Fall is here and I am so happy! Early fall is my favorite time of year – just when the weather turns crisp and we start wearing jackets and drinking hot chocolate. As a bookworm, I also love curling up with a book by the fire. If you’re in need of new reads to keep you busy, you’re in luck: October has a plethora of amazing books coming out!
For this list, I’ve aimed to include a variety of genres and authors. There is some nonfiction and a few memoirs, and even some novellas and short story collections. Among the novels, there is a range in genre – from literary fiction to fantasy to romance – and of course several spooky stories. I also love to be whisked away to faraway lands, so the settings have range, too: Japan, Kenya, Haiti, Ukraine, and more. These are diverse reads – in every sense of the word – and I hope something here will pique your interest! Here are 38 exciting new books set for publication in October 2021.
Published on October 5th:
Chibundu Onuzo – Sankofa
Myriam J. A. Chancy – What Storm, What Thunder
A. J. Banner – In Another Light
Caitlin Starling – The Death of Jane Lawrence
Aden Polydoros – The City Beautiful
Kerri Maniscalco – Kingdom of the Cursed
Alex Schulman – The Survivors
James Han Mattson – Reprieve
C. J. Cooke – The Lighthouse Witches
Christina Pride & Jo Piazza – We Are Not Like Them
Sonya Lalli – A Holly Jolly Diwali
Danielle Steel – The Butler
Amor Towles – The Lincoln Highway
Jocelyn Nicole Johnson – My Monticello
Kyla Schuller – The Trouble With White Women: A Counterhistory of Feminism
Published on October 12th:
Diana Biller – The Brightest Star in Paris
Clare Chambers – Small Pleasures
Toshikazu Kawaguchi – Tales From the Café
The Haunting Season: Eight Ghostly Tales for Long Winter Nights
Armando Lucas Correa – In Search of Emma: How We Created Our Family
Published on October 19th:
Lauren Blackwood – Within These Wicked Walls
Margaret Owen – Little Thieves
Cassandra Khaw – Nothing But Blackened Teeth
Tiphanie Yanique – Monster in the Middle
Khadija Abdalla Bajaber – The House of Rust
Jen DeLuca – Well Matched
Kalani Pickhart – I Will Die in a Foreign Land
Zeba Blay – Carefree Black Girls: A Celebration of Black Women in Popular Culture
Adrienne Keene – Notable Native People: 50 Indigenous Leaders, Dreamers, and Changemakers From Past and Present
Published on October 26th:
Olivia Dade – All the Feels
Jackie Lau – Donut Fall in Love
Tamron Hall – As the Wicked Watch
Andrew McMahon – Three Pianos
Glory Edim – On Girlhood: 15 Stories from the Well-Read Black Girl Library
Anushay Hossain – The Pain Gap: How Sexism and Racism in Healthcare Kill Women
And that’s a wrap on my list! What books shown here are you excited to read? What new October 2021 books did I miss? Let me know in the comments!
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