15 Must-Read Fiction Books Hitting Shelves This Fall

The Night Watchman author’s latest is a “captivating tale of love and everyday life amid environmental upheaval and the 2008 financial crisis,” according to a starred review from Publishers Weekly. “Erdrich excels at the slow simmer, and once again she delivers a deliciously seductive masterwork.”

Recently longlisted for the 2024 Booker Prize, the new novel from this Pulitzer Prize winner “explores that last wild place we have yet to colonise and interweaves profound themes of technology and the environment, and a deep exploration of our shared humanity” according to the Booker Prize 2024 judges.

Publishers Weekly was delighted by this "boldly experimental and emotionally devastating story of estrangement" from the sensational millennial Irish author. "This feels like Rooney's most fully realized work, especially as she channels the modernist styles of James Joyce and Virginia Woolf... Even the author's skeptics are liable to be swept away by this novel's forceful currents of feeling."

A hope-filled drama set in the author’s familiar small town of Crosby, Maine that reunites readers with beloved characters like Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and Bob Burgess as they navigate a shocking crime. "No novelist working today has [Elizabeth] Strout's extraordinary capacity for radical empathy, for seeing the essence of people beyond reductive categories, for uniting us without sentimentality,” hailed The Boston Globe.

This “profound and irresistible page-turner” follows an American “spy-for-hire who infiltrates a commune of eco-activists in rural France,” remarked the 2024 Booker Prize judges about the latest caper from this two-time National Book Award finalist. “The prose is thrilling, the ideas electrifying."

The latest masterwork from this Nobel Prize winner "reckons with some of the major intellectual questions of the 20th century while simultaneously spinning a mysterious—and spooky—web of intrigue and suspense," praised Kirkus in their starred review, calling it "a crucial addition to Tokarczuk's oeuvre."

The Argentine author of the surrealist story collection The Dangers of Smoking in Bed, which was a finalist for the Booker Prize, returns with another “masterful collection full of grotesque body horror, red-hot terror, and mysterious events, revealing the pain and loss endured by women in modern-day Buenos Aires,” according to Publishers Weekly.

The National Book Award finalist delivers a tale of money and morality as “engaging as it is unnerving" that follows an octogenarian billionaire’s assistant on a mission to change her life and the world. "Alam is quickly emerging as one of the best social novelists working today,” remarked Literary Hub. “It's a book about what it's like to be alive today.”

A struggling biracial novelist at work on “her mulatto War and Peace” sells out to a streaming network in a “superbly ruthless and electric book” that Alta Journal's Anita Felicelli called “one of the best I’ve read about Hollywood.”

This bestselling author’s “frank and soulful” second novel follows three estranged and very different siblings who return to their New York home after their beloved sister's death. “This story of addiction and grief will resonate with readers," declared Publishers Weekly.