Book Recommendations for the Autumn Reading Challenge

As I'm hosting an Autumn Reading Challenge, I decided I wanted to share with you some book recommendations for the challenge and I've found between one and five books for each prompt. Feel free to read the books or use them as inspiration. I find them all good reads.

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A spooky novel
You Are Invited by Sarah A. Denzil
The Midwives by Duncan Ralston
Shepherd's Warning by Caylin Lloyd
Woman in Black by Susan Hill
One by One by D. W. Gillespie

A book with an autumn-inspired cover (autumnal colours, leaves, pumpkins, apples, etc)
Murder in the Bayou Boneyard by Ellen Byron
Fudge Bites by Nancy CoCo
Scorched Grounds by Debbie Herbert
The Body from the Past by Judy Lynn
The Charm of Lost Chances by Lucia N. Davis

A book about a monster
Dracula by Bram Stoker
His Final Girl by Brooklyn Ann
Romanov by Samaire Provost
A Monster Calls by Patrick Ness

A book that takes place during the autumn
Crypt Suzette by Maya Corrigan
Boston Scream Murder by Ginger Bolton
Digging Up the Remains by Julia Henry
Hocus Pocus Magic Shop Abigail Drake
The Legend of Decimus Croome by Kevin Purdy

A book that has autumn or an autumn month in the title
Autumn Alibi by Jennifer David Hesse

A book about nature
Nature by Ralph Waldo Emerson
The Little Book of Forest Bathing published by Andrews McMeel Publishing
The Very Last Leaf by Stef Wade
My Bison by Gaya Wisniewski

A book set at school/college/university/academia
Night School by C. J. Daugherty
Hood Academy by Shelley Wilson
The Hate U Give by Angie Thomas
Fifteen Seconds of Normal by Alex Marestaing

A non-fiction book
The Book Collectors by Delphine Minoui
Left to Tell by Immaculée Ilibagiza
Haunted Rails by Matthew L. Swayne
The Horrors of Fox Hollow Farm by Richard Estep
The Shepherd's Life by James Rebanks

A book by a black author
Half of a Yellow Sun by Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi
The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead
On the Come Up by Angie Thomas
Queen Sugar by Natalie Baszile

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