartt
Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo
The Strings of Murder by Oscar de Muriel
Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell
Garlic and the Vampire by Bree Paulsen
The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
They Were Sisters by Dorothy Whipple
Frankenstein by Mary Shelley
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Brontë
Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë
Edgar Allan Poe: Complete Tales and Poems
Perfume by Patrick Süskind
The Essex Serpent by Sarah Perry
The Maidens by Alex Michaelides
Midwinterblood by Marcus Sedgwick
Bunny by Mona Awad
Ubik by Philip K. Dick
A Secret History of Witches by Louisa Morgan
The Witches of New York Ami McKay
The Thursday Murder Club by Richard Osman
The Appeal by Janice Hallett
And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie
Misery by Stephen King
Opium and Absinthe by Lydia Kang
Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell
The Hidden Life of Trees by Peter Wohlleben
Crazy for Birds by Misha Maynerick Blaise
The Seven Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle by Stuart Turton
The Haunting of Ashburn House by Darcy Coates
The Song of Achilles by Madeleine Miller
Miss Benson’s Beetle by Rachel Joyce
The Lake of the Dead by André Bjerke
Sleep No More: Six Murderous Tales by P. D. James
You Should Have Left by Daniel Kehlmann
Through the Woods by Emily Carroll
The Diviners by Libba Bray
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🕰️ TIMESTAMPS 🕰️
00:00 Intro
02:36 makes me feel cosy, not a mystery
03:44 crisp air, fog, the days getting shorter
05:54 sweet, easy, cosy and heartwarming autumn book
06:48 cosy family story
08:32 fave gothic classics
09:37 baking interlude
10:31 gothic, moody but no fantasy elements
12:13 really weird and creepy
14:09 witchy book without romance
15:59 cosy small town mystery
17:46 spooky, gothic, autumn thrillers
19:07 baking interlude
20:06 a good mystery for fall
21:27 historical fiction with female mc perfect for autumn
22:48 nonfiction about nature
24:11 gloomy old mansion setting
26:17 something to break your heart
28:21 baking interlude
28:46 lesser known gothic classic
31:00 original and mildly creepy
31:50 spooky book with ghosts, not a classic
34:07 other requests I couldn't think of anything for, but maybe ya'll can?
35:32 finishing the baking & outro
🌙 ABOUT ME 🌙
Hi! My name is Alice and I love books! I read just about everything from classics to contemporary fiction, adventures to mysteries, fantasy to all kinds of non-fiction - and I love reviewing and recommending books, and just generally having a chat about literature. I also adore baking, hot chocolate, crafts and basically everything cosy, soft and peaceful. I currently live in Oslo, Norway.
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@sarahlopinot906 10 месяцев назад

I really enjoy your baking and book recommendation videos. Would love if this would be a seasonal series because these are so fun to watch.

@WinterKnits 10 месяцев назад

My recipe for Pumpkin Spice: 1/4 cup ground ginger 1/4 cup ground cinnamon 3 tablespoons ground cardamom 1 tablespoon ground cloves I make a batch every year and put it in everything starting in the autumn 😊

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

Aaah, didn't even cross my mind I could make it! Thank you so much! :D

@electraandbooks5925 10 месяцев назад

@@TheBookCastle Yes ! I was about to give it to you, it's sold in France (to make gingerbread)

@RadioGirLF 10 месяцев назад

Omg, I love your shirt! Pawnee ❤

@CharlotteWW13 10 месяцев назад

@TheBookCastle where did you get it??? 🤩

@starlasell5698 10 месяцев назад

❤️📚❤️...Anne of Green Gables is such a great found family story. Janet Fluke writes cute cozy, baking, small town mysteries.

@stefanienordstrom6750 10 месяцев назад

I love the baking + recommendations! Please do a gothic video - I'll watch it! Some cozy mystery series I love are Flavia du Luce by Alan Bradley in English countryside and the Magical Cats Mystery by Sofie Kelly in small town Minnesota - both highlight seasonal stuff and have some set in fall. I love Rosamunde Pilcher's books for cozy stories about families, Shell Seekers is a favorite and I am reading September right now which starts in summer and goes into fall in the Scottish countryside. Trying to remember, I think Heather Webber's Midnight at the Blackbird Cafe also starts in summer and goes into fall in small town Alabama - family and magical elements similar to Sarah Addison Allen vibes (who I also recommend for cozy small town magical stories Garden Spells is a favorite). Amy Poppel's Musical Chairs and The Sweet Spot are (IMHO) cozy/humorous family stories - set in NYC metro.

