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Readers' Most Anticipated Books of Fall
Autumn is the busiest season in the book publishing business, and it’s also the time when big-name authors release their big-time books. This year is no exception. To help with the sorting and planning, we’ve once again compiled our annual Big Books of Fall collection, featuring the most anticipated new titles of the season.
As always, books are sorted by genre and largely determined by you, the loyal ŷ regular. Selections are based onearly reviews and which titles are ending up on members’�Want to Readshelves. Each of the books below will be published (in the U.S.) between now and the end of December. Titles are listed in chronological order within each genre header, with the earlier publication dates up top.
Get ready for some serious reading—you may need to cash in some vacation days, actually. We’ve got new contemporary and historical fiction from Elizabeth Strout, Sally Rooney, Nikki May, Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk, and the long-awaited new novel from Haruki Murakami.
Mystery and thriller readers can look forward to new cozies from Richard Osman and Kate Atkinson, weird espionage from Rachel Kushner, and some Scottish Gothic vibes from Paula Hawkins. Over in the speculative fiction aisles, look for new novels from genre aces including Jeff VanderMeer,Neal Stephenson, Brandon Sanderson, and the emerging and much-admired Argentinean author Mariana Enríquez.
Plus the latest in romance and romantasy (including soccer lustandvampire love); young adult fiction (dark academia and 1880s Egypt); and new nonfiction (foodies, true crime, and Marie Curie).
Click through the options below, add any interesting leads to yourWant to Readshelf, and let us know what you're reading and recommending in the comments.
British author Matt Haig, of the head-spinner The Midnight Library, returns with a new adventure set in that liminal space between reality and whatever it is that comes next. When retired math teacher Grace Winters inherits a derelict house in Ibiza, she discovers that magic is not only real, it’s everywhere.
Release date:September 3
Release date:September 3
Already published in the U.K. to ecstatic reviews, Blue Sisters is the latest devastating family drama from author Coco Mellors (Cleopatra and Frankenstein). The gist: Three very different sisters convene in New York City to deal with some childhood stuff, both literally and figuratively. Goodreaders who’ve already read this one love it—check the community reviews pages.
Release date:September 3
Release date:September 3
Jane is an ambitious biracial author and professor trying to finish her novelon the history of people with mixed heritage. But when she gets involved with a shady operator buying “diverse content� for a streaming platform, things get gradually but severely weird. Acclaimed writerDanzy Senna (Caucasia) delivers a dark comedy about Hollywood’s “racial identity–industrial complex.�
Release date:September 3
Release date:September 3
Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout is back on shelves this fall with more stories from the small town of Crosby, Maine—home of Lucy Barton and Olive Kitteridge. The new book proceeds from an odd murder investigation, but as always, Strout’s real interest is empathy and compassion and the “unrecorded lives� of everyday people.
Release date:September 10
Release date:September 10
Two bereaved brothers reunite after their father’s death. Peter is a successful Dublin lawyer. Introverted Ivan is a competitive chess player. Amid the grinding grief, the brothers discover new possibilities for themselves and the women they love. The latest novel from author Sally Rooney (Normal People) explores the slippery bits between grief, family, and desire.
Release date:September 24
Release date:September 24
From the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel The Overstory, this panoramic novel sweeps across time and continents to finally settle on a remote atoll in French Polynesia, where the future of humanity is at stake. Detailed backstories power a character-driven drama featuring desperate seasteaders, high technology, and floating autonomous cities.
Release date:September 24
Release date:September 24
Historical fiction threaded through with a playful kind of literary horror, The Empusium is the latest novel from revered Polish author Olga Tokarczuk, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Set in a Polish sanitarium circa 1913, the book is in part a wry response to Thomas Mann’s classic The Magic Mountain, blending high philosophy with dark comedy, strange folklore, and hallucinogenic liquors.
Release date:September 24
Release date:September 24
Hailed as one of the major writers of the Native American Renaissance, Louise Erdrich is famously unafraid to tackle big subjects and themes—the burdens of history, the power of love. Her new novel proceeds from a strange wedding in North Dakota to consider questions about , the immortal soul, and our troubled stewardship of the natural world.
Release date:October 1
Release date:October 1
Toggling between scenes in Somerset and Lagos, Anglo Nigerian author Nikki May (Wahala) borrows the general shape of Jane Austen’s Mansfield Park—then scribbles happily outside the lines. May’s heartfelt novel chronicles 20 years in the lives of two childhood friends as they grow into adulthood, both nourished and haunted by their shared family history.
