Hey bookworm friends! I’m not gonna lie, my September reading is kind of going terribly. I have DNF’d more than I’ve finished, and what I’m reading isn’t managing to keep my attention. It’s rough out there🫠. But that’s why I like today’s TTTopic of ‘Fall 2025 To-Read List’. I’m hoping that if I gather my hopes & priorities, I’ll have better luck with my reading the rest of the season. I need Atmospheric! Witchy! Thought provoking! Not ho-hum, put me to sleep, & “why am I even reading this” like I’ve been getting recently. Wish me book magic, and here are the Ten Books I Hope To Read This Fall 🤞🏼🍂🖤!
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Top Ten Tuesday is hosted by Jana at That Artsy Reader Girl. Don’t forget to check out her post and link up!
Books I Hope To Read This Fall (2025)
1. Silent in the Grave (Lady Julia Grey #1) by Deanna Raybourn
2. Cackle by Rachel Harrison
3. Babel by R. F. Kuang
4. A Discovery of Witches (All Souls #1) by Deborah Harkness
5. Dark Archives by Megan Rosenbloom
6. The Tropic of Serpents by Marie Brennan
7. The Cinnamon Bun Book Store by Laurie Gilmore
8. Canticle by Janet Rich Edwards
9. Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen
10. The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 by Beth Brower
Let’s chat in the comments!
What are you most hoping to read this season? Or, which ones of these should I prioritize? If you participated in TTT this week feel free to share your link with me 🖤
Have fun with Jane!
Thank you, I’m really hoping to get to it since I watched an adaptation in theatre this summer and it would be fitting for the anniversary year! 😀
The Cinnamon Bun Book Store has been on a few different lists this week. Enjoy!
I’m not surprised at all, I enjoyed the first in the series so hoping the audio will be equally as fun for autumn walks 🙂
Happy Reading. Nice picks! I have The Cinnamon Bun Book Store on my TBR as well. I read The Pumpkin Spice Cafe. That one was good. I hope you enjoy it. Sometime, I do want to read Pride & Prejudice by Jane Austen. Have a good week. Here is my TTT.https://dmhoisington.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/top-ten-tuesday-2/
Ah yes I also enjoyed The Pumpkin Spice Cafe and I’ve been meaning to continue the series. Hopefully my hold will arrive before winter lol. & Yes here’s hoping you enjoy P&P when you get to it too 😀 Thank you for visiting, Danyelle! 🖤
The Laurie Gilmore one would perfectly fit the fall vibe!
My TTT: https://laurieisreading.com/2025/09/23/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-fall-2025-tbr/
Yes, I think so too, perfect for cozy fall reading, I plan to listen to the audiobook 🙂 ! Thanks for visiting, Laurie 🖤
I hope these books are able to pull you out of your reading slump! I didn’t realize you had a Lady Trent book on your TBR when I replied to your comment on my blog lol! I love that series.
Thanks, Karis! Here’s hoping indeed! Ahaha awesome, yes I read the first one and really enjoyed it and I’m looking forward to continuing the series! 😀
I want to read Babel too. I hope these get you out of your slump.
I bought it right when it came out and haven’t yet picked it up 🙈! I hope so too, thanks so much, Aj! 🙂
Several of those look perfect for the fall season.
Yeah I feel like I have a mix of Autumnal books and not-autumnal books 😆!!
Babel was excellent so I hope you enjoy it.
Thank you, I hope so too it’s been collecting dust for far too long!
I love P&P and I enjoyed the first Emma Lion book. I need to read more of them. I hope you enjoy all these!
Happy TTT!
Susan
http://www.blogginboutbooks.com
I feel like this year is the year I rectify not having read P&P yet and I’m so glad you enjoyed the first Emma Lion book, I’ve heard such fabulous things about the entire series!
I like the look of The Cinnamon Bun Book Store.
Here’s a link to my TTT post
https://rosieamber.wordpress.com/2025/09/23/%f0%9f%93%9a-toptentuesday-10-books-on-my-fall-to-read-list-tuesdaybookblog-booktwitter-booktwt/
Me too, I love the covers for that series so much! Thanks for visiting 🖤.
Ooh nice picks! I am still trying to get caught up on Rachel Harrison’s books! The rest of these are new to me ones but I hope you enjoy them all this fall!
Thanks for visiting my TTT!
Thank you :)! I haven’t read any of her books but a few have caught my eye. My pleasure and thanks for stopping by 🖤🍂
Ahh, a favourite here for me — I love Marie Brennan’s series! And I enjoyed Cackle a lot too. Hope you enjoy all these!
Ahh that’s awesome yay I’m glad you love it! I enjoyed the first one a lot and look forward to continuing the series! Thanks, Nicky 🖤
Cackle is perfect for Fall! Enjoy your books😁
Yesss I’m hoping it’ll be exactly what I’m looking for! Thank you 😀 !!
