Hannah im so grateful to you for introducing Rebecca to me. I read it nearly 2 years ago and i still remember being so enthralled by its haunting & gothic atmosphere like it was just yesterday. Rebecca, Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights are my ultimate fall classics. I love them beyond measure.
@@Shrraddha__ ahahaha go girl!! I gave that book 3 stars, it's interesting like you'll want to keep reading it, but dark academia isn't really my thing so maybe that's why I didn't like it that much.
@@emogoesboom I find it really difficult to buy books cause of varied opinions but I like the way you put it, at the end it all depends on our own likings. I am a newbie in this book world, I am exploring, u can say. I get tensed and indecisive about what category I might like 😅 any tips, hacks, suggestions for me?
@@Shrraddha__ Honestly, if you're a newbie, you should try exploring different genres of literature. With time, you'll discover what you're more into, and that will help you pick up books that resonate with your taste in literature. If you want any book recommendations, then please consider reading As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Gone Girl, The Kite Runner, All the Lovers in the Night, and Sadie if you haven't already. These are some of my favorites
I love the idea of picking books to go with the season! The only problem is I feel like I can't read them for the rest of the year - I guess you'll have to do a spring and summer edition ha
I got almost ferally excited when you mentioned A Dowry of Blood and The Last Tale of the Flower Bride! I read both for the first time this past October and absolutely ADORED them!! (S.T. Gibson has another novel--An Education in Malice--coming in February 2024. It's apparently going to be a sapphic Carmilla retelling, and, I think, a companion to A Dowry of Blood!) If you want a recommendation for more vampire content, another book I read in October was The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis. I very strongly recommend it if you like historical supernatural fiction with mystery, romance, vampires, and witches!
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride wrecked me. I loved it so so so much that after I read it I couldn’t find another book as good as that one and am still in the reading slump. I read it in July! And Rebecca and Juniper and Thorn I absolutely adored too. ❤
dorian gray is my patreon buddy read this month so PERFECT 'cause it'll be my first read! Rebecca is also on my 23 for 2023, so these recs are very validating lol
i’m reading and loving an arc of we ate the dark by mallory pearson and it sounds JUST your vibe. sapphic southern gothic eerie horror. monstrous ghosts, obsessive female friendships, female rage, a family of witches, magic and otherly worlds- and to top it all off BEAUTIFUL lyrical prose. it comes out february 2024 i think and i’m only half way through but it is just so good
if you want to get back into vampire content, i always highly recommend Interview With The Vampire, especially the tv show! the new season is coming out next year ahh so excited 🫶🏻
mexican gothic by silvia moreno garcia is one of my favorite eerie/gothic books! i read it a couple of years ago and i still think about it all the time. the vibes and themes were so haunting i just loved it so so much
I highly recommend The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell. I finished it yesterday after being literally glued to it for two to three days. There are witches, wooden figures, mysterious deaths in a gloomy mansion, hallucinations, a psych ward... Loved it so much
I also highly recommend reading house of hollow!! It’s gothic and eerie and ethereal and a page turner. It’s a gothic fairy tale and kept me up at night.
My absolute favorite modern gothic is Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. I never see people talking about this on booktube or bookstagram but it is SO GOOD. The vibes are immaculate AND the plot is great. I also love Plain Bad Heroines, another I don’t see talked about much. Dark academia, gothic vibes, 10/10 snarky narration style.
Love how I've read half these books already and most are my favs. A recommendation I would give is The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein, it's about vampires and takes place in a boarding school. One of my all time favorites!
Oh, how I knew "If We Were Villains" was going to be on the list! I agree it's the perfect fall book! I read it beginning of this year on a very gloomy, rainy, stormy weekend, which fitted also very well! Haven't stopped thinking about it ever since. It ruined me 💔
Queen of immaculate taste. One of my fave autumn reads is Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens! It's very sensual, rich and emotional, definitely a lot of shit goes down but it doesn't leave you feeling hopeless at all! I'd say it's the perfect novel to read as the trees change colours 🤎🍂
I started reading If we were villains because of you and I’m enjoying it so far! I can’t wait to read the rest, I also have yet to read the other books in your previous videos but I can say I trust you with my book choices
In terms of good vampire content, I absolutely recommend the 2022 series adaptation of Interview with the Vampire. It’s pretty much solely responsible for making me want to consume vampire content again for the first time since I was a teenager 😂
The book Weyward by Emilia Hart sounds so similar to the universe that Juniper and thorn is. Weyward was a 5 star read for me and I highly recommend it!
