Books for the Autumn | 2023
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- čas přidán 10. 09. 2024
- It’s been a little while, and as autumn is now officially in the air here I thought I would come back for a chat about the autumnal books I have in my sights this fall. #TBR #BookTube #Autumn
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Books Mentioned…
Divine Might by Natalie Haynes
Lolly Willowes by Sylvia Townsend Warner
Velvet Was The Night by Silvia Moreno Garcia
The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff
The Squirrel & The Lost Treasure by Coralie Bickford Smith
If An Egyptian Cannot Speak English by Naga Noor Naga
Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno Garcia
The Beholders by Hester Musson
Kala by Colin Walsh
Dazzling by Chikodili Emelumadu
The Glutton by A K Blakemore
Learned by Heart by Emma Donoghue
The Fraud by Zadie Smith
The Other Side of Mrs Wood by Lucy Barker
Our Share of Night by Mariana Enriquez
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So many books, so little time! Honestly, if I spent less time watching BookTube videos and more time reading, I would have the time. Easier said than done. 😄🍁🍂🎃
Same! 😅
So true!!😉
Story of my life!
Same 😂
Lol yes!
Some of your choices are on my autumn tbr as well: Our Share of Night, Divine Might, The Squirrel & The Lost Treasure, The Glutton. Already read Learned by Heart and The Fraud. Enjoy your autumn reading 🍂🍁!
P.S. If you haven't read The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store, by James McBride yet, I think you'll love it. I adored it! Best book of the year for me :).
I’m reading The Heaven and Earth Grocery Store right now and loving it!
@@pattyfalls7801 I think about this book at least once a day still...
Just finished North Woods by Daniel Mason, definitely autumnal ,slightly supernatural vibes. I wasn't sure about it at first but as the chapters went by they built a wonderful history of the land, house and the people connected and it ended as one of my favourites of this year.
North Woods was one I almost included for the autumnal cover picks, as that cover is sooo autumn. I’ve heard from a few other people it takes a while to get into but am looking forward to giving it a whirl.
love the fall shirt! and YES! let's get our Noor Naga on!
I’m starting shortly. So excited to do a buddy read with you!!!
🎃 🍁 hi Simon 👋🏻 sorry you’ve been poorly & hope you’re over ‘it’ soon 🤞 hope the new job and studying are going enjoyably well.
I want to read The Fraud; I really enjoyed On Beauty, liked N.W. & for some reason when I read White Teeth got distracted towards the end 🙈 (may return to it one day!)
Yesterday (while in a local indie b’shop), I treated myself to the new Claire Keegan (So Late in the Day) & The Complete Poems of Walt Whitman, plus a cup of hot choc 😌 On the b’shop counter was displayed a lovely paperback copy of Demon Copperhead with aqua blue/turquoise coloured page ends. Wow! (I already have a copy so resisted, but I held it for a bit)!
I’m currently reading a library copy of If I Survive You (👍) & also have on loan Prophet Song (I’ve requested the other Booker shortlisted titles). Already read Western Lane which I liked but it’s not a winner imho 😬
TC & happy reading xx
Sounds like you’ve had lots of reading of all sorts of kind going on. How lovely and varied.
Oooo the one about the psychics sounds very much up my street.
Glad you're feeling better, Simon! 🍁
I am… it was Leeds what gave me the bug on visit one last month 😒 hahahaha.
@@SavidgeReads on behalf of Leeds as a whole, I apologise.
Nice autumnal shirt.🍂🍁🦃🍗 For boomer Howdy Doody fans in the States, we know Princess Summerfall Winterspring, it is getting more and more quiet in the peanut gallery.😢
It’s a nice shirt isn’t it. I don’t usually wear orange but am wearing this all the time.
I loved Kala. I hope you enjoy it as much as I did.
I hope so too!!!
Thank you - lots of interesting recommendations that have gone onto the tbr. Really interested in the Zadie Smith one! 🍂🍁
Hope you enjoy it when you get to it 🍂
Happy Autumn reading!
And to you too!!!
