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Readers' 55 Most Anticipated Books of Fall
Autumn is a good time for books, for many reasons. Seasonally, it just feels right, what with the falling leaves and roaring fireplaces. Holiday gift giving is on the horizon. It’s also the season when the year’s most high-profile literary efforts hit the shelves.
To celebrate, we’ve once again compiled our annual Big Books of Fall collection, which previews the season’s most anticipated titles. As always, books are sorted by genre and largely determined by you, the loyal Goodreads regular. Selections are based on early reviews and finding out which titles are ending up on members’ Want to Read shelves.
Each of the books below will be published (in the U.S.) between now and the end of the calendar year. From a high-altitude point of view, two trends can be readily spotted: This autumn will bring new releases from several big-name literary authors (Zadie Smith, Lauren Groff, Tim O’Brien). We’re also seeing an inordinate number of fascinating nonfiction books this year.
Genre hoppers, be glad of heart. We’ve got new romance from Lucy Score and Jennifer Armentrout. New fantasy from V.E. Schwab and Shelley Parker-Chan. New sci-fi from Samit Basu and Martha Wells (Murderbot!).
Young adult readers can look forward to a bonus installment of Jennifer Lynn Barnes’ Inheritance Games series. For mystery-thriller fans, new books from Nita Prose and John Grisham. Horror fans should appreciate all the 19th-century Mexican vampires.
Finally, this year’s intriguing nonfiction wave includes Michael Lewis on cryptocurrency, Walter Isaacson on Elon Musk, and Michael Harriot on Black American history.
Click through the options below, add any interesting leads to your Want to Read shelf, and let us know what you're reading and recommending in the comments.
Literary fiction straight from the front lines of 21st-century life, Evil Eye is the latest from North Carolina novelist Etaf Rum, author of 2019’s breakout hit A Woman Is No Man. Her new novel profiles a young Palestinian American artist and mom navigating tradition, liberation, and very possibly a family curse.
Release date: September 5
Release date: September 5
British author Zadie Smith (White Teeth) returns with a curious story based on the famous Tichborne trial in 19th-century England. When a working-class butcher claims to be the rightful heir to a fortune, history turns on the testimony of a formerly enslaved man from Jamaica. Smith upends the traditional Victorian novel, and she has some thoughts about Dickens, too.
Release date: September 5
Release date: September 5
A new book by Lauren Groff (Fates and Furies) is a time for genuine celebration. The acclaimed author returns to her specialty of heightened historical fiction with The Vaster Wilds, in which a young woman flees from an early Colonial America settlement and must survive a brutal winter alone. Early readers are loving it.
Release date: September 12
Release date: September 12
Author C Pam Zhang (How Much of These Hills Is Gold) returns with a new kind of dystopian novel. The world is falling apart when a young chef opts to take her talents to an exclusive mountaintop colony of the rich and the richer. Riding out the apocalypse reawakens the chef to her own appetites, gustatorial and carnal.
Release date: September 26
Release date: September 26
After losing the love of his life, Cam returns to his hometown of Houston and reconnects with former best friend TJ. Together, the two navigate their long estrangement and emotionally charged reunion. Author Bryan Washington (Memorial) revisits themes of queerness, love, loss, chosen families, and the tricky terrain of longtime friendships.
Release date: October 10
Release date: October 10
In the Straits Settlements of Southeast Asia, circa 1921, famed British novelist Somerset Maugham visits his old friend Robert Hamlyn, war veteran and lawyer. Things get very complicated, very quickly. Based on actual events, Tan Twan Eng’s ambitious new novel digs deep into issues of race, gender, sexuality, and storytelling.
Release date: October 17
Release date: October 17
Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward follows the fate of Annis, an enslaved girl in the American South traveling from the fields of Carolina to the slave markets of New Orleans. Annis transcends her circumstances through visions of a world beyond our world, filled with magic, spirits, and hope.
Release date: October 24
Release date: October 24
From the author of the American Lit 101 classic The Things They Carried, America Fantastica marks the return of author Tim O’Brien to the fiction game after more than 20 years. The gist: A desperate bank robbery morphs into a cross-country chase featuring hit men, a billionaire tycoon, jealous lovers, and several ex-cons. O’Brien hands America a mirror once more.
Release date: October 24
Release date: October 24
A Korean American family tumbles into crisis when the father disappears into the bright Virginia day. The only witness: a child who cannot speak. Following up on her acclaimed debut novel, Miracle Creek, author Angie Kim turns the standard mystery story into a philosophical inquiry concerning the nature of human communication.