Thank you for the Vampire recommendations! (Especially since Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3 has me obsessed 😅) I've read the original Dracula and I would love to read a book about the wives. And Woman Eating is now on my list, I can't wait to read it since it's Hannah recommended 😊❤
Here's a book rec: I don't think I've heard many people talk about What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine. I think it gives off a good fairy-grunge, goth atmosphere which is pretty cool.
I just started reading If We Were Villains for the third time, it is PERFECT for this time of year… and honestly any time. I love it so much 😅 I just picked up The Ghost Woods by CJ Cooke solely because the cover looked like everything I want in a book right now. Hopefully it lives up to my expectations.
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw has been my most autumnal read thus far! the prose is beautiful, and you follow a vengeful, mute siren & her nonbinary plague doctor maybe-lover through an exquisite gothic hellscape. i can't think of anything even similar to this book-- absolutely worth a read!
Recently read If we where Villains and cried my eyes out at the end...so good! Read A Study in Drowning after that and enjoyed it, but wish it would have been fleshed out more...as you say her prose is great, the feeling was great but the worldbuilding a bit lacking and it was a bit short and somethings to simple, and somethings not explained and thought through well enough...I read somewhere that YA books only are "allowed" an amount of pages which is really silly, when i was at that age I devoured a lot of thick books...
Love the fact you began this with Dorian Gray and Rebecca. I've read almost all the books on the list except for Woman, Eating, which is on my tbr, and The Last Tale of the Flower Bride which is a current read that I have barely begun. I agree with you on Juniper and Thorn, and it is my favourite by Ava Reid so far. I especially agree with you on how bizarre the reviews are for this book because it is wildly inaccurate. When I learned what blowback the author got and for what (aka a single paragraph that described the imagining from men about the three sisters and what they do together) I actually got mad. It doesn't feel like people actually sat down to try and read this book.
To be honest maybe it's because I haven't read too many eerie books, I haven't really been scared by books before. Looking forward to being spooked by this list.
Thank you for sharing another great list of books! Where you do find all of those beautiful editions of your books? I've seen most of the books you mentioned, but their covers do not look like the ones you showed to us.
To quench your vampire thirst you should check out Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma it’s coming out in 2024 but arcs are out and it’s the most delicious vampire dark academia book
I remember reading If We Were Villians years ago before Dark Academia became so popular. I checked to see when I read it... 2017. lol. I was hyping it up then as well.
Always excited for your new videos!! Please do these top 'genre" books, because i mostly, immediately put those on my amazon cart. You are the only booktuber I can actually blindly trust with book recommendations. Love the fact that you are so honest and give opinions without being influenced by the internet.
i read and annotated rebecca for my english teacherand gave it 3/5 stars don't get me wrong it is really good and twisty! but i think towards the end something was missing and i love descriptive writing but there wasn't enough suspense. anyhoo i hoped my english teacher loved it
I have the theory that people who didn't get or think Juniper and Thorn is problematic are way too used to SA and domestic violence being romanticized in popular books by authors like Colleen Hoover, etc
I want to know what you thought about Foxglove! I saw you rated it four stars on good-reads. I read Belladonna, and didn’t like it much, but I decided to give Foxglove a try anyway. Thought it was Dry for the first half but then by the second half was hooked! (On the last 30 or so pages and wavering them)
Hannah hiii I watched fruits basket on your recommendation and it’s my favourite anime of all time rn. It found me when I needed it the most, I don’t think I would be the same without it so thank you 😭❤ I was wondering if you had more recommendations like FB
Hannah: It's amazing to me how many people will complain about the Gothic horror elements in this- Me finishing her sentence for her: Gothic horror book? Yeah! (I love Juniper and Thorn)
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Me on my way to add 9 more book to my never ending tbr ✨️
samesies 😂❤
Same!!
Korekt!
same here 😔🫱🏻🫲🏼
😂 yes
Hannah im so grateful to you for introducing Rebecca to me. I read it nearly 2 years ago and i still remember being so enthralled by its haunting & gothic atmosphere like it was just yesterday.
Rebecca, Dorian Gray and Wuthering Heights are my ultimate fall classics. I love them beyond measure.
My god the edition of The picture of Dorian Gray is soooooo pretty ❤
your editions of dorian gray and Rebecca are BEAUTIFUL!!
Please please please do a video on "depicting vs endorsing" dark themes/behaviors in books you've read. I love the way you articulate your thoughts!
IF 👏 WE 👏 WERE 👏 VILLAINS lovely to see you again Hannah hope you’re well!!
