We Spread By Iain Reid
Release Date: September 27
In an apartment complex full of artist tenants, Penny is an artist who has finally started to put herself out there among peers again after mourning the loss of her husband for many years. However after the days begin to blur together, she begins to get suspicious of time itself and her place in the world and if she is unknowingly participating in something unsettling.
Why you should read: The story is both philosophical and disturbing with its introspective notions and ideas. It puts a new spin on the creative process artist's go through.
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Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
Release Date: October 4
Bird Gardener is a 12 year old who lives with her father, former linguist who is now a pager at a local library and lives under a government who has written laws to "preserve American culture". The laws have taken away his Chinese-American mother. He lives his life wondering and searching for any trace of her, especially after receiving a cryptic letter.
Why you should read: Follow Bird on his journey of self exploration of his Asian roots that have been lost to censorship and time.
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Hester by laurie lico albanese
Release Date: October 4
Laurie Lico Albanese re-imagines the novel from 1850, The Scarlet Letter in which Hester Prynne, conceives a daughter with a man to whom she is not married to and struggles to create a new life of repentance and dignity.
Why you should read: The Scarlet Letter is a centuries old classic that deals with fidelity and social constructs but is retold in Hester Prynne's point of view, shedding light on how woman struggled during the 1850s.
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Signal fires by dani shapiro
Release Date: October 18
Following a horrific 1985 car crash involving three teenagers and the death of a young woman, which has become a family secret for the Wilf family, a new family moves in the house across the street. The families become deeply intertwined when Waldo Shenkman, a brilliant but lonely child, befriends Ben Wilf, a retired doctor who is struggling with his wife’s decline and the past comes rushing back to haunt them setting forth a chain of event that changes the lives of both families.
Why you should read: Shapiro makes a comeback to the fiction genre after 15 years since the release of hit novels, Family History and Black & White.
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It starts with us by COlleen Hoover
Release Date: October 18
As the prequel to best seller, It Ends with Us, it follows Lily and Atlas and picks up where the previous novel left off revealing more about both of their pasts and how the moments in their high school years led to their lives became forever intertwined.
Why you should read: TikTok has made things very popular and books are no exception. One of the most known "BookTok" authors is Colleen Hoover, who has written It Ends with Us.
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The world keeps ending, and the world keeps going on by franny choi
Release Date: November 1
In acclaimed poet Franny Choi's third book, she creates a world of poems set in the past, present and future, featuring impending apocalypses.
Why you should read: History is at the forefront alongside reflections of our own behavior and responsibilities to each other and our visions for survival.
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Art is life by jerry Saltz
Release Date: November 1
Focusing on two time periods, Saltz offers a real-time survey on contemporary art as a barometer of history with turning points led by artists like Jeff Koons, Kara Walker, and Jackson Pollack.
Why you should read: Jerry Saltz has become a renowned writer and representative of the art world since his first book, How to be an Artist.
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The world we make by n.k. jemisin
Release Date: November 3
The concluding novel in bestselling series, The Great Cities Duology, tells the tale of identity, resistance and myth as things are not as they seem in the city that never sleeps. A new enemy emerges just as a new election is being held challenging the city to collapse from within.
Why you should read: The World We Make mirrors our reality of political corruption in a bustling city while also managing personal relationships and conformity.
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Now is not the time to panic by kevin wilson
Release Date: November 8
Aspiring writer Frankie Budge is trying his hardest to make it through another mundane summer in Coalfield, Tennessee when she meets Zeke who has a background in artistry. Zeke seems to be the creative and romantic spark to help Frankie make a poster that appears everywhere in the small town, attracting greedy miners. Twenty years later, it comes back to haunt her when she gets a threatening call that could end the life she built for herself.
Why you should read: In a novel about creating art and friendship, author Kevin Wilson describes how actions have consequences even into our adulthood and careers.
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A world of curiosities by louise penny
Release Date: November 29
Beginning with the series' first book, Still Life, Armand Gamache and Jean-Guy Beauvoir grow worried when the children of a murdered woman return to Three Pines. What could bring them to the forsaken place of their mothers death? Are they seeking revenge? In an attic Gamache find a letter dating back 150 years and shakes up the town with the curiosities and hidden messages that are contained in it.
Why you should read: As the 18th and final book, the decades long detective series is finally completed and is a staple in the discography of Louise Penny.
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