@lindaklinedinst9236 10 месяцев назад

Hi Alice You did a Fantastic Job on your Sweet Pumpkin Buns - oh they look so very delicious. Lots of great book recommendations. Take Care & Happy Reading - Baking ❤️🤗🍂🍁☕️🔰❤️

@LauraRodriguez-Peace 10 месяцев назад

Loved this video. 📚 Thank you for sharing, Alice! 🎃🍂🍁🌾😊

@FebruaryJulia 10 месяцев назад

Cozy autumnal small-town mystery: you just have to try the Shady Hollow series. Just looking at their cover will make you warm and fuzzy. Shady Hollow is a small town inhibited and run by animals, no people. There's a vixen who is a local newspaper reporter, her best friend raven who is a bookstore owner, there's a moose named Joe who runs a coffee shop, etc, etc. For such a premise the murder mystery plot of each book is surprisingly decent, but the way it makes you feel is even better. And it's very small-town: everybody knows everybody and the back story of everybody and their family, there's gossip, but there's also community and support, it just melts in your mouth as you read it.

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

Adding that to my TBR immidiately!! Thank you

@emily_robinson 10 месяцев назад

I had to come back to this video and find your comment again because I just found out that there will be a fourth book in the "Shady Hollow" series coming out November 7th! The title is "Twilight Falls". So excited!!!

@FebruaryJulia 10 месяцев назад

@@emily_robinson me too!

@kashishbhatia6655 10 месяцев назад

These kind of videos are some of my fav videos to watch

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

@martineolsenlysvand7400 10 месяцев назад

Great video and recommendations! I would recommend “Embers” by Sándor Márai. Super atmospheric book about an old general living in a secluded castle in the Hungarian forest. It’s about male friendship and secrets from the past. A modern classic perfect for fall.

@elizabethb.3932 10 месяцев назад

Hello- you can make pumpkin spice (and it does not include pumpkin, it’s the spices that are in classic American pumpkin pie), the ratios vary but I use 1 tbsp cinnamon; 1 tsp ginger; 1/2 tsp nutmeg; 1/2 tsp clove. Some people put allspice in as well but the classic is those first 4 ingredients, although there’s a pretty wide range of ratios.

@PaperBec 10 месяцев назад

For a gothic, eerie, autumnal read I always recommend my favorite book, which is The Thirteenth Tale ❤ it has ghostly vibes, a creepy old estate and Jane eyre refrences. Perfect for fall😊 and the buns look so amazing!!

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

I've been meaning to read that for years! :D

@PaperBec 10 месяцев назад

I'm already planning to re-read it in October or November - the darker months are just perfect for the story😊😊

@starlasell5698 10 месяцев назад

Oh my, so impressed with your baking skills! The sweet "pumpkin" buns look amazing!

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

Thank yooou! :D

@mandeeleis 10 месяцев назад

You have the best recs! I don't think I have heard anyone talk about Ubik before and it was one of my favorites. Now that it's on my mind I need to reread it.

@veesreadsrambles9271 10 месяцев назад

Love this recommendation video. Some of these are already favorites of mine and some I need to read soon. I have a recommendation for a book set in small town in autumn (at least part of it is in autumn). It's a very cozy contemporary romance: The City Baker's Guide to Country Living by Louise Miller. It's about a woman who moves to a small town from the big city after she sets her life on fire (literally!). She ends up being hired as a baker for the local inn. I really enjoyed it.

@janet5123 10 месяцев назад

Sleep no more is now on my TBR. Would recommend T Kingfisher’s books Nettle and Bone, and What Moves The Dead. Both dark and somewhat gothic yet I literally laughed out loud a few times while reading each one.

@casual-books 10 месяцев назад

A book that specifically takes place in fall (October) is "Something Wicked This Way Comes" from Ray Bradbury .