I did not like that book lmao
@@emogoesboom I just added that book to my cart😂
@@Shrraddha__ ahahaha go girl!! I gave that book 3 stars, it's interesting like you'll want to keep reading it, but dark academia isn't really my thing so maybe that's why I didn't like it that much.
@@emogoesboom I find it really difficult to buy books cause of varied opinions but I like the way you put it, at the end it all depends on our own likings. I am a newbie in this book world, I am exploring, u can say. I get tensed and indecisive about what category I might like 😅 any tips, hacks, suggestions for me?
@@Shrraddha__ Honestly, if you're a newbie, you should try exploring different genres of literature. With time, you'll discover what you're more into, and that will help you pick up books that resonate with your taste in literature. If you want any book recommendations, then please consider reading As Long as the Lemon Trees Grow, The Travelling Cat Chronicles, Gone Girl, The Kite Runner, All the Lovers in the Night, and Sadie if you haven't already. These are some of my favorites
i absolutely love how every edition you showed was STUNNING!! subtle flex on your skill in collecting beautiful editions of your favorite books 🫶
Notification - A Clockwork Reader posted.
Me- My day is now made 😊
It's about Fall, Eerie reads- The day is now very joyous! 🎉
To the never ending TBR it goes ✨
I AM OBSESSED WITH YOUR EARINGS OMG
I love the idea of picking books to go with the season! The only problem is I feel like I can't read them for the rest of the year - I guess you'll have to do a spring and summer edition ha
ava reid’s also been saying that she’s really interested in writing a sequel/spin-off of a study in drowning and i NEED it😩
That edition of If We Were Villains is gorgeous 😍
Your picks are so in line with my taste. I adored Flower Bride this year, especially.
Thank you thank you thank you! Rebecca is the greatest book I've read this year!! Really love it.
Ava Reid wrote a really amazing short story of the Faerie King! Sadly it's only in the Owlcrate edition :(
Hannah u never disappoint with these recommendations, gotta go add more books to my tbr.
I love u sm ❤️🥺🍂
You listed almost all of my favourite books ever, i love this genre with my whole shrivelled heart 😭😭😭😭
I got almost ferally excited when you mentioned A Dowry of Blood and The Last Tale of the Flower Bride! I read both for the first time this past October and absolutely ADORED them!! (S.T. Gibson has another novel--An Education in Malice--coming in February 2024. It's apparently going to be a sapphic Carmilla retelling, and, I think, a companion to A Dowry of Blood!)
If you want a recommendation for more vampire content, another book I read in October was The Lights of Prague by Nicole Jarvis. I very strongly recommend it if you like historical supernatural fiction with mystery, romance, vampires, and witches!
I love your earrings and necklace!! So ,,The Starless Sea" matched!
i got most of my favorite books from your recommendations ! you have such a great taste
10/10 list! As an addendum, I'd totally include Babel, too. Love your content! ❤
The Last Tale of the Flower Bride wrecked me. I loved it so so so much that after I read it I couldn’t find another book as good as that one and am still in the reading slump. I read it in July! And Rebecca and Juniper and Thorn I absolutely adored too. ❤
Bram Stoker’s Dracula is one of my all-time favorites. Highly recommend.
Original Dracula is one of the best plotted books I've ever seen with so many eerie scenes and iconic lines
I just LOVE how you talk about books Hannah ❤📚 I'm particularly excited to pick up Juniper & Thorn, Dowry of Blood, & Last Tale of the Flower Bride
I was waiting for this video for so long. keep up the good work Hannah ❤
I hope you have a relaxing and cozy fall (;
I always find cool stuff from your recommendations, thanks! Also, hard agree on "Rebecca"!
That copy of If We Were Villains is gorgeous!
I would also suggest House of Hollow by Krystal Sutherland and House of Longing by Tara Calaby.
dorian gray is my patreon buddy read this month so PERFECT 'cause it'll be my first read! Rebecca is also on my 23 for 2023, so these recs are very validating lol
i’m reading and loving an arc of we ate the dark by mallory pearson and it sounds JUST your vibe. sapphic southern gothic eerie horror. monstrous ghosts, obsessive female friendships, female rage, a family of witches, magic and otherly worlds- and to top it all off BEAUTIFUL lyrical prose. it comes out february 2024 i think and i’m only half way through but it is just so good
if you want to get back into vampire content, i always highly recommend Interview With The Vampire, especially the tv show! the new season is coming out next year ahh so excited 🫶🏻
Currently reading Juniper & Thorn bc of your recommendation !! 🫶🏻
EVERYTIME YOU POST I GET SO SO HAPPY! YOURE ONE OF MY FAVOURITE TH-camRS :D
mexican gothic by silvia moreno garcia is one of my favorite eerie/gothic books! i read it a couple of years ago and i still think about it all the time. the vibes and themes were so haunting i just loved it so so much
I think Haunting of Hill House would really fit the aesthetic too
Both delighted and surprised that I have actually read most of these! Plus I'm currently reading A Dowry of Blood. Love your recommendations!!
