The beginning of fall means adding a few essential items to your recent purchases: At least one scented candle, a new collection of cozy sweaters<\/a>, and a trusty pair of boots to strut in. But the ultimate<\/em> way to lean into that seasonal energy? Bulking up your TBR list, of course. Whether you\u2019re looking for a spine-tingling thriller<\/a> to match the spooky season or a dark romance<\/a> to get swept up in, fall is the best time of year to get in touch with your bookish side.<\/p>\n Our team is readying their reading nooks and diving into Goodreads\u2019 most anticipated fall 2026 releases\u2014plus a few of our own personal picks we can\u2019t stop talking about.<\/strong> Read on for the new fall books our team can\u2019t wait to cozy up with.<\/p>\n Jodi Picoult<\/p>\n On September 11, 2001, when Molly Fitzgerald was only two months old, her mother went to an appointment at the World Trade Center and never came home. Now an adult, she runs the Rhode Island Department for Emergency Preparedness. She and her husband Jesse have found a love that is a solace in a dangerous world. But then the unexpected upends their new marriage, leading them both to question everything they thought they knew.<\/p>\n Publishing September 22<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n John Green<\/p>\n For rising talents Kai Laramie and Juniper Castillo, being cast in the buzzy biopic Andy Warhol Never Gets Old<\/em> is the opportunity they\u2019ve both been waiting for. They\u2019re on the verge of breaking out, and maybe even falling in love. Soon, the movie is blowing up, and so are their lives\u2014in exciting, but also terrifying, ways.<\/p>\n Publishing September 22<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Lucy Foley<\/p>\n High in the Swiss Alps, accessible only by a single, winding railway, stands the luxurious Grand Alpine Hotel. With glorious mountain views and exclusive access to powdery slopes, it draws guests from far and wide. But not everyone is here for a winter holiday. And someone is watching from the shadows. A polite, unassuming woman with an extraordinary mind: Miss Marple. When a body is found, and a blizzard cuts off all escape, only Miss Marple can connect the clues before the killer strikes again.<\/p>\n Publishing September 22<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Adalyn Grace<\/p>\n Aurelie Chantelune was born to serve. Raised as a knight in a kingdom ravaged by demons, she\u2019s driven by the memory of the monsters who tore her family apart and by the knowledge that she\u2019s one of the few who can stop them. If Aurelie can claim her first kill, she\u2019ll inherit a legacy passed down through the Chantelune bloodline: a soulbond with Yuriel, an angel whose power is vital to her kingdom\u2019s survival. But when those she loves begin turning into the very monsters she\u2019s sworn to destroy, Aurelie is forced to seek help from the last place she ever imagined. Desperate, she forges a second and far more dangerous bond with Severin, a demon she can hardly trust, but who claims to know how to end the war for good.<\/p>\n Publishing September 22<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Craving more romantasy? READ: Goodreads Just Revealed the Best Romance and Romantasy Books of 2026 So Far<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Min Jin Lee<\/p>\n Once comfortably middle class in Korea, John and Helen Koh and their three children\u2014Bo, DH, and Mido\u2014find their lives upended, first by a shocking betrayal by John\u2019s oldest friend, then by the 1997 Asian financial crisis. Desperately striving to regain their footing, they leave Seoul and settle in Southern California\u2014where new vistas of opportunity open up for the children as their parents must adjust to a new life in which their experience and education mean little. The Kohs, their friends, relatives, and even their foes move in and out of each other\u2019s lives as they navigate new courses across the years, always nursing the almost all-consuming faith that education will lead the next generation to success and security.<\/p>\n Publishing September 29<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Hernan Diaz<\/p>\n Centuries from now, an orphan is adrift in a city on the brink of a great transformation. The state has been dismantled, and humans are reinventing social bonds and learning new ways to coexist with nature. Following a childhood defined by loss, survival, and found family, the orphan grows up to become a \u201cpincher,\u201d someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market. It\u2019s a high-risk life, one that brings her into a rich art and music scene where she powers underground concerts. It also leads her to a colossal scientific invention that could change the very fabric of reality.Centuries from now, an orphan is adrift in a city on the brink of a great transformation. The state has been dismantled, and humans are reinventing social bonds and learning new ways to coexist with nature. Following a childhood defined by loss, survival, and found family, the orphan grows up to become a \u201cpincher,\u201d someone who steals electricity from the grid to sell it on the black market. It\u2019s a high-risk life, one that brings her into a rich art and music scene where she powers underground concerts. It also leads her to a colossal scientific invention that could change the very fabric of reality.