EVERYONE Has Read This but Me - The Catch-Up Book Club discussion

Hi guys I’m looking for some dark academia autumnal rain witchy vibe books you can’t put down !

Not dark academia, but autumnal witchy vibes- Slewfoot: A Tale of Bewitchery by Brom. It has a strong female protagonist fighting against the patriarchy.

Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo's has both witchy and dark academia vibes.

The Magicians by Lev Grossman is both vibes as well! I personally haven’t read it, but I hear it’s good and there is a TV show about it. Maybe worth checking out?

Thank you sm!

NInth House is indeed very autumnal and dark. The Magicians was not for me though, I really couldnt get into it. I would love to get more recommendations as well :)

I hope I'm not too late for this, but here are some of my autumn favourites:

The Pale Blue Eye (A crime novel with Edgar Allan Poe as one of the main characters, super spooky and also a bit witchy, the purest dark academia vibes)

Anatomy: A Love Story (19th century Edinburgh, a young lady who wants to become a surgeon and discovers some dark secrets, not witchy though)

The Bazaar of Bad Dreams (I never read a novel bz Stephen King, but these short stories are amazing. Some witchier than others, but all of them are great and I fell in love with his writing style)

A Deadly Education (A magic school without teachers, where the only way to graduate is to survive, what more do I have to say?)

Hope you like them :)

Some of these are not witchy, but all involve autumnal Halloween vibes.

Harry Potter series
Hunger Games
Hound of the Baskervilles (a Sherlock Holmes mystery)
Beauty: a Retelling of Beauty and the Beast
Twilight series (a vampire love story)

Miriam, have you seen the film adaptation of The Pale Blue Eye starring Christian Bale? My best friend had put it on his list to watch, so I was in the mood for it one day I was over. Recommended! I think I did check the book out from the library at one point but never got to it before returning

Yes! I just watched it a few days ago, and I’m obsessed!!! The film is so close to the book and it’s almost exactly the way I imagined it while reading it. One of my top favourite films from now on!

Oh, good to know it's a close reading/adaptation. What did you think of the actor who played Poe? And the story's depiction of Poe?

He was so adorable!!! I don’t know much about Poe as a person, I just read lots of his short stories, but I think he was a great character in the book as well as in the film. I just don’t know how close this was to reality and how much of his own interpretation the author put into the character of Poe.
I really loved the graveyard scene, in which you could really see how much of an outcast he was, even though he had such a great poetic mind.