Self-Help & Books
I love the gothic genre. Although I will be posting about gothic classics at a later date, this time around I wanted to do something different by highlighting recent gothic talents. I present to you 10 Modern Gothic Novels that you will want to read next. On this list, we have an array of gothic elements: cults, deadly academic rivals, haunted homes, bloody retellings, and more.
When I talk about books no one’s heard of before, I generally mean the books that escape the popular BookTok algorithm. Oftentimes, I find the most niche books when researching topics for my own writing projects. That’s kind of how I compile these types of lists for myself. With the exception of the first book, the other four books have been recently released. 📚
Here are my 25 most anticipated fall book releases of 2026. This year, we have twice as many exciting reads. Somehow, all of my favourite authors are publishing this season! 🍂
On this spoiler-free list, we have literary fiction, horror, fantasy, memoirs, new series, old series, and many more. Let’s get started!
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“A Life of One’s Own” is part memoir by Joanna Biggs, recounting her starting over after her divorce, and part biographical exploration of the path to independence and intellectual freedom carved by nine famous women writers who also began again (notably Mary Wollstonecraft, George Eliot, Zora Neale Hurston, Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Sylvia Plath, Toni Morrison, and Elena Ferrante).
“Dept. of Speculation” is a fictional meditative novel about a crumbling marriage through short vignettes, in which the ‘wife’ narrator struggles between the demands of a desired art life and the reality of a domestic life.