Release date: August 29
Release date: August 29
English author, comedian, and television presenter Richard Osman has found great popular success with his Thursday Murder Club series, his particular riff on the cozy mystery template. Next up: Our octogenarian investigators delve into the surprisingly crooked world of antiques. Forgers! Fraudsters! Drug dealers! Murderers?
Release date: September 19
Release date: September 19
Inspired by the real-life case of the “All-American Sex Killer,” the new novel from Jessica Knoll (Luckiest Girl Alive) aims to flip the usual serial killer story upside down. Knoll’s book focuses on the women involved—victims, survivors, and investigators—and turns a bright light on the banality of evil.
Release date: September 19
Release date: September 19
The good folks of Bottom Springs, Louisiana, fear the myths that haunt the area, like the story of a vampiric figure said to steal into sinners' bedrooms to kill them on moonless nights. When a skull is found in a swamp, it's up to the preacher's daughter to discover the truth.
Release date: October 3
Release date: October 3
This intriguing novel from author Jean Kwok is family drama hung on the scaffolding of a mystery story. Two young mothers in New York City—one born to privilege and the other a desperate immigrant—find common cause when they search for a daughter taken away by China’s former one-child policy.
Release date: October 10
Release date: October 10
Just like it says on the label, this new legal thriller from genre overlord John Grisham functions as the official sequel to his famous 1991 breakthrough novel, The Firm. Fifteen years later, our hero Mitch McDeere finds himself tangled up in deadly machinations when a favor to a friend goes as wrong as wrong can go.
Release date: October 17
Release date: October 17
Readers first met Molly Gray in the bestselling mystery The Maid. Since then, she's risen through the ranks of the Regency Grand Hotel to become its esteemed Head Maid. But just as her life reaches this pinnacle, her world is turned upside down when acclaimed author J.D. Grimthorpe drops dead on the hotel’s tea room floor. Now it's up to this fastidious maid to uncover the truth...no matter how dirty.
Release date: November 28
Release date: November 28
Fall's Best New Fantasy Novels
Epic historical fantasy set in 14th-century China, He Who Drowned the World is the second book in Shelley Parker-Chan’s Radiant Emperor series, concerning Great Khans, Mongol warriors, and brutal power struggles. Heads up that the series is dark, if not quite grimdark; this is most definitely not a YA book.
Release date: August 22
Release date: August 22
Set in the world(s) of her terrific Shades of Magic series, the latest from genre ace V.E. Schwab is the first of a new set featuring characters both familiar and original. A mysterious new magician has seized the throne in White London, one of four parallel Londons in Schwab’s innovative fantasy milieu.
Release date: September 26
Release date: September 26
A new fantasy series from Cassandra Clare (The Mortal Instruments) registers as a seismic event in some quarters. The coolest quarters. Sword Catcher introduces two clever outcasts whose alliance threatens everyone in the sprawling city-state of Castellane, from the Crown Prince to the Ragpicker King.
Release date: October 10
Release date: October 10
Aficionados of the classic haunted house story will want to check out this new novel from Alix E. Harrow (The Ten Thousand Doors of January), which brings several twists to the tradition. In small-town Eden, Kentucky, a young woman named Opal encounters the Starling House, a sinister locus at the crossroads of the waking world and nightmares. Ruh Roh, Raggy.
Release date: October 31
Release date: October 31
Thanks largely to BookTok, author Rebecca Yarros enjoyed colossal success earlier this year with her fantasy debut Fourth Wing. The highly anticipated sequel Iron Flame continues the adventures of Violet Sorrengail, whose experience at dragon rider war college boils down to: Graduate or die. Anyone who’s attempted a post-undergrad degree can relate.
Release date: November 7
Release date: November 7
Sequel to the beloved cozy fantasy Legends & Lattes, the new book from author Travis Baldree chronicles the further adventures of battle-weary Viv the Orc. Ordered to recuperate in the sleepy town of Murk, she finds a different kind of quest featuring a profane bookshop owner, a suspicious traveler in gray, and—bonus!—a summer fling.
Release date: November 7
Release date: November 7
Maybe the season’s most compelling story premise comes from debut author Em X. Liu, who promises here a queer retelling of Hamlet, staged as a locked-room murder mystery/thriller with an AI in the role of Horatio. Liu moves the action to a high-tech laboratory and throws in a technology that can maybe reverse death. Pretty good premise!
