Cozy Autumn Reads

In this novel, a boy with facial anomalies tries to navigate the sometimes treacherous world of public school.

Liesel Meminger is a foster child living in Nazi Germany in 1939. Surrounded by violence, hardship, and war, Liesel is watched over by Death, who narrates her story.

Twelve-year-old Malú loves punk rock, but her mother and the strict principal at her new school definitely do not. With the help of her fellow "misfits," Malú fights to express who she truly is.

In J.D. Salinger's classic novel, Holden Caulfield leaves his prep school and experiences disillusionment and alienation while wandering around New York City.

In this dark and creepy novel, a young girl finds a door to another world that is strangely like her own — but filled with danger.

The first book in The Kingkiller Chronicle series tells the story of a legendary magician name Kvothe.

In L.M. Montgomery's classic novel, imaginative and outspoken orphan Anne Shirley comes to the town of Avonlea to live with her new guardians.

In this classic horror novel, four people experience supernatural phenomena when they stay at a mysterious mansion.

When Stevie Bell is admitted to the exclusive Ellingham Academy, she hopes to solve the mystery of the famous crimes that took place at the school years ago. But then another murder takes place, and Stevie realizes that her life and the lives of her friends may depend on her sleuthing skills.

Six classics students at a small New England college develop a close — and ultimately catastrophic — friendship.

Rival magicians duel at a traveling circus that is only open at night.

A change in her family's fortunes brings Anne Elliot back into contact with Captain Frederick Wentworth, to whom she was once engaged. Read the full text here.

The young and naive narrator of this novel marries a wealthy widower and moves to his stately mansion, where she uncovers dark secrets about his first wife.

Jane is a strong-willed young woman who finds employment as a governess at Thornfield Hall, where she meets the mysterious Edward Rochester and learns his darkest secret.

In this prequel to The Lord of the Rings, Bilbo Baggins enjoys a quiet life until a group of dwarves and a wizard named Gandalf enlist him in their quest for a dragon's treasure.

Schoolmaster Ichabod Crane competes for the attention of Katrina Van Tassel while being menaced by a local legend—a headless horseman who haunts the outskirts of town. Read the etexthere.

After Charles Baskerville is found dead, legendary detective Sherlock Holmes is enlisted to protect his heir from the same fate.

During a cyclone, Dorothy Gale and her dog are transported from Kansas to a strange land where she seeks a wizard to help them get home.

Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy March are sisters whose personalities couldn't be more different. They share joy and heartbreak growing up in the shadow of the Civil War.