Books I'm Reading In Fall

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Okay, I have a story for you. I love making seasonal to-be-read posts. I like looking at my shelf of unread books, choosing 10 that I promise to read, and putting them in a stack. There's so much bookish potential! What if my new favorite book ever is in the stack? I feel very accomplished when I finish all the books I picked.

I haven't written a seasonal TBR post since winter 2024 because I ran out of books to read. For most of 2025, I owned 0 unread books. All the books I've finished in the last few months have come from the library. It's hard to make a TBR post about library books because I don't know which holds I'll get or which new releases my library will buy.

I miss my seasonal TBRs! So . . . I bought 10 books just because I wanted to write this post. They're a mix of spooky, mysterious Halloween stuff and Nonfiction November stuff. I hope they're perfect for fall.

Books Under 130 Pages (Convince Me To Read Them)

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The end of the year is creeping ever closer. Will you hit your Goodreads reading goal? I won't hit mine, but that won't stop me from trying. My strategy is to read a bunch of short books.* Here's what's on my to-be-read list. Now I need to work up the motivation to actually read them.

*Obviously, different editions of books will have different page counts. Trust me, these books are tiny!

The Oldest Books On My TBR (Convince Me To Read Them)

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In 2011, I started keeping a spreadsheet of books I want to read someday. A few times a year, I scroll through the spreadsheet and delete the books I've read and the books that no longer interest me.

The last time I scrolled through the sheet, I decided to sort it by the date I added the books to the list. Which ones have I neglected the longest?

I was shocked to discover that these books have been on the spreadsheet since 2015/2016. Oops. Why haven't I read them? Some of them are difficult to find. Some of them are expensive. Some are super depressing. I want to learn the information in the books, but I rarely have the mental capacity to handle it.

Convince me to read these. It's beyond time to read them!

The Longest Books On My TBR (Convince Me To Read Them)

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I'm intimidated by chonky books. They tend to sit on my to-be-read shelf for months because I'm a slow reader. It takes me weeks to finish a fat book. Dedicating so much time to one book is a big commitment.

Here are 10 giant books that I'm working up the motivation to read. *

* Obviously, different editions of books will have different page counts. I assure you that all of these are chonks.