Can you smell the pumpkin spice? Are you preparing your couch blankets? Do your cozy socks miss you? It must be that time of year! Fall reading season is about to take off and we want you to be prepared with all the best books of the season.
The Life Impossible by Matt Haig (9/3)
From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of the novel, The Midnight Library, comes his next magic-filled story. When Grace is left a rundown home on Ibiza by a friend, she ventures to the Mediterranean to learn more about how this person died. A retired math teacher, Grace begins to uncover answers that are stranger than she could have possibly imagined. This story is about fresh starts, adventure and hope.
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Colored Television by Danzy Senna (9/3)
Jane is a novelist who feels she is finally on her way to making it. When her new masterpiece seems to be gaining traction, she links up with an ambitious producer who is ready to work with her and bring the story to the screen. As she approaches the precipice of success, things go terribly wrong. This dark comedy is a timely exploration of racial identity, art and ambition.
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Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner (9/3)
Both a National Book Award and Booker Prize finalist, Rachel Kushner returns with another dazzling and dark story. Sadie is a secret agent who is infiltrating an anarchist commune. Using her skills of seduction and surveillance, she follows her contact’s instruction, provoking her marks. But when the collective’s leader, Bruno, begins to interact with Sadie, she finds herself on less stable ground.
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Celestial Monsters (The Sunbearer Duology, 2) by Aiden Thomas (9/3)
From the New York Times bestselling author of Cemetery Boys comes the anticipated conclusion to his fantasy duology. Teo is facing off with the Obsidian gods, released from their prison, in a world cloaked in darkness. He never wanted to be a hero, but now he must stand and fight. Battling is burgeoning feelings for Aurelio with his best friend Niya at his side, Teo must race against the clock to restore order.
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Here One Moment by Liane Moriarty (9/10)
From the bestselling author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers and other unforgettable novels, comes a store about fate and free will. An ordinary flight becomes extraordinary when a passenger, “The Death Lady”, boards bearing unimaginable news. She tells everyone the exact date they’ll die. While many will live to a ripe old age, there are six whose deaths are near. When three passings prove her words true, the remaining people are left to grapple with their destiny and decide if they’ll do things differently.
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Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout (9/10)
Pulitzer-prize winning author Elizabeth Strout returns with a new novel featuring her beloved characters. From Olive Kitteridge to Bob Burgess, readers will be reunited and swept away to the world of Crosby, Maine. As Bob finds himself enmeshed in a murder case, he indulges his deep friendship with Lucy Barton. Meanwhile Olive, now in a retirement home, accepts them as visitors where they share stories and connect. Another deeply human and vibrant portrait of relationships, Tell Me Everything will bring the cozy and comforting story that fans have come to expect.
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Nexus: A Brief History of Information Networks from the Stone Age to AI by Yuval Noah Harari (9/10)
From the author of Sapiens, Homo Deus and 21 Lessons for the 21st Century comes another deep dive into history as well as a glimpse into the impending future of AI. Taking readers through the history of information, Yuval Noah Harari explores both the power and the weaponization of information. As the world enters into a period where their existence is threatened by a non-human intelligence, he explores the way governments have used information as well as choices that lie ahead in the age of AI.
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The Night We Lost Him by Laura Dave (9/17)
The #1 New York Times bestseller of The Last Thing He Told Me is back with another suspense, family drama. When hotel magnate, Liam Noone, falls to his death from the cliffs his cottage is perched, the event is ruled accidental. His daughter Nora isn’t so sure. There is a lot to her father’s history she doesn’t know. Forming an alliance with her estranged brother, the two set off on an uncomfortable journey of discovery, uncovering secrets that could change things forever.
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Entitlement by Rumaan Alam (9/17)
From the New York Times bestselling author of Leave the World Behind comes a novel about wealth, race, privilege and philanthropy. Brooke wants to prove to herself and her mother that she can live a good life where she makes an impact on the world around her. She wants good friends, purpose and independence. As she assists a billionaire at the end of his life give away a vast amount of his fortune, she explores the information gained from being in close proximity to extreme financial fortune.
