With a lingering worldwide pandemic, we will continue to have lots of time to read these next couple of months. My fall/winter reading list below features new releases by many authors I’ve previously enjoyed as well as some of the best books I’ve read recently that I want to recommend. I hope you can find some books you will enjoy, and let me know if I’ve missed anything great that’s coming out this fall.
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One by One
by Ruth Ware
A devastating avalanche leaves a group of coworkers cut off from all access to the outside world. As each hour passes without any sign of rescue, panic mounts, the chalet grows colder, and the group dwindles further…one by one.
PREVIOUS POST recommending The Death of Mrs. Westaway by this author.
Moonflower Murders: A Novel
by Anthony Harowitz
Featuring his famous literary detective Atticus Pund and Susan Ryeland, hero of the worldwide bestseller Magpie Murders, a brilliantly complex literary thriller with echoes of Agatha Christie from New York Times bestselling author Anthony Horowitz.
PREVIOUS POST recommending Magpie Murders by Harowitz.
The Mystery of Mrs. Christie
by Marie Benedict
A thrilling reconstruction of one of the most notorious events in literary history: Agatha Christie’s mysterious 11-day disappearance in 1926.
I previously recommended The Other Einstein by this author.
Concrete Rose
by Angie Thomas
International phenomenon Angie Thomas revisits Garden Heights seventeen years before the events of The Hate U Give in this searing and poignant exploration of Black boyhood and manhood.
I previously recommended The Hate U Give.
The Four Winds: A Novel
by Kristin Hannah
An epic novel of love and heroism and hope, set against the backdrop of one of America’s most defining eras―the Great Depression.
I previously recommended The Great Alone by this author.
The Book of Lost Friends: A Novel
by Lisa Wingate
From the bestselling author of Before We Were Yours comes a new historical novel: the dramatic story of three young women searching for family amid the destruction of the post–Civil War South, and of a modern-day teacher who learns of their story and its vital connection to her students’ lives.
The Great Offshore Grounds: A novel
by Vanessa Veselka
A wildly original, cross-country novel that subverts a long tradition of family narratives and casts new light on the mythologies–national, individual, and collective–that drive and define us.
Hamnet
by Maggie O’Farrell
A short, piercing, deeply moving new novel from the acclaimed author of I Am, I Am, I Am, about the death of Shakespeare’s eleven-year-old son Hamnet–a name interchangeable with Hamlet in fifteenth-century Britain–and the years leading up to the production of his great play.
Ready Player Two: A Novel
The highly anticipated sequel to the beloved worldwide bestseller Ready Player One, the near-future adventure that inspired the blockbuster Steven Spielberg film.
I’ll be buying this one for my husband!!
And finally, some of my favorite recent reads:
The Book of Lost Names
by Kristin Harmel
Inspired by an astonishing true story from World War II, a young woman with a talent for forgery helps hundreds of Jewish children flee the Nazis in this unforgettable historical novel
My previous post on a book by Kristin Harmel.
Leave the World Behind: A Novel
My previous post on this disturbing but amazing book.