<\/p>\n Publishing September 29<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Lynn Painter<\/p>\n When Julia\u2019s elderly next-door neighbor\u2014who just happens to be a secret multi-millionaire\u2014leaves everything to Julia and her family after his passing, Julia is swept away to live in a historic brownstone in New York City and attend an elite private school. It should be a dream come true. Wrong. Julia doesn\u2019t fit in at her new school; worse, she\u2019s failing. Enter Damion, the mysterious and handsome tutor who will get Julia back on track. Except Damion has a secret. He is the great-nephew of the man who left everything to Julia\u2019s family. Damion doesn\u2019t buy for a second that the person who was like a father to him would leave his home to strangers. And he\u2019s determined to prove it.<\/p>\n Publishing September 29<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Rioghnach Robinson<\/p>\n Parker Navarro\u2019s debut novel was meant to define his career\u2014until critic Selina Chan\u2019s blistering review made it the flop of the decade. Four years later, his new book is his shot at redemption; for Selina, reviewing him again is a professional risk she can\u2019t refuse. When her second takedown ignites a viral feud, both their fortunes shift overnight. But as the literary world feeds on their public sparring, a quieter dialogue begins\u2014one that challenges everything they thought they knew about success, sincerity, and each other.<\/p>\n Publishing October 6<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Barbara Kingsolver<\/p>\n Livia Cable has made her peace with her marriage and modest livelihood in the farm country where she grew up, until a shocking phone call from an old lover shakes her to the core. Decades earlier, this man knew her as Livia Bohusz, a music conservatory student estranged from her home and family, uncertain of anything except her passion for music and promise as an extraordinary pianist. His request, now, to see her again stirs up ghosts she\u2019s kept at bay for a lifetime.<\/p>\n Publishing October 6<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Veronica Roth<\/p>\n Beatrice Prior stands on the brink of a decision every person in her world must make: five factions, five futures, five lives. She has a plan: she\u2019s going to make the bravest choice and leave Abnegation to join Dauntless, even though it means abandoning her family. But when tragedy strikes at her choosing ceremony, everything changes. Her decision will thrust her into the crosshairs of an underground rebellion, where a boy with secrets as dangerous as her own may be the only person she can trust.<\/p>\n Publishing October 6<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Freida McFadden<\/p>\n When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family\u2019s sprawling 17th-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. The lights flicker without warning. And a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia\u2019s bedroom door. As Julia digs into the house\u2019s dark history, she uncovers the story of a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692\u2015and realizes the past may not be finished with Pemberton yet. When Julia Barlow loses her job and her apartment, she has nowhere left to go but Pemberton, her family\u2019s sprawling 17th-century estate in rural Massachusetts. Every night, the grandfather clock stops at exactly 3:41 a.m. The lights flicker without warning. And a disembodied voice cries for help outside Julia\u2019s bedroom door. As Julia digs into the house\u2019s dark history, she uncovers the story of a woman executed for witchcraft in 1692\u2015and realizes the past may not be finished with Pemberton yet.<\/p>\n Publishing October 6<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n V.E. Schwab<\/p>\n Eli Ever. Victor Vale. Two men, first best friends, then mortal enemies, each destined to be the other\u2019s shadow. One left standing\u2014but the game isn\u2019t over yet Against all the years\u2013and the odds\u2014a group of allies and arch rivals meet on a chess board set by an opponent they couldn\u2019t have predicted\u2026 to see who will be victorious.Eli Ever. Victor Vale. Two men, first best friends, then mortal enemies, each destined to be the other\u2019s shadow. One left standing\u2014but the game isn\u2019t over yet Against all the years\u2013and the odds\u2014a group of allies and arch rivals meet on a chess board set by an opponent they couldn\u2019t have predicted\u2026 to see who will be victorious.<\/p>\n Publishing October 6<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n If you love the dark academia vibes in the Villains<\/em> trilogy, READ: 14 Dark Academia Books That Will Suck You In From the First Page<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Bonnie Garmus<\/p>\n It\u2019s 1982, New York City. Batter Gray, a recent college graduate with a skill that no one wants\u2014an \u201cear\u201d for poetry\u2014is worried about his future. While all of his friends have real jobs, he\u2019s folding T-shirts at the Gap. But when Batter gets a dream job at Peck & Peck, the most prestigious poetry quarterly in the world, his life moves into the literary fast lane. Soon Batter is knee-deep in the secret war between the two Editors in Chief, the famous Peck brothers\u2014twins and enemies\u2014as well as being privy to the private affairs of their thirty-nine editors, whose mission is the same: Find originality. Reward creativity. Burn the rest.<\/p>\n Publishing October 13<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Will Maclean<\/p>\n For Alex Lane\u2019s wealthy university friends, the summer break is full of fabulous plans. But for Alex, broke as usual, going home is not an option. So when the university offers him an unusual summer job clearing out a dilapidated Victorian mansion, Solace House, he jumps at the chance. Alex joins an unlikely crew of students, becoming enthralled by the elaborate and eerie journals of the house\u2019s former owner, Edwin Flayne. In these diaries, Flayne details his obsession with his missing mother and his belief in a mysterious realm lying parallel to ours, along with coded instructions on how it might be reached.