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25 Books Coming Out This Fall

Whether you like fiction or non-fiction, there's a book for everyone.

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While summer tends to be the time of year when folks dive deeply into their new favorite books, there’s something alluring about curling up with a good book in the fall. The temperature drops, making it ideal for cuddling up on the couch. The days get shorter, so you can hop into bed earlier with your new favorite story. And more than all of that, some of the best books are released between September and November. Thrilling mysteries, heart-stopping romances, and non-fiction works that will bring tears to your eyes all come out during the cooler months. And this year is no different.

This fall’s crop of new releases sees a mix of new fiction, thrilling non-fiction, and follow-ups to some of your favorite stories. For those who can’t get enough of The Handmaid’s Tale on Hulu, mark your calendars for September 10. That’s when Margaret Atwood releases The Testaments, her follow-up novel to her smash-hit book, set fifteen years after Offred was put in that van at the end of The Handmaid’s Tale. More into a heart-wrenching love story like Call Me By Your Name? Author André Aciman checks back in with his beloved characters in Find Me, which takes place a decade after the events of his first book. That novel comes out October 29.

Regardless of what you’re interested in, there’s a new release for you. Ahead, find 25 of the best new books coming out this fall.

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'The Testaments'
amazon.com
$28.95
$16.99 (41% off)

Decades after publishing The Handmaid’s Tale, writer Margaret Atwood finally continues the story of Offred. 

Available September 10.

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'Find Me: A Novel'
amazon.com
$27.00
$16.09 (40% off)

A decade after the events of his smash hit Call Me By Your Name, André Aciman checks back in with the beloved characters on a journey through Europe. 

Available October 29. 

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'Get a Life, Chloe Brown: A Novel'
amazon.com
$15.99
$14.39 (10% off)

Chloe Brown is sick of being boring. So she enlists the help of her mysterious neighbor to pull her out of her shell — with unexpected results. 

Available November 5.

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'My Time Among the Whites: Notes from an Unfinished Education'
amazon.com
$17.00
$11.59 (32% off)

In this sharp and candid collection of essays, critically acclaimed writer and first-generation American Jennine Capó Crucet explores the condition of finding herself a stranger in the country where she was born. 

Available September 3.

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'Grand Union: Stories'
amazon.com
$27.00
$12.19 (55% off)

In her first short story collection, Zadie Smith combines her power of observation and her inimitable voice to mine the fraught and complex experience of life in the modern world. 

Available October 8. 

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'Don't You Forget About Me: A Novel'
amazon.com
$10.99

Internationally bestselling author Mhairi McFarlane delivers a funny, romantic, heartfelt novel perfect for fans of Josie Silver or Sally Thorne, and anyone who loves Bridget Jones! 

Available September 10. 

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'Face It'
amazon.com
$32.50
$15.29 (53% off)

Face It is a cinematic story of Debbie Harry, a woman who made her own path, and set the standard for a generation of artists who followed in her footsteps — a memoir as dynamic as its subject. 

Available October 1. 

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'The Institute: A Novel'
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$30.00
$14.96 (50% off)

In the vein of his hit book It, Stephen King has written another book about suburban kids confronting evil. 

Available September 10. 

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'Make It Scream, Make It Burn: Essays'
amazon.com
$28.00
$9.46 (66% off)

With the virtuosic synthesis of memoir, criticism, and journalism for which she has become known, Leslie Jamison offers us 14 new essays that are by turns ecstatic, searching, staggering, and wise. 

Available September 24. 

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'Raven Lane'
amazon.com
$14.95
$10.99 (26% off)

Esme and Benedict Werner have an idyllic life in a tight-knit community until an accident in their cul-de-sac ends in the tragic sudden death of one of their dearest neighbors. 

Available November 12. 

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'Olive, Again: A Novel'
amazon.com
$12.99

#1 New York Times bestselling author and Pulitzer Prize winner Elizabeth Strout continues the life of her beloved Olive Kitteridge, a character who has captured the imaginations of millions of readers. 

