Fall, my favorite season!! So far it’s been unusually warm and sunny over here, I’d love a few degrees less but hey at least it’s dry, that never happens! Fall is when I start buying IKEA candles in bulk and get out all the quilts and spicy teas. My typical fall reading is either cozy or suspenseful lit and with the Diverse Detective Fiction Month starting this weekend, I know I’ll be reading a lot of mysteries. I’ve posted a bit already about what horror lit I want to read and what’s on this week’s list, but anyway here are 10 reads that would make an ideal fall tbr for me:
One of my favorites to reread, it’s got Victorian England, lesbians, séance and is wonderfully atmospheric and twisty.
2.Labyrinth Lost by Zoraida Córdova
Latinx fantasy including brujas, monsters, LGBTQ, and kick ass women of color! Reading it for Diverse SFF Book Club.
3.Blanche On the Lam by Barbara Neely
One of my choices for #DiverseDetectives and I cannot wait! A smart middle-aged Black woman housekeeper turned sleuth? Hell yes!
4.How to Recognize A Demon Has Become Your Friend by Linda Addison
Always creepy, sometimes funny, horror prose and poetry! There is not enough silly and funny horror, I need more!
5.The Agüero Sisters by Cristina Garcia
I loved Garcia’s Dreaming in Cuban and this one is supposed to boast some Latina gothic elements. How to resist!?
6.My Soul To Keep by Tananarive Due
No fall list is complete without some of Due’s fiction. It’s time to start her African Immortals series, it’s got Ethiopia, vampires and (im)mortality!
7.Horror Noire: Blacks in American Horror Films From the 1890s to the Present by Robin R. Means Coleman
And some good old non-fiction, how could I possibly resist the intersection of horror and race!? It’s an exploration of the visual representation of Black social history and possible spaces for challenging and subverting stereotypes.
8.Monstress by Marjorie M. Liu
A complex heroine, fantastic art and steampunk horror, I’m in! Everyone’s been gushing about this one, so now I only need to get my hands on a copy.
9.Haiti Noir edited by Edwidge Danticat
Noir lit and Haitian culture all in one! I’ve read a few in this anthology and have been meaning to get back to it for a while.
10.Tropical Gothic in Literature and Culture: The Americas by Justin D. Edwards and Sandra Guardini eds.
More non-fiction cause I feel the need to expand on my gothic lit knowledge and Southern gothic is a gateway to “tropical” gothic! 🙂
Now let me know which books have made it onto your fall tbr!