🍂🍁 I hope you enjoy your autumn selection, I am looking forward to reading Ayana Mathis "The Unsettled "📚
Oooh I’ve not heard of that. I shall look it up! Update. I think I have heard of it actually on Kayla’s channel. I’ll double check.
I just started Mexican Gothic and do like it a lot. And on my tbr for October is If an Egyptian cannot speak English ❤
Oooh will be looking forward to your thoughts on Mexican Gothic once I’ve read it and can natter about it on here. I’ll be starting If an Egyptian Cannot Speak English today as Nathan and I are buddy reading it. Hooray!!!
This video!
It screams autumn and I love it.
My autumn loving heart is so happy.
Awww I’m so pleased 🍂🦊
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Oooh really looking forward to it.
Love the mugs ❤ get better soon x
They’re great aren’t they! An absolute find.
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Mexican Gothic is a good autumnal read. And it's a side of Mexico I've never seen. I hope you enjoy it🍂🍁🍂
I hope I do too! I shall report back!
Great recommendations in this video, Simon…hope you continue to feel better.🍂🥮🍁🧡
Awww thank you!
Hope you feel better soon🍁
I’m definitely on the up. Thank you 🍂
Wonderful to see you xx I cant wait to hear about the more spooky books if it's before Halloween as I love to read ghostly tales then. I would like to recommend Dracula Park which is by Dana Grigorcea translated from Swiss Romanian by Imogen Taylor for you and hear are some autumn 🍂 leaves rofl xx
Oooh I’ll look up Dracula Park though I’m on a book buying ban for a while as the amount I’m buying has gone WILD.
If an Egyptian cannot speak English is one of my favourite books this year!
Oooh that’s very promising to hear.
Can't wait to hear your thoughts :)
Always love a Savidge reading list ❤
The Fraud is one I need to get to very soon, as well as the new Justin Torres, which I think also has a very autumnal colour palette on the cover!
Ooh I hadn’t thought about the Torres being autumnal. I guess the border is. Though not sure about the big block of black, that’s very bleak winter for me. Hahaha.
Simon, you have the dream book collection and library. I could adopt you just for your books.😍❤️📚I have bought loads of books because of your recommendations. Some I have had to buy from the UK. When my husband sees the receipts I always say, “Simon made me do it. It is his fault!” 😂😂 The book, “If An Egyptian Could Speak English,” sounds fantastic. I just bought Lauren Goff’s book and Emma Donahue’s new book. I am reading the second book in C. J. Samson’s Shardlake series. I am really loving it. It is better than the first book. I hope school is going well.
Oh blimey your husband probably isn’t my biggest fan with all this book pushing. Hahahaha. I really want to head back to Shardlake, mum has reminded me of them and now I have a Sansom craving.
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A pleasure. Here’s to some lovely autumnal reads 🍂
Love the shirt
Thank you very much. Went as autumnal as I could.
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An absolute pleasure. I need that blue monster emoji.
Can’t wait to hear what you think about all these books 🥮🍁🍂
Fingers crossed I’ll get to them all over the coming autumnal weeks and months.
So glad we’re finally in to Autumn and we can fully indulge our cosy inclinations! What an amazing selection of books on this video. I am most excited about The Beholders and The Other Side…. I’m a big fan of anything Victorian.
Listening to the audiobook of Learned by Heart at the moment, and really feel like I’m going to need to read it too, so I can really absorb it all 😊
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Oh, and I mean to say I will have to give the Zadie Smith a try - the cover is not drawing me to it, but you know what they say about judging…
I love a good Victorian novel too. I’m not sure why I find that time period so particularly comforting but I do! I’m sooo looking forward to Learned By Heart. Sooooo many good books this autumn!
@@SavidgeReads I had completely forgotten that Learned by Heart was about Gentleman Jack. Definitely need to read rather than listen, I think!
Lolly Willowes! It’s a sneaky brilliant one, in my eyes. I had heard so much about it, I was then so delighted that the reading experience was such a special one for me.
Ooooh looking forward to it. And thank you for the rave free of spoilers. Very kind of you.
