Leaves are falling, new books are calling! We have a range of new fiction titles coming out this October. Find your fall read in one or more of the titles below or click here for a fuller list of titles. We also offer personalized suggestions via this form, or feel free to give us a call at 847/590-4070!
A Line To Kill by Anthony Horowitz
Third in the Daniel Hawthorne series. Invited to an exclusive literary festival on an island off the English coast, Hawthorne and Horowitz become embroiled in the death of a local grandee, in the latest novel of the series following The Sentence is Death.
My Monticello by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson
A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America. An irresistibly accessible yet startlingly bold book of short stories and a novella, inspired by Black lives in America and featuring the gripping eponymous work “My Monticello.”.
Cackle by Rachel Harrison
From the author of “The Return” comes a darkly funny, frightening novel about a young woman learning how to take what she wants, from a witch who might be too good to be true.
A Holly Jolly Diwali by Sonya Lalli
One type-A data analyst discovers her free-spirited side on an impulsive journey from bustling Mumbai to the gorgeous beaches of Goa and finds love waiting for her on Christmas morning.
A Spindle Splintered by Alix E. Harrow
It’s Zinnia Gray’s twenty-first birthday, which is extra-special because it’s the last birthday she’ll ever have. When she was young, an industrial accident left Zinnia with a rare condition. Not much is known about her illness, just that no-one has lived past twenty-one. Her best friend Charm is intent on making Zinnia’s last birthday special with a full sleeping beauty experience, complete with a tower and a spinning wheel. But when Zinnia pricks her finger, something strange and unexpected happens, and she finds herself falling through worlds, with another sleeping beauty, just as desperate to escape her fate.
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
A woman wondering who she really is goes in search of a father she never knew–only to find something far more complicated than she ever expected–in this moving and hopeful novel of self-discovery for readers of “An American Marriage”.
The Survivors by Alex Schulman
To finally face what really happened that summer day long ago, three estranged brothers return to the lakeside cottage where an unspeakable accident forever altered their family and find a dangerous new current vibrating between them, testing their loyalty.
