Favorite Winter Books - Vintage Edition! 🤩❄️💙📘

Happy Mid-Winter! 🤩💙❄️✨

I'm really excited to share my winter book collection! 😊 These are all of the books I own, read or want-to-read with “winter” in the title (or with a winter-themed cover.) Do you see any favorites here? 🤔📚

Books with Winter in the Title: Photo A

I’m MOST excited to read Winter's Grace by Ruby Ferguson!! Yay! 🥰 (Marion @fortheloveofbooks75 was so incredibly kind to ship this book to me from the UK! Thank you, dear friend! 💕)

Winter in the Title: Photo B

WINTER TITLED BOOK RATINGS:

❄️ The Long Winter by Laura Ingalls Wilder 4🌟
❄️ Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher  5🌟
❄️ Winter and Rough Weather by D.E. Stevenson 4🌟
❄️ Winter at Thrush Green by Miss Read 5🌟
❄️ Stories for Winter 3.5🌟
❄️ Winter Carnival by Frances Pascal 3🌟
❄️ Winter Spirits by Bridget Collins, etc. 4.25🌟
❄️ A Week in Winter by Marcia Willett 4.5🌟 
❄️ Winter Story by Jill Barklem 4.5🌟
❄️ Honey Bunch: Her First Winter at Snowtop by Helen Louise Thorndyke 4🌟
❄️ The Little Ghost Quilt’s Winter Surprise by Riel Nason 5🌟
❄️ The Winter of the Dollhouse by Laura Amy Schlitz 4🌟 
❄️ A Winter Away by Elizabeth Fair 4🌟
❄️ The Willows in Winter by William Horwood 5🌟 (a gift from Caro at carosbookcase 😍)

READ, BUT DO NOT OWN:
☃️ Winter Cottage by Carol Ryrie Brink 4.5🌟
☃️ Iris in Winter by Elizabeth Cadell 3🌟

The Perfect Winter Children's Book!

WINTER TITLED BOOK TBR:

💙 The Woods in Winter by Stella Gibbons
💙 Winter Kitchen by Louise Andrews Kent
💙 Winter Wedding by Betty Neels
💙 Winterwood by Dorothy Eden
💙 A Winter Love Story by Betty Neels
💙 Emma in Winter by Penelope Farmer
💙 Jean’s Winter with the Warners by Christine Whiting Parmenter

One of the first Dean Street Press Furrowed Middlebrow books I ever read!

 
WINTER TITLED BOOK WISHLIST:

❄️ Mary Jane Winter Sports by Clara Ingram Judson 
❄️ The Bobbey Twins’ Wonderful Winter Secret by Laura Lee Hope 

Now, here are the books in my collection that have winter-y covers, but don't have "winter" in the title. 

Wintery Covers: Photo A

WINTERY COVER BOOKS:

🌨 Ice on the Lawn by Jill Stevens 3.75🌟 (the sweetest gift from Carla @c.brown685!💗)
🌨 White Holiday by Viola Bayley 4.5🌟
🌨 Rosemary by Josephine Lawrence 4🌟
🌨 Shoulder the Sky/Winter in Rough Weather by D.E. Stevenson 4🌟
🌨 The Joy of the Snow by Elizabeth Goudge 5🌟

Wintery Covers: Photo B

 WINTERY COVERS TBR:

💙 Angel on Skis by Betty Cavanna (a buddy read with Andrea @sorrythankyou79 🥳)
💙 Brown Door Venture by Pamela Brown (a thoughtful gift from Carla @c.brown685!💝)
💙 Concerning Casey by Eve Bennett (a wonderful gift from Andrea @sorrythankyou79 💙)
💙 Practically Seventeen by Rosamond du Jardin
💙 The Jennifer Gift by Eunice Young Smith
💙 The Unfinished House by Margaret Sutton
💙 The Great Blizzard by Albert E. Idell
💙 Bobbsey Twins: Merry Days Indoors and Out by Laura Lee Hope

Riel Nason's books are sooo wonderful! I've loved both in the series so far! 5🌟

I hope to update this post every year with new books, photos and ratings! If you have any favorite winter-themed books or winter-titled suggestions for me, please comment below or send me an email! Thank you! 🤩

The best cozy books plus vegan marshmallow squares and a cup of lemon balm tea!

I had to add a couple more photos of wintery books...and my new-to-me Brambly Hedge Winter teacup and snack plate set! Along with the Brambly Hedge Winter Story and A Visit to Brambly Hedge (another awesome Christmas gift from Caro @carosbookcase! ❤️) 

A thoughtful and imaginative contemporary middle grade book!

Here's our house after the snowstorm last weekend...it's so magical!

Warm hugs to you, lovely friends! 💕☃️🤗☃️💕  

Our New Hampshire home in winter!

