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13 Books of Fall 🍂

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Recently, I was chatting with Karissa from Karissa Reads Books about how much we like making lists for the 20 Books of Summer challenge, even if we don’t stick to that list or finish it. It dawned on me that while I’m not sure what the climate is like where you live, here in Indiana, USA, we have four distinct seasons. Thus, I’m creating a list of one book per week for the fall season. I want some to fit the feeling of the season while others are older books that have languished in my personal piles at home. For fall, I, of course, chose some spooky books (to varying degrees; they’re not all straight-up horror) in October, a book for my Fat Reading project, and some of the oldest books on TBR that I own. I’m also thinking about the bingo squares I want to fill for my the Boozy Book Club I’m part of (see below; click on images to enlarge).

Fall Reading List

Week of September 22: Just Before Daybreak by Audrey Couloumbis
Week of September 29: Only the Astronauts by Ceridwen Dovey
Week of October 6: Black Sheep by Rachel Harrison
Week of October 13: Pretty Girls by Karin Slaughter
Week of October 20: This Wretched Valley by Jennifer Kiefer
Week of October 27: Unbound by Tarana Burke
Week of November 3: The September House by Carissa Orlando
Week of November 10: Sweet Valley High: Power Play by Francine Pascal
Week of November 17: Owls and Other Fantasies by Mary Oliver
Week of November 24: Thanksgiving Horror Anthology by Allisha McAdoo
Week of December 1:
Week of December 8:
Week of December 15: Disabled Ecologies by Sunaura Taylor

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  1. Thats fun! I wish you luck in your challenge endeavors. It’s so satisfying to read books you own. (Are these all books you own?) But library books always seem to take precedence for me. Maybe my reading life would be different if I didn’t work at the library.

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    • I know your pile of books you own is so small! I have no clue how you’ve done it. These are largely books I own unless they are from the Boozy Book Club I belong to (Pretty Girls, Black Sheep, and Mary) and one I got from the library after my nutritionist talked about it (May I Be Happy).

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    • I thought maybe I would do fall-themed books, but that wouldn’t jive with the pile of books I own and want to do. It’s lots of fun making lists, as you know. Already, I can think of one I need to change out because the Boozy Book Club announced its November pick today.

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  3. That’s much too organised for me. I struggle to decide what my next book will be let alone my next dozen. Are you still going to review one book a week?

    I notice Fall starts at the Equinox, whereas in Australia we start Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter on the first of Sept, Dec, Mar, June. We’ve just a good, wet winter in Perth WA, but I think it will be a short Spring and a long, long summer.

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    • Some of these books are by fellas, so they won’t get reviewed, but I’m ahead on some reviews, so yes, I’ll still have one review every week on Wednesdays. I think this is less about being organized and more about when book clubs happen. I enjoyed making this list because whatever isn’t a book club book was something I found digging through the closet where my TBR are stored. It’s more about touching the books and remembering what’s there.

      The first and second days of fall were gray and blustery and chilly, so perfect, and yet we’ve still got heat ahead.

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      • I was going to say what Bill said. Your seasons and ours, as I learnt when we lived in the US, start differently. Yours on Equinoxes and Solstices, and ours on the first of the relevant months.

        Where I live we have four distinct seasons, but where I’ve just been, in outback Queensland, they mostly have just two – the Wet and the Dry. First Nations people, depending on their part of the country can have 7 or more seasons, or much fewer. But then they tend to be more attuned to nuances in climate and its impact on vegetation and animal life.

        All a bit of a ramble. I’m impressed that you have made such a list!

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        • Ha, I know that in the midwest there’s a joke about us having maybe a dozen seasons. It’s things like fall, second summer, false fall, blazing, hot summer, actual fall, first winter, fake winter, etc. The whole point is that the seasons don’t flow neatly.

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  5. I’ve just started reading a spooky book too – it’s that time of year! I also bought a pumpkin candle, so I’m that girl apparently. I don’t recognize any books on your list, other than the author Karin Slaughter of course, so I look forward to hearing your thoughts on new-to-me authors!

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  6. I’m not planning my autumn reading at all, except that I am going to read War and Peace at last! That will probably take up enough time just by itself. It looks like you’ve got a great list here. Has your weather turned yet? Ours, very unusually, actually changed on the first day of autumn this year. Normally we get a late heatwave for a few days after the equinox, but this year it started raining heavily on Sunday and all the leaves are changing already!

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