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I’m feeling a bit under the weather and this video was a total comfort, thank you! I read Kala recently and loved, also Mexican Gothic is SO GOOD. Perfect autumnal reading. I have Lolly Willowes and Velvet Was The Night on my TBR piles, might also try and get to those this month 🍁☺️
Sooooo pleased to bring some comfort, hope you’re feeling much better soon.
Hi Simon another great video keep them coming. I read Learned By Heart and Mexican Gothic. Enjoyed both books. If you have not read Heather O’Neil please do her lasted book is in paperback. I think you would like it. Take care. Bye MaryAnn😊
Heather O’Neill’s new one sadly isn’t out in the UK but I managed to order it from Canada in hardback and will heads to it at some point as I loved The Lonely Hearts Hotel. I think I actually have all her books on my shelves.
Happy Autumn to you! 🍁🍂🧡🤎💛 The autumn palette was my mom’s favorite. 😊
She had great taste.
Love your plaid! Happy reading. 🍁🍃🍂
I’m having a small plaid obsession this autumn.
Hurray for autumn reads and for my favourite season too!🍁🍁
I’m soooo happy it’s here.
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Everytime you make me belly laugh. "It must be a nut of some kind" 😅
Always a treat to hear I’ve given people a giggle or three. We all need a good laugh now and again.
Oh Simon, not again! I got covid in June for the second time and was miserable. Happy to see you back with your snazzy new hair!
Ha. Thanks Carole. I know. Fourth time. It loves me. Sadly it’s very much a one way relationship. Ha.
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What an autumnal shirt!!! The perfect vibe. I am quite keen to read Vaster Wilds. I’ve read Kala and it has Tana French autumnal vibes for sure. I am hearing a lot of buzz on The Glutton. I think you already know I loved The Fraud. And I have THOUGHTS on Lolly Willowes! BREATHE! 🍂🍁
Oooh can’t wait for the THOUGHTS on Wednesday. Am looking forward to them. Now, Tana French, that’s unnerved me. I hated her first book. HATED it. Though I’ve meant to try a standalone to see if it was just that book and that awful, unforgivable ending. Hahahaha. Ooh I had THOUGHTS there.
Great to see you again and I’m glad school is going well! I hope your new job is too. I’m sure you’re a great employee so I’m sure it is. Thanks for these recommendations. Happy Fall!🧙🏻♀️🍂👻🎃🥧
School, new job - all going delightfully thank you!
Fab shirt, Simon. I love that color. Great list of books to check out too. I was so taken with the Emma Donoghue book with the sprayed edges that I tracked it down and found it in a bookshop in Scotland. The shipping cost is more than the cost of the book (yikes!) but anything to get my hands on a coveted edition!
This shirt has some real fans. I’ll be wearing it again today for a special video mum and I are filming for later in the month 😉
My spring TBR (I'm in Aus) is becoming ENORMOUS...so many books. I've recently finished The Fraud, interested to hear what you think about it.
I shall be heading to it in the not too distant future. Well, next month. Lol.
After a bit of a disappointing spell, I have now discovered The Rivers of London by Ben Aaronovitch. I had seen them around and thought they were about rivers hahah. Well, they are but not in the way you'd think. Have you read them? Anyway, I have just finished the first one and though it's the sort of book you have to just 'believe' I really really enjoyed it and couldn't wait for my reading time in the evening. I reckon it would suit autumn even though it's not actually set then. There is even a spooky house and I know how you like a spooky house!
I haven’t read them. I’ve heard amazing things about them know and the supernatural shenanigans in them. Maybe one day, I do love a spooky house. Ha.
Hi, Simon, lovely to see you again! You do have a colourful reading list for this autumn :) I've been saving 'Our Share of the Night' for this autumn, hope to start it next week. 'Mexican Gothic' is the only book from your list that I have read, I still remember it quite vividly - very atmospheric, not too scary, and the author weaves reality with nightmares together so convincingly that it's not only Noemi who can't understand where one ends and the other one starts. And I love that cover too much! After all this time (two years? ah, no, it's three already, just checked 😄) - every time I see it, I'm like - why is it so pretty?
