11 Highly Anticipated Books Everyone Will Be Reading this Fall

This book is John Green’s first return to fiction in nearly a decade, and it’s his first-ever novel for adults. In this book, the YA author turned nonfiction writer (The Fault in Our Stars, Everything Is Tuberculosis) turns his sights to the celebrity media machine. When actors Kai and Juniper get their big break being cast in a buzzy biopic about Andy Warhol, they find themselves both falling in love and struggling with their newfound fame.

The Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility author returns with another high-concept speculative fiction book.

In 2031, after the collapse of the United States, Ari attends an apartment party—but something is wrong. First, there are mysterious doppelgängers, and then the host disappears without a trace. This dizzying read explores two different futures—a surveillance state and a post-civil war U.S.—showing one life shaped by changing circumstances in very different worlds.

A hagwon is a private after-school academy common in Korea. This sweeping family drama by the author of Pachinko follows the once middle-class Koh family as their lives are upended by financial instability, moving between Seoul, Sydney, and SoCal to provide for their children’s futures.

With a large, rotating cast of characters and a long path through the Korean diaspora, this is an immersive epic about family, education, immigration, and duty.

This book can be read as a standalone, but it does feature an adult version of a character from Picoult’s 2004 book My Sister’s Keeper.

When Molly was only two months old, her mother died in 9/11. Haunted by disasters, Molly runs a department for emergency preparedness and is married to a police polygraph expert. But when the unexpected happens, her life and her marriage are upended as she questions everything she thought she knew.

This is the grown-up sequel to the hit Big Little Lies, which is also a TV series. The kindergarteners from the original book are now high schoolers, with all the attendant drama. Parents Madeline, Celeste, Jane, Renata, and Bonnie must deal with the challenges of middle age—and of a stranger asking dangerous questions that could unearth the secrets they’ve kept from their children.

Alice Hoffman just released a new book, timed to the release of the new film adaptation of her Practical Magic series.

In 1950s Cambridge, Ava and Lauren are both young women at Radcliffe College. They are inducted into the Lilith society, a secret organization of witches that dates back to colonial times. But as the shadow of McCarthyism takes over campus and girls go missing, Ava and Lauren realize the witch trials of history may not be over.

In the latest release from Bonnie Garmus (Lessons in Chemistry), Batter is a poetry-obsessed recent college graduate in NYC in the 1980s. When he gets a job at the esteemed poetry quarterly Peck & Peck, he finds his hands full with warring editors-in-chief, quirky poetry editors, and an obsession with finding the best writing and destroying the rest.

This historical fiction from the author of The Frozen River is inspired by Grace O’Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine. Grace was born to be a sea captain, but as a woman, she is expected to marry for an alliance and have children instead. But when she is betrayed by her husband and English incursions into Ireland become increasingly threatening, Grace must lead her people and fight to defend her land.

It’s hard to talk about the book industry without discussing the romantasy craze—and the biggest author behind the trend is Sarah J. Maas. She’s returning with the much-anticipated 6th installment to the ACOTAR series. After millennia being bound to a mountain lake, Koschei the Deathless is stirring, threatening both the Fae territories and the human lands alike.