New Books To Read This Fall

In her long-awaited memoir, Ina Garten — aka the Barefoot Contessa, author of thirteen bestselling cookbooks, beloved Food Network personality, Instagram sensation, and cultural icon — shares her personal story with readers hungry for a seat at her table.

Welcome to Rook Hall. The stage is set. The players are ready. By night’s end, a murderer will be revealed. The highly anticipated return of “irresistible” (New York Times) private eye Jackson Brodie in the newest installment of the bestselling series hailed as “unputdownable” by Time.

The #1 New York Times bestselling author of Between the World and Me journeys to three resonant sites of conflict to explore how the stories we tell — and the ones we don’t — shape our realities.

Prepare for the action-packed, ruthless, and romantic new fantasy from the #1 New York Times bestselling and National Book Award winning author Sabaa Tahir about love, legacy, and vengeance.

From one of the most iconic actors in the history of film, an astonishingly revelatory account of a creative life in full.

In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: They’re under a curse, and they think she can break it.

From the award-winning author of the Cash Blackbear series comes a compelling novel of a Native American woman who learns of the disappearance of one of her own and decides enough is enough.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of Sapiens comes the groundbreaking story of how information networks have made, and unmade, our world.

Three estranged siblings return to their family home in New York after their beloved sister’s death in this unforgettable story of grief, hope, and the complexities of family, from the acclaimed author of Cleopatra and Frankenstein.

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author, an alarming account of how autocracies work together to undermine the democratic world, and how we should organize to defeat them.

From the award-winning author of Chemistry, a sharp-witted, insightful novel about a marriage as seen through the lens of two family vacations.

You’re invited to pull up a chair to a year of meals, friends, and fun with the Partons, as Dolly and her sister (and favorite cook) Rachel share beloved, crowd-pleasing recipes and family stories.

A beautiful, tender yet searing debut novel about intergenerational fractures and coming of age, following a young woman who immigrates to the United States from the Philippines and finds herself adrift between familial expectations and her own burning desires.

From America’s favorite government teacher, a heartfelt, inspiring portrait of twelve ordinary Americans whose courage formed the character of our country.

The much-anticipated new fantasy series from Ransom Riggs, his first since introducing the #1 global phenomenon Miss Peregrine’s Peculiar Children series. Riggs weaves the familiar with the peculiar in a stunning tale of loss, triumph, friendship, and magic, reminding readers everywhere that true heroes are made, not born — and that when you’re never the chosen one, sometimes you have to choose yourself.

A riveting new work and fresh take on the lead-up to the presidential election of 1960, drawing timely parallels to the choice Americans face in 2024. Featuring some of history’s most remarkable characters, page-turning action, and vivid details, Countdown 1960 follows a group of extraordinary politicians, civil rights leaders, Hollywood stars, labor bosses, and mobsters during a pivotal year in American history. The year 1960 was a deeply contentious, perilous time for America. It also was a moment our nation survived due to courage, leadership, and patriotism.

Unleash your inner detective with this book of 130+ crime-themed puzzles and trivia quizzes — a unique gift for any true crime fan.

In John Grisham’s first work of nonfiction since The Innocent Man, “the master of the legal thriller” (Associated Press) teams up with Jim McCloskey, “the godfather of the innocence movement” (Texas Monthly), to share ten harrowing true stories of wrongful convictions.

In her inspiring, intimate memoir, the first Black woman to ever be appointed to the Supreme Court of the United States chronicles her extraordinary life story.

An inspiring memoir of family, community, and resilience, and an ode to the power of books to help us understand ourselves, from the renowned founder of Well-Read Black Girl.

From the acclaimed author of The Longest Ride and The Notebook comes an emotional, powerful novel about wondering if we can change — or even make our peace with — the path we’ve taken.

The remarkable next novel from Matt Haig, the author of the #1 New York Times bestseller The Midnight Library. When retired math teacher Grace Winters is left a run-down house on a Mediterranean island by a long-lost friend, curiosity gets the better of her. She arrives in Ibiza with a one-way ticket, no guidebook, and no plan. Filled with wonder and wild adventure, this is a story of hope and the life-changing power of a new beginning.

The world is more astonishing, more miraculous, and more wonderful than our wildest imaginings. In this brilliant and passionately persuasive book, Katherine Rundell takes us on a globe-spanning tour of the world’s most awe-inspiring animals currently facing extinction. Beautifully illustrated, and full of inimitable wit and intellect, Vanishing Treasures is a chance to be awestruck and lovestruck, to reckon with the beauty of the world, its fragility, and its strangeness.

An explosive new novel brimming with love, secrets, and enchantment by Jandy Nelson, Printz Award-winning and New York Times bestselling author of I’ll Give You the Sun.

An electrifying cultural biography of the greatest and last American rock band of the millennium, whose music ignited a generation — and reasserted the power of rock and roll.

Reacher had no idea where he was. No idea how he had gotten there. But someone must have brought him. And shackled him. And whoever had done those things was going to rue the day. That was for damn sure. The gripping new Jack Reacher thriller from the #1 New York Times bestselling authors Lee Child and Andrew Child.

The phenomenally popular secret journal filled with private prompts for personal reflection, self-exploration, and fueling creativity. Push your limits, reflect on your past, present, and future, and create a secret book that’s about you, and just for you. Now expanded with thirty new pages of questions that probe even deeper into who you are when no one’s looking.

The Way of the Champion is the synthesis of everything Paul Rabil learned on his path to becoming one of the greatest lacrosse players of all time. But this is not merely a sports book. It is a guide to embodying a champion’s mindset — in sports, in business, and in life.

From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah.

A hilarious love story about a disillusioned divorcée who agrees to let her children play matchmaker.

An award-winning journalist’s deeply reported exploration of how race, identity, and political trauma have influenced the rise in far-right sentiment among Latinos, and how this group can shape American politics.

When a teenager vanishes from her Adirondack summer camp, two worlds collide. Moore’s multi-threaded story invites readers into a rich and gripping dynasty of secrets and second chances. It is Liz Moore’s most ambitious and wide-reaching novel yet.

A prescient literary mystery about corporate espionage, family dynamics, and murder: The follow-up to Jane Pek’s “thoroughly modern twist on classic detective fiction,” The Verifiers (New York Times Book Review). Witty and thought-provoking, The Rivals reimagines the spy story to explore the nature of relationships in a digital age.

A brilliant dark comedy about love and ambition, failure and reinvention, and the racial-identity-industrial complex from the bestselling author of Caucasia. Funny, piercing, and page-turning, Colored Television is Senna’s most on-the-pulse, ambitious, and rewarding novel yet.

This by turns shattering and hope-giving account of prisoners who dug their way to freedom from the Nazis is both a stunning escape narrative and an object lesson in the ways we remember and continually forget the particulars of the Holocaust.

From the New York Times bestselling and award-winning author of A Woman of No Importance, an electrifying re-examination of one of the 20th century’s greatest unsung power players.