Available October 15. 

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'How We Fight for Our Lives: A Memoir'
Simon & Schuster amazon.com
$26.00
$16.38 (37% off)

Haunted and haunting, How We Fight for Our Lives is a stunning coming-of-age memoir. Jones tells the story of a young, black, gay man from the South as he fights to carve out a place for himself, within his family, within his country, within his own hopes, desires, and fears. 

Available October 8. 

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'The Dutch House: A Novel'
amazon.com
$27.99
$10.35 (63% off)

Ann Patchett, the New York Times bestselling author of Commonwealth and State of Wonder, returns with her most powerful novel to date: a richly moving story that explores the indelible bond between two siblings, the house of their childhood, and a past that will not let them go. 

Available September 24. 

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'Red at the Bone: A Novel'
amazon.com
$26.00
$11.99 (54% off)

Two families from different social classes are joined together by an unexpected pregnancy and the child that it produces. Moving forward and backward in time, with the power of poetry and the emotional richness of a narrative ten times its length, Jacqueline Woodson's extraordinary new novel uncovers the role that history and community have played in the experiences, decisions, and relationships of these families, and in the life of this child. 

Available September 17.

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'Sontag: Her Life and Work'
amazon.com
$39.99
$27.96 (30% off)

The definitive portrait of one of the American Century’s most towering intellectuals: her writing and her radical thought, her public activism and her hidden private face. 

Available September 17.

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'Talking to Strangers: What We Should Know about the People We Don't Know'
amazon.com
$30.00
$13.40 (55% off)

Talking to Strangers is a classically Gladwellian intellectual adventure, a challenging and controversial excursion through history, psychology, and scandals taken straight from the news. 

Available September 10. 

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'The Water Dancer: A Novel'
amazon.com
$28.00
$13.58 (51% off)

Written by one of today’s most exciting thinkers and writers, The Water Dancer is a propulsive, transcendent work that restores the humanity of those from whom everything was stolen. 

Available September 24. 

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'Bringing Down the Duke'
amazon.com
$7.99

A stunning debut for author Evie Dunmore and her Oxford suffragists in which a fiercely independent vicar's daughter takes on a powerful duke in a fiery love story that threatens to upend the British social order. 

Available September 3. 

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'Pretty Guilty Women: A Novel'
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$25.99
$12.79 (51% off)

Something has gone terribly wrong at the Banks wedding. A man is dead. Four different women rush to offer confessions, each insisting that they committed the crime ― alone. 

Available September 3. 

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'Akin: A Novel'
amazon.com
$28.00
$14.19 (49% off)

A retired New York professor's life is thrown into chaos when he takes a young great-nephew to the French Riviera, in hopes of uncovering his own mother's wartime secrets. 

Available September 10. 

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'A Single Thread: A Novel'
amazon.com
$27.00
$17.00 (37% off)

An immersive, moving story of a woman coming into her own at the dawn of World War II. 

Available September 17. 

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'Imaginary Friend'
amazon.com
$30.00
$13.98 (53% off)

A young boy is haunted by a voice in his head. 

Available October 1. 

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'All This Could Be Yours'
amazon.com
$5.09

From critically acclaimed New York Times best-selling author Jami Attenberg comes a novel of family secrets: think the drama of Big Little Lies set in the heat of a New Orleans summer. 

Available October 22. 

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'The Starless Sea: A Novel'
amazon.com
$28.95
$16.08 (44% off)

From the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground world — a place of pirates, painters, lovers, liars, and ships that sail upon a starless sea. 

Available November 5. 

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'She Said: Breaking the Sexual Harassment Story That Helped Ignite a Movement'
amazon.com
$28.00
$14.48 (48% off)

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning reporters who broke the news of Harvey Weinstein's sexual harassment and abuse for the New York Times, Jodi Kantor and Megan Twohey, the thrilling untold story of their investigation and its consequences for the #MeToo movement. 

Available September 10. 

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