Release date:October 29
Release date:October 29
The long-awaited new novel from Japanese author Haruki Murakami—his first in six years—is being billed as “love story, a quest, an ode to books and to the libraries that house them, and a parable for these strange post-pandemic times.� Advance word suggests that the new book features an alternate plane of existence, which sounds pretty nice right about now.
Release date:November 19
Release date:November 19
Readers with in-law issues should vibe with the latest literary expedition from Weike Wang, author of the much-admired 2017 novel Chemistry. Married couple Nate and Keru come from decidedly different backgrounds—his family is rural and working class, her parents are over-educated Chinese immigrants. Things get interesting over the course of two extended family vacations.
Release date:December 3
Release date:December 3
Following up her acclaimed 2020 novel Godshot, author Chelsea Bieker returns with this literary psychological thriller about mothers, daughters, male violence, and “intimate terrorism.� Clove is a seemingly happy Oregon mom whose carefully cultivated façade is starting to slip. When a letter arrives from a California’s women’s prison, life gets much more complicated for Clove. If that’s her real name.
Release date:September 3
Release date:September 3
The sixth book in Kate Atkinson’s Jackson Brodie cozy mystery series finds our resident sleuth marooned by a snowstorm in a crumbling British manor house. While investigating the theft of a valuable painting called The Woman with the Weasel, Brodie discovers that a similar theft occurred years ago, along with the disappearance of a housekeeper. Trouble is afoot.
Release date:September 3
Release date:September 3
Literary maverick Rachel Kushner (The Mars Room) brings her inimitable style to the realm of noir with this cerebral thriller about a French anarchist collective infiltrated by an American secret agent. Sadie Smith—most assuredly not her real name—is a dirty-work specialist for shadowy government and business entities. Espionage! Seduction! Revolution! Good times.
Release date:September 3
Release date:September 3
Here’s a good question: If you found out, today, exactly when and how you will die, would you live your life any differently? That’s the dilemma for a random group of people who happen to book the same flight as a mysterious passenger known only as the Death Lady. Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies) investigates the hard stuff: death, fate, free will, unfortunate airline choices�
Release date:September 10
Release date:September 10
From the author of the popular Thursday Murder Club cozy mystery series, We Solve Murders follows the adventures of a father-in-law/daughter-in-lawteam as they square off against a ruthless killer. Professional investigator Steve Wheeler is retired, mostly. But when his daughter-in-law Amy encounters some serious trouble abroad, Steve is back in the globe-trotting game.
Release date:September 17
Release date:September 17
Estranged siblings Nora and Dan have feelings about their wealthy and distant father. Complicated feelings. But when Dad falls to his death from a cliffside cottage, the siblings team up to investigate, since they find the “accidental death� report entirely unconvincing. Bonus trivia: Author Laura Dave’s 2021 novel, The Last Thing He Told Me, won the 2021 ŷ Choice Award for Best Mystery & Thriller.
Release date: September 17
Release date: September 17
Author and practicing physician Freida McFadden (The Housemaid) has won a loyal readership with her suspenseful mystery-thrillers. Her latest concerns single New Yorker Sydney Shaw, her persistent dating-life troubles, a handsome doctor, and a string of brutal murders targeting single women in New York. If this seems like a troubling circularity, that’s because it really, really is.
Release date:October 1
Release date:October 1
After a three-year estrangement from his daughter, Frank Szatowski is thrilled to receive an invitation to her upcoming wedding. He arrives at a luxe private estate to discover that Maggie is marrying Aidan Gardner, scion of a crazy-rich billionaire clan. But why is Maggie ignoring him? And why are the locals so hostile? Author Jason Rekulak (Hidden Pictures) has the disturbing answers.
Release date:October 8
Release date:October 8
From Paula Hawkins, author of a modest little global blockbuster called The Girl on the Train, this old-school mystery-thriller brings readers to an isolated Scottish island with a menacing gothic vibe. You’ve got your deceased artist, your missing philanderer husband, past and present timelines, and at least one piece of art with a human bone in it.
Release date:October 29
Release date:October 29
Author Alex Segura returns to the surprisingly crooked world of comic book publishing with this kinda-sorta sequel to his 2022 novel, Secret Identity. Alter Ego introduces visionary artist Annie Bustamante, who’s just been given the opportunity to revive a legendary superhero series. But there’s a dark secret lurking in the backstory of this particular character, and Annie’s about to find out why.