Release date: September 12
Release date: September 12
This looks like serious fun: Veteran SF author John Scalzi (the Old Man’s War series) returns with the story of an unassuming substitute teacher who inherits his uncle’s supervillain operation, complete with volcano island lair. Also watch for proletariat dolphins, superintelligent cats, and some very funny, very brutal satire of late-stage capitalism.
Release date: September 19
Release date: September 19
A finalist for this fall’s unofficial Best Book Title contest, The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport is the latest from Indian SFF specialist Samit Basu, who treats standard sci-fi tropes as dubious advice, best ignored. Mixing futurism and fantasy, his new book features streetwise protagonists, corrupt oligarchs, wry satire, and wish-granting tech. Oh, and monkeybots.
Release date: October 3
Release date: October 3
Speaking of dark satire, the latest from British author Naomi Alderman (The Power) presents an Orwellian vision of the future that’s both terrifying and too plausible for comfort. The planet is dying, and the ultra-wealthy have figured out a way to monetize it all from their secret luxury bunkers. One ragtag group of friends plans a desperate, final heist.
Release date: November 7
Release date: November 7
Martha Wells’ innovative and oddly moving Murderbot series takes the cyborg concept into totally new area—it’s about as much fun as you can have in the sci-fi aisle. Murderbot’s latest adventure pits our hero against another diabolical corporation in full psychosis, intent on stealing an entire colony of settlers for free labor. Get ’em, Murderbot!
Release date: November 14
Release date: November 14
Fall's Best New Horror
Horror fans will want to check out this interesting variation on the supernatural western: In 1846 Mexico, a young healer named Nena hopes to dodge the deadly tide of war near the Texas border. The bad news: She’s being hunted by a vicious and immortal entity that prowls the borderlands at night. Author Isabel Cañas (The Hacienda) is back!
Release date: August 15
Release date: August 15
Longtime readers of the estimable Mr. King will recognize the heroine of his new book. Holly Gibney—introduced in 2014’s Mr. Mercedes—investigates a string of small-town disappearances, leading to a confrontation with two of the most terrifying adversaries ever to emerge from Stephen King’s fevered brain: tenured academics.
Release date: September 5
Release date: September 5
Vesper Wright’s family is crazy—like, cult crazy—and she left home at age 18 for a reason. When her cousin’s wedding leads to an ominous family reunion, things get bloody complicated. Rachel Harrison (Cackle) returns with a scary and irreverent novel about what can happen when your family life is a literal horror show.
Release date: September 12
Release date: September 12
Billed as Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut, this sinister modern fairy tale from author Mona Awad (Bunny) introduces readers to the uncommonly creepy beauty spa known as La Maison de Méduse. Look for black humor, demonic aggression, and some uncomfortably detailed commentary on the essential cult-iness of the modern beauty industry.
Release date: September 12
Release date: September 12
Recommended for fans of Paul Tremblay and Stephen Graham Jones, the debut novel from short story specialist Sam Rebelein is being hailed by early readers for its flat-out weirdness. The gist: An arrogant young writer learns valuable lessons the hard way, in a creepy small town where urban legends come to life.
Release date: October 3
Release date: October 3
Winner of an NAACP Image Award and British Fantasy Award, spec fic veteran Tananarive Due returns with the story set in Florida during the Jim Crow era. Twelve-year-old Robbie Stephens Jr. encounters horrors both living and dead at a segregated juvenile institution based on the real-world Dozier School for Boys.
Release date: October 31
Release date: October 31
This powerful memoir from journalist Meg Kissinger is summed up in its subtitle: An Intimate Family Portrait of Mental Illness in an Era of Silence. Kissenger’s family, devastated by clinical depression and bipolar disorder, inspires a rigorous investigation into our country’s broken healthcare system.
Release date: September 5
Release date: September 5
Another finalist for this season’s Best Book Title award, the latest from genius-level comedian Maria Bamford chronicles the author’s experience with various support groups, belief systems, and recovery programs. Also: random encounters, dubious advice, and some behind-the-scenes drama from her late, great Netflix TV show.
Release date: September 5
Release date: September 5
Walter Isaacson, generally acknowledged as one of the best Big Important Book biographers on the planet, settles his penetrating gaze on the complex entity that is business magnate Elon Musk. As you might expect, it’s a wide-ranging conversation: space travel, electric vehicles, AI, Twitter, monomaniacal tendencies, this sort of thing.
