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The rainy season is starting, and the evenings are dark and cold - just what you need to hide in your room with a cup of tea and an atmospheric book. Why atmospheric? Because it is important not only whether the book is good or bad, but also whether it got into your hands on time. A sad person will not be delighted by a high-quality comedy, and a happy person will not feel the mood of the main characters in the drama. Even quality literature needs its time. So we have made a selection for you of just such atmospheric books that will perfectly fit the autumn season:
1. O. Henry "The Last Leaf"
You can't begin autumn reading without mentioning this story. It is short - for one evening, but leaves an aftertaste for a long time. And even if you have read the story dozens of times and know by heart how it will end, you should still read it again. To remind ourselves how amazing our lives are when there is room for friendship, self-sacrifice and deep feelings.
2. Ray Bradbury "Halloween"/"Halloween Tree"
4. Fanny Flagg "Fried Green Tomatoes at the Stop Cafe"
Many people have seen the movie of the same name, but few know that it was based on a wonderful book that is worth reading. The main characters discuss the amazing stories of the lives of the people who surround them or have been surrounded by them. And no, this is not just the gossip of two women in a cafe. These are stories that sometimes make you sad, sometimes admire or laugh. But all of them inspire and give strength, so this book can be taken as a medicine for autumn apathy.
5. Ruiz Safon "Shadow of the Wind"
We will get to know the main character, when he is a very small boy and finds a magical book that changes his future life once and for all. And we follow with delight his adventures, relationships with people, unusual turns of fate and magical episodes that are so often missing in real life.
6. Scarlett Thomas "Our tragic universe"
English writers are masters of atmospheric autumnal prose. And no wonder, because their country seems to be a place where autumn reigns all year round: rains and thick fogs, cold sea and wind, warm sweaters and coats, tea with milk and old houses covered with moss.
The main character of the novel is a writer who once finds a book that changes her life. Everything around her is radically changing, except for one thing - the English autumn.
7. Diana Setterfield "The Thirteenth Tale"
What can perfectly complement autumn? That's right - a Gothic novel! At first it seems that you have a whole evening ahead of you and there is nothing to do. All of a sudden, it's three o'clock in the morning, and you can't put the book down until you find out how many girls there really were in the beginning and what really happened to them.
8. Charlotte Brontë "Jane Eyre"
Without a doubt, it is considered a recognized classic, and most book lovers have already read this book a long time ago. But there are stories that you want to return to every year. In order for the novel to resonate in your heart, you need to read it precisely in the autumn season.
9. Kenneth Grahame "The Wind in the Willows"
A classic English fairy tale is just the thing to read at dinner with the kids. For adults, such a sweet story will not be boring, and for children it will become a favorite book for many years, because it contains everything that we love so much in childhood. If your goal is to develop the right taste for literature in your children, then this fairy tale should definitely be on your to-read list.
10. Ernest Hemingway "A holiday that is always with you"