Release date:December 3
Release date:December 3
Fantasy Novels
Book two in his Cerulean Chronicles series, the latest from author T.J. Klune returns readers to the Marsyas Island Orphanage, where six magical children live with their fiercely protective adoptive father and his partner. Among the island’s residents: a powerful sprite, a wyvern, and a were-Pomeranian. Klune’s affectionate and queer-friendly approach to fantasy has earned him a loyal readership.
Release date:September 10
Release date:September 10
Author Alexis Henderson (The Year of the Witching) specializes in a creepy strain of dark fantasy that combines elements of cosmic horror and traditional mystery-thriller plotting. Her latest introduces readers to the moss-draped campus of Drayton College, a school of magic hidden in an extradimensional pocket of Savannah, Georgia. Dark academia meets a different kind of Southern Gothic.
Release date:September 17
Release date:September 17
Beautiful young Xishi, pride of the village of Yue, is recruited by a handsome military officer to join the royal court of the neighboring kingdom of Wu. Her mission, should she choose to accept it: Infiltrate the enemy palace, seduce the king, and stir things up. Author Ann Liang (If You Could See the Sun) reimagines the legend of Xishi, one of the famous Four Beauties of Ancient China.
Release date:October 1
Release date:October 1
The third and final book in John Gwynne’s Bloodsworn Saga concludes the author’s epic fantasy series, an old-school kind of endeavor steeped in the imagery and themes of classic Norse mythology. As befits the milieu, the final book features warbands and wolf gods and the traditional final boss fight—a very old, very clever, very powerful dragon.
Release date:October 22
Release date:October 22
Incredibly prolific author Brandon Sanderson’s Stormlight Archive series is set in the storm-wracked realm of Roshar, where an ancient order of warriors—the Knights Radiant—must stand and take up arms once again. Deep breath, now: Wind and Truth is the last of five books in the first sequence of a 10-book epic fantasy cycle, which is in turn part of Sanderson’s larger fictional universe.
Release date:December 6
Release date:December 6
In one of the year’s most anticipated spec-fic releases, author and poet Cebo Campbell imagines a world in which a significant and very specific subset of Americans appears to commit mass suicide by walking into the nearest body of water. In the aftermath, an estranged father-and-daughter team journey across an utterly transformed American landscape.
Release date:September 10
Release date:September 10
Winner of this fall’s unofficial Best Book Title award, this unique sci-fi vision from author Jason Pargin (John Dies at the End) is part comedy, part thriller, and part anti-anxiety medication for a country on edge. The setup: An L.A. rideshare driver is offered $200,000 to transport a young woman and a mysterious box to Washington, D.C. Bonus trivia: Pargin is former executive editor of .
Release date:September 24
Release date:September 24
Sci-fi godfather and elder statesman Neal Stephenson (Snow Crash) is back on shelves this September with a historical fiction riff on his traditional speculative fiction concerns. The split-timeline narrative moves between past and present, espionage and revolution, Lenin’s Russia and the 1920s American heartland. Polostan is the first installment in the planned three-novel Bomb Light cycle.
Release date:October 15
Release date:October 15
It’s generally acknowledged that author Jeff VanderMeer is the finest purveyor of working today. His new novel, Absolution, is a kind of pleasant surprise—an unexpected fourth volume to his brilliant Southern Reach Trilogy, which details the strange and possibly extradimensional piece of Florida real estate known as Area X. As for the new book? “There were a few stories left to tell,� VanderMeer says.
Release date:October 22
Release date:October 22
Set in the same world as her 2023 novel, Yours for the Taking, Gabrielle Korn’s new novel expands the author’s queer dystopian vision of an ecosystem in terminal decline. In the year 2041, a desperate mother braves storms and wildfires on a cross-country trip to find her daughter. Forty years after that, another family seeks the remnants of humanity on what’s left of the planet.
Release date:December 3
Release date:December 3
Horror Novels
So Thirsty (subtitle: A Vampire Novel) is the new book from Rachel Harrison, author of 2022’s Such Sharp Teeth (subtitle: A Werewolf Novel). We sense a theme emerging. The new book details a young woman’s birthday party with a wild new crowd. It’s a good time, but consequences loom. Bonus trivia: Harrison is also the author of 2021’s Cackle, which is not subtitled A Witch Novel, but could be.