Release date: September 12
Release date: September 12
Another finalist for this season’s Best Book Title award, Black AF History is a retelling of American history from a Black culture POV. It’s designed to be insightful, darkly funny, and deliberately provocative in the best possible way. Author Michael Harriot pulls zero punches as he confronts inaccuracies and whitewashing in American mythology.
Release date: September 19
Release date: September 19
Renowned Jamaican poet Safiya Sinclair digs deep with this candid memoir about growing up in a rigid Rastafarian household. Sinclair’s musician father worried that Western influences—which the Rastas call Babylon—would corrupt her and her sisters. But the oppressive patriarchy of tradition presents its own severe dilemma. Early readers are loving the beautiful writing with this one.
Release date: October 3
Release date: October 3
The latest from superstar nonfiction writer Michael Lewis (The Big Short) tracks the totally bananas saga of Sam Bankman-Fried, founder and CEO of the doomed cryptocurrency exchange FTX. Billed as a psychological portrait and “financial roller-coaster ride,” Going Infinite looks like another true-life thriller from Lewis. He is so good at this stuff.
Release date: October 3
Release date: October 3
Author Viet Thanh Nguyen—Pulitzer Prize–winning author of the literary spy novel sensation The Sympathizer—returns with an ambitious memoir that doubles as an extended think piece about memory, culture, and American priorities. Born in Vietnam and raised in California, Nguyen brings a unique insider/outside perspective and a life story unlike any other.
Release date: October 3
Release date: October 3
Set in 1980s Detroit, author Curtis Chin’s memoir focuses on his coming-of-age years working at his family’s popular Chinese restaurant. As a young gay ABC (American-born Chinese), the author remembers Chung’s Cantonese Cuisine as a place where all were welcome, including the mayor and the occasional drag queen.
Release date: October 17
Release date: October 17
The pop icon's highly anticipated memoir covers her battle to be released from a court-ordered conservatorship, which had been in place for more than 13 years (and which sparked the very viral Free Britney campaign). The book set off a fierce bidding war in the publishing industry and is bound to dominate more than a few entertainment headlines when it hits bookstores in October.
Release date: October 24
Release date: October 24
Author and professional thinker Adam Grant (Originals: How Non-Conformists Move the World) returns to shelves with another deep dive into tricky psychological/sociological issues. This time around, Grant deploys his friendly storytelling style to explore the idea of maximizing potential—how everyday people can accomplish great things and improve at improving.
Release date: October 24
Release date: October 24
The legendary superstar's long awaited memoir drops this November and promises to share Bab's frank and funny memories from her early struggles to become an actress to her wildest successes and her famous friends. Block off some time for this one, as it's looking to clock in at around 1,000 pages.
Release date: November 7
Release date: November 7
Romance author Lucy Score’s Knockemout series proceeds apace with Things We Left Behind, in which the driven mogul Lucian Rollins must confront his sexual nemesis, small-town librarian Sloane Walton—the only woman who can unlock his heart. That moment when bickering turns to foreplay? Yeah, that’s this. Enemies to lovers. Hot.
Release date: September 5
Release date: September 5
Over in the fantasy romance aisle, Jennifer Armentrout returns with the story of an opportunistic courtesan, her scheming guardian, a traveling prince, a city in rebellion, monsters at the gate, palace intrigue, and some delicate bedroom negotiations. Early readers are applauding the book’s big twists and vivid characters.
Release date: September 12
Release date: September 12
This punnily named romance from author Meryl Wilsner tracks a slow-boil romance on the US Women’s National Team. Veteran star Grace Henderson has her eye on rookie Phoebe Matthews, first as a potential rival. But one impulsive kiss changes everything. There’s probably a joke here about scoring, but we’re trying to keep it classy.
Release date: September 19
Release date: September 19
Along with life and liberty, the pursuit of summer camp counselor romance is one of the inalienable rights of American life. The latest in Hannah Grace’s popular Maple Hills series, Wildfire peeks in on college students Russ Callaghan and Aurora Roberts during their summer of love, lust, and insect repellent.
Release date: October 3
Release date: October 3
Iris Kelly is managing just fine with her casual hookup/no-dating policy. Except for one problem: Iris is a romance author, and she’s out of ideas. The new queer romantic comedy from author Ashley Herring Blake follows the slow courtship of Iris and lovely Stefania as their transactional romance becomes something else entirely.
