Autumn has finally hit and I couldn’t be happier! And the best season of the year has brought with it some very exciting new releases. Get the kettle on, the candles lit and your TBR ready to add to. It’s definitely the perfect time to pick up a book being the National Year of Reading too, we’re ready to Go All In!
Just tap on the titles to get more info from Bookshop.org and to support my work. Or if you prefer an audiobook, then I’d definitely recommend Libro.fm!
The Siren – Tomi Adeyemi. YA Fantasy. Hardback. A dark academia thriller, with supernatural twists from the author of The Children of Blood and Bone series. Publish date: 01/10.
Queen of Faces – Petra Lord. YA Fantasy. Paperback. In a world where body swapping is the norm, comes a fight for freedom. Clever magic systems and plot to boot! Publish date: 08/10.
Yearning Difficulties – Elle McNicoll. YA Romance. Paperback. A friends to lovers autumnal romance. Publish date: 08/10.
Time Tub Travellers: Romance Rescue – Claire Linney. Middle Grade Fantasy. Paperback. With real historical figures and another exciting adventure, the Time Tub Travellers are back. Can’t recommend this series enough. Publish date: 08/10.
Untouchable – Talia Hibbert. Romance. Paperback. The second in the Ravenswood re-published series, featuring a disgraced nanny and brooding widower. Publish date: 13/10.
The Turner House – Angela Flournoy. Literary. Paperback. From the author of The Wilderness, comes a novel centring the 13 Turner siblings as their mother declines in health. Publish date: 15/10.
Discipline – Randa Abdel-Fatteh. Literary. Paperback. A debut centring greif and privelige from the Palestinian author who was removed from the Adelaide Festival’s Writer’s Week that then led to the boycotting of it. Publish date: 15/10.
In One Brief Moment All Eternity – Elif Shafak. Literary. Hardback. Told through the lives of women, both real and fictional, this novel tells the story of Gustave Falubert, author of Madame Bovary. Publish date: 15/10.
Dreamweaving – OO Sanoyomi. YA Fantasy. Paperback. A YA Dark Academia mystery, centring suspicious dreams and disappearing students. Publish date: 15/10.
Tales from the Territory – Travis Baldree. Fantasy. Hardback. A series of cosy short stories from the world of Legends & Lattes. Publish date: 15/10.
Bitter Melon – Liv Little. Literary. Hardback. From the author of Rosewater. Running from heartbreak, Jalissa heads to Jamaica to her father that’s running out of time. Publish date: 22/10.
Our Arab – Zaina Arafat. Non-Fiction: Politics. Hardback. Essays on belonging and hope, spreading across landscapes, about what it means to be Palestinian today. Publish date: 22/10.
After Care – Divya Maniar. Literary. Paperback. Acritique on reality TV and influencer culture, for fans of Eliza Clark and Otessa Moshfegh. Publish date: 22/10.
Tarot Trials – Katee Robert. Fantasy. Hardback. A new epic fantasy trilogy from the author of the Dark Olympus series. Competing in the Tarot Trials means power that could change everything, but it’s never that simple of course. Publish date: 22/10.
The White North Has Thy Bones – Dorian Ravenscroft. Historical. Hardback. An arctic expedition, tinged with horror and gruelling details. Publish date: 22/10.
Choke – Ray Flair. Literary. Paperback. “A provocactive, queer revenge fantasy”. Sex workers go on a killing streak of ex clients. Publish date: 29/10.
Have you planned to pick any of these up? I’d love to know!
If you like what you’ve read and would like to access more content, we have a cosy reading community over on patreon . If you love a bookish giveaway and learning about all the new releases, we’d love to have you with us. It’s perfect for those looking for community and connection in the online space. You can also find more content on my Instagram here.
And don’t forget to check out my other blogs and reviews – you can find books with similar themes in the same folder link below, or click back onto blogs to see the whole offering.
Last updated 12/10/2026
Leave a Reply