9 New Books To Add To Your Fall TBR

There’s nothing like the excitement of a fresh stack of new books, and this fall is delivering some seriously buzzworthy reads. Whether you’re in the mood for a heart-pounding thriller, a thought-provoking piece of memoir, or a swoon-worthy romance, this season’s lineup has something for every book lover.

From debut authors making waves to highly anticipated follow-ups from bestselling favorites, we’ve rounded up nine new releases that deserve a spot on your TBR. Get ready to clear some space on your bookshelf—these books are too good to miss!

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1. Consider Yourself Kissed by Jessica Stanley

​”Consider Yourself Kissed” by Jessica Stanley is a novel that delves into the complexities of love, identity, and personal fulfillment. The story follows Coralie, an Australian who relocates to London and encounters Adam, a witty and engaging man with a charming four-year-old daughter, Zora.

Their relationship blossoms, leading to a decade-long journey through personal and societal upheavals, including political shifts and the pandemic. As Coralie navigates the roles of partner, mother, and individual, she grapples with the challenge of maintaining her sense of self amidst the demands of family life. Set against the backdrop of a tumultuous British decade, the novel explores how intimate personal dramas intertwine with broader public events. “Consider Yourself Kissed” offers an insightful portrayal of modern relationships and the pursuit of happiness. ​

2. The Other Wife by Jackie Thomas-Kennedy

The Other Wife by Jackie Thomas-Kennedy is a quiet, emotional novel about the complicated choices we make in adulthood—and the paths we didn’t take.

Zuzu Braeburn seems to have it all: a wife, a child, and a beautiful home. But when she’s pulled back to her hometown, old memories and what-ifs start to bubble up. From her college best friend to her passion for art, Zuzu starts to wonder if she chose the right version of her life—or just the one that made sense at the time.

Told with lyrical writing and deep emotional insight, this debut explores identity, desire, and how hard it can be to feel at home in the life you’ve built.

3. Pick The Lock by A.S. King

Jane Vandermaker-Cook would like her mother back. As Jane’s mother tours the world to support the family, Jane lives and goes to school in a Victorian mansion with her younger brother and their mendacious father who confines Jane’s mother to a system of pneumatic tubes whenever she’s at home. And then there’s weirdly ever-present Aunt Finch, Milorad the gardener, and his rat, Brutus. For Jane, this all seems normal until she suddenly gains access to the files for a lifetime of security-camera videos—her lifetime.

A.S. King’s latest surrealist masterpiece follows Jane’s bizarre and brilliant journey to reconnect with her mother by breaking out of her shell and composing a punk opera.

4. All The Way To The River by Elizabeth Gilbert

In 2000, a friend sent Liz to see a new hairdresser named Rayya Elias. An intense and unlikely curiosity sparked between these two apparent opposites: Rayya, an East Village badass who lived boldly on her own terms but feared she was a failed artist; Liz, a married people-pleaser with a surprisingly unfettered sense of creativity. Over the years, they became friends, then best friends, then inseparable. When tragedy entered their lives, the truth was finally laid bare: The two were in love. Unacknowledged: they were also a pair of addicts, on a collision course toward catastrophe.

What if the love of your life—and the person you most trusted in the world—became a danger to your sanity and wellbeing? What if the dear friend who taught you so much about your self-destructive tendencies became the unstable partner with whom you disastrously reenacted every one of them? And what if your most devastating heartbreak opened a pathway to your greatest awakening?

All the Way to the River is for everyone who has ever been captive to love – or to any other passion, substance, or craving—and who yearns, at long last, for peace and freedom.

5. We Won’t All Survive by Kate Alice Marshall

Two years ago, Mercy Gray was hailed as a hero for saving lives during a mall shooting. She still carries souvenirs from that day: the fragment of a bullet lodged in her back, a mountain of medical debt, and guilt for ignoring her sister’s warnings that the sweet boy next door was anything but.

