{"id":172329,"date":"2025-08-24T18:21:23","date_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:21:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172329\/"},"modified":"2025-08-24T18:21:23","modified_gmt":"2025-08-24T18:21:23","slug":"24-most-anticipated-fall-books-according-to-goodreads-users","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/172329\/","title":{"rendered":"24 Most-Anticipated Fall Books, According to Goodreads Users"},"content":{"rendered":"

As the kids start heading back to school, don’t let them be the only ones with reading lists in hand! Goodreads<\/a> users can’t stop raving about these hot new books that will hit shelves this fall, so add them to your own TBR pile then join the conversation online.\n<\/p>\n

And if the book you’re itching to crack open isn’t available yet, smash that preorder button! Ordering books ahead of their release date tips off the publisher and the keepers of the almighty bestseller lists that the book is one to watch, so it helps your favorite authors get noticed.\n<\/p>\n

A gift for them now, and a gift for you later \u2014 that’s what we call a reading win-win.\n<\/p>\n

‘Forget Me Not’ by Stacy Willingham <\/p>\n

‘Forget Me Not’ by Stacy Willingham.<\/p>\n

Two decades ago, Claire Campbell\u2019s older sister, Natalie, disappeared just after her 18th birthday. After her blood was found in a car, a man was arrested and the case closed. Since then, Claire has tried to escape her past by moving away and throwing herself into work as a journalist. That is, until a call from her father brings her back home and a summer job starts to uncover sinister secrets.\n<\/p>\n

‘Mate’ by Ali Hazelwood <\/p>\n

‘Mate’ by Ali Hazelwood.<\/p>\n

If you read and loved the Vampyre and Weres star-crossed lovers story in Bride, you’ll devour this sexy, heart-pounding companion novel.\n<\/p>\n

‘Brimstone’ by Callie Hart <\/p>\n

‘Brimstone’ by Callie Hart.<\/p>\n

If you finished Quicksilver<\/a> and have been waiting with bated breath for more, the wait is almost over. Now that Saeris Fane has been crowned queen of the Blood Court, she’s realizing that the crown comes with a heavy weight. And since she’ll die if she tries to traverse the Quicksilver, she must send someone else \u2014 and once again, the journey is rife with peril.\n<\/p>\n

‘Wild Card’ by Elsie Silver <\/p>\n

‘Wild Card’ by Elsie Silver.<\/p>\n

Sebastian Rousseau is a grumpy pilot who is entirely too good with his hands, not to mention sexy AF. But he’s also Gwen’s ex-boyfriend’s dad. Sound messy? Wait until they’re stuck under the same roof with all that pent-up chemistry.\n<\/p>\n

‘The Impossible Fortune’ by Richard Osman <\/p>\n

‘The Impossible Fortune’ by Richard Osman.<\/p>\n

The Thursday Murder Club is back! First, watch the new Netflix movie<\/a> with Helen Mirren<\/a> and Pierce Brosnan<\/a>, then catch up with everyone’s favorite gang of unconventional crime-solvers in the next installment of the sensational series.\n<\/p>\n

‘Tourist Season’ by Brynne Weaver <\/p>\n

‘Tourist Season’ by Brynne Weaver.<\/p>\n

Cape Carnage is a seaside town of colorful houses, quirky shopping and a weirdly high body count. That’s down to gardener Harper Starling who protects her home with her killer instincts \u2014 literally. That is, until Nolan Rhodes arrives with his own score to settle and realizes he and Harper might actually…like each other? Then an amateur true crime enthusiasts starts sniffing around and the pair have a decision to make that could end in blood or worse \u2014 love.<\/p>\n

‘Wild Reverence’ by Rebecca Ross <\/p>\n

‘Wild Reverence’ by Rebecca Ross.<\/p>\n

Matilda and Vincent were meant to find each other, even in a world where gods kill each other and alliances break as easily as they’re forged. There may be a chance for Matilda to rewrite the blood-soaked story of her kind, but not without immense sacrifice. She will have to face a force even more fearsome than losing her magic: the vulnerability of love.\n<\/p>\n

‘The Widow’ by John Grisham <\/p>\n

‘The Widow’ by John Grisham.<\/p>\n

You know Grisham for his pulse-pounding courtroom dramas, but now he’s coming out with his first whoddunit. A small-town lawyer finds himself accused of murder and the only way to clear his name \u2014 and stay out from behind bars \u2014 is to find the real culprit.\n<\/p>\n

‘Alchemised’ by SenLinYu <\/p>\n

‘Alchemised’ by SenLinYu.<\/p>\n

One of the buzziest debuts of the fall is this riveting dark fantasy in which a woman with missing memories must survive a world of necromancy and alchemy. To find out what happened to her \u2014 and how important she really is to the Resistance \u2014 she must visit a powerful necromancer and fight to protect her history, while uncovering the secrets he’s carrying too.<\/p>\n

‘We Love You, Bunny’ by Mona Awad <\/p>\n

‘We Love You, Bunny’ by Mona Awad.<\/p>\n

Dark academia clan, rise up! We Love You Bunny feels like Han Kang\u2019s\u00a0The Vegetarian\u00a0<\/a>meets the 80s film\u00a0Heathers<\/a>, as it follows a lonely student in the elite MFA writing program at Warren University who finds herself in way over her head. When she\u2019s invited to join the Smut Salon, a writing group run by a clique of girls who refer to themselves as The Bunnies, she becomes entangled in a surreal world that quickly turns sinister.\n<\/p>\n