@nastya6509 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for the recommendations, there were new ones for me for sure I want to look into. Cozy family story: new Ann Patchett - Tom Lake. Though it is set in the end of summer 2020, it doesn’t have an Apocalypse vibe at all (some pandemic novels do, and there is nothing wrong with it, of course). It is about a family with 3 daughters, who gathered at their orchard (!) for lockdown, picking cherries, with mom telling grown up daughters a story how she was an actress in her youth and dated a future film star for a summer. It has late summer/early fall vibes, nostalgia, really warm feel to it. Cozy but not mystery, I guess might be: 1) TJ Klune’s The House in the Cerulean Sea (well, to me it is cozy, because it is about a found family) 2) The Wishing Game (there are a couple of puzzles, but it is not a mystery, really. As well it is not a fantasy, no magic) Non-fiction about nature: The Invention of Nature, (about Alexander von Humboldt) Andrea Wulf. It is not about autumn, but it so full of info and gives a good explanation of how the Western world approached nature, and what was the role of A.Humboldt in it. Original and mildly creepy: 1) Walking Practice, Dolki Min. Alien coming to earth, eating humans to survive, and having issues with walking because of Earth’s gravity. 2) We Spread, Ian Reed. Woman in her 70s gets to a nursing facility, and smth strange is happening, she can’t quite explain to herself. [It is really interesting to dig into own read list and look for the answers 😅]

@anastasiariley2414 10 месяцев назад

Hi Alice, thank you for your recomendations. I have "Ninth house" and "The secret history" on my shelf, waiting for October/November 📚 And yesterday I thought I want to read a mistery by Oscar de Muriel, and here you came with the recomendations of "The strings of Murder" 🖤

@caleba9648 10 месяцев назад

We make homemade pumpkin spice seasoning at my house, it’s a blend of cinnamon, allspice, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves :)

@krissyn.3366 10 месяцев назад

I was just going to say the same thing! I like it better than the pumpkin pie spice that is pre-made.

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

I gotta try making it! :D

@jackiesliterarycorner 10 месяцев назад

I have read a lot of these, and I want to recommend The Historian by Elizabeth Kostova. A historian discovers that her father might have proof that Dracula is real and still a alive.

@MsSweetpoint 10 месяцев назад

I'm gonna need 'A little bit delicate' on a sweashirt or something😂🧡

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

That's not a bad idea :D I think a lot of us could use one haha!

@ameerahalgohary 10 месяцев назад

I love your baking and recommendations videos 😍

@Ottolineification 10 месяцев назад

i watched this video several days ago, and read "Strings of Murder" thanks to your recommendations. Thank you!, that book was exactly what i wanted, the atmosphere is very autumn-y

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

Yay, glad you liked it! :D

@opheliawinfrey9501 10 месяцев назад

Thanks! SO EXCITED FOR THIS VIDEO!! Hello, favourite season! 🍁

@vmpapillon8984 10 месяцев назад

Small town: the romance series Virgin Rivers by Robyn Carr. I would suggest starting with the first one, which has multiple seasons in it, I believe. The second one starts in Fall. But these are full on romance books (not a side story) so not for everyone. There is also a netflix series based on it.

@amena7387 10 месяцев назад

Hello Alice, I love this format of discussions. Your cooking skills are amazing !

@jesskathan 10 месяцев назад

LOVE the sweatshirt :) Thanks for all the recs! Have you read Shirley Jackson? I feel like you would love I Have Always Lived in the Castle.

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

I have read some of her books! :D Really enjoyed the ones I read

@electraandbooks5925 10 месяцев назад

Loved the book recommandations ! as for me, I will try to read two books for Victober (classics). I'm smiling because since yesterday France is under another heatwave, 34 degrees where I live so seeing you wearing a shirt and a sweatshirt is weird ! It's going to last the entire week so wish us luck ! (not a big fan of hot temp)

@FebruaryJulia 10 месяцев назад

Cozy family story - I've got one! I think it's natural to gravitate towards children's books because in "grown-up" books most stories are about a specific dysfunction of this or that family, and what kind of trauma this breed of dysfunction installs in the family members, but there's a nine-book series about Moomins by Tove Jansson, a golden classic from Finland and a most wholesome read. I loved them as a child, and currently seasonally reread Moominsummer Madness and Moominland Midwinter, and it was great. Moomins family is precious.

