Social media favourite Coco Mellors—whose 2022 debut Celopatra and Frankenstein shot her to literary stardom—spins a story about complex family dynamics in her sophomore novel, Blue Sisters. Released in the UK earlier this year, the book follows estranged sisters Avery, Bonnie and Lucky who, a year after their sister Nicky’s death, must return to New York to stop the sale of the apartment they were raised in.

Release date: September 3
Price: $40

Caucasia author Danzy Senna is back on bookshelves this fall with a humorous new novel. Colored Television follows Jane, a struggling biracial writer in Los Angeles. After Jane, her husband and their two children land a gig house-sitting in the hills, she becomes seduced by the promises of a Hollywood producer and sets out to create the “greatest mixed-race comedy to ever hit the small screen.”

Release date: September 3
Price: $40

Pack your bags, we’re headed back to Marsyas Island. In the highly anticipated sequel to TJ Klune’s fantasy tale The House in the Cerulean Sea, Arthur Parnassus—the master of an orphanage housing magical children—is summoned to make a public statement about his dark past. As a result, Parnassus finds himself fighting for the future of his family, and all magical people.

Release date: September 10
Price: $30

Elizabeth Strout is taking us back to the fictional town of Crosby, Maine in her latest novel. In Tell Me Everything, Strout joins together characters from her previous books—Lucy Barton (of My Name Is Lucy Barton), Olive Kitteridge (of Olive Kitteridge) and Bob Burgess (of The Burgess Boys). Set in autumn, the novel sees the Maine-based crew intermingle as they deal with a shocking crime.

Release date: September 10
Price: $40

All is right in the world because Sally Rooney (Normal People) has written a new novel. The highly anticipated Intermezzo—an Italian word created for the opera meaning, literally, “between two points”—is a tale of grief, love and family, following brothers Peter and Ivan Koubek and the interlude that follows in the wake of their father’s death.

Release date: September 24
Price: $38

Fantasy lovers, rejoice! Sabaa Tahir, the New York Times-bestselling author of An Ember in the Ashes is set to deliver an action-packed and romantic new fantasy this October. Heir interweaves the lives of three young people—an orphan, an outcast and a prince—as they “grapple with power, treachery, love, and the devastating consequences of unchecked greed.”

Release date: October 2024
Price: $22

Romantics, this one’s for you. In the follow-up to 2021’s Better than the Movies, Wes and Liz find themselves together in college, after Wes ended things and broke Liz’s heart right before the two were about to set off to UCLA. Wes is determined to win Liz back with romcom worthy big gestures, but will it be enough?

Release date: October 23
Price: $20

Chief inspector Armand Gamache is back on the case. Canadian author Louise Penny will release the 19th novel in her New York Times-bestselling series this fall. When relentless phone calls disrupt his quiet life in the tiny Quebec village of Three Pines, Gamache and his team are propelled into action to put a stop to “something more sinister than any one murder or any one case.”

Release date: October 29
Price: $30

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