I love love love making book recommendation posts on my instagram so much that I decided to keep the recs coming here. So here we have 30 moods/feelings/specific genres and a book that matches them (at least to me). I hope you find something new to fall into.
If you want a book to read on Halloween night : The Exorcist by William Peter Blatty
If you like a combination of biography and memoir : Do Admit : The Mitford Sisters and Me by Mimi Pond
If classic lit is a part of your fall reading curriculum : The Sundial by Shirley Jackson
If you want a near-future Frankenstein reimagining : One Yellow Eye by Leigh Bradford
If you want to read a biography about an author who wrote some really great novels : Electric Spark : The Enigma of Dame Muriel by Frances Wilson
If gothic and body horror are a few of your buzzwords : Slashed Beauties by A. Rushby
if an interesting cover is sometimes enough to convince you to read a book : The Island of Last Things by Emma Sloley
If you want a cozy book that’s good for the longer nights : Little Women by Louisa May Alcott
If a book set in the world of competitive table tennis piques your interest : Underspin by E.Y. Zhao
If you want some poetry that centers around vampires and bloodlust and feels very fall-coded : Red Blood, White Teeth (anthology)
If David Cronenberg movies are your kind of vibe : Spread Me by Sarah Gailey
If you’re in the mood for a spooky atmosphere and a lot of dread : The Spiral Staircase by Ethel Lina White
If you like horror movies & non-fiction reads : Scream with Me by Eleanor Johnson
If you like mystery novels that ask you to be the detective : Miss Winter in the Library With the Knife by Martin Edwards
If you like when horror uses environmental degradation as a source of the horror : Pink Slime by Fernanda Trías
If you want to read a book that needs more hype (imo) : The Dilemmas of Working Women by Fumio Yamamoto
If you’re feeling overwhelmed and a bind-up of a very low stakes cozy sci-fi sounds appealing : Monk and Robot by Becky Chambers
If translated fiction with pretty covers is a subgenre you tend to enjoy : Scattered All Over the Earth by Yoko Tawada
If you want a book that feels kind of like an acid trip (but a fun one) : Moonflow by Bitter Karella
If you like books about friendship that span decades but aren’t 500 pages long : The Wilderness by Angela Flournoy
If lit fic with an interesting premise and writing that makes you tear up tickles your fancy : The Names by Florence Knapp
If La Piscine is a movie you’ve seen countless times : It Girl by Marissa Metzler
If you enjoy unsettling feminist horror films that delve into ideas of witchcraft and persecution : The Wax Child by Olga Ravn
If surrealism is your favorite art style : Open Wide by Jessica Gross
If you want a book that will leave you with a warm, fuzzy feeling : Exit Lane by Erika Veurink
When you need to be distracted by bizarre, mind-bending medieval horror : The Starving Saints by Caitlin Starling
If you would rather listen to your book and need an audiobook with a good narrator : How to Seal Your Own Fate by Kristen Perrin
If you’re in the mood for non-fiction essays written by a modern queen of horror : Somebody is Walking on Your Grave by Mariana Enriquez
If following the whimsical adventures of a little clove of garlic and her friends sounds like something you need in your life : Garlic & the Witch by Bree Paulsen
If you like learning about an artist’s life and process : Monet : The Restless Vision by Jackie Wallschläger
Until next time.