I highly recommend The Silent Companions by Laura Purcell. I finished it yesterday after being literally glued to it for two to three days. There are witches, wooden figures, mysterious deaths in a gloomy mansion, hallucinations, a psych ward... Loved it so much
I just opened TH-cam to find something to watch haha! Can’t wait to watch this, thanks Hannah!
I also highly recommend reading house of hollow!! It’s gothic and eerie and ethereal and a page turner. It’s a gothic fairy tale and kept me up at night.
I really liked Dowry of Blood it was so atmospheric. Perfect for the spooky season
Couldn’t be happier for a new video! ❤️
🍂🍃 Love hearing your thoughts as always. Hope you’re well! 💕
My absolute favorite modern gothic is Thirteenth Tale by Diane Setterfield. I never see people talking about this on booktube or bookstagram but it is SO GOOD. The vibes are immaculate AND the plot is great. I also love Plain Bad Heroines, another I don’t see talked about much. Dark academia, gothic vibes, 10/10 snarky narration style.
Love how I've read half these books already and most are my favs. A recommendation I would give is The Moth Diaries by Rachel Klein, it's about vampires and takes place in a boarding school. One of my all time favorites!
Oh, how I knew "If We Were Villains" was going to be on the list! I agree it's the perfect fall book! I read it beginning of this year on a very gloomy, rainy, stormy weekend, which fitted also very well! Haven't stopped thinking about it ever since. It ruined me 💔
I yesterday only ordered rebecca finally after ages definitely going to read before the year gets over
Queen of immaculate taste. One of my fave autumn reads is Briefly, A Delicious Life by Nell Stevens! It's very sensual, rich and emotional, definitely a lot of shit goes down but it doesn't leave you feeling hopeless at all! I'd say it's the perfect novel to read as the trees change colours 🤎🍂
I started reading If we were villains because of you and I’m enjoying it so far! I can’t wait to read the rest, I also have yet to read the other books in your previous videos but I can say I trust you with my book choices
Lovely video & great recs
Just have to clarify that a dowry of blood is a Brides of Dracula retelling, not a retelling of bram stoker’s dracula!
In terms of good vampire content, I absolutely recommend the 2022 series adaptation of Interview with the Vampire. It’s pretty much solely responsible for making me want to consume vampire content again for the first time since I was a teenager 😂
every single book you recommend is always b e a u t i f u l
The book Weyward by Emilia Hart sounds so similar to the universe that Juniper and thorn is. Weyward was a 5 star read for me and I highly recommend it!
I thought that half-ripped sticker was a moon and thought to myself wow, what a beautiful cover😂
this very well may be my final push to pick up the last tale of the flower bride. It sounds sooo good
Thank you for the Vampire recommendations! (Especially since Astarion from Baldur's Gate 3 has me obsessed 😅) I've read the original Dracula and I would love to read a book about the wives. And Woman Eating is now on my list, I can't wait to read it since it's Hannah recommended 😊❤
Ha, I was gonna make the exact same comment :D
Here's a book rec: I don't think I've heard many people talk about What Should Be Wild by Julia Fine. I think it gives off a good fairy-grunge, goth atmosphere which is pretty cool.
I just started reading If We Were Villains for the third time, it is PERFECT for this time of year… and honestly any time. I love it so much 😅
I just picked up The Ghost Woods by CJ Cooke solely because the cover looked like everything I want in a book right now. Hopefully it lives up to my expectations.
The Salt Grows Heavy by Cassandra Khaw has been my most autumnal read thus far! the prose is beautiful, and you follow a vengeful, mute siren & her nonbinary plague doctor maybe-lover through an exquisite gothic hellscape. i can't think of anything even similar to this book-- absolutely worth a read!
i rly need this rn aaaaaa thank you, hannah!!
