Come along as we enter the heart of the Fall season! Here, I have gathered the coziest fall romance novels, all set in bookstores. This is your sign to grab your favorite blanket, the best hot drink you can find, and start reading!
The Bookshop on the Corner by Jenny Colgan
Nina Redmond is determined to make a change for herself. After pairing readers with their perfect match in a book, she knew it was her true passion, until one day she woke up and everything changed. Nina needs a new scene, so she decides to move miles and miles away to a sleepy town, buy a van, and create a mobile bookshop, driving to new places every day. Nina discovers more than she thought. She meets new people, has adventures of a lifetime, and finally realizes that she can write her own happily ever after.
The Banned Bookshop of Maggie Banks by Shauna Robinson
When Maggie Banks arrives in Bell River to help her very best friend run her struggling bookstore, she expects more than what she is given. Running a bookshop in a town with a literary history presents its own challenges, especially when the literary society is keen on leaving the bookshop behind, banning the store from selling anything from the current century. Maggie is determined to help the bookstore and her friend, so she starts to run an underground book club. Maggie will face a hard choice between the books that helped form the town and the novels that may change everything.
The Diary of a Bookseller by Shaun Bythell
Shaun Bythell owns The Bookshop in Wigtown, Scotland. It is the largest second-hand bookshop filled with 100,000 books and can be found in twisted shelves and aesthetically pleasing corridors. The rural town by the edge of the sea is a true book-lover’s paradise. This biography and memoir are filled with diary entries that Shaun provides in a fun and memorable way, giving book recommendations, highlighting travel expeditions, and much more.
How to Find Love in a Bookshop by Veronica Henry
Emilia Nightingale has been struggling to keep her bookshop, Nightingale Books, open since her father’s death, and the idea of selling the store she loves so much seems more tempting every day. Emilia has made friendships strong enough to last a lifetime; how could she possibly sell the store? The store has become much more than a place for books; it has become a home for many. What will Emilia do: give up, or fight for the home she has created?
Dash & Lily’s Book of Dares by Rachel Cohn
While this book isn’t exactly for the Autumn, it is definitely a good one to put on your TBR for the holiday season. Lily, a teen from New York, born and raised, creates a challenge in a red notebook and leaves it at her very favorite bookstore. Her task is waiting for just the right boy to come and find it, accept the dares and challenges within it. This is where we meet Dash, the pessimistic Christmas-hater, and the opposite of Lily. As the two pass the notebook back and forth, they must decide if they are as good in person as they are in the pages of the notebook.
Nevermore Bookstore by Kerrigan Byrne and Cynthia St. Aubin
Cady Bloomquist loves her bookshop and staying late on Thursday nights to take the mysterious customer’s order. As odd as it seems, she enjoys the routine until the call is with someone who calls himself “Fox” and lasts for hours on end, and it quickly becomes something she looks forward to. Roman Fawkes has a massive crush on the bookstore owner, but knows nothing will come of it, yet when fate throws them into an unfortunate circumstance, things begin to unfold. From late-night calls to a quaint mystery, will the two truly have their own happily ever after, or will fate take them in different directions?
The Bookshop of Second Chances by Jackie Fraser
Thea Mottram needs a well-deserved break after she is let go from her job with no notice, and to make matters worse, her husband is leaving her for her friend. Without knowing what to do, she discovers that her great-uncle from Scotland has passed away and left her his house, along with a fantastic book collection. She decides to go to Sussex and escape to the coastal town where no one knows her. There she meets Edward Matravers, who is annoyingly handsome, even with his aloof attitude, leading her to have feelings she never thought she’d feel again. Could this small town become her new home?
The Paris Bookshop for the Broken-Hearted by Rebecca Raisin
Another romance tragedy causes Coco to have a harsh month, and now she is forced to settle down in Paris with her daughter, only to have an insanely attractive stranger who yells at her for acting like another tourist. As she swears off all men, she takes the first job she’s offered at an old bookshop that also consists of a cafe, bar, and a mysterious tunnel of books. Of course, the bookshop’s bar tender is no one else but the gorgeous stranger she’d met that day. How could one deny love in the city so bent on the very concept?
The Next Chapter Bookshop by Brooke Skie
As the rising star at a law firm, Charlie Whitmore has her life on track, that is, until her Aunt Beth passes away, leaving her to inherit a small bookshop in Vermont. The Oak & Ink Bookshop is beloved in the community, but Charlie plans to list it for sale and return to Manhattan. However, as Charlie sees her aunt’s home, she seems to be torn between her worlds and Ethan, a local contractor whose mystique is completely alluring. Will Charlie find that home is something she could’ve never imagined, or return to her busy corporate life?
Battle of the Bookstores by Ali Brady
If you love You’ve Got Mail, then this one is for you. Josie Klein and Ryan Lawson manage bookstores on the same street, but a fateful moment comes upon them when the new owner of both stores decides to combine them, and they are thrust into competition. Only one manager will be left, depending on who makes the most profit in the summer. As the rivalry heats up, so does the chemistry between them. The pair begins to realize that happily ever after can happen in real life, too.
I hope you enjoyed these bookshop recommendations. With fall here, loud and proud, what’s better to welcome the season than with a great book? From Paris to small town charm, these books have all you could want! Happy Fall, and happy reading!
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