Release date: October 24
Release date: October 24
Fall's Best New Young Adult Novels
Prolific author Jennifer Lynn Barnes returns to her acclaimed Inheritance Games series with The Brothers Hawthorne, detailing further adventures of Grayson, Jameson, assorted siblings, and the girl who inherited their grandfather’s fortune. Jameson, for instance, finds himself in the unenviable position of wagering his life in London’s elite underground gambling community.
Release date: August 29
Release date: August 29
A locked-room mystery in classic throwback style, this buzzy debut from California author Lauren Muñoz features a group of seven friends whose 1920s-themed graduation party ends in, yes, murder! Whodunnit? The forlorn old chum? The nervous new kid? The girlfriend? The other girlfriend? How about the one who brought the knife?
Release date: September 5
Release date: September 5
The third and final book in the Once Upon a Broken Heart series, A Curse for True Love concludes the epic saga of Evangeline Fox and her dubious decision to bargain with an immortal: Jacks, the treacherous Prince of Hearts. Stephanie Garber (Caraval) wraps up her popular fantasy romance series.
Release date: October 24
Release date: October 24
When her parents mysteriously disappear, young Buenos Aires noblewoman Inez Olivera inherits a fortune…and an enigmatic guardian. Determined to discover the truth, she sets out for Cairo with her new overseer, his handsome assistant, and a magic heirloom. Author Isabel Ibañez returns with an immersive historical fiction, 19th-century style.
Release date: October 31
Release date: October 31
Chess nerds need love too, you know. Beloved romance author Ali Hazelwood (The Love Hypothesis) goes YA with the story of reluctant chess genius Mallory Greenleaf. Just when she thought she was through with the game, Mallory meets (and defeats) Nolan Sawyer, the notorious bad boy of the chess world. Plans change. Rooks fall. Sparks fly.
Release date: November 7
Release date: November 7
This irreverent novel comes to us from London author Lex Croucher (Reputation). Billed as Heartstopper meets A Knight's Tale, this queer medieval rom-com features Art, a descendant of that King Arthur, and his fiancée Gwen. Sound familiar? Not so fast. These versions of the legends despise each other. They also happen to be hella gay. Shenanigans ensue, but everything turns out well, in the end.
Release date: November 28
Release date: November 28
The follow-up to this year's breakout romantic fantasy YA hit Divine Rivals finds protagonists Iris and Roman separated after the events of the first book and in more danger than ever. There's also: Intrigue! War! Amnesia! Gods! Journalists! Mysterious letters arriving via wardrobe doors!
Release date: December 26
Release date: December 26
Which books are you most excited to read this fall? Let us know in the comments!
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Moonlighting wrote: "Did I miss historical fiction or there is simply no such category? (Or no historical dramas are coming out this fall…?) Quite a pity, it’s my favourite genre :(". Have you read Kate Quinn's work? I just recently finished The Diamond Eye and also The Alice Network which were historically fascinating to me. Love her writing style.
bee !! wrote: "am I crazy or are some of these books already out...???"It's always like this with the anticipated new releases. I mean, technically, they ARE new releases, and people WERE anticipating them....
I liked Nina Prose’s first novel and her new book is on my list!
Once again the highest grossing genre, Romance is missing from a book list. Why am I not surprised
hobbithopeful wrote: "Starter Villian looks so insanely cool, I need to read and own it, not just for the plot but I want to display it- so the cat LOOMS over me like an angry boss!! I am personally willing to become a..."My first thought: I don't even care what the book is about, I'm going to buy it for the cover. HA
Ash wrote: "Johnny wrote: "And once again none of the young adult books are SSF."What does SSF mean?"
Speculative and Science Fiction.
Who else can't wait for Iron Flame and Ruthless Vows, along with the Hawthorne Brothers and a Curse for True Love ( I don't want this anymore, I NEED IT )
Alia ( Jacks's Version ) wrote: "Who else can't wait for Iron Flame and Ruthless Vows, along with the Hawthorne Brothers and a Curse for True Love ( I don't want this anymore, I NEED IT )"SAMEEEE!!!! Especially Iron Flame!! :)
Ooo I entered some of these giveaways! Hopefully I win a couple
Dyanne wrote: "Once again the highest grossing genre, Romance is missing from a book list. Why am I not surprised"It's there, towards the end...
