As summer begins to come to an end and fall approaches, what better way to adjust than to get back into that book club with your friends? If you’re looking for some great books to recommend to your book club that come out this fall and beyond, we’ve got you covered!

The Disappearers by Marlon James (9/1)

In 1988, eight men who are strangers in Kingston, Jamaica, all begin rehearsals for a play. While the men are strangers to one another, they all share one thing in common: they are gay. After a mob attacks the men one night, one of the men is killed. For the remaining survivors, as they try to heal emotionally and physically, they are divided between trying to ignore what happened and seeking revenge.

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Taipei Story by R.F. Kuang (9/8)

College freshmen Lily Chen is leaving for the summer to go to an intensive language program in Taipei in hopes of connecting with the culture she’s never fully understood. Taipei isn’t what she thought it would be from the difficult classes to the roommate who drives her crazy and the gossip about a trip to the hot springs she took with a guy she barely knows. When her grandfather shockingly passes away, Lily is forced to grapple with her family history as she goes on a journey of self-discovery.

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Exit Party by Emily St. John Mandel (9/15)

In 2031 in Los Angeles, we are witnessing the first spring after the collapse of the United States. Ari Waker and her roommate pass through the city as the peacekeeping troops leave and a curfew has been lifted. Arriving at a party in Silverlake, all seems to be good and people are having fun until an uncanny doppelganger goes through the crowd and into the night and the party’s host disappears.

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The Occidental Book of the Dead by T. Geronimo Johnson (9/15)

After growing up in one of Atlanta’s poorest housing projects, George Washington Jonson enlists in the U.S. Army in hopes of starting a new life. When events bring him back home, he joins the police force in 1992 with a partner who is a shady legacy cop and self-described “redneck.” A decade later, he’s living in an affluent suburb with his white wife and stepson when a night on patrol erupts in a confrontation with a white teenager that turns violent.

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Hollow Bones by Jodi Picoult (9/15)

Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old when her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001 and never returned. Raised by her father and stepmother, Molly grew up fearing disasters. As an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness in which she helps map ways to save lives during disasters. When the unexpected happens, Molly’s marriage with her husband, Jesse, is tested, leading them to question everything they thought they once knew.

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American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee (9/29)

John and Helen Koh and their three children were comfortably middle class in Korea until their lives were forever changed. First came the shocking betrayal by John’s oldest friend and then the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Leaving Seoul for Sydney only to eventually settle in Southern California, endless opportunities seem to be available for the family as they try to adjust to a new land. As the years go by and they navigate their relationships with friends, relatives, and everyone in their lives, the Koh’s continue to nurse that belief that education will be what leads the next generation to success and security.

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The Brightness by Chad Harbach (10/27)

Pella is 27 and a recent college graduate who is engaged to her longtime boyfriend, Mike. After a wild weekend at her friend Owen’s wedding, her past and present merge together that sends her on an unexpected path in New York City. Back at Westish College, Irma is 21 and dealing with uncertainty when a politically charged prank she was involved with threatens her once bright future. As both Pella and Irma go through changes in their lives and searching for identity, they find themselves navigating ambition, love, and loss.

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The Squatters by Saba Brelvi (11/10)

Dalia Waheed has never felt like she belonged in the affluent neighborhood of Surrey, just outside of London. She and her husband are second-generation immigrants that are successful, yet Dalia still feels like she’s destined for more. While volunteering at a local nonprofit called Refugee Resettlement, Dalia meets Hajira and her husband, who have fled their home country seeking asylum in the U.K. Hajira, who is pregnant, asks Dalia for help with new housing, which seems like a seemingly easy task for Dalia but the act of kindness soon spirals into something more when she is in the middle of a political firestorm that threatens everything she has.

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Between You and a River by Kimberly Garza (12/1)

It’s the 1960s on the island of Mindoro in the Philippines and Corazon de la Cruz is the first of her family to go to college, immigrate to the United States, and have the opportunity to support her family when she becomes a doctor. Her whole families futures depend on her. When a fire breaks out on the island, she is faced with a fateful choice. Decades later, Corazon’s death shakes the de la Cruz family to the core. Her estranged daughters, Hannah and Mari, are soon invited to the Philippines to settle unresolved business as they come face-to-face together for the first time as the family’s ancestral land’s future lies in their hands.

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Fetal Position by Carolyn Huynh (12/8)

In the near future, “high-value” intelligent women are recruited by an enigmatic start-up called Hatch to become trad wives in order to help with historically low birth rates and a supposed male loneliness epidemic. After being matched with a male’s sperm, you will no longer have to work and receive a subsidized house, land, and a robot to do domestic labor for you. Lena Do is one of the women who has been stuck in corporate America too long and is unhappy with her life, feeling lonely herself. When she receives an invitation for Hatch, the promise of connection and happiness is all too alluring. When women begin to disappear and die around her, she races against time for the truth behind Hatch.

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