Readers, get ready. School is starting, fall is coming, and as the seasons change, so do the books.
You know I adore summer reading, but I’m excited about the change of seasons. If you’re anything like me, your heart warms at the thought of a cup of tea, a cozy blanket, and a big stack of books. (We’re months away from that around here, but a girl can dream.)
But which titles should go in that stack? That is the question.
The crop of Fall 2018 novels looks especially good, so get your TBR list ready, open that library browser, load up your local bookstore website … and let’s get reading.
Check these out, decide which ones sound like they might be for you, and stay tuned—because I’m sure we’ll see these titles again in future posts and What Should I Read Next? episodes! I’ve read about a third of them so far, and I will certainly update you here—especially in Quick Lit—as I tick these books off my own reading list.
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What a great list of books. I still have holds on books from the Summer Reading Guide. I’m going to have to start reading faster so I can read some of these before the year is over. I can’t wait to read all of these.
Gayla- I was just about to type the same thing! I haven’t even completed reading all the books for the summer reading guide. Because of library holds, I won’t be reading these until the new year.
Is it me, or is this the best fall for new releases? 🙂 We’re getting Liane Moriarty, Kate Atkinson, Barbara Kingsolver, Anne Lamott, plus you and Knox! I never wish summer away but I am looking forward to these books.
This is undoubtedly a good fall. 🙂
So many great books! I am really looking forward to Nora McInerny’s new memoir, No Happy Endings. She has a way of creating compassion and recognizing that the hardships we experience sometimes don’t make sense, but they happen and they shape us. Her podcast “Terrible, Thanks for Asking” is also amazing and gives a good sense of her style and perspective. And her first memoir, It’s Okay to Laugh (Crying is Cool Too), is also awesome! It’s about her experiences losing her husband to cancer, as she also lost her dad to cancer and had a miscarriage.
I’m so excited by this list! Of course I’m still working on the summer reading list but more than happy to build my fall reading list and start obtaining copies.
Will there be an audible version of your book? I’d be interested and if there is one, I hope you’ll read it!
There WILL be an audible version! And yes, I read it. (Just a reminder: those who preorder get the audio for free. 🙂 )
There are so many great books to look forward to! I always love seasons changing and I feel like new reading seasons are a bonus. Another one I’m looking forward to is The Library Book by Susan Orlean.
I don’t know that one—thank you for sharing!
My TBR list is about to get a lot longer!
I’d also add “Book Girl” by Sarah Clarkson, set to also release September 4.
Great list. I immediately went and preordered the J.K. Rowlings and the Barbara Kingsolver. Put the Liane Moriarty on my list.
What is the new JK book?
Lethal White by Robert Galbraith, Rowling’s pen name. It’s the next (4th?) installment in her Cormoran Strike series. I’m next in line on my library’s waitlist!
I’m going to need a lot of cool days and big blankets and pots of tea to get through all the titles I just added to my TBR!
So many great authors! I could use a calendar with all the release dates! Thanks for the heads up!
So many great reads coming out!! I recently found out about the Kingsolver and Moriarity new titles, but I didn’t know anything about RUSH, which looks so good! I’ve added it to my TBR list. Thanks for sharing!
Wow, what a great list! I am still getting through the summer list, but some of these might come first. You have really gotten me curious about Kate Morton’s new book! Thanks Anne, you are this readers best bookish friend!!
My TBR list just blew up…. That makes me happy!
SO honored!!!! SO excited!!!! Might have to lie down 😉
Hello, I want them all, and already have RUSH and TEAR ME APART pre-ordered. Now I’m off to pre-order yours! The news about the Galbraith book comes at exactly the right time—I finished the first three this summer. Think my family will understand if I spend our whole Christmas budget on books for me? ?
Shouldn’t your family be used to that by now? 🙂 (Psst—I’m looking forward to the great WINTER books as well 😉 )
Well, I guess I could buy *them* some books–and then we can trade! ?(Yay! February can’t come soon enough. Okay, Oct, Nov, and December are fine…)
Such great variety on this list. It’s been so long since I read Peace Like A River….looking forward to reacquainting myself with Leif Enger.
I’ve heard good things about If You Leave Me by Crystal Hana Kim as far as new releases go. I think historical fiction in the fall actually requires a blanket while reading 😉
I’m looking forward to reading Kim’s novel myself. We’re going to be at the same literary festival in a month and I hope I get to hear her speak about it.
Wow, what a list! Too bad I used almost all of my vacation on a long trip this summer; otherwise I’d love to take a fall/winter week off and dive into several picks from this list.
I just added many of these to my TBR. Also excited for the new Tana French – The Witch Elm – out in November.
Yes! Can’t wait for this one!
Yes! I was coming to comment on that (and the Cormoron Strike so I was glad to see the update). I’ve marked my calendar for both!
Thanks Anne—I have just filled a page to add to my Books I Want to Read section of my book journal! After a years-long hiatus from reading (burned out on reading doing an online masters program and depression), I am excited to put reading back into my daily life, especially after this list!
Two of my favorite authors you haven’t mentioned: Craig Johnson and Lorna Landvik. Both are great if, like me, you love finding great books whose authors have written more than just one! Johnson’s books are what I would call modern Westerns. His new one is out in Early September. I can’t wait, because the last one was a cliffhanger!
For Lorna Landvik, I’d start with Angry Housewives Eating Bonbons—older, but still my favorite. She creates amazing characters, often doing really odd things. Both authors are ones whose books I tend to devour in one sitting, then lament that the book is over!
