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.
25 Most Anticipated Fall Book Releases of 2026
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! š
On this spoiler-free list, we have literary fiction, horror, fantasy, memoirs, new series, old series, and many more. Letās get started!
Book Review: The Expert of Subtle Revisions by Kirsten Menger-Anderson
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Book Review: Dept. of Speculation by Jenny Offill
“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.
Book Review: Half His Age by Jennette McCurdy
“Half His Age” is a novel following seventeen-year-old Waldo, a sharp, lonely, depressed, and always-wanting girl who becomes enamoured by her creative writing teacher, Mr. Korgy, who’s twice her age, married with a family, and a self-proclaimed failure.
Book Review: Sea of Tranquility by Emily St. John Mandel
“Sea of Tranquility” is a time travel novel about art, love, humanity, and the plague. We follow multiple journeys: the exiled Edwin St. Andrew, who travels to Vancouver Island in 1912, Mirella Kessler, who in a pre-pandemic 2020 is in search for her long lost friend Vincent Alkaitis, Olive Llewellyn, a famous postapocalyptic author who is on Earth’s last book tour in 2023, and finally Gaspery-Jacques Roberts, who works as a hotel detective on a Moon colony in 2401.
Book Review: Regretting You by Colleen Hoover
“Regretting You” is a contemporary romance novel that follows the strained relationship between a mother (Morgan Grant) and her teenage daughter (Clara Grant), after the passing of the family’s anchor (Chris Grant), their husband and father, respectively.
Book Review: Pumpkinheads by Rainbow Rowell
“Pumpkinheads” features the wholesome friendship between Deja and Josiah, who work together during every Halloween season. However, this is their last Halloween at the patch together, as next year the pair will go off to college. But Deja is determined not to let this final day go to waste. She wants to bring Josiah out of his shell and to pass their last day with no regrets. How? By abandoning their post at the Succotash Hut, where they’ve always worked, for a day of adventure and treats at the patch instead.
Book Review: An Archive of Romance (A Study in Drowning) by Ava Reid
“An Archive of Romance” is a collection of letters, poems, art, diary entries, and other illustrations of Effy and Preston that take place during the A Study in Drowning duology, as well as the lovers’ final epilogue.
Book Review: A Theory of Dreaming (A Study in Drowning #2) by Ava Reid
“A Theory of Dreaming” is the sequel to the book A Study in Drowning, continuing the story of Effy Sayre and her academic nemesis-turned-lover, Preston HĆ©loury.
Book Review: A Study in Drowning (A Study in Drowning #1) by Ava Reid
“A Study in Drowning” follows Effy Sayre and her nemesis Preston HĆ©loury, as they are tasked to redesign Hiraeth Manor, the family house of the deceased but highly beloved author Emrys Myrddin.
Book Review: Sunrise on the Reaping (The Hunger Games #0.5) by Suzanne Collins
“Sunrise on the Reaping” is another prequel to The Hunger Games series. In this book, we follow Haymitch Abernathy as he’s thrusted into the 50thĀ Hunger Games, also known as the second Quarter Quell, which held double the number of contestants. (In the original trilogy, Haymitch is the District 12 grumpy alcoholic mentor of Katniss Everdeen and Peeta Mellark during the 75thĀ Hunger Games.) Now, we get a glance at Haymitch’s tragic backstory – ripped away from his loved one, tasked to both fight and survive while protecting contestants from his District, and destined to fail in the Capitol’s deadly games.
