Hello fellow bookworms. We have reached Tuesday and that can only mean one thing: it is time for Top Ten Tuesday! A weekly meme hosted by That Artsy Reader Girl, who each week assigns a new topic to inspires us to create a top ten list based on it. This week’s topic is:
Books That Give Off Autumn Vibes (Autumn scenes/colours on the cover, autumn atmosphere, etc.)
As I have been talking a lot about the suitably atmospheric reading I have been doing this season for R.eaders I.mbibing P.eril XIV, I thought I would share with you book covers that have the beautiful, autumnal colours of gold, red, orange, yellow and brown on them.
1. Witch Child by Celia Rees – A young adult book about teenage Mary Newbury, who escapes England only to face persecution as a witch in a Puritan settlement in the ‘New World’.
2. Sorceress by Celia Rees – Sequel to the Witch Child, where a young woman called Agnes begins having visions of Mary Newbury, who lived over 400 years earlier.
3. Jane Steele by Lyndsay Faye – The bestselling, dark twist on Jane Eyre, with a beautiful, lush setting; a colourful cast of characters and a gripping mystery.
4. The Beekeeper’s Apprentice by Laurie R. King – Though this first Mary Russell & Sherlock Holmes book starts on a summer day, that burnished orange on the edge of the cover and the mystery screams autumn.
5. The Cranford Chronicles by Elizabeth Gaskell – A delightfully comforting collection of Gaskell’s novellas: Mr. Harrison’s Confessions, Cranford and My Lady Ludlow.
6. Death Comes to Pemberley by P. D. James – A British fan fiction novel in which James continues Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice with a murder mystery.
7. The Hobbit by J. R. R. Tolkien – Classic children’s fantasy novel, that sees little Bilbo Baggins going off on an adventure to retrieve the dwarves’ home from a cunning dragon.
8. Village School by Miss Read – A delightful collection of forty charming stories about a small, rural school, based on Read’s time as a village school teacher in the 1930/40s.
9. The Amber Spyglass by Philip Pullman – The final instalment in Pullman’s children’s fantasy trilogy, His Dark Materials, which sees Lyra and Will’s multi-world adventure comes to an end.
10. Just So Stories by Rudyard Kipling – A classic collection of short, origin and morals stories for children.
Now over to you: Do you like my autumnal book cover choices? What autumnal books covers can you think of?
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Loved the Rees books and Cranford, though I’ve only read the one story so far. I’m wondering about the cover of The Essex Serpent – it’s dark green but otherwise looks good in that way.
These are all such wonderful picks! I used to love Death Comes to Pemberley. (Although, I’m not sure why I said USED to? Because I still do? HAHA.)
Thank you for stopping by and commenting, Jessica (oh and great name by the way 😉 ) I am pleased to hear you like my picks. 🙂
Fantastic list – so many great authors and I loved seeing Jane Steele on here and of course the Hobbit.
Lynn 😀
Thank you, Lynn 😀
I love that you have such a varied selection of books! I didn’t think of The Hobbit but that is a fantastic autumn pick.
Rain City Reads, thank you for stopping by and commenting. 🙂 I am very pleased to hear you like my varied selection of book, particularly the fantastic The Hobbit. 😀
Very nice! I have read Death Comes to Pemberley and The Amber Spyglass, loved the second unconditionally.
Thank you, Judy 🙂 Glad to hear you loved The Amber Spyglass. I have just started watching the new TV series of His Dark Materials. 🙂
Anything witchy definitely brings me Autumn vibes. Nice list!
Hello Alicia, thank you for stopping by and commenting 🙂 And yes, witches and books and films with them in definitely have an autumn vibe. 😀
The Hobbit is definitely an autumn book. I have the Lord of the Rings on my list this week!
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Lydia, The Hobbit is a good autumn book, although to be honest for me it is a great book whatever time of year it is! 😀
I haven’t seen the new cover of Jane Steel. It’s so fallish! Love it! This book is waiting on my shelf. I hope I can get to it soon!
Dedra, this isn’t the new cover for Jane Steele, as this copy was a review copy for when the book was first published, so it must be the old cover. I really hope you enjoy it when you have chance to read it. 🙂
I can’t quite work out what the graphic on the Gaskell is meant to represent. Seems a curious image for this book.
Karen, its just a golden, leafy motif that you might find on Victorian wallpaper or upholstery I think, with two little male and female cameos.
it’s a lot more tasteful than some of the covers I’ve seen
I think your cover choices do a good job of evoking autumn!
Thank you, Kelly 🙂