Release date:September 10
Release date:September 10
Serious horror connoisseurs can tell you, Argentinean author Mariana Enríquez brings a lyrical and literary quality to the old-fashioned scary story. Her new collection of short fiction features 12 brand-new tales featuring ordinary people encountering extraordinary phenomena—usually ghostly, always terrifying, and occasionally heartbreaking. Bonus trivia: Enriquez came up in the business as a punk rock journalist.
Release date:September 17
Release date:September 17
For generations uncounted, the Haddesley family has tended their ancestral cranberry bog and honored an ancient covenant. The family performs a ritual sacrifice, and the land issues forth a “bog wife� to ensure continued fertility and fecundity. The latest generation of Haddesley siblings has hit a snag, however, and things at their decaying mansion home will never be the same. Call it Appalachian Gothic.
Release date:October 1
Release date:October 1
As the only Black family in their suburban Dallas enclave, the Maxwell family got used to dealing with ignorant people. Harder to deal with was the procession of increasingly dire supernatural phenomena. Following their parents� mysterious demise, the adult Maxwell siblings must reckon with their painful past. Rivers Solomon (The Deep) returns to explore American horrors both historical and metaphysical.
Release date:October 1
Release date:October 1
’Tis the season for haunted house riffs, it seems. This debut novel from author Del Sandeen follows psychically sensitive Chicagoan Jemma Barker as she accepts a job at the Duchon family estate in New Orleans, circa 1962. When Jemma uncovers dark secrets about the family’s past, she realizes the Duchons are living under a terrible eldritch curse. Then things get really strange.
Release date:October 8
Release date:October 8
Fans of Julia Armfield's 2022 underwater horror tale, Our Wives Under the Sea, will be pleased to see that she returns to a liquid motif in her newest novel, a reworking ofKing Learin a drowning world. The fragile bond between sisters Isla, Irene, and Agnes is shattered by a shocking revelation in their father's will, just as uncanny events begin to befall them.
Release date:December 3
Release date:December 3
This third installment inHannah Grace’sMaple Hillsseriespresents college junior and hockey team captain Henry Turner, whose demanding class load has him down. Enter young overachiever Halle Jacobs, who’s juggling her own busy schedule, including the book club that Henry has stumbled into. Can these two overworked and deeply thirsty young people find a way to help each other out?
Release date:August 27
Release date:August 27
To claim her inheritance, Ohio professor Evie Lang must sign up for a matchmaking tour of Vietnam, her family’s native home. Half a world away, Adam Quyền has been pressured to participate in his sister’s new business endeavor, which happens to be the same tour. As meet-cute stories go, it’s pretty good. Bonus trivia: Author Nora Nguyen also writes literary fiction under the name Thao Thai (Banyan Moon).
Release date:September 24
Release date:September 24
Over in the sports romance aisle, Ana Huang of the massively popular Twisted series tells of Premier League footballer Asher Donovan, forced into a mandatory off-season training. On the upside, his new trainer is former ballerina Scarlett DuBois. On the complicated side, she’s the off-limits sister of Asher’s rival teammate. There’s probably a “top scorer� joke in here somewhere, but we’re trying to keep it classy.
Release date: October 22
Release date: October 22
Author Lyla Sage’s Lost and Lassoed is the latest in her Rebel Blue Ranch series, which also includes the excellently titled Swift and Saddled. The new book is a small-town enemies-to-lovers story featuring a go-with-the-flow heroine, a buttoned-up rancher, his adorable six-year-old moppet, and the kind of babysitting gig where everybody wins.
Release date:November 5
Release date:November 5
The romance genre has a rich and noble tradition of punny book titles, and excellence should be rewarded. So let us pause in admiration for the title of this latest love story from Jamie Wesley, which concerns a cupcake-baking football player, a besotted social media specialist, and the rekindling of a powerful teenage crush. Please note that new book follows Wesley’s 2022 novel, Fake It Till You Bake It.
Release date:November 19
Release date:November 19
Part murder mystery, part fantasy adventure, and part sapphic romance, A Dark and Drowning Tide is the latest from professional genre alchemist Allison Saft, author of 2022’s A Far Wilder Magic. The gist: A folklorist and her academic rival find love and treachery aboard a river expedition into uncharted waters. Also: dragons, shape-shifters, and goth vibes.
Release date:September 17
Release date:September 17
Young Tamsyn has the worst gig in Penterra. As a kind of persecuted stepsister to the realm’s actual royal princesses, she gets all the riskiest assignments—like being married off to a guy named Fell, the Beast of the Borderlands. But the marriage of convenience takes a turn into high fantasy when Tamsyn discovers her own dormant powers. Author Sophie Jordan (Firelight) has the details.