P.S. Did I mention that my son, Benji, was born on December 23rd and his middle name is Winter! 😍 (This is a pic of him on his 1st birthday...awww!) 

Baby Ben Winter House

My Favorite Autumn Books 🤩🧡🍁📙🍂

Happy Almost-Autumn Equinox, Book Friends! Before I leave for Prince Edward Island (yippeee!), I wanted to share my favorite books for autumn—by title, season and/or book cover. Autumn is my all-time favorite season (with spring being 2nd) and I love getting cozy and cuddly with these fall-ish books, movies and activities. 

Let's get started on the lists! (Note: See if you can spot the handmade crochet pumpkins and hand-carved fox in these photos—both such thoughtful gifts from my dearest friend Caro of Carosbookcase.com!)

Lots of lovely autumn books on my new kitchen tablecloth with pumpkin place mats!

AUTUMN-TITLED BOOKS: 

🍁 Autumn by Susan Branch 5🌟
🍁 Autumn Story by Jill Barklem 4.5🌟
🍁 Cranberry Autumn by Wende & Harry Devlin 4🌟
🍁 Quartet in Autumn by Barbara Pym 3🌟
🍁 The Autumn Rose by Fiona Hill
🍁 Tangled Autumn by Betty Neels 
🍁 The Autumn’s Brightness by Daisy Newman
🍁 Autumn Term by Antonia Forest (a gift from Caro!) 4🌟

Autumn-Titled Books in my Current Collection

AUTUMN BOOK COVERS: 

🍂 True to You by Viola Rowe 3.5🌟
🍂 Diana Takes a Chance by Catherine Christian 4.5🌟
🍂 Buttered Toast by Marjorie Stewart 5🌟
🍂 He Went for a Walk by Dorothy Evelyn Smith
🍂 A Flute in Mayferry Street by Eileen Dunlop
🍂 Scarlet Royal
🍂 September by Rosamunde Pilcher 4.5🌟
🍂 A Thousand Feasts by Nigel Slater
🍂 Golden Books' Trees of North America 

My Favorite Autumn Book Covers

FAVORITE COZY FALL ACTIVITIES: (not Halloween-related)

🧡 Picking apple and pumpkins
🧡 Cracking bonfires in the backyard
🧡 Sunset walks in nature
🧡 Hot apple cider
🧡 Homemade soups and stews (with oyster crackers!)
🧡 Chilly nights and snuggling with Ian
🧡 Colorful leaves and leaf pressing
🧡 Moonlight hot tub nights
🧡 Sitting my my comfy chair with tea, book and handmade blanket 

(If only someone made vegan-friendly apple cider donuts!! Maybe someday!) 

The end papers to The Autumn's Brightness by Daisy Newman—so pretty!

MY FAVORITE MOVIES/TV SHOWS TO WATCH IN AUTUMN: (not Halloween-related)

🎬 When Harry Met Sally
🎬 Wolfwalkers
🎬 Persuasion
🎬 The Many Adventures of Winnie the Pooh
🎬 Harry Potter Series
📺 A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
📺 Doc Martin 
🎬 Over the Garden Wall
🎬 Kiki’s Delivery Service
🎬 Mystic Pizza 
🎬 The Trouble with Harry
🎬 Mermaids
🎬 St. Elmo’s Fire
🎬 Coraline
🎬 Bedknobs and Broomsticks

My signed copy of September by Rosamunde Pilcher! Love!! 😍

Oops! I forgot to add a few books! The first is...The Willows and Beyond! I loved buddy reading this series by William Horwood with Caro last year! I hope we'll do this again soon (if only my TBR wasn't so huge! lol!) I was so lucky to receive three of these books as gifts from Caro. I love them! 

My William Horwood Book Collection...3/5 books gifted by Caro! 

These two books are also MUST READS for September and October! 

🍁 Tasha Tudor's Heirloom Crafts 5🌟

This is a gorgeous book, even if you're not a crafty person. It's SO good and very cozy!

🍁 October, October by Katya Balen 5🌟

A very touching book that had me crying at the end!

My vintage Sears Pioneer Woman kitchen canisters from the 1970s. I love them so much and I use them every day! 😄

I would LOVE to hear your favorite autumn books, movies and activities—please comment below!  Many, many warm and cozy hugs until my next post! 🍁🧡🤗🧡🍁

50+ Vintage Summer Books Extravaganza! 🤩💛☀️🌼✨

Hello Friends! Happy Mid-September! 

Before the summer comes to a close, I wanted to share all of my Books with Summer in the Title. This post is just in the nick of time because Summer ends in just a little over a week! As always, I'll try to update this book list as I find (and read) more summer-titled books! 

What I Love About Summer 

☀️ Bright golden sunshine
☀️ Farmer’s market flowers, veggies and fruit
☀️ Queen Anne's Lace, roses and wildflowers
☀️ Reading at the beach
☀️ Sound of the waves crashing
☀️ Daylight until late
☀️ Not having to wear a coat
☀️ Bird song
☀️ Watermelon, corn on the cob and garden veggies 

What do YOU love about summer? 