Good luck with your new projects, studies and all!
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Thank you for your thoughts on Mexican Gothic. I will have to try and forget a few as I like going into books knowing the least I possibly can. Looking forward to chatting about it once I’ve read it in an upcoming vlog or haul.
I may be doing something with Our Share of Night. I’ll pop it on socials and here if I do.
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Definitely read Our Share of Night! Every time you ask for recs this is what I want to suggest. It’s chunky but really well paced. I’d love to hear what you think of it!
I have read it and was completely immersed in it. But I don’t think it’s a one read book. I’m sure I missed a lot of the symbols and references to the horror of the real dictator times in Argentina.
It’s definitely on the periphery for autumn. I feel like I may need to make some kind of ‘project’ out of it so I definitely read it. I’m actually chatting to the publishers about a possible spooky something.
Looking forward to Learned by Heart as I love the Gentleman Jack series too. Loving your shirt Simon! 🧡
Looking forward to Learned by Heart aswell. Love Donahue!
It’s such good telly. I’ve been to Anne Lister’s house a few times in the last few years and can’t recommend it enough. I may have some content I never used that I filmed there I could wedge into that vlog when I make it.
@@SavidgeReads it sounds fab and I would love to see it in a vlog sometime, but no pressure 😊
A lot of autumn book temptation there 🍁 🍂 🎃 🔥 🍂 🍁
Sooo many autumn delights ahead 🍂🍂
I’m currently reading Ring Shout by P. Djeli Clark. I think you’d enjoy it, historical and horror combined. One quote says “A fantastical cross between Ralph Ellison’ Invisible Man and Buffy the Vampire Slayer” 🎃
I think I have it on the shelves. I shall check when I get out of bed. Thank you for the reminder as that could be perfect for a future vlog.
Nice to see you Simon, and what a perfectly autumnal shirt. I can't decide if I should read autumy moody books in October, or tropical Aussie books, as I'm off to Queensland for the month of November. Decisions, decisions . . .🍂🍂
I think read whatever you fancy at the time. Maybe mix it all up by whim.
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There’s now an audio version of Prophets Song which makes things easier.
Ha, you say that BUT you know me of old and so you know fiction audiobooks and me just don’t work.
Just added 5 books to my tethering TBR thanks to this list! Currently reading The Whistling by Rebecca Netley. Great spooky house gothic vibe…🕯️
Oooh which five? Just cos I’m nosey.
I listened to The Other Side of Mrs Wood after seeing it on your channel. It was good mix of gothic/fun. Also interesting to explore the hype around spiritualism in the Victorian era. Love the cover too. Thanks Simon 🍁🍁🍁
Pleasure. Fingers crossed I enjoy it as much as you did.
I recently read The Spirit Engineer by A J West - if you’re into Victorian spiritualism you might enjoy it as much as I did. It’s based in truth.
"Chunkster of a Monster" ... That had me LOLing. How many books do you read a month?
Ha. Glad I brought you some lol’s. That always brings me great cheer. So thank you for letting me know. How many a month, varies greatly. Can be six, can be fifteen. Depends how much work reading I’m having to do and making time for.
@@SavidgeReads Awesome! I'm a 3 book a month kinda guy (but A Little Life took me 7 weeks 😱).
Thanks for some great recommendations Simon. I’ve had a great reading month, some highlights include ‘Once there were wolves’ by Charlotte McConaghy, ‘Yellow Wife’ by Sadeqa Johnson and I loved Daphne du Maurier’s ‘The Birds’ short story collection, I’m also going to pick another collection by her ‘Don’t look now’, her short stories are quite wicked and a bit spooky, perfect for this time of year xxx
I have McConaghy’s Migrations on the shelves. I’ve been meaning to read that for ages. I am a HUGE Du Maurier fan, I’ve read all the short stories and they’re absolute Autumn corkers. So are most of her novels, well the ones I’ve read. I’ve not picked her up for ages.
