Colorful leaves, crisp air, fall decor and football. Fall is easily my favorite time of year. Looking for some new books to snuggle up with? Me too! I’ve been doing a little research and thought I’d share some of the favorites I’ve found that I think would be great fall reads.
8 Books to Snuggle Up With This Fall
This list has something for everyone – I promise!
Here we go!
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Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children.
This book has been out for a few years now but the movie comes out at the end of September! So if you haven’t read it yet and you like to read the book before you see the movie, now’s the perfect time to read this one! I bought this last year and still haven’t read it so this is what I’m starting with.
A mysterious island.
An abandoned orphanage.
A strange collection of very curious photographs.
It all waits to be discovered in Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children, an unforgettable novel that mixes fiction and photography in a thrilling reading experience. As our story opens, a horrific family tragedy sets sixteen-year-old Jacob journeying to a remote island off the coast of Wales, where he discovers the crumbling ruins of Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children. …read more.
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The Magnolia Story (October 18, 2016).
In The Magnolia Story fans will finally get to join the Gaines behind the scenes and discover:
- The time Chip ran to the grocery store and forgot to take their new, sleeping baby
- Joanna’s agonizing decision to close her dream business to focus on raising their children
- When Chip buys a houseboat, sight-unseen, and it turns out to be a leaky wreck
- Joanna’s breakthrough moment of discovering the secret to creating a beautiful home
- Harrowing stories of the financial ups and downs as an entrepreneurial couple
- Memories and photos from Chip and Jo’s wedding
- The significance of the word magnolia and why it permeates everything they do
- The way the couple pays the popularity of Fixer Upper forward, sharing the success with others, and bolstering the city of Waco along the way
And yet there is still one lingering question for fans of the show: Is Chip really that funny? “Oh yeah,” says Joanna. “He was, and still is, my first fixer upper.” …read more.
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All The Missing Girls: A Novel.
I loved The Girl on the Train and I keep trying to find similar books to read. I love thrillers and books that keep me hooked and guessing. This one seems pretty promising and already has great reviews.
Like the spellbinding psychological suspense in The Girl on the Train and Luckiest Girl Alive, Megan Miranda’s novel is a nail-biting, breathtaking story about the disappearances of two young women—a decade apart—told in reverse.
It’s been ten years since Nicolette Farrell left her rural hometown after her best friend, Corinne, disappeared from Cooley Ridge without a trace. Back again to tie up loose ends and care for her ailing father, Nic is soon plunged into a shocking drama that reawakens Corinne’s case and breaks open old wounds long since stitched. …read more.
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All Is Not Forgotten: A Novel.
I think we’ve all gone through something we’d like to forget. Or we at least wonder what it’d be like to forget. I know a few things have crossed my mind a time or two which is why this book stood out to me.
It begins in the small, affluent town of Fairview, Connecticut, where everything seems picture perfect.
Until one night when young Jenny Kramer is attacked at a local party. In the hours immediately after, she is given a controversial drug to medically erase her memory of the violent assault. But, in the weeks and months that follow, as she heals from her physical wounds, and with no factual recall of the attack, Jenny struggles with her raging emotional memory. Her father, Tom, becomes obsessed with his inability to find her attacker and seek justice while her mother, Charlotte, struggles to pretend this horrific event did not touch her carefully constructed world. …read more.
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Uninvited: Living Loved When You Feel Less Than, Left Out, and Lonely.
This is another book that caught my eye because I think we’ve all experienced loneliness and feeling “less than”. This books seems like it’d be an encouraging read – probably whether we feel lonely or not.
The enemy wants us to feel rejected . . . left out, lonely, and less than.
In Uninvited, Lysa shares her own deeply personal experiences of rejection–from the perceived judgment of the perfectly toned woman one elliptical over to the incredibly painful childhood abandonment by her father. She leans in to honestly examine the roots of rejection, as well as rejection’s ability to poison relationships from the inside out, including our relationship with God. …read more.
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Girl in the Woods: A Memoir.
This gets mixed reviews but seems interesting enough, especially if you’re a fan of memoir, which I am. I’m obsessed.
Girl in the Woods is Aspen Matis’s exhilarating true-life adventure of hiking from Mexico to Canada—a coming-of-age story, a survival story, and a triumphant story of overcoming emotional devastation. On her second night of college, Aspen was raped by a fellow student. Overprotected by her parents who discouraged her from speaking of the attack, Aspen was confused and ashamed. Dealing with a problem that has sadly become all too common on college campuses around the country, she stumbled through her first semester—a challenging time made even harder by the coldness of her college’s “conflict mediation” process. Her desperation growing, she made a bold decision: She would seek healing in the freedom of the wild, on the 2,650-mile Pacific Crest Trail leading from Mexico to Canada. …read more.
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Home by Harlan Coben.
Can you tell I love mysteries? If you took a peek at our DVR list you’d see so more true crime documentaries than anything else! I love to read these kinds of stories anytime but I think they’re especially fun in the fall when the weather turns cooler and the days are shorter.
A decade ago, kidnappers grabbed two boys from wealthy families and demanded ransom, then went silent. No trace of the boys ever surfaced. For ten years their families have been left with nothing but painful memories and a quiet desperation for the day that has finally, miraculously arrived: Myron Bolitar and his friend Win believe they have located one of the boys, now a teenager. Where has he been for ten years, and what does he know about the day, more than half a life ago, when he was taken? …read more.
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Born to Run by Bruce Springsteen.
I have a thing for celebrity memoirs. I read them all and I devour them in less than a day usually. I can’t read any other type of book quite as fast. I just find their stories fascinating because usually their backstory is full of adversity and it’s interesting to see what they’ve been through and how they’ve dealt with it and how they’ve dealt with it.
In 2009, Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band performed at the Super Bowl’s halftime show. The experience was so exhilarating that Bruce decided to write about it. That’s how this extraordinary autobiography began.
Over the past seven years, Bruce Springsteen has privately devoted himself to writing the story of his life, bringing to these pages the same honesty, humor, and originality found in his songs.
He describes growing up Catholic in Freehold, New Jersey, amid the poetry, danger, and darkness that fueled his imagination, leading up to the moment he refers to as “The Big Bang”: seeing Elvis Presley’s debut on The Ed Sullivan Show. He vividly recounts his relentless drive to become a musician, his early days as a bar band king in Asbury Park, and the rise of the E Street Band. With disarming candor, he also tells for the first time the story of the personal struggles that inspired his best work, and shows us why the song “Born to Run” reveals more than we previously realized. …read more.
Happy reading!
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