The best new books to read in October 2022 include new books by bestselling and Noble Prize winning authors, plus contemporary fiction, historical fiction, short story collections, and detective stories and ghost stories perfect for the spooky season. Enjoy the fall with these 10 new highly anticipated October books. Available to purchase now or preorder, these are the most anticipated books of October 2022.
The Best New Books To Read In October 2022
1. Our Missing Hearts by Celeste Ng
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Release Date: October 4
About the book: From the #1 bestselling author of Little Fires Everywhere, comes one of the most highly anticipated books of the year – the inspiring new novel about a mother’s unbreakable love in a world consumed by fear.
2. Mad Honey by Jodi Picoult and Jennifer Finney Boylan
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Release Date: October 4
About the book: A soul-stirring novel about what we choose to keep from our past and what we choose to leave behind, from the New York Times bestselling author of Wish You Were Here and the bestselling author of She’s Not There.
3. The Night Ship by Jess Kidd
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Release Date: October 4
About the book: Based on a real-life event, an epic historical novel from the award-winning author of Things in Jars that illuminates the lives of two characters: a girl shipwrecked on an island off Western Australia and, three hundred years later, a boy finding a home with his grandfather on the very same island.
4. Nights of Plague by Orhan Pamuk
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Release Date: October 4
About the book: From the the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature: Part detective story, part historical epic—a bold and brilliant novel that imagines a plague ravaging a fictional island in the Ottoman Empire.
5. Demon Copperhead by Barbara Kingsolver
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Release Date: October 18
About the book: From the New York Times bestselling author of Unsheltered and Flight Behavior, a brilliant novel which enthralls, compels, and captures the heart as it evokes a young hero’s unforgettable journey to maturity.
6. The Last Chairlift by John Irving
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Release Date: October 18
About the book: John Irving, one of the world’s greatest novelists, returns with his first novel in seven years—a ghost story, a love story, and a lifetime of sexual politics.
7. It Starts With Us by Colleen Hoover
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Release Date: October 18
About the book: Before It Ends with Us, it started with Atlas. Colleen Hoover tells fan favorite Atlas’s side of the story and shares what comes next in this long-anticipated sequel to the “glorious and touching” (USA TODAY) #1 New York Times bestseller It Ends with Us.
8. Seven Empty Houses by Samanta Schweblin
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Release Date: October 18
About the book: A blazing new story collection that will make you feel like the house is collapsing in on you, from the 3 time International Booker Prize finalist, “lead[ing] a vanguard of Latin American writers forging their own 21st-century canon.” –O, the Oprah magazine
9. The Passenger by Cormac McCarthy
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Release Date: October 25
About the book: The best-selling, Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road returns with the first of a two-volume masterpiece: The Passenger is the story of a salvage diver, haunted by loss, afraid of the watery deep, pursued for a conspiracy beyond his understanding, and longing for a death he cannot reconcile with God.
10. Beautiful Ghost by Milana Marsenich
Release Date: October 31
About the book: From the author of the bestselling novel Copper Sky, Beautiful Ghost takes place during the fall of 1918 when the influenza pandemic reaches the mining town of Butte, Montana.
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