@AnnaRak423 10 месяцев назад

Hey Alice, I read Miss Beeton's Beetle based on your recommendation and I think it and Lessons In Chemistry are going to be 2 of my favourite reads for 2023. Thank you so much! It was such an adventure. For a cozy mystery, I will be reading A Batter of Life and Death which is set in a small town in Oregon during autumn and there is baking involved! I also have Weyward and The Last Heir to the Blackwood Library down for September reads. Your little pumpkin buns look amazing! Thanks for another great video!

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

Aaah I'm so happy to hear you read it and loved it! :D

@lsu1222 10 месяцев назад

Love this list so much ❤❤

@nmartin5096 10 месяцев назад

Thank you for listing the books mentioned in the Description tab! I truly appreciate it! Happy Reading!📚🍁🍂🍁

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

@kimberlynewsom9876 10 месяцев назад

Wow! So many good recommendations on here -my wish list just grew a ton! Thank you! Years ago I read a book called When Autumn Leaves by Amy Foster and while I can't remember many details, I remember really enjoying it. I'll have to re-read it this year. In looking at the goodreads plot summary it's about a small town witch who has to find her replacement as she's been promoted to a higher coven. Oh and like you I can't watch scary movies either, but I can read scary books!! The buns look adorable. Thank you for another awesome video.

@mathequation8544 10 месяцев назад

The Overstory is another great book about trees. I loved Crazy For Birds. Also: the secret history & and then there were none FOREVER ❤

@jolafaith 10 месяцев назад

Loved this video! The buns are adorable. For an Autumnal, small town, cozy book I’d recommend The Storied Life of AJ Fikryby Gabrielle Zevin. I think The Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield is a great cozy, autumnal countryside book. It is a bit eerie and has some uncomfortable moments too - but it’s a great one to settle in to, and great for autumn. I read it years ago and would like to reread it, myself, this fall.

@CharlotteWW13 10 месяцев назад

My favorite cosy family story is Little Women. The book as well as the movies focus so much on the relationship between the mother and her daughters as wel as the bond between the sisters 🥰

@mimishimaineko1173 10 месяцев назад

🎃Fall makes me feel like a kid again, so I like to read some middle grade too! How about "Ravenfall"?🧡

@indigo149 10 месяцев назад

Watching this video was wild. You said the first book that popped in my head for almost every prompt haha. But you also recommended some new things that I've never read so it was perfect! We have very similar taste!

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

Love it! :D

@arlissbunny 10 месяцев назад

Small town Fall recommendation: Wicked Autumn by G. M. Malliet. It’s a small town, cozy mystery, first in the Max Tudor series. Malliet always writes engaging characters and enjoyable mysteries but what sets her apart is her dry sense of humor used just here and there to add that extra sparkle.

@irhonda31 10 месяцев назад

This was a lovely video!

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

@krissyn.3366 10 месяцев назад

The first thing that comes to my mind for a cozy, small town mystery is the Flavia de Luce series by Alan Bradley. One of my all time favorite series!

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

Yesss, I need to read that! :D

@karakask5488 10 месяцев назад

Pumpkin spice is just the spices you would put into a pumpkin pie. There's no actual pumpkin. You could probably replicate it pretty easily if you wanted to. You'd need cinnamon. nutmeg, allspice, ginger, and cloves. And probably sugar if you're putting it in a recipe that needs it.

@caleba9648 10 месяцев назад

Have you read Slewfoot by Brom? It has AMAZING fall vibes. It’s technically horror but it reads like a historical fantasy thriller in some ways. It’s a wonderful witchy book too if people want more of those

@TheBookCastle 10 месяцев назад

I absolutely want to read that one, it looks amaaaaazing! :D

@caleba9648 10 месяцев назад

@@TheBookCastle I can’t wait to hear your thoughts when you do, it’s the perfect autumn read to get you into spooky season :)

@polinastoyanova266 10 месяцев назад

🧡☕🥐🍪📚🍂🦋

@gracie9658 10 месяцев назад

I made pumpkin buns last halloween and they were absolutely divine.

@laurenrodriguez918 10 месяцев назад

To piggyback onto And Then There Were None I wanted to recommend Daisy Darker by Alice Feeney. Wish I’d read that over Halloween. Definitely recommend it!