Release date:September 24
Release date:September 24
Carissa Broadbent’s Crowns of Nyaxia series blends complex romance (mortal and immortal) with dark magic and bloodthirsty aristocratic power plays. This newest installment—Book 3, technically—is being described as Dante’s Inferno meets A Court of Thorns and Roses. Think reluctant vampires, underworld quests, vengeful ghosts, and one burning question: Is it even possible to kill the god of death? Let’s find out!
Release date:November 19
Release date:November 19
Young Adult Novels
If you’re in the market this fall for incredible Vietnamese street food and/or heartfelt young love, you’ll want to check out this YA queer romance debut from author Trinity Nguyen. When American college student Vivi Huynh visits her parent’s homeland for the first time, she meets Lan, the beautiful young writer behind a famous food blog. The streets of Sài Gòn are so romantic in the evening�
Release date:August 20
Release date:August 20
This first installment in a new trilogy takes an interesting approach vector to the dark academia romance: Orphaned heiress Kidan Adane must infiltrate a dangerous university in which humans and vampires reluctantly coexist to maintain their magical bloodlines. Dating, as you might imagine, is fraught.Immortal Dark is being pitched as The Cruel Prince meets Ninth House.
Release date:September 3
Release date:September 3
Jandy Nelson, acclaimed author of I'll Give You the Sun, returns to her Northern California environs with this lovely YA coming-of-age novel. The setup: Three grieving siblings find new colors of sorrow and joy when they cross paths with a rainbow-haired girl who might be entirely of our world. Also in the mix: a family curse and a pretty incredible road trip.
Release date:September 24
Release date:September 24
In the sequel to 2021’s wildly popular Better than the Movies, author Lynn Painter picks up the romantic saga of star-crossed teenage lovers Wes and Liz. After a tragedy derails their original happy ending, Wes is determined to win back Liz’s heart. But now that they’re both in college, the stakes are higher and the odds are longer.
Release date:September 24
Release date:September 24
Book 1 of a planned duology, the YA fantasy romance Heir follows the intertwined fates of three young people—a skilled tracker, a desperate fugitive, and the crown prince of the most hated emperor in the history of the realm. Author Sabaa Tahir is on a roll—her 2022 novel, All My Rage, won a National Book Award for Young People's Literature.
Release date:October 1
Release date:October 1
High school senior Andrew Perrault and the boy he loves, Thomas Rye, have a good thing going. They’ve been collaborating on dark fairy tales—Andrew writes, Thomas illustrates—and their bond grows stronger with each story. The tricky part: Thomas� nightmare monster illustrations are coming to life in the nearby forest. Why must love be so complicated all the time?
Release date:October 29
Release date:October 29
Betrayed by the boy she used to love—and framed for a crime she didn’t commit—young Dania plans a daring escape from prison. While she’s at it, she’s going after the stolen treasure of a djinn. Why not, really? This debut from author Emily Varga is being pitched as a Pakistani romantic fantasy retelling of Alexandre Dumas� The Count of Monte Cristo.
Release date:October 29
Release date:October 29
High adventure crossed with historical fiction, Where the Library Hides is the concluding sequel to What the River Knows, author Isabel Ibañez’s rivals-to-lovers romance set in 1880s Egypt. The quick skinny: With her inheritance on the line, Inez Olivera must consider marriage to her former nemesis, British soldier Whitford Hayes. Magic is in the air! Unfortunately, it’s old-world magic, treacherous and deadly.
Release date: November 5
Release date: November 5
True-crime aficionados should appreciate this one, a deep-dive investigative report on convicted murderer Alex Murdaugh and his South Carolina empire of corruption. Reporter Valerie Bauerlein attended each day of the infamous trial, and she provides plenty of context here, including some aspects of the crimes that have yet to be revealed.
Release date: August 20
Release date: August 20
The Information Age has proved to be a lot more trouble than we were expecting. Misinformation. Conspiracy theories. Deep fakes. Historian Yuval Noah Harari (Sapiens) takes a high-altitude perspective on our current troubles by tracing the history of information networks back through time. The good news: Harari may have found a workable way forward.
Release date:September 10
Release date:September 10
Historian Timothy Snyder, author of the highly influential anti-authoritarian alert On Tyranny, returns with an ambitious exploration of America’s most vaunted principle. Part history, part philosophy, part political science, On Freedom argues for a new and better understanding of the term—one that can bring us all into consensus on the future trajectory of the American experiment.