 

(Note: If you're on Goodreads, you can read all of my summer-titled book reviews! Also, a some of the books on this list are not shown—either they were from the library, audiobook reads, or I donated them.) 

Maybe someday, I will create a Summer Book PDF with notes and suggestions, too. Would you be interested in that? Let me know in the comments!

 

Until then, here is my Summer-Titled Book List by STAR RATING 😄📔🌟 

5 STARS 🌟

• The Solitary Summer by Elizabeth von Arnim
• Black Forest Summer by Mabel Esther Allan
• The Summer Book by Susan Branch 
• Summer Story (Brambly Hedge) by Jill Barklem 
• An Edwardian Summer by John S. Goodall

 4.5 STARS🌟

• Milestone Summer by Nicolete Meredith
• Holiday Summer by Decie Melwin
• Voices in Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher
• Stories for Summer by British Library Women Writers/Simon Thomas
• Barbie’s New York Summer by Cynthia Lawrence
• Showboat Summer by Rosamond du Jardin  
• Greengage Summer by Rumer Godden 

4 STARS🌟

• Summer Pudding by Susan Scarlett
• Summer at Fairacre by Miss Read
• Mrs. Lorimer’s Quiet Summer by Molly Clavering
• The Adventurous Summer by Mabel Esther Allan 
• The Tucker's Turnabout Summer by Jo Mendel 
• Summerhills by D.E. Stevenson
• The Summer House by Marcia Willett
• The Enchanted Summer by Grace Gelvin Kisinger 
• Summer at Tiffany by Marjorie Hart
• Paris Summer by April Lynn Kihlstrom
• Blueberry Summer by Elisabeth Ogilvie 
• Sierra Summer by Doris Schroeder 
• Thimble Summer by Elizabeth Enright
• Summer Sisters by Judy Blume
• The Summer Book by Tove Jansson

3.5 STARS🌟

• The Swiss Summer by Stella Gibbons
• Barbie’s Candy Striped Summer by Eleanor K. Woolvin
• Showboat Summer by Rosamond du Jardin  
• Honey Bunch: Her First Summer on the Island by Helen Louise Thorndyke 
• In A Summer Season by Elizabeth Taylor
• The End of Summer by Rosamunde Pilcher
• Champlain Summer by Marjorie Vetter
• Summer of Surprise by Helen Reynolds
• Deadly Summer by Francine Pascal
• Perfect Summer by Francine Pascal
• Malibu Summer by Francine Pascal
• What to Look For In Summer by Elizabeth Jenner

Photo from Dean Street Press Ltd.

3 STARS🌟

• The Growing Summer by Noel Streatfeild
• Summers at Castle Auburn by Sharon Shin
• Patty’s Summer Days by Carolyn Wells
• Summer by E. Wharton  

Sadly, I wasn't able to find the credits for this book photo. All other photos are my own.

 

 2 STARS🌟

• A Poem for Every Summer Day by Allie Esiri

ROMANCE TBR:

1. The Most Marvellous Summer by Betty Neels
2. Uncertain Summer by Betty Neels
3. One Summer's Day by Catherine Airlie
4. The Summer Wife by Flora Kidd 
5. Summer in December by Essie Summers
6. A Summer in the Country by Marcia Willett
7. Seven Days in Summer by Marcia Willett 
8. Summer on the River by Marcia Willett
9. Indian Summer by Marcia Willett 

  

VINTAGE/HISTORICAL BOOK TBR:

1. Midsummer’s Eve by Philippa Carr
2. The Summer Before the War by Helen Simonson
3. Summer Half by Angela Thirkell

MIDDLE GRADE TBR:

1. Laura’s Summer Ballet by Linda Blake
2. The Amethyst Summer by Bianca Bradbury
3. Fantasy Summer by Susan Beth Pfeffer 
4. Moominsummer Madness by Tove Jansson  

  

NON-FICITON TBR:

1. Mrs. Appleyard's Summer Kitchen by Louise Andrews Kent
2. My Summer in a Garden by Charles Dudley Warner 

If there are any wonderful summer-titled vintage books that you have enjoyed or can recommend to me, please comment below! I'm always searching for more! Thank you! 

 

I'm so grateful to all of my friends who gifted me summer books in the past five years...including Caro (@carosbookcase), Liz (@pony.books), Marjorie (@marjoriepaper), Beth (@littlebookbelle) and also my husband Ian (for the Barbie books!) and my daughter, Rose (for the Susan Scarlett books!)

 

Have a fabulous rest of the month and keep an eye out for a blog post including My Favorite Autumn Books. Many many hugs, friends! 💕🌸🤗🌸💕