autumn literature & film guide
a comprehensive, hyper-specific autumn reading & movie guide
My comprehensive, hyper-specific seasonal guide for autumn is finally here! This has been a month in the planning, so I’m excited to finally post it. As always, I try to make these guides as exhaustive as possible.
[This post gets cut off on the email, so read it in the app or on your desktop <3]
I already posted the ten books you should read in early fall for my postcard, but I wanted to post a more in-depth, hyper-specific book and movie guide for fall in general, with around 100 book recommendations and 60 movie recommendations for the season.
Here is my (free) post with ten books you should read this autumn!
Here is an overview of a portion of the books I put in my general fall reading guide on my bookstagram:
My hyperspecific fall literature & film guide is slightly different than my summer guide. For summer, I posted books based on location + vibe, but I don’t really associate the autumn months with traveling. So for this, I’ve decided to just do fictional (and real) literary locations from books and very specific feelings for books and movies that I seek out during the fall.
Some categories you can find in this guide are:
atmospheric and haunting
late summer to early autumn transition
gothic classics
“sad girl in her twenties”
creepy and unsettling
beautiful prose
campus academia
magical realism
cozy autumnal
stream of consciousness
love stories that aren’t romance
short story collections
writer diaries
mysteries & thrillers
I’ve also included paintings, and playlists that feel autumnal and pertain to (almost) each category, on top of the books & movies! I always just stay in during colder months so I wanted to make this as comprehensive and thorough as possible.
kellynch hall
Kellynch Hall, Persuasion—books and movies for late summer to early autumn transition. These are almost summery but a bit colder and a bit more melancholic.
BOOKS
The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides
Autumn by Ali Smith
These Precious Days by Ann Patchett
The Complete Cosmicomics by Italo Calvino
Real Life by Brandon Taylor
Persuasion by Jane Austen
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MOVIES
The Florida Project
Portrait of a Lady on Fire
Atonement
Short Term 12
Columbus
manderley estate
Manderley Estate, Rebecca—books and movies with an immersive atmosphere that feel larger than life, like they’ll haunt you beyond the page and screen.
BOOKS
Invisible Ink by Patrick Modiano
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous by Ocean Vuong
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
On the Savage Side by Tiffany McDaniel
The Haunting of Hill House by Shirley Jackson
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MOVIES
The Virgin Suicides
Arrival
A Ghost Story
Boyhood
Chungking Express