Don’t be scared! New books in October aren’t all about thrills and chills. Below is a selection of titles from our larger list of October new fiction releases. Included are tempting stories for every reader. For personalized reading suggestions, feel free to email us at readers@mppl.org.
Leave The World Behind by Rumaan Alam
Sheltering in a New York beach house with a couple that has taken refuge during a massive blackout, a family struggles for information about the power failure while wondering if the cut-off property is actually safe.
Psychological Suspense
Simmer Down by Sarah Smith
Nikki quit her job to help her mom with her food truck, but she didn’t expect the Maui food truck scene to be so competitive and for the competition to be so attractive. Nikki doesn’t care how delectable food truck owner Callum is–he set up shop next to her coveted parking spot! The solution? Let the upcoming Food Festival decide. But the longer their rivalry simmers, the more Nikki starts to see a different side of Callum…
Romance; Humorous
The Searcher by Tana French
Looking to start a new life in a small Irish village, former Chicago police officer Cal Hooper comes out of retirement to help find a missing kid and uncovers layers of darkness beneath his picturesque retreat.
Mystery
The Wonder Boy of Whistle Shop by Fannie Flagg
Taking a final visit to the ghost town where his mother Ruth’s Whistle Stop Cafe made its famous fried green tomatoes, Bud Threadgoode discovers new friends and surprises about the community’s women while triggering unexpected changes in his daughters’ lives.
Humorous; Heartwarming
Memorial by Bryan Washington
A Japanese-American chef and a Black daycare teacher begin reevaluating their stale relationship in the wake of a father’s death and the arrival of an acerbic mother-in-law who becomes an unconventional roommate.
Reflective; Love on the Rocks
The Devil and the Dark Water by Stuart Turton
Sailing back to Amsterdam in 1634 as a prisoner accused of an unknown crime, Detective Pipps relies on his faithful sidekick to help solve an onboard mystery in the new novel from the author of The 7 1/2 Deaths of Evelyn Hardcastle.
Mystery
