What better way to celebrate fall than to grab a cinnamon-flavored drink and cozy up in a corner, with nothing on your mind besides a book that demands your attention? Here are some of our fall book recommendations you can curl up with in between classes, as the leaves change colors and the weather gets colder.

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro (2005)

This book centers around Halshaim, a seemingly picturesque boarding school in the countryside of England. Its students are classically trained and get the very best education, but are unable to leave the confines of the school grounds, knowing nothing of the world outside. For Kathy and her friends Ruth and Tommy, this unknown is too much, and until they finally learn the startling truth about Halshaim after they leave it and enter the real world.

“Let’s just say that Ishiguro has a way of pitting innocence against experience while reminding us that we’re capable of both.” —

The New York Times

’ Sarah Kerr

Verity

by Colleen Hoover (2018)

If you are into thriller novels, look no further. Hoover steps away from her usual cookie-cutter romance novels (which are always great) and creates a stunning thriller in her book

Verity.

But do not worry, the romance is still strong in this one.

The story follows Lowen Ashleigh, a struggling author who is in between jobs. She is miraculously offered a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity by Jeremy Crawford — finishing famous author Verity Crawford’s book series, as Verity is unable to do so herself after an awful accident. Lowen moves into the Crawford household to go through Verity’s copious notes, but things quickly go awry when Lowen accidentally stumbles upon Verity’s unfinished autobiography, filled with startling and horrifying admissions. Lowen decides to keep the manuscript a secret, but as she gets closer to the family and to Jeremy himself, this secret proves hard to keep.

“This isn’t a book, it’s a visceral experience.” — B.B. Easton, bestselling author

Mexican Gothic

by Silvia Moreno-Garcia (2020)

After Noemí Taboada receives a letter from her cousin begging Noemí to save her from a mysterious fate, she travels to High Place, the isolated house in the Mexican countryside where her cousin currently resides. When Noemí finally arrives at the grand, yet haunting house to start her search, she soon realizes that both the house and her cousin’s husband intend to hide dark truths from her grasp. Yet Noemí only delves further into her sleuthing, determined to save her cousin from a violent end.

“You will be left unsettled, unsteady, and uncertain. You will also be left satisfied. And you will remember High Place, though hopefully not in your dreams.” — Jessica P.Wick, writer and freelance editor of

NPR

The Woman in Black

by Susan B. Hill (1983)

Solicitor Arthur Kipps is called to attend the funeral of a Mrs. Alice Drablow and to settle her estate in the tiny town of Crythin Gifford. However, when he arrives at the said estate — Eel Marsh House, a particularly intimidating mansion in the middle of the marshy Nine Lives Causeway — he starts noticing strange things, like screams of a horse when there is no one on the grounds, and a mysterious woman in black roaming graveyards…

“I don’t believe in ghosts but [this story]…brought me about as near as I’m ever likely to get to such a belief…” —

The Daily Telegraph