The Reader Life

Looking for Halloween books to read this October? Discover 9 spooky, gothic, and atmospheric reads, from Frankenstein to underhyped horror gems.

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Looking for the best speculative fiction books to read this fall on Kindle Unlimited? Discover seven thought-provoking dystopian, sci-fi, weird, literary, and time-bending reads

If you're not exactly a cozy fall reading person, I've got you covered with some of the best fall books on KU for when you want your autumn reading to be gothic, melancholic, thought-provoking, artistic, or just slightly unhinged.

A disturbing story about childhood, grooming, captivity, trauma, Stockholm syndrome, and what happens to a child's mind when someone systematically destroys their understanding of safety and love.

These are books that can leave a hole in your heart, make you deeply uncomfortable, or have you staring at the ceiling wondering why you voluntarily did this to yourself.

Olga is 38 years old, married to Mario, and they have two children, Gianni and Ilaria, along with their dog, Otto. Then Mario tells her he is leaving. For a younger woman, Carla. And just like that, the life Olga thought she knew begins to collapse.

Leonardo da Vinci was an artist, inventor, anatomist, engineer, architect, mathematician, musician, and obsessive observer of the natural world. [...] Basically, he had a serious problem with sticking to one subject. And that is what makes his story so fascinating.

I went into it expecting an important (and slightly boring) classic, and I came out thinking that it is actually a remarkably intimate book about something we still struggle to explain: what happens when you realize that the life you are living and the person you so desperately want to be are not necessarily the same thing.