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Thank you very much for the recommendations and for the fun video. You always make me smile! I would I may recommend - thirteen classic ghost stories - which include the beautiful and rather moving Pirates by E.F. Benson. Many thanks! 🥰 🍂
I think I have the Benson ghost stories somewhere on the shelves, thank you for the reminder.
I have just finished the Housekeepers
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@@SavidgeReads i really enjoyed it. Your description was spot on.I have lent it to my mum
It's hard to imagine it's autumn when it's 32°C outside! 🥵 🎃🍁🍁🍁🍂🍂🍂
Hahahaha we’ve had some ‘heady’ autumn days heat wise too but I’m still revelling in it being autumn even technically.
I am currently reading and enjoying Our Share of Night and would definitely love to hear your thoughts on it! 🍁🍂🎃
I may have plans for something Our Share Of Night based incoming. Maybe.
🍁🍂 my cat decided to stand right in front of the iPad think he was looking for some attention! 😹 thanks Simon was good to catch up with you. 💜
Awww bless him, I’ve seen instagram footage proof that I’m occasionally a cat whisperer and have some feline fans across the internet.
@@SavidgeReads the cat (Simba) usually abandons me now in favour of my oldest son. 😂
Happy Autumn, Simon! Hope you enjoy your reading. 🍁🍂🎃
Me too. Here’s to a fab reading season for us all.
So sorry to hear you had C , I had it too, the 6th time!! Worse thing was that I was too sick to read...
Oh bless you. Hope you’re all better now. Mine was round four and couldn’t read for three of the six days. Ugh. Oops I said I wasn’t going to talk about it anymore.
Just starting the new Ken Follett tonight!
I’ve never read one of his but Jane Garvey has recommended them to me on more than one occasion.
@@SavidgeReads I would recommend Fall Of Giants. Huge multi-generational story set at the time of WW1 & the Russian Revolution.
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Dazzling sounds good.
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was excited to read The Fraud, but the reviews have not been that good. Im anxious to hear your thoughts.
This is mildly ironic coming from me give what I do on the internet, I ignore the reviews. If I want to read a book I just get it. I was going to say I just read it but that takes a while. Hahaha.
Hi a great load recommendations as always, thank you. Can you tell me what the bonus prompt is for 23, i can’t find the prompts on story graph on the 2022 ones. Thank you, it could be me being stupid!! 🦔🍁i have all the other prompts from watching your video earlier in the year but don’t seem to have written down the bonus one!!
We didn’t do it in 2022 so that one won’t be findable (if that’s a word) the bonus one for 2023 (which should be findable) is a book about a mother and son.
Thank you for letting me know, don’t how I missed the bonus one, but I’ll add it to my list of prompts. Enjoying doing them each month as it gives me a focus at least each month on what’s on my shelf rather than buying more books, which lets be honest I’m still going to buy more books 📚 😊
I’ve been 👀 and hoping for this exact video for weeks ( no offense to the sh*ton of “cozy autumn vibes /spooky season reads “videos out there 😬 ) I’m grateful it’s here . 👏🏽 for the higher education endeavor ! 📕 🪱 💚
Glad you enjoyed it!
Moominvalley in November 🍂
Oooh I’ve never been too sure on the Moomin’s but maybe I’ll have to give them a try.
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Not for the first time, I've watched one of your videos and immediately purchased another book. Oops! 🍁🍂 Thanks for the recommendations, Simon! (P.S. I'm still keen to learn your thoughts on Kala once you get a chance to read it). Cheers!
Oooh which one did you buy?
@@SavidgeReads Snagged The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff. \o/
ps - nice shirt 😘
Thank you. I’m smitten with it.
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🍂 I read Beauty by Zadie Smith last February and found it poignant. Looking forward to your thoughts on The Fraud
It’s a huge hit with many, On Beauty. My mum loved it. I just found it really dull. I don’t love books about academics though so that could have been part of it.
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Mexican Gothic is a great creepy read.
I’m looking forward to it.
I look forward to hearing what you think.
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