October was full of incredibly exciting book news, from upcoming screen adaptations (don’t mind us—we’re just casually freaking out over the Fourth Wing casting) to new releases that have us counting down the days until we can read them. If you want to know which of your favorite books are headed to the screen (spoiler alert: it’s more than you probably think) or find your next must-read, here are some of the biggest book news stories from October.
Adaptations, Options, and Casting
Disney Acquired the Film Rights of Divine Rivals
Rebecca Ross’s fantasy romance Divine Rivals is getting another shot at a movie adaptation, this time with Disney. The studio has acquired the rights after the previous deal with Paramount fell through. The original producers are still attached, and Ross will executive produce the film, though a new screenwriter has yet to be announced.
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Red Rising Will Be Hitting The Big Screen
Pierce Brown’s bestselling dystopian sci-fi series Red Rising took BookTok by storm, and now it’s hitting the big screen, with Paramount Pictures acquiring the film rights. Francis Lawrence, known for directing several Hunger Games films, is set to direct the adaptation. Set on a class-divided Mars, the story follows Darrow, a young miner who infiltrates the ruling Gold elite after uncovering the truth about his society, determined to bring the system down.
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Trailer For Katherine Center’s Holiday Adaptation
The first look at Guarding Stars is here, and we couldn’t be more excited about for the holidays. Based on Katherine Center’s novel The Bodyguard, the holiday rom-com stars Leighton Meester and Jared Padalecki. The film brings Center’s story to the screen with a new title to distinguish it from the iconic 1992 film The Bodyguard. You can start streaming this feel-good movie on Netflix on November 18th.
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Hulu is Developing Elle Kennedy’s Thornbird
Hulu is developing a TV adaptation of Elle Kennedy’s Thornbird, a coming-of-age thriller written and executive produced by Pretty Little Liars creator I. Marlene King. The series follows 17-year-old Ryan Shipley, who returns to her Tennessee hometown ten years after her father, an infamous serial killer, was caught. Hoping for a normal teenage life, she must keep her identity and dark family history a secret.
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Violet Bridgerton is Getting Her Own Spinoff
The Bridgerton universe is expanding with a new limited series centered on the romance between a young Violet Bridgerton and her future husband, Viscount Edmund Bridgerton. Shonda Rhimes will co-write, showrun, and executive produce the romantic drama, just as she has with all previous seasons.
C.S. Lewis’ The Magician’s Nephew Is Almost Here
Ready to return to Narnia? The trailer for Greta Gerwig’s Narnia: The Magician’s Nephew has officially dropped, giving readers a first glimpse at the adaptation of C.S. Lewis’s beloved fantasy novel. With a cast featuring Emma Mackey, Daniel Craig, and Meryl Streep, the film takes us back to the very beginning of the magical world that we all know and love.
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We Have Our Xaden and Violet
The leads for Prime Video’s adaptation of Rebecca Yarros’ bestselling Fourth Wing have officially been confirmed, with Esther McGregor starring as Violet Sorrengail and Emilio Sakraya as Xaden Riorson. No other casting announcements have been made, but we have a feeling that we’re going to start seeing a lot more news about the adaptation soon.
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The Summer of Broken Rules Is Getting Movie Treatment
K.L. Walther’s The Summer of Broken Rules is being adapted into a movie by Amazon MGM Studios. Sophia Stallone and Sylvester Stallone will produce the film, with Lauren Hynek and Elizabeth Martin, who worked on Disney’s Mulan, writing the script.
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These Summer Storms Is Coming to Hulu
Erin and Sara Foster are developing a new Hulu drama based on Sarah MacLean’s 2025 novel These Summer Storms. The project is in development at 20th Television.
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Release Announcements and Cover Reveals
Carley Fortune Revealed Her Next Novel in The Barry’s Bay World
Carley Fortune is returning to Barry’s Bay in her newest novel, Only in Summer, which will hit shelves May 18, 2027. The story follows Eleanor Florek, the younger cousin of Charlie and Sam. The town’s golden girl and reporter always dreamed of owning her own cottage on the beach, and when she finally has enough to buy a small a-frame, she couldn’t be happier… until he place next door is torn down to make way for a monstrous lake house and its handsome owner. Before Eleanor can give him a piece of her mind for ruining her secluded strip of beach, he disappears, leaving her to enjoy her new home once more. Unfortunately, the peace doesn’t last last forever. Owen Kolstad returns, and no matter how hard the two try to stay from one another, a connection like theirs is impossible to ignore.