The Husband Stitch stuck with me forever!
i LOVE your recommendations
Recently read If we where Villains and cried my eyes out at the end...so good! Read A Study in Drowning after that and enjoyed it, but wish it would have been fleshed out more...as you say her prose is great, the feeling was great but the worldbuilding a bit lacking and it was a bit short and somethings to simple, and somethings not explained and thought through well enough...I read somewhere that YA books only are "allowed" an amount of pages which is really silly, when i was at that age I devoured a lot of thick books...
Love the fact you began this with Dorian Gray and Rebecca. I've read almost all the books on the list except for Woman, Eating, which is on my tbr, and The Last Tale of the Flower Bride which is a current read that I have barely begun. I agree with you on Juniper and Thorn, and it is my favourite by Ava Reid so far. I especially agree with you on how bizarre the reviews are for this book because it is wildly inaccurate. When I learned what blowback the author got and for what (aka a single paragraph that described the imagining from men about the three sisters and what they do together) I actually got mad. It doesn't feel like people actually sat down to try and read this book.
Got the Twilight series at my local library sale! Current read!
a dowry of blood is soo fantastic
To be honest maybe it's because I haven't read too many eerie books, I haven't really been scared by books before. Looking forward to being spooked by this list.
Thank you for sharing another great list of books! Where you do find all of those beautiful editions of your books? I've seen most of the books you mentioned, but their covers do not look like the ones you showed to us.
To quench your vampire thirst you should check out Immortal Dark by Tigest Girma it’s coming out in 2024 but arcs are out and it’s the most delicious vampire dark academia book
Finally, Hannah dropped a video. ❤❤❤
I remember reading If We Were Villians years ago before Dark Academia became so popular. I checked to see when I read it... 2017. lol. I was hyping it up then as well.
If We Were Villains was one of my favorite reads of this year! Too bad I didn't read it in the fall
I always recommend Hacienda by Isabel Cañas to anyone who loves rebecca
I would love to know where you get all your gorgeous editions. All your books are so beautiful.
Always excited for your new videos!! Please do these top 'genre" books, because i mostly, immediately put those on my amazon cart. You are the only booktuber I can actually blindly trust with book recommendations. Love the fact that you are so honest and give opinions without being influenced by the internet.
I want to read A Study in Drowning!!
Rebecca seems like it would be just up my alley, it sounds similar to crimson peak
Your books are soooo pretty I’m jealous:(( there are no pretty copies of books in Iran- ever… 😭💘
i read and annotated rebecca for my english teacherand gave it 3/5 stars don't get me wrong it is really good and twisty! but i think towards the end something was missing and i love descriptive writing but there wasn't enough suspense. anyhoo i hoped my english teacher loved it
Have you read The Hazel Wood by Melissa Albert? I think you would love it! And the book in that book (about dark fairy tales) got actually published
I have the theory that people who didn't get or think Juniper and Thorn is problematic are way too used to SA and domestic violence being romanticized in popular books by authors like Colleen Hoover, etc
I want to know what you thought about Foxglove! I saw you rated it four stars on good-reads.
I read Belladonna, and didn’t like it much, but I decided to give Foxglove a try anyway. Thought it was Dry for the first half but then by the second half was hooked! (On the last 30 or so pages and wavering them)
Sorry savouring*
How did i know you’d mention rebecca 😂 i really need to read it
Hannah ....lots of love ❤....i finished belledona and foxglove and divine rivials too ...your recommendation 😊.......
I think you would love Every Exquisite Thing by Lauren Steven - the feminist horror/thriller retelling of Dorian Gray it's soo good 🖤
Hannah hiii I watched fruits basket on your recommendation and it’s my favourite anime of all time rn. It found me when I needed it the most, I don’t think I would be the same without it so thank you 😭❤ I was wondering if you had more recommendations like FB
If you like stories within stories, you should check out - The Orphan tales by Catherene M Valente
Not me currently reading, if we are villains, and noot sure how to feel about just yet.
clicked immediately I am so happy it’s fall
the squishmallow on the shelf 💯💯💯👌👌👌
Therapy looks like this❤❤
Have you read Small Angels by Lauren Owen? I’m only 20% in but it’s a haunting/gothic ghost story and I love it so far lol
Would love to know your thoughts on Belladonna, One dark window and After the Forest by Kell Woods? ❤
Yay Hannah (: I’m sending you love❤
its not fall where i live but I will be reading them anyway
Hannah: It's amazing to me how many people will complain about the Gothic horror elements in this-
Me finishing her sentence for her: Gothic horror book? Yeah!
(I love Juniper and Thorn)
Women eating truly is amazing❤
I love you so muchhhhhh🤧🤧
new hannah vlog!!!!