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When the World Tips Over by Jandy Nelson (9/24)
Jandy Nelson is the award-winning, bestselling author of I’ll Give You the Sun and The Sky is Everywhere, now an Apple TV+ movie, and she’s back with a new story to fall head over heels for. The Fall children are in disarray after losing their father. Dizzy, twelve, bakes and sees spirits. Miles, seventeen, intelligent and athletic his desperate to find the guy of his dreams. And Wynton, nineteen, is destined for fame or destruction. When a rainbow haired girl arrives mysteriously, helping each of the Fall children in their own way, tragedy strikes again, leaving them all even worse off, grappling with the past and present, grief and hope as they navigate an uncertain future.
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The Empusium: A Health Resort Horror Story by Olga Tokarczuk (Author), Antonia Lloyd-Jones (Translator) (9/24)
From Nobel Prize winner Olga Tokarczuk comes a haunting and atmospheric new novel. On the eve of World War I a young pole is housed at a sanitarium with tuberculosis. The residence indulge in a local hallucinogenic and discuss the political topics of the time. But strange things are happening in the hills. Someone is watching them. As the resident tries to discover more about himself and the looming threat, he has to contend with the reality that a target for the sinister forces has already been chosen.
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Intermezzo by Sally Rooney (9/24)
From the author of Normal People and Conversations with Friends comes a story of love, grief and family. Two desperately different brothers have just lost their father and are coping with the grief in ways that are as dissimilar as the two of them. Peter is a lawyer in his thirties in love with two women, his first love and a college student. Ivan is a competitive chess player, something of a loner, but he has just met an older woman who he becomes quickly intertwined with.
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The Lightning Bottles by Marissa Stapley (9/24)
Reese’s Book Club pick and New York Times bestseller Marissa Stapley has written a rock n’ roll drama that pays homage to 90s grunge. Jane was one half of the rock duo the Lightning Bottles. Though Elijah got all the love, Jane was the brains and artist behind the band. It all came crashing down when Elijah disappeared and Jane became one of the most hated women in music. Now, as she tries to live a quiet life out of the spotlight, Jane encounters a super fan who believes Elijah is alive and sending messages to Jane.
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Adam & Evie’s Matchmaking Tour by Nora Nguyen (9/24)
Evie’s world fell apart when she lost her dear aunt. In her grief, she also loses her job. But what she gains is opportunity as she is set to inherit her aunt’s San Francisco home, but first she must embark on a pre-arranged matchmaking tour in Việt Nam. The tour is run by a woman whose brother Adam Quyền is the grumpy CMO. She challenges him to join the tour himself. When Evie and Adam meet up, they are opposites in so many ways, but their agitation with each other is also building an attraction.
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A Song to Drown Rivers by Ann Liang (10/1)
Xishi’s beauty has the power to be a weapon. When Fanli, a military advisor, gives her the chance to infiltrate an immoral king’s palace, she has the chance to save her people and enact vengeance on those who murdered her sister. Balancing her attraction to Fanli and her duty to the mission, Xishi must keep herself from being exposed as a traitor or risk destroying two kingdoms.
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The Anti-Heroes by Jen Lancaster (10/1)
Emily once lived a life of adventure and danger as an eco-crusader. Now, she is withering under a bland life teaching disengaged university students. Liv, her best friend, is a real estate agent living her life as a people pleaser when the two women witness a yoga mom take down an attempted robbery. The woman tells them about where she found her strength, a self-help class called Fearless, Inc. led by a muscle-bound man named Zeus. As the women dive into the lessons, they face their fears and step into their power in this new novel from New York Times bestselling author, Jen Lancaster.