Lina wrote: "bee !! wrote: "am I crazy or are some of these books already out...???"I'm confused too, haha literally just finished reading Gwen and Art are not in love ..."
maybe it comes out at different times in different countries? i don't think it comes out until november in america
Moonlighting wrote: "Did I miss historical fiction or there is simply no such category? (Or no historical dramas are coming out this fall…?) Quite a pity, it’s my favourite genre :("The first category is Contemporary and Historical Fiction. They are combined in that section.
Just restocked my 'want to read list'! So many good titles on deck this fall.
There isn’t one nonfiction book here! What you call nonfiction are memoirs. How about some science books?
I will give you a small okay on the biography of Musk. Still I would like one book based on not personal opinions.
Laura wrote: "bee !! wrote: "am I crazy or are some of these books already out...???"You are not crazy"
Not crazy. I thought the same, in fact think I have one of these.
Wait Fall.... I swear i just saw the article for Summer TT.TTTime is flying
*My* list of "Biggest Books of Fall" (aka, ones I'm working as ARCs). There's something here for everyone, and a *couple* of these are even on GR's list:Right Kind of Wrong by Amy C Edmondson
Enchanted To Meet You by Meg Cabot
Beneath The Surface by Kaira Rouda
Thank You For Sharing by Rachel Runya Katz
A Storm Of Infinite Beauty by Julianne Maclean
Mass Supervision by Vincent Schiraldi
The Last True Templar by Boyd Morrison and Beth Morrison
Cleat Cute by Meryl Wilsner
The Lost Supper by Taras Grescoe
The Book Club Hotel by Sarah Morgan
The Golden Gate by Amy Chua
The Flood by G.N. Smith
The Island by G.N. Smith
Aeon Burn by Matthew Mather
Catastrophic Incentives by Jeff Schlegemilch and Ellen Carlin
The Christmas Wager by Holly Cassidy (Hannah Mary McKinnon)
Dreaming Of Water by AJ Banner
The Soul of Civility by Alexandra Hudson
The Defector by Chris Hadfield
Love Interest by Clare Gilmore
The Babylon Plot by David Leadbetter
Friends Don't Fall In Love by Erin Hahn
What You Do To Me by Rochelle B. Weinstein
Ignition by M.R. O'Connor
The Last Supper Club by Matthew Batt
The Predictable Heartbreaks of Imogen Finch by Jacqueline Firkins
A Dish Best Served Hot by Natalie Cana
People To Follow by Olivia Worley
When We Walk By by Kevin F. Adler and Donald W. Burnes
The Wishing Bridge by Viola Shipman
Plot Twist by Erin La Rosa
The Rural Voter by Nicholas F Jacobs and Daniel M Shea
Kinfolk by Sean Dietrich
The Peer Effect by Syed Ali and Magaret M. Chin
Nemesis by Jeremy Robinson
All We Could Still Have by Diane Barnes
The Fiction Writer by Jillian Cantor
The Talk Of Coyote Canyon by Brenda Novak
Manipulating The Message by Cecil Rosner
When WE Were Enemies by Emily Bleeker
This Spells Love by Kate Robb
The Second Chance Year by Melissa Wiesner
Following Caesar by John Keahey
The Vacation by John Marrs
Two Dead Wives by Adele Parks
On The Plus Side by Jenny L. Howe
Some of these, I've already read and reviewed here and elsewhere across the Web. All *will* be read and reviewed. :)
The Last Devil to Die (latest Thursday Murder book) and My Name is Barbra.
Nooo I cant wait that long for a curse for true love!!
I am pumped for a healthy state of panic. I've been listening to her talk about writing it. A Healthy State of Panic: Follow Your Fears to Build Wealth, Crush Your Career, and Win at Life
Can’t wait for The Brothers Hawthorne to come out! I’ve been waiting for this book to come out for months and it’s almost here!! omg
Can’t wait for “The Mystery Guest” — “The Maid” was so good!!
looking forward to reading Smith's, but also JK Rowling's new Cormoran Strike novel!
Mia wrote: "excited for a new Murderbot book!"Moonlighting wrote: "Did I miss historical fiction or there is simply no such category? (Or no historical dramas are coming out this fall…?) Quite a pity, it’s my favourite genre :("
Combined with contemporary in the first section. I noticed cause I thought it odd.....