So when billionaire turned TV host Damien Dare recruits Mercy to compete on his new survivalist reality show, she can’t turn down a chance at the whopping cash prize that could send her sister to college. But when she and the other contestants arrive at the off-grid location, something isn’t right. The set is empty. The gates close without warning, trapping them inside. And then one of them turns up dead. What appeared at first to be a tragic accident quickly transforms as more contestants start dropping like flies. With time and resources running low, surviving this show takes on a whole new meaning. Mercy must figure out who to trust. Before she’s next.

6. Dead Man Blues by S.D. House

Dave Hendricks was once a respected man in Shady Grove, a tiny town on the Kentucky-Tennessee border. But after his wife leaves him for his best friend, he loses his job and his reputation is left in shambles. But when murder strikes their peaceful town, Dave finds himself compelled to team up with the very man who betrayed him and took his wife in order to catch the killer.

7. Kill Her Twice by Stacey Lee

LOS ANGELES, 1932: Lulu Wong, star of the silver screen and the pride of Chinatown, has a face known to practically everyone, especially the Chow sisters—May, Gemma, and Peony—Lulu’s former classmates and neighbors. So the girls instantly know it’s Lulu when they discover a body one morning in an out-of-the-way stable, far from the Beverly Hills home where she lived after her fame skyrocketed.

The sisters suspect Lulu’s death is the result of foul play, but the police don’t seem motivated to investigate. Even worse, there are signs that point to a cover-up, and powerful forces in the city want to frame the killing as evidence that Chinatown is a den of iniquity and crime, even more reason it should be demolished to make room for the construction of a new railway depot, Union Station.

Worried that neither the police nor the papers will treat Lulu fairly—no matter her fame and wealth—the sisters set out to solve their friend’s murder themselves, and maybe save their neighborhood in the bargain. But with Lulu’s killer still on the loose, the girls’ investigation just might put them square in the crosshairs of a cold-blooded murderer.

8. When The Bones Sing by Ginny Myers Sain

The past three years have been tough for Lucifer’s Creek, Arkansas, a small town quietly tucked away in the Ozark mountains. More than two dozen people have disappeared on the local hiking trails; there one moment, gone the next, not a trace left behind, until their buried bodies are discovered.

17-year-old Dovie doesn’t believe in magic even though she comes from a long line of women who can hear the bones of the dead sing, and for the past few years the bones have been crooning nonstop, calling out to Dovie to dig them up.

Some of the old-timers believe that it’s the monstrous Ozarks howler snatching people off the Aux Arc Trail. Well Dovie doesn’t believe in the howler, and she doesn’t believe her best friend Lo when he tells her he is being haunted by dark shadows. All she believes in is her talent that guides the local sheriff to the bones when they begin their song, then reuniting the dead with their families to give them some peace.

Lo doesn’t know peace, though. The shadows follow him everywhere. He soon learns they’re the murdered hikers and they want answers. But the truth of their deaths isn’t buried with their bones; it’s hidden somewhere deep in the hills. And Lo and Dovie must unearth it before anyone else is killed.

9. Spider to the Fly By J.H. Market

Ellie Isles first became obsessed with the I-64 murders when she saw her own face on one of the victims. Identical to every detail, the woman wasn’t her, but she could have been. Compelled to discover the story of her dopplegänger’s death, Ellie wrote a bestselling true crime book about the serial killer, dubbed “the Spider.”

Four years later, the Spider still hasn’t been caught, and his victim count is climbing. Many of the bodies remain unidentified, but with Ellie’s online network of true crime followers, that’s slowly changing. Together they’ve pooled information to create a massive database that tracks people at risk of becoming Jane and John Does–the homeless, the drug addicted, and the downtrodden–with the hopes that if they become victims, they might at least be identified.

Now that Ellie has successfully identified multiple victims, the law enforcement task force tracking down the Spider pulls her in to help–and after Ellie’s therapist is arrested for the murders, she is more determined than ever to help catch the Spider.

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