Release date:September 17
Release date:September 17
In the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2022 decision to overturn Roe vs. Wade, veteran journalists Rebecca Little and Colleen Long investigate the difficult topics of reproductive health and pregnancy loss. The authors—who happen to be friends since childhood—have both experienced late-term loss, and as such bring both professional and personal experience to their deeply researched investigation.
Release date:September 24
Release date:September 24
Journalist Malcolm Gladwell returns to the ideas of his 2002bestseller, this time exploring new questions that have emerged since 's publication, such as "Why is Miami...Miami?" Lest you think it's all lighthearted, this book also promises to tackle social engineering and the dark side of contagious "tipping point" moments.
Release date:October 1
Release date:October 1
America likes its scary stories. But why? That’s the simple but fascinating question in this expansive survey of the history of horror in American popular culture. From the 19th-century tales of Edgar Allan Poe through to our contemporary horror movie boom, historian Jeremy Dauber takes a look at the scary stories we tell ourselves, over and over and over.
Release date:October 1
Release date:October 1
Over in the memoir aisle, celebrity cook Ina Garten—a.k.a. the Barefoot Contessa—tells her remarkable life story in this long-awaited autobiography. Behind the bestselling cookbooks and beloved TV shows, Garten reveals decades of adventures, personal challenges, and lucky breaks. Bonus trivia: Garten has won four Emmy Awards, a James Beard Award, and has more than 14 million copies of her cookbooks in print worldwide.
Release date:October 1
Release date:October 1
As one of America’s most restless and respected public intellectuals, author Ta-Nehisi Coates has published everything from historical inquiry to literary fiction to . In his new collection of essays, Coates weaves three main narratives—writing from Senegal, Palestine, and Columbia, South Carolina—into a deep-focus meditation on the power of narrative itself.
Release date:October 1
Release date:October 1
A biographical portrait of the most famous woman in the history of science, this new book from author and Pulitzer Prize finalist Dava Sobel extends the scope of the typical biography. In addition to the formidable Mme. Curie, Sobel profiles the next generation of female scientists trained in her laboratory. Bonus trivia: Curie once drove a van she outfitted with X-ray equipment to the front lines of World War I. .
Release date:October 8
Release date:October 8
In 2021, Oliver Burkeman made a splash with his innovative time-management guide Four Thousand Weeks. His follow-up expands on many of the ideas from the first book and is structured as a four-week program for the on-the-go seeker. Burkeman’s extended reflections are based on famous inspiration quotations from philosophy, religion, literature, and psychology.
Release date:October 8
Release date:October 8
Teaming up with Jim McCloskey, founder of the world's first innocence organization, America's reigning king of courtroom thrillers turns his pen to 10 real-life, edge-of-your-seat tales of wrongful convictions. Early reviewers are calling this book equal parts heartbreaking and riveting.
Release date:October 15
Release date:October 15
Russian activist and opposition leader Alexei Navalny literally gave his life in service of a decades-long anti-corruption campaign to liberate his native land. In this hugely anticipated memoir, Navalny tells the full story of his life and work, including never-before-seen correspondence from the facilities where he was held as a political prisoner until his death in 2024.
Release date:October 22
Release date:October 22
Comedian and actress Jenny Slate—creator of the immortal genius that is Marcel the Shell With Shoes On—chronicles her journey into motherhood with this collection of essays. Written before, during, and after her startling transformation into a “wild-pregnant-mammal-thing,� the new book features Slate’s playful and inventive comic voice on matters such as fantasy therapy sessions, postpartum hair loss, and stork dreams.
Release date:October 22
Release date:October 22
When artist and writer Eve Babitz died in 2021, a box was found in the back of her apartment. Inside was a cache of journals, photos, and letters between Babitz and her legendary frenemy, the famed author Joan Didion. Journalist Lili Anolik has compiled and edited the correspondence, a collection that promises new perspectives on both artists in the cultural scene of late 1960s and early 1970s Hollywood.
Release date:November 12
Release date:November 12
The Serviceberry: Abundance and Reciprocity in the Natural World
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, illustrated by John Burgoyne
by Robin Wall Kimmerer, illustrated by John Burgoyne
Botanist and bestselling author Dr. Robin Wall Kimmerer (Braiding Sweetgrass)has made a name for herself with nature writing that draws insights from Indigenous wisdom andthe natural world. Her newest work offersan inspiring vision for orienting our lives around principles of gratitude, reciprocity, and community.
