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Sep 17
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autumn diaries #3: our ultimate autumn t...

cara and leo
About this episode

welcome to another (video!!) instalment of the autumn diaries. in this episode we chat MORE books in the form of our ultimate tbr lists. this covers the genres fantasy, dark academia, gothic, mystery & above all lots of magic and witches...


books mentioned:

  • A Witch’s Guide to Magical Innkeeping — Sangu Mandanna

  • Blood Over Bright Haven — M.L.Wang

  • The Bewitching — Silvia Moreno-Garcia

  • Fangs — Sarah Andersen (graphic novel)

  • The Academy — Elin Hilderbrand

  • Assistant to the Villain — Hannah Nicole Maehrer

  • One Dark Window — Rachel Gillig

  • The Exorcism of Faeries — J.L. Vampa

  • Immortal Consequences — I.V. Marie

  • Arcana Academy — Elise Kova

  • A Natural History of Dragons — Marie Brennan

  • A Dark and Secret Magic — Wallis Kinney

  • If It Makes You Happy — Julie Olivia

  • In the Company of Witches — Auralee Wallace

  • Katabasis — R.F. Kuang

  • Cackle — Rachel Harrison

  • Rewitched — Lucy Jane Wood

  • Angelika Frankenstein Makes Her Match — Sally Thorne

  • The Girl in White — Lindsey Currie

  • Dracula — Bram Stoker

  • My Roommate is a Vampire — Jenna Levine

  • Not Quite Dead Yet — Holly Jackson

  • If We Were Villains — M.L. Rio

  • Practical Magic — Alice Hoffman

  • The Once and Future Witches — Alix E. Harrow

  • Frankenstein — Mary Shelley

  • The Unmaking of June Farrow — Adrienne Young

  • Checking Out Crime — Laurie Cass

  • A River Enchanted — Rebecca Ross

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