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The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates (10/1)
Ta-Nehisi Coates is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me and now he has another poignant book hitting shelves. Coates sought to write a book on writing, but it evolved as he approached the topic. In a series of three essays, he takes readers on his first trip to Africa, on a journey to South Carolina where his books are banned and then to Palestine where he gets to see first hand the reality of the conflict. As he takes readers through his travels, he works to break apart the myths that hold humanity in place.
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Heir by Sabaa Tahir (10/1)
Sabaa Tahir is the #1 New York Times bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes and now her latest novel is hitting the shelves this fall. In her latest YA fantasy, three very different young people are living in their own personal turmoil. An orphan set on vengeance, an outcast tracking a killer and a prince who doesn’t want his throne are all desperately seeking a path forward as an Empire’s survival is threatened.
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The Boyfriend by Freida McFadden (10/1)
The #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Housemaid is back with another pulse-pounding thriller. Sydney has had her fair share of bad dates living in New York. She’s been ditched with a bill, lied to on dating apps and just about anything else that can go wrong in modern dating. So when she meets a handsome, seemingly perfect doctor, it feels like her dreams have come true. But a string of murders has her rattled. Apparently the killer dates his victims before killing them and she can’t shake the feeling that she has something to be concerned about even though she doesn’t want it to be true.
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Model Home by Rivers Solomon (10/1)
From the author of An Unkindness of Ghosts comes a haunted house story unlike any others. When the Maxwell siblings moved into a suburban home in Texas, they were the only Black family in the neighborhood. The neighbors were nice enough, but soon, strange and often terrifying things began to happen. Their mother, unwilling to move remained there until the three became adults and left. Now, they have to return after the unnatural death of their parents and confront their past… and the house.
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What Does It Feel Like? by Sophie Kinsella (10/8)
Sophie Kinsella is the #1 New York Times bestseller of the beloved novel turned film, Confessions of a Shopaholic and her latest novel is described as her most personal one, yet. When Eve, a successful novelist, wakes up in a hospital and learns she’s been through a surgery to operate on a tumor in her brain, her whole worldview shifts. As she relearns to walk, talk and write, she copes with her diagnosis and grapples with when to tell her children. In this grief-stricken and also life-affirming story, Kinsella is at her most autobiographical telling her own story of being diagnosed with a glioblastoma in 2022 through a fictional character.
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Sleeping with the Frenemy by Natalie Caña (10/29)
In the third book in the Vega Family Love Stories collection, firefighter, Leo, is recovering from a gunshot wound, that his kept him on leave from the department for a year. His love life has also been on leave. But he’s ready to get back on track with both. Sofi is mending fences and moving on and definitely not interested in getting involved with Leo again. But when circumstances land her in an uncomfortable roommate situation with him, that’s easier said than done.
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The Blue Hour by Paula Hawkins (10/29)
From the author of the international sensation, The Girl on the Train, comes another can’t-miss thriller. Eric, an isolated Scottish Island has one home, with one resident. First, it belonged to Vanessa, an artist whose philandering husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now, it belongs to Grace who is perfectly content in her isolated life. When a discovery brings a visitor to the island, its secrets begin to spill out.
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Pickleballers by Ilana Long (11/12)
Everyone’s favorite recreational sport is now the delightful backdrop to a fun fall rom-com. When Meg discovers her ex was cheating, she and her best friend go away for a pickle ball excursion. She wasn’t anticipating being attracted to anyone, but her interest in Ethan survives up a love interest she wasn’t seeking. When the romance turns sour, she has to find a way to take control of her own future.
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Is She Really Going Out with Him? by Sophie Cousens (11/19)
New York Times bestseller Sophie Cousens is at it again with another heart-filled romance. Anna is content being single after a bad divorce. She has her kids, her cat and a comfortable enough life. When her job is at risk because someone is trying to steal her column out from under her, she offers to do a series where she goes on seven dates chosen by her children. What she didn’t expect was to make an unexpected connection that could lead to love.
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