Release date:November 19
Release date:November 19
Which books are you most excited to read this fall? Let us know in the comments!
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It's going to be a great fall! I've addedThe Elements of Marie Curie: How the Glow of Radium Lit a Path for Women in Science
Marie Curie, possibly the greatest scientist who ever lived and the only scientist who will have ever received TWO Nobel prizes in TWO different sciences.
Revenge of the Tipping Point: Overstories, Superspreaders, and the Rise of Social Engineering
Absolution
Death at the Sign of the Rook
The City and Its Uncertain Walls
The Life Impossible
Tell Me Everything
Here One Moment
Excited about We Solve Murders and The Boyfriend!
hyped for The Fury of the Gods, this series is amazing
I am here for the striker and nothing like the movies.
A so-called biography about Maria Skłodowska-Curie with the incorrect name in the title. I hope the book itself rectifies that.
The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon comes out September 17th!
I'm so excited for the 3rd Crowns of Nyaxia book, The Songbird and the Heart of Stone. The first 2 books were amazing; I can't wait for this one. I LOVED Better Than the Movies and have read it twice and I'm so excited for the sequel that Lynn Painter fans have been waiting for! I also look forward to Daydream from the Maple Hills series as I enjoyed Icebreaker.
Looking good. I particularly want to read
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Of course to wait now, but it’ll be here before I know it. Always is! Time flies.
Really, a separate category for "romantasy", yet contemporary and historical fiction are grouped together?
ó wrote: "Really, a separate category for "romantasy", yet contemporary and historical fiction are grouped together?"Romantasy is such an obnoxious made-up category that ŷ apparently just created so they can include more shallow crap that the majority of women here seem to prefer. It's also ridiculous that all non-fiction is lumped into one category, while fiction gets seven. There's a ton of overlap in those fiction categories presumably because there's so much garbage being published.
CJ wrote: "ó wrote: "Really, a separate category for "romantasy", yet contemporary and historical fiction are grouped together?"Romantasy is such an obnoxious made-up category that ŷ apparently ju..."
It's true, but it's probably not a majority of women who read this stuff, just a good number of younger ones who talk about these books on TicTok.
As for ignoring nonfiction--I spent decades as a librarian and can tell you that even the most highly reviewed stuff rarely circulated from our shelves. Most of the nonfiction that people actually read are how-to books (including cookbooks), travel guides, and biography--even most of those languish while genre fiction flies off the shelves. I admit to mostly reading books that will entertain me, while leaving the heavy stuff behind.
This book by William Dalrymple is eagerly awaited."...William Dalrymple highlights India's oft-forgotten position as a crucial economic and civilisational hub at the heart of the ancient and early medieval history of Eurasia. From Angkor to Ayutthaya, The Golden Road traces the cultural flow of Indian religions, languages, artistic and architectural forms and mathematics throughout the world. "
Would have expected to see: The Barn by Wright Thompson on this list too
When are we going to see Brothers by Alex Van Halen?
I'm looking forward to Wrath of the Triple Goddess and The Third Gilmore Girl: A Memoir. I'm surprised neither one of these are on the list.
Nothing too exciting, but a few non-fiction are possibilities.,edpecially Framed by John Grisham
I've heard of not a single one of these books, and the authors I've heard of I largely have no interest in (other than Grisham and maybe a couple of others).Here's my list of books releasing between today and Dec 3 (same range as above):
Faithful Politics by Miranda Zapor Cruz*
An Echo In Time by Boo Walker
No Democracy Lasts Forever by Erwin Chemerinsky*
Good Boys: The Lost Tribe by Jeremy Robinson*
Magical Meet Cute by Jean Meltzer
The Twin by Steena Holmes
Big Brother And The Grim Reaper by Benjamin Ginsbeg*
Prime Time Romance by Kate Robb
A Heart Beyond by Grace Greene
Polarized By Degrees by Matt Grossman and David A. Hopkins
The Summer Reunion by Leah Mercer
My Sister's Boyfriend by Nicola Marsh
The Paris Daughter by Soraya Lane*
The Highest Law In The Land by Jessica Pishko
Distorting Democracy by Carolyn Renee Dupont
Heroic Measures by Joel Shulkin
The Christmas Inn by Pamela Kelley
The Holiday Cottage by Sarah Morgan
It Starts With One by Jason Lipshutz
Every Moment Since by Marybeth Mahew Whalen
Society Of Lies by Lauren Ling Brown
Keys To The City by Sara C. Bronin*
Christmas In Chestnut Ridge by Nancy Naigle
Two Good Men by S.E. Redfearn
Your Jesus Is Too American by Steve Bezner
Wish I Were Here by Melissa Wiesner
Proximity Politics by Jeronimo Cortina
Catch And Keep by Erin Hahn
Good Boys: Unleashed by Jeremy Robinson*
The Christmas Countdown by Holly Cassidy (Hannah Mary McKinnon)
When We Chased The Light by Emily Bleeker
Sleeping With The Frenemy by Natalie Cana
The Jailer's Reckoning by Kevin B. Smith*
Revenant-X by David Wellington
The Maui Effect by Sara Ackerman
Dead Air William by Elliott Hazelgrove
Kingdom by Jeremy Robinson*
Selling Out The Spectrum by Liam O'Dell
The Greatest Lie Of All by Jillian Cantor
* = review available on Hardcover dot app and other book sites (including this one)
“The Night We Lost Him� by Laura Dave and “The Last One At the Wedding� by Jason Rekulak look interesting.
