20 New Books To Put On Your Fall Reading List

As the weather grows cooler, make space on your bookshelf for a few inspiring new stories.

We haven't finished our summer reading lists yet, but we're already looking forward to fall. Every season brings new book releases with compelling stories and thrilling settings that we can't wait to devour (and then pass on to friends and family, because their bookshelves could use a boost too, don’t you think?). While you might have to wait a few months to read these upcoming releases, you can still pre-order them now so that your fall reading lineup is ready for the shorter days and cooler weather to come. Highlights include new books from Zadie Smith, Sigrid Nunez, and Jesmyn Ward, among many other writers. You’re spoiled for choice when it comes to new books, which is why you should start planning your fall reading list now. On this round-up, there's a book for every taste–which ones will you add to your bookshelf?

The Wildest Sun by Asha Lemmie

In this new novel, Asha Lemmie tells the story of a woman named Delphine Auber, who travels the globe in search of her father, a man she has never met and whom she believes to be famed writer Ernest Hemingway.

The River Runs South by Audrey Ingram

The River Runs South is about a woman named Camille Taylor who retreats to the Alabama Coast along Mobile Bay to start over with her daughter. In the process, she becomes tangled in a legal conflict that tests her alliances to family, love, and the natural world.

Absolution by Alice McDermott

Alice McDermott's new novel explores the stories of women whose lives were changed by the Vietnam War. In it, mothers and daughters look back at the complicated legacies that linger across the decades.

Roman Stories by Jhumpa Lahiri

The latest from lauded writer Jhumpa Lahiri, author of Unaccustomed Earth, The Namesake, and Interpreter of Maladies, is a collection of stories that are set in Italy and explore the glimmers and depths of its cities, countryside, and characters.

The Vaster Wilds by Lauren Groff

The highly anticipated new novel from Lauren Groff tells the suspenseful and sweeping story of a servant girl escaping from a colonial settlement and moving through the wilderness that surrounds it.

The Caretaker by Ron Rash

Set in Blowing Rock, North Carolina, during the Korean War, Ron Rash's new novel tells the story of the place and its people during a time when families and friendships are tested by the progression of war and the shifting social landscape of the town.

The Wren, the Wren by Anne Enright

A grandfather's complicated poetic legacy is the inheritance that accompanies a young artist and her mother through their lives in Anne Enright's moving new novel The Wren, the Wren.

The Vulnerables by Sigrid Nunez

In the follow-up to the celebrated novels The Friend and What Are You Going Through, Sigrid Nunez probes ideas of connection, writing, and making art while exploring the lives of a young woman and a parrot named Eureka.

Let Us Descend by Jesmyn Ward

Two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward has a new novel coming out this fall. It's a story of American slavery through the eyes of Annis, an enslaved young woman who, during a devastating journey south, encounters new worlds in the landscape through which she moves.

North Woods by Daniel Mason

In Daniel Mason's upcoming novel, a cabin in the woods of New England is the setting for many stories across the centuries. The book explores the lives that inhabit the space while asking questions about belonging and the histories that linger all around us.

Happiness Falls by Angie Kim

In Angie Kim's follow-up to Miracle Creek, the patriarch of a Korean American family living in Virginia goes missing, setting off an investigation that involves each member of the family in a complicated saga of secrets and discoveries.

The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year by Margaret Renkl

Margaret Renkl follows her book Late Migrations: A Natural History of Love and Loss with The Comfort of Crows: A Backyard Year, an attentive exploration of the plants and animals that call her backyard home over the course of a year.

Land of Milk and Honey by C Pam Zhang

A young chef flees the city for a mountain retreat in C Pam Zhang's new novel, Land of Milk and Honey. Not all is as it seems in the idyll, however, as the chef is drawn into a boundary-bending environment constructed by her mysterious employer and his daughter.

The Fraud by Zadie Smith

Victorian England is the backdrop of Zadie Smith's layered new novel, which unspools a story of economic deceptions, legal battles, and quandaries of inheritance in a world seemingly incapable of telling the truth.

The Unmaking of June Farrow by Adrienne Young

A small-town story set in Jasper, North Carolina, this new novel tells the tale of a missing mother, an age-old curse, and a daughter's quest to find the truth after the death of her grandmother and the appearance of clues that set her on a journey toward answering long-held questions.

A Winter in New York by Josie Silver

Josie Silver's new novel is a love story set in New York, where new arrival Iris connects with friends and strangers as she tries to help save a flailing gelato shop in danger of going out of business.

Chenneville by Paulette Jiles

Set in Texas in the years after the Civil War, this novel follows Union soldier John Chenneville as he seeks to avenge the murder of his sister and her family. It is the latest novel from Paulette Jiles, whose other books include News of the World, which was recently adapted into a film starring Tom Hanks.

Shoot the Moon by Isa Arsén

During the Apollo 11 mission, a physics graduate turned NASA secretary harbors big ambitions and a strong streak of determination, which will lead her into endeavors and connections she previously only dreamed of.

The Long Game by Elena Armas

In this new novel, Adalyn Reyes gets into an altercation and is ousted from her job with Miami Flames FC. Her boss (also her father) shuttles her to North Carolina, where she must work magic with the local soccer team, the Green Warriors.

A House for Alice by Diana Evans

In the wake of the Grenfell Tower tragedy in London, three daughters must work together to envision and embrace a future for their mother and themselves while also grappling with their own personal secrets and strife.

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