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Sarah Adams Has a New Romance Coming
Speaking of romances, Sarah Adams, author of the Rome, Kentucky series, is back again with a new standalone, out Mat 4, 2. Soulmates is a story about Birdie Wilson, who is brought to San Francisco for her estranged father’s funeral. What is meant to be a short trip quickly turns into something much longer than she expected when she learns that in order to receive her inheritance, she must repair her relationship with her icy stepsister, Danielle. So, when an unforgettable encounter with a handsome stranger occupies all of her thoughts, she is too rattled by the timing to get attached. Leaving her future in fate’s hands, she writes her number on a dollar bill and tucks it into a tip jar, telling herself that if he finds it, it’s meant to be. What she doesn’t expect, however, is the mystery man to be Parker Voss, Danielle’s future brother-in-law and the son of the world’s richest tech billionaire. As the summer progresses, Birdie finds herself torn between staying away from the man she’s deemed off limits, mending her relationship with her stepsister, and staying true to herself.
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Danica Nava Takes a Look at Old Bodice Rippers In Her Upcoming Release
Grad student Natalie Morningstar has spent hours working on her master’s thesis on the harmful nature of old western romance novels, and she’s nearly done. All she has left is Wild Heart by Edie McNight—which also happens to be the most popular and the most problematic. Late one night, right as Natalie is reaching for the library’s lone copy, she finds herself free falling straight into the story and into the 1800s fictional town of Silver Springs, Oklahoma during the battle between a Comanche warband and white settlers. In her efforts to escape the cowboy, she finds herself in the company of a Comanche warrior, Kaheeka, who also happens to be one of the most beautiful men she’s ever seen. Desperate to get out of the book while also saving Kaheeka for the fate she know’s he’s destined for, Natalie finds going back to the real world might just be harder than she anticipated.
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Elsie Silver Revealed The Cover of The Second Book in the Emerald Lake Series
We first met Parker Brandt in Fever Dream, and now she’s back as the FMC in Midnight Rush, then second book in the Emerald Lake series, out April 20,2027. All she wants to do is finish her business degree, she her family farm, and then figure out what she really wants to do with her life. Should be fairly easy, right? It would be if her broody, handsome professor, Noah Hawkins, wasn’t always getting in her way. He already delayed her college graduation on a technicality, and now, as the acting mayor, his contraction project is threatening to carve up the land she calls home. In a last-ditch effort to save Stal Brandt, she joins the mayoral race, where she finds that as much as she wants to hate him, Noah keeps showing up to help her. Can they stay away from one another or will they give into temptation and ruin his reputation and her campaign in one fell swoop?
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Veronica Roth is Back With Her Romantic Dystopian Fantasy Sequel to Seek the Traitor’s Son
In Curse the Left Hand, the next installment in Veronica Roth’s romantic dystopian fantasy series, Elegy Ahn embarks on a spacefaring adventure filled with dangerous visions and an uncertain future. As she searches for a way to defeat her people’s enemies and reunite with her fated love, she must decide how much she’s willing to sacrifice to save them all. Get your copy on May 4, 2027.
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Bartholomew Is Coming Back in the Stonewater Kingdom Duology Novella
One hundred years after the events of The Knight and the Moth and the Knave and the Moon, the beloved Bartholomew must once again become a squire and journey across Traum. The novella will feature full-page black-and-white illustrations by Rachel herself, and is expected to hit shelves March 16, 2027.
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We’re Heading Back to Heart Beach in Last Chance Summer
Amara Smith didn’t expect planning her brother’s wedding to come with a reunion with her first love and brother’s best friend, Danny Martin. But with a summer at Heart Beach ahead of them, it’s nearly impossible to escape the resurfacing feelings. In Kristina Forest’s newest second chance romance—out June 29, 2027—the two must figure out if they’re ready to give love another try, even as their futures threaten to pull them in different directions.
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