Books I’ll Be Reading This Fall & Winter

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These books are on my TBR (to-be-read) list for this fall and winter.

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They are:

• Tell Me What You Did by Carter Wilson (2025)
• Paradise by Toni Morrison (1998)
• I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou (1969)
• Thirteen Reasons Why by Jay Asher (2007)
• Main Street by Sinclair Lewis (1920)
• Beloved by Toni Morrison (1987), Pulitzer Prize Winner
• Meredith, Alone by Claire Alexander (2022)
• If You Were Here by Alifair Burke (2026)
• What Alice Forgot by Liane Moriarty (2009)
• The Vacancy in Room 10 by Seraphina Nova Glass (2024)
• The Influencer by Miranda Rijks (2025)
• The Girls We Sent Away by Meagan Church (2024)
• Awake by Jen Hatmaker (Memoir) (2025)

Most of these books are not new. I found the newer ones used.

With the changing season and cooler weather, why not build yourself a little book nook nest at home and read?

Books for the Introverted Woman

Below are some of the books I think introverted women, in particular, might want to read.

Eleanor Oliphant Is Completely Fine by Gail Honeyman (2018): Meet Eleanor Oliphant: She struggles with appropriate social skills and tends to say exactly what she’s thinking. Nothing is missing in her carefully timetabled life of avoiding social interactions, where weekends are punctuated by frozen pizza, vodka, and phone chats with Mummy.

A Year of Pleasures by Elizabeth Berg (2006): After her husband’s death, Betta Nolan moves to a small town to try to begin anew. Pursuing a different kind of life, she is determined to find pleasure in her simple daily routines.

Never Change by Elizabeth Berg (2001): A self-anointed spinster at fifty-one, Myra Lipinski is reasonably content with her quiet life, her dog, and her career as a visiting nurse. But everything changes when Chip Reardon, the golden boy she adored in high school, is assigned as her new patient.

Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen by Susan Gregg Gilmore (2009): It’s the early 1970s. The town of Ringgold, Georgia, has a population of 1,923, one traffic light, one Dairy Queen, and one Catherine Grace Cline. The daughter of Ringgold’s third-generation Baptist preacher, Catherine Grace is quick-witted, more than a little stubborn, and dying to escape her small-town life.

Meredith, Alone by Claire Alexander (2026): Meredith has a full-time remote job and her rescue cat Fred. Her best friend Sadie visits with her two children. She has her online support group, jigsaw puzzles, favorite recipes, and beloved Emily Dickinson poems. Also keeping her company are treacherous memories of an unstable childhood and a traumatic event that had sent her reeling.

More Books to Read…

The Language of Flowers by Vanessa Diffenbaugh (2011): After a childhood in the foster-care system, Victoria Jones can’t get close to anyone, and her only connection to the world is through flowers and their meanings. Now eighteen and emancipated from the system with nowhere to go, Victoria realizes she has a gift for helping others through the flowers she chooses.

Finding Audrey by Sophie Kinsella (2015): Audrey wears dark glasses all the time, even at home. She almost never goes out, doesn’t talk to new people, and finds making eye contact to be nearly impossible. But then one day she meets Linus. Linus is her brother’s friend and a sensitive spirit she can talk to about her fears. He makes her laugh and doesn’t leave her feeling judged.

The Happy Life of Isadora Bentley by Courtney Walsh (2023): Isadora Bentley follows the rules. Isadora Bentley likes things just so. Isadora Bentley believes happiness flat-out doesn’t exist in her life — and never will.

An Introvert’s Guide to Life and Love by Lauren Appelbaum (2025): Mallory Rosen loves working from home—minimum contact with others suits her just fine. Nothing could make her leave her comfortable Seattle apartment. Until she inherits her late grandmother’s seaside cottage with strings attached: Take care of your grandfather.

You’ll Love it Here by Natalie Sue (2026): One day is all it takes for Mona’s life to implode. After years of climbing at her marketing firm, she was supposed to get promoted and finally move out of her crumbling apartment building. Instead, she’s jobless, aimless, and still stuck in a space barely big enough for a yoga mat.

The Bookish Life

The Bookish Life of Nina Hill by Abbi Waxman (2019): Nina has her life just as she wants it: a job in a bookstore, an excellent trivia team, and a cat named Phil. If she sometimes suspects there’s more to life than reading, she shrugs and picks up a new book. So when the father she never knew existed dies, leaving behind innumerable sisters, brothers, nieces, and nephews, Nina is horrified. They all live close by! She’ll have to… Speak. To. Strangers.

The Messy Lives of Book People by Phaedra Patrick (2022): Mother of two, Liv Green barely scrapes by as a maid, often finding escape in a good book while daydreaming of becoming a writer herself. So she can’t believe her luck when she lands a job housekeeping for her personal hero, megabestselling author Essie Starling, a mysterious and intimidating recluse. The last thing Liv expected was to be the only person Essie talks to, which leads to a tenuous friendship.

Even More Books to Read…

Authentically, Izzy by Pepper Basham (2022): My name is Isabelle Louisa Edgewood–Izzy, for short. I live by blue-tinted mountains, where I find contentment in fresh air and books. Oh, and coffee and tea, of course. I dream of opening my own bookstore, but my life, particularly my romantic history, has not been the stuff of fairy tales.

Snowed In by Christina Bartolomeo (2005): Imagine having lived in Washington, D.C., your whole life, and suddenly being stuck in Portland, Maine, for a year. With the pipes freezing—inside the house. And a husband who seems to have his eye on a hiking-booted L.L.Bean femme fatale rather than you. Not to mention the mother-in-law from hell who never fails to let you know that you leave much to be desired. That’s Sophie Quinn’s life.

Calling Invisible Women by Jeanne Ray (2013): A mom in her early fifties, Clover knows she no longer turns heads the way she used to, and she’s only really missed when dinner isn’t on the table on time. Then Clover wakes up one morning to discover she’s invisible — truly invisible.

Book Clubs for the Introverted

Have you heard of the bookclubs for introverts? There is one at Goodreads if you want to check it out.

What is an Introvert Book Club?

• No assigned reading: You bring whatever book you want to read.
• No mandatory talking: Gatherings focus on shared quiet time rather than a deep group critique.
• Optional socializing: Chatting before or after the quiet hour is entirely up to you

Silent Book Club (SBC): A global movement with local chapters meeting in bars, cafes, and libraries for an hour of silent reading followed by optional chats.

Online Groups: Digital spaces like Goodreads or virtual video meetups let you read and comment at your own pace through chapter threads.

Signal Systems: Some in-person chapters use colored lanyards or wristbands (like red for silence, green for chat) so you can set your social boundaries easily.