The fact that Two Twisted Crowns didn’t make this list is incredibly sad! It’s the sequel to One Dark Window and these books have all the autumn/fall vibes. It’s out on October 17!
I have been WAITING for Things We Left Behind! There’s just something about those twos relationship that I need answers to lol (enemies to love is a guilty pleasure 🙃)
Heather wrote: "Any nature books coming this autumn?"This is what I was looking for, as well!
I NEED A CURSE FOR TRUE LOVE TO COME OUT THIS INSTANT
Where’s Percy Jackson and the Chalice of the Gods?
I'm eagerly awaiting the new Rick Riordan novel.
Mia wrote: "excited for a new Murderbot book!"I just finished the arc last week and it's exactly what you want. SO good.
Micah Elizabeth wrote: "How on earth did The Running Grave by Robert Galbraith not make this list? Mystery readers are chomping at the bit for the next Cormoran Strike installment."I would like to assume it's because Goodreads doesn't want have the comment section devolve into transphobic hate comments posted by this author's die hard fans.
Owen wrote: "Is November considered Fall? Perhaps one of these is missing from that list? […]
As well as echoing Kurt’s recs of Cory Doctorow’s The Lost Cause (14 November) an..."
I appreciate beyond words that your recommendations are all queer books. I added them all. Thank you.
B. wrote: "Wow, looking at this long list of books that are not worth the paper they are printed on has really driven home the point that literature is truly dead. "queer retelling of Hamlet, staged as a lo..."
Please explain what's so bad about a queer retelling of Hamlet? Truly curious about which part of the book made you think it was worthless.
Jeff wrote: "*My* list of "Biggest Books of Fall" (aka, ones I'm working as ARCs). There's something here for everyone, and a *couple* of these are even on GR's list:Right Kind of Wrong by Amy C Edmondson
Enc..."
What a long list! Do you by chance know if any of them are queer?
List made by only one person. Goodreads is a bubble. A closed community.
Superbambi wrote: "Do you by chance know if any of them are queer?"Not specifically, no. I don't track demographics of anything - characters/ authors / whatever. I look for good stories, period.
That noted, between the Megas forcing authors to include queer characters and the sheer range of my reading... yes, there is likely at least one of them with either one or more queer characters or a queer author. I just couldn't tell you anything about them at this time, since while they're on my list... for the most part I haven't read them yet.
Of the seven of them I've read (Book Club Hotel, Aeon Burn, Catastrophic Incentives, When We Walk By, The Peer Effect, All We Could Still Have, Nemesis), 3 were nonfiction (Catastrophic Incentives, When We Walk By, The Peer Effect). The other four were fiction - but I remember nothing queer about any of the four.
Looks like a good list! It’s been a good reading year for sure!
Jasmine wrote: "Looking forward to Evil Eye. I hope it is as good as A Woman Is No Man, which was excellent."I just finished it, and it is!
Laura wrote: "bee !! wrote: "am I crazy or are some of these books already out...???"You are not crazy"
Laura wrote: "bee !! wrote: "am I crazy or are some of these books already out...???"
You are not crazy"
YES SHE IS ok bud?
Moonlighting wrote: "Did I miss historical fiction or there is simply no such category? (Or no historical dramas are coming out this fall…?) Quite a pity, it’s my favourite genre :("The first category in the list is a combo of contemporary and historical fiction.
Why isn't Mark Levin's new book 'The Democrat Party Hates America" not on this list? Due out Sept. 19, and, like it or not, will definitely raise controversy and be talked about. or is this censorship because the subject is controversial?
Can’t believe the new Heather Morris or Sophie Hannah books didn’t make the list.Barbara Streisand is definitely a must read.
For the past two years, book banning has been on the rise in schools and libraries across the US, mainly due to far-right pressure. The bans are pushed either by local actors, like anxious parents and parent-led groups or by politicians through broader state-level laws. A recent PEN America study found that the bans were most prevalent this year in Florida, Texas, Utah, Missouri and South Carolina.
Consistently, these bans target materials written by and about people of color or LGBTQ+ individuals, and even though a 2022 poll found that 70% of parents oppose them, they are continuing at a rapid rate.
Now the Digital Public Library of America (DPLA) is trying to fight back. It recently launched the Banned Book Program, granting free nationwide access to books restricted in schools or libraries.
It functions through GPS-based geo-targeting; by typing in your zip code, you are shown the complete list of titles prohibited in your area. Once you download the Palace e-reader app, these books are available to download.