08/09/2026
📚Autumn Reading Recommendations 🍂
The season of darker, wetter evenings means any excuse to stay in with a book (my favourite season!)
I’ve put together a wee reading guide for the months ahead based on books I’ve loved, books that have stayed with me, and some that are on my own reading list this autumn! ☕️📖
If you have any favourites please message me and let me know!
Sláinte,
Naomh
Academia 📚
🏛️The Secret History - Donna Tartt
A group of classics students at an elite New England college become entangled in obsession, secrecy and murder. Dark academia at its finest.
🎓Stoner - John Williams
The quiet, deeply moving life of a university professor, from his student days through love, disappointment and the passage of time. A beautiful book about an ordinary life.
🥂Brideshead Revisited - Evelyn Waugh
An Oxford friendship draws Charles Ryder into the world of an aristocratic family, where beauty, privilege, religion and longing become increasingly intertwined.
🎭If We Were Villains - M. L. Rio
Seven Shakespeare students, one close-knit friendship group and a tragedy that blurs the line between performance and reality. Perfect for anyone who loves theatrical, obsessive academia.
Gothic🕯️
🏚️Rebecca - Daphne du Maurier
A young woman arrives at Manderley as the second ‘Mrs de Winter’, only to find that the memory of her husband’s first wife still dominates the house. Atmospheric, obsessive and utterly unforgettable.
👰🏼♀️The Woman in White - Wilkie Collins
A mysterious encounter on a moonlit road leads into a Victorian mystery of mistaken identities, family secrets and sinister intentions.
👻The Turn of the Screw - Henry James
A governess becomes convinced that the children in her care are being haunted by something malevolent. A short, unsettling story that leaves you questioning what is real.
🌹My Cousin Rachel - Daphne du Maurier
A young man becomes fascinated by the widow of his beloved cousin, but is she the woman she appears to be? A wonderfully ambiguous novel of obsession, suspicion and desire.
Horror🩸
🦇Dracula - Bram Stoker
A young solicitor travel