Oh, they fixed the error now.I won't read anything from TJ Klune. I gave The House in the Cerulean Sea one star.
There's so many good ones coming out!
On this list:We Solve Murders
Be Ready When the Luck Happens
The Elements of Marie Curie
Didion & Babitz
Not on this list:
The Strategists, Phillips Payson O’Brien, 8/27
The Empresses of Seventh Avenue, Nancy MacDonell, 8/27
The Small and the Mighty, Sharon McMahon, 9/24
The Mistletoe Mystery, Nita Prose, 10/1
Q, Craig Brown, 10/1
Her Lotus Year, Paul French, 11/12
Our Jackie, Karen M. Dunak, 11/12
The Mirror, Nora Roberts, 11/19
I am waiting for Nothing Like the Movies, can September 24th come any faster
For nonfiction- the Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon!(America's government teacher)
Ibrahim wrote: "I saw a thriller about a wedding here and I feel like ill never be able to read a book about a wedding again bc of how awful the guest list was"RIGHT?? I don’t understand the hype it has
Meh. Most of these I am skipping. I have my own list.
*Adds to list “The Grey Wolf� by Louise Penny
Is there some stupid reason we're combining historical and contemporary into one category but romantasy needs its own?
y'all are so unnecessarily judgmental about a list of BOOKS
Tell me everything; where the library hides; alter ego.
So many great books, I can't wait to read some of them :)
Ibrahim wrote: "I saw a thriller about a wedding here and I feel like ill never be able to read a book about a wedding again bc of how awful the guest list was"What was so bad about it? I had it on my tbr last.
With the rare exception (Murakami, Atinson) the majority of fiction titles are rather anemic.
Another vote for The Small and the Mighty by Sharon McMahon!
Asher wrote: "y'all are so unnecessarily judgmental about a list of BOOKS"REAL
currently reading an ARC of Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner-love her POV as an American spy intent on finding evidence of eco-terrorism in rural France. Longlisted for the Booker. Keep an eye out for its US release in Sept.also looking forward to Julia Armfield's - Private Rites
Richard Dawkins new book "The Genetic Book of the Dead" is also going to be out in October 2024."... explores the untapped potential of DNA to transform and transcend our understanding of evolution. In the future, a zoologist presented with a hitherto unknown animal will be able to read its body and its genes as detailed descriptions of the world its ancestors inhibited."
One of the only times I've seen a list like this that I didn't see several I'm interested in. May check out Blue Sisters and The Night we lost him
Framed by John Grisham. Gonna hold this at the library.
A lot of these were already on my TBR and I've added a few more lol
Have added loads to the TBR. Decent sounding Horror recs. I love haunted house stories,
i was honored to receive an e-arc of “don’t let the forest in� and it was INCREDIBLE. one of the best books i’ve read in 2024 and i will be buying a physical copy!!
So many wonderful books! My list becomes higher and higher- Thank you ŷ
Ibrahim wrote: "I saw a thriller about a wedding here and I feel like ill never be able to read a book about a wedding again bc of how awful the guest list was"Well hey there's always second chances and if they aren't for you then that's that but who knows there could be a new favorite lying in wait
i had reordered Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI
looking forward to it!
Besides the mystery book We Solve Murders is interesting to me. Will wait for more reviews then