One last book recommendation—The Book Whisperer by Donalyn Miller. She is a teacher, explaining how she creates bookworms and excellent readers, even from kids who dislike reading or are reading several grades below level. She is my new hero!
Thanks for this blog—it is a big reason that I have rediscovered reading!
I’m so glad your reading life is blooming again! And I appreciate the recommendations. Thank you for sharing!
Wow! I was about to say which ones I was really excited about, then realized that there are just too many to list! We are moving, so I hope the new-to-me Library is good about ordering new books quickly; then I hope there won’t be 75 people on the hold list who want to read them!?
There are so many great books coming out! Louise Penny, Liane Moriarty, and Robert Galbraith all this close together is too much!
SO excited about the new Cormoran Strike as well as Louise Penny’s newest!!! I wish I had the same enthusiasm for Jodi Picoult books that I used to. I am afraid to read her newest; she tends to default to negative stereotypes of people of faith and I find it to be lazy and misguided. I suspect I know her agenda in her newest book. I hope I’m wrong. 🙁 But some great books here….can’t wait for Fall reads!
Hi Amy! I’m sad to say I agree with you. I have loved many of her earlier novels but I found myself yelling “NO!” to some of the negative stereotypes in ‘Small Great Things’. I’ll probably give her new novel a try, but if it goes down that path, it will quickly go in the did-not-finish category.
Yes! Her earlier novels were stronger, in my opinion. My Sister’s Keeper, etc.
What a great list! I am also looking forward to Nicole Baart’s latest called “You Were Always Mine.”
So many great books to add to my ever-growing TBR! I think I’m the most excited about Liane Moriarty’s Nine Perfect Strangers. I have loved everything she’s written!
And as an FYI, Jasmine Guillory’s The Proposal has been pushed back until the end of October.
I didn’t know that about Jasmine Guillory—thanks for sharing.
You forgot The Witch Elm by Tana French!
I gotta leave you something to comment about! 😉
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Looking forward to reading Karen Swallow Prior’s book “On Reading Well”, another 9/4 release. Along with so many of these titles!!!
Some many books to add to my TBR list.
We get a new Kate DiCamillo too! Gotta sprinkle in some middle grade love. 🙂
I know better than to COMPLETELY judge a book by its cover, but there is some beautiful cover art in this selection! On another note, I am psyched to be ahead of the game with my library holds list for the fall 🙂
Anne, did my eyes miss the new Tana French??! I’m so excited for a fall of Robert Galbraith + Louise Penny + Tana!
This may be the first time I’ve read a list from anyone where I desperately want read literally every single book on the list. I actually gasped a couple times. I am so behind on publishing news, I didn’t know about half of these.
I’m also very interested in the connection between Moriarty and Berg. I’ve loved Berg’s novels for 20 years or so (her writing book in particular is one of my favorites on the craft).
Yes, I’ll never forget Berg’s Talk Before Sleep…I think that was her first novel? It was wonderful. After that, though, I felt her writing become recycled bits of itself (if that makes any sense). Style is one thing, but too much of a good thing can be – well – too much.
I read The Clockmaker’s Daughter last month…and didn’t love it. I’m normally a huge fan of Kate Morton, but I agree that this one felt completely different. Honestly, I was disappointed. There wasn’t any of the anticipation and deep character connection I usually find in her novels.
Also, I just received an ARC of Becoming Mrs Lewis and can’t wait to dive in!
I am so excited about Transcription and The Proposal, as well as the new Louise Penny book! Also, as a regular romance reader I’m finding it hilarious to hear The Wedding Date described as racy. For its genre, it’s really not. But I guess it is to people who are just dipping their toe in romance.
I just started reading romance this year, and The Wedding Date was a delightful gateway into the genre. I’m super pumped for The Proposal!
I would recommend: The Other Woman: Released date August 21, 2018 by Sandie Jones. If you like psychological read this is for you. I had an Advance readers copy of this book and could not put it down. I finished it in 24 hrs. Love a good mystery.
Where does the new Cormoran Strike book fall on the gruesome scale relative to the earlier books? I really enjoy the characters in those books but struggled with the second and third installments.
Is it a conscious choice to make the release day of a book a Tuesday? Because from what I saw, every single one of these books releases on a Tuesday. Since you now have (almost) two books published, I was wondering if you know anything about this. It’s a curious thing, but at the same time I see the reasoning behind it.
What a fantastic selection of books to look forward to! I’m particularly excited about the new Barbara Kingsolver book, I loved, loved, loved The Lacuna, a beautiful and very moving book.
Wow, Anne… thanks for such a great list! There are *so* many great titles coming out this fall. Linked to this post at: http://thebiblioblonde.com/2018/08/26/five-exciting-new-reads-for-fall-2018/
I’m also excited about all the new books coming, not soon enough! Looking forward to Robert Galbraith, Louise Penny, Tana French, but most excited by the new ‘spin-off’ of the Shadow of Darkness Trilogy by Deborah Harkness (Sept 25). It’s called ‘Time’s Convert’ and is the story of Marcus and Phoebe. Also want to read Kate Morton’s ‘The Clockmaker’s Daughter’ (Sept. 20)
I just finished Becoming Mrs. Lewis and am reading your book, Anne. I love your book and laugh at the universality of our reading experiences. Curious, I loved What Alice Forgot as well, but could not stand Truly, Madly, Guilty. Hated the format of the book and did not think any of the characters were someone to root for. Will I like her new one?
Is there going to be a blog post on winter releases? I find myself wondering what’s coming out next.
I’m posting about much-anticipated 2019 titles in the next week or two. 🙂