<\/p>\n Publishing October 13<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Sarah J. Maas<\/p>\n Deep in the heart of the continent, Koschei the Deathless is stirring. Though he\u2019s been bound to a mountain lake for millennia, the insidious threat of his return now spreads across the Fae territories, attracting powerful allies hell-bent on reclaiming what was once theirs: the human lands. The Night Court will not stand idly by while innocents are attacked. But with Prythian still piecing itself together in the wake of the devastating Hybern War, the task of uniting is proving more difficult by the day. To survive, they must find a way to repair the splintered harmony all around them.<\/p>\n Publishing October 27<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Ana Huang<\/p>\n Famed goalkeeper Noah Wilson doesn\u2019t do relationships or complications. The only thing the grumpy single dad wants is to do his job and spend more time with his daughter. Unfortunately, his bachelor status has made it impossible to find the right nanny for her. With the World Cup looming and a string of fired nannies in his wake, he has no choice but to hire the last person he wants close to his orbit. Carina is too stubborn and far too appealing for her own good, but she\u2019s also a natural with his daughter. And the way his heart skips a beat whenever she\u2019s around? That\u2019s nothing more than a coincidence. He\u2019s sure of it.<\/p>\n Publishing October 27<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Looking to add more spicy books to your shelves? READ: Love Spicy Books? The 14 Best Dark Romance Novels You Need to Read<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n Cassandra Clare<\/p>\n It\u2019s Drusilla Blackthorn\u2019s fourth year at Shadowhunter Academy when a chance encounter at a nightclub turns into a kidnapping. Dru finds herself held prisoner by Prince Ash Morgenstern in the land of Faerie, a place that proves just as dangerous as it is beautiful. Despite herself, Dru is drawn to Ash and the darkness that seems to surround him\u2014but one false move could cost her life. Meanwhile, a shocking disappearance rocks the foundations of the Shadowhunter world. Kit Herondale and Ty Blackthorn must set aside the bitterness that lingers between them and join forces on a perilous quest to save everything they cherish.It\u2019s Drusilla Blackthorn\u2019s fourth year at Shadowhunter Academy when a chance encounter at a nightclub turns into a kidnapping. Dru finds herself held prisoner by Prince Ash Morgenstern in the land of Faerie, a place that proves just as dangerous as it is beautiful. Despite herself, Dru is drawn to Ash and the darkness that seems to surround him\u2014but one false move could cost her life. Meanwhile, a shocking disappearance rocks the foundations of the Shadowhunter world. Kit Herondale and Ty Blackthorn must set aside the bitterness that lingers between them and join forces on a perilous quest to save everything they cherish.<\/p>\n Publishing November 3<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n George M. Johnson<\/p>\n George M. Johnson is no stranger to death. In this debut adult memoir, readers are invited to witness untrodden ground as George navigates an HIV diagnosis, alcoholism, tremendous loss, and nationwide book bans over the span of 15 years. Through the highs and lows of life in the spotlight, they have clung to family and community like never before\u2014finding their most authentic self along the way.<\/p>\n Publishing November 10<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n Rebecca Yarros<\/p>\n Callista Moran has spent a lifetime putting her own plans aside to care for other people. Once she and Darren Knight announce their engagement, she thinks her future is finally set. But when a routine sailing trip goes tragically wrong, a cyclone blows those carefully made plans away. Stranded on an island for the next 18 months alongside the crew and her fianc\u00e9\u2019s cousin, Callista discovers a strength she never knew she had. And begins to question the life she always thought she wanted.<\/p>\n Publishing November 17<\/em><\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<\/div>\n ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/p>\n As a Former Editorial Assistant at The Everygirl, Isabella provided support to the editorial team, contributed to content creation across an array of topics from lifestyle, beauty, and wellness to career and finance. Isabella tackled various responsibilities such as writing and revising content, sourcing images, and assisting in collecting all necessary materials needed for stories.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n ABOUT THE AUTHOR<\/p>\n As an Editor for The Everygirl, Lauren ideates and writes content for every facet of our readers\u2019 lives, from must-read books and behind-the-scenes interviews to beauty products she can\u2019t live without. When she isn\u2019t sitting in an AMC watching the latest buzzy release, she can be found scouring Goodreads for the perfect pick for The Everygirl Book Club<\/a>. There, she co-hosts discussions with members, debating plotlines, fancasting characters, and, of course, tossing in her own recommendations.<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n<\/div>\n Products included in graphics linked within article.<\/em><\/p>\n
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