Cinnamon Bun is on my unofficial list too, as I want to continue the series 🙂
Yay for P&P making the list! 😀 I hope you love it.
Haha nice, same it’s a series I want to continue because it’s perfect for seasonal reading, light, and good for listening the audios on walks. & Yess keep your fingers crossed I can get to P&P, I fully mean to but you never know. lol I’ll have to update you when I do!
I haven’t read any of these, but the Emma Lion series is getting a lot of attention. I’m eager to read that one myself!
Yes I’ve seen a lot of bookish friends rave about the Emma Lion books which is why I want to try them too 😄 I hope you enjoy it if you give it a go! Thanks for stopping by, Lesley!
I wasn’t too wowed by A Discovery of Witches. It was a bit too long for me. I hope you will like it better though.
That’s too bad but fair enough. I guess I will have to see if I also think it’s too long. Thank you :D!
I need to reread Pride and Prejudice. It’s been years, and I can’t remember it much, though I remember loving it. I hope you’ll enjoy it when you read it!
If you’d like to visit, here’s my TTT: https://thebooklorefairyreads.wordpress.com/2025/09/22/top-ten-tuesday-books-on-my-fall-2025-to-read-list/
It’s nice that you remember loving it and I hope you love it again upon a reread. Thank you so much, Marwah!:)
I will forever be a fan of Pride and Prejudice. I love how cheeky Elizabeth is. I hope you are able to pick up reads that are more engrossing for you.
That’s so wonderful, I wanna be a fan too so I hope I love it! I do like Elizabeth in adaptations so I think that bodes well lol and Thank you 😀
I read The Pumpkin Spice Cafe this month and will be reading The Cinnamon Bun Book Store next month. The first was such a great book. Pride and Prejudice will always be one of my favorites. Hope you enjoy it too. I also want to read The Unselected Journals of Emma M. Lion: Vol. 1 soon.
Ah yes, I thought the Pumpkin Spice Cafe was such a fun read too and I hope you like the next one too!
I’m really hoping to love P&P but based on the fact that I’m familiar with the story I think I will.
Here’s hoping you can read Emma Lion soon then :D!
Enjoy! Babel is fabulous!
I actually listened to it, and they used a real Chinese person to read all the Chinese words, which was really great, as too often narrators murder foreign words.
The author does amazing things with linguistics in this book
Ah thank you! And that’s wonderful, I have the physical copy so I don’t think I’ll do the audio but I’m so glad that it’s well done because I cringe whenever I hear a narrator butcher a language.
Great list! The only one I’ve read so far is P&P, though A Discovery of Witches is one I’ve been meaning to read for a while now.
Happy TTT (on a Thursday)!
Thanks, Nicole 😀 I’ve also been meaning to read A Discovery of Witches for years, I found the series for a bargain at a thrift shop so I bought it but haven’t touched it since! lol And I can’t wait to read P&P too!
Marie Brenan is a fabulous writer – I hope you enjoy continuing her Lady Trent series!
That is so great to hear and thank you, I’m very curious about the rest of the series for sure!
Babel intimidates me so much, but I hope you enjoy it! I’ve also been meaning to get back to the Lady Trent books, I read the first one years ago and need to reread before I continue with the series. Enjoy all the books on your list! Happy Reading!
Babel intimidates me too but I bought it so I want to push past that because I feel like I’ll love it. And ohh nice yes I think a reread sounds wonderful and I hope you’re able to continue the rest of the Lady Trent books! Thanks for stopping by and Happy reading to you too 😀
I hope these will be the exact kind of reads you’re looking for this fall and that they’ll break your September slump so far!
Thank you, Lindsey 🥰. Honestly, from your keyboard to the book gods’ ears 🤞🏼😆!
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I’m sorry that we both had pretty rough reading months in September. Here’s hoping for an awesome October to make up for it 🤞
We have two in common on these lists – one as a buddy read you’ll know and the others Pride & Prejudice as I still need to read my library copy 🙈
I hope you enjoy Silent In The Grave, it’ll be interesting to see how you find another Deanna Raybourn series. Please do let me know what the Cinnamon Bun title is like too.
I desperately want to read A Discovery Of Witches soon too and Cackle sounds really good (although I have Black Sheep to try first). Two I also now need to look up as they’re new to me.
Good luck with the TBR and oncd again here’s hoping for an incredible Bookish month.
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A Discovery of Witches is such a fun series, so I hope you’ll enjoy it. I think the TV show was fairly decent too, which is always nice.
Oh, awesome I’m glad to hear that! I’ve been holding off on watching the series so I can read the books first so I really should get to it soon!! 😀 It’s fun when the adaptation does a good job!