‘Sisters in the Wind’ by Angeline Boulley <\/p>\n

‘Sisters in the Wind’ by Angeline Boulley.<\/p>\n

From the author of The Firekeeper’s Daughter comes this spunky new mystery about a foster child looking to reclaim her history \u2014 her own way. Ever since Lucy Smith\u2019s father died five years ago, she’s learned to be smart, cautious and always on her guard. But she wants to believe Mr. Jameson and the tall, mysterious woman who say they want to care for her. And after they tell Lucy she’s Ojibwe and has family who would love her, she has to decide: does she run from her past, or fight for her future?<\/p>\n

‘Heart the Lover’ by Lily King <\/p>\n

‘Heart the Lover’ by Lily King.<\/p>\n

In the fall of her senior year, Jordan falls in with Sam and Yash, star students living in an intoxicating world of academic rigor, rapid-fire banter and spirited card games. But before long, she finds herself at the center of a charged and complicated triangle and graduation changes everything. Decades later, a surprise visit and unexpected news bring the past crashing into the present and she must confront the choices made back then and how they’ll impact her future.\n<\/p>\n

‘What We Can Know’ by Ian McEwan <\/p>\n

‘What We Can Know’ by Ian McEwan.<\/p>\n

From the same author as Atonement comes a genre-bending novel centering around a poem read at a wine-soaked dinner that echoes far beyond the table. In a near-future drowned world, a scholar trying to track it down uncovers a tale of love and a brutal crime that challenges everything he thought he knew. You won’t want to miss this one.\n<\/p>\n

‘The Wilderness’ by Angela Flournoy <\/p>\n

‘The Wilderness’ by Angela Flournoy.<\/p>\n

Spanning 20 years, this novel follows five Black women as they navigate careers, responsibilities and relationships in all of their complexities and contradictions.\u00a0It’s a wide-ranging portrait of adulthood in our modern age.\n<\/p>\n

‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ by Arundhati Roy <\/p>\n

‘Mother Mary Comes to Me’ by Arundhati Roy.<\/p>\n

Scribner<\/p>\n

This much-anticipated memoir from the Booker Prize-winning author of The God of Small Things<\/a> is love letter to the difficult woman the novelist calls \u201cmy shelter and my storm.\u201d\n<\/p>\n

‘Buckeye’ by Patrick Ryan <\/p>\n

‘Buckeye’ by Patrick Ryan.<\/p>\n

Following two Ohio families from the 1920s through the \u201860s as they find and lose love and dear ones through what one character calls \u201cthe unraveling of time,” it’s a small town novel that feels much bigger than its borders.\n<\/p>\n

‘Amity’ by Nathan Harris <\/p>\n

‘Amity’ by Nathan Harris.<\/p>\n

Even though the Civil War is over, formerly enslaved siblings’ Coleman and June still aren’t free. They were separated when their former master took June to Mexico, while Coleman remained behind in Louisiana, never giving up hope for her return. When he’s summoned to Mexico and disaster strikes along the way, Coleman finds himself on the run, trying to reunite with his sister and evade the forces that would keep them apart.\n<\/p>\n

‘All the Way to the River’ by Elizabeth Gilbert <\/p>\n

‘All the Way to the River’ by Elizabeth Gilbert.<\/p>\n

Riverhead Books<\/p>\n

This stunning new memoir from the author of Eat, Pray, Love traces the author’s relationship with her late partner Rayya<\/a> and the desperate cycle of destruction in which they found themselves locked toward the end of Rayya’s life. In poems, prayers, sketches and gorgeous prose, we see Gilbert come apart and find the strength to put herself back together again \u2014 a beautiful, heart-wrenching journey.\n<\/p>\n

‘Replaceable You’ by Mary Roach <\/p>\n

‘Replaceable You’ by Mary Roach.<\/p>\n

The queen of pop-sci gets into the advances in human body technology \u2014 prosthetics, stem cells, transplants and so much more.\n<\/p>\n

‘The Tragedy of True Crime’ by John J. Lennon <\/p>\n

‘The Tragedy of True Crime’ by John J. Lennon.<\/p>\n

John J. Lennon killed a man in 2001 and became a journalist from behind bars after a writing workshop at Attica Correctional Facility. This first-person account of four men’s lives, reported from the cell block and the prison yard, challenges our obsession with true crime by delving into the real stories of men serving time.\n<\/p>\n

‘Family of Spies’ by Christine Kuehn <\/p>\n

‘Family of Spies’ by Christine Kuehn.<\/p>\n

When Kuehn received a letter asking about her family’s involvement in World War II, she asked her 70-year-old father, Eberhard, for the whole story. What follows is the never-before-told story of one family\u2019s shocking involvement as Nazi and Japanese spies and the pivotal role they played in the bombing of Pearl Harbor.<\/p>\n

‘The Zorg’ by Siddharth Kara <\/p>\n

‘The Zorg’ by Siddharth Kara.<\/p>\n

In October 1780, a slave ship called The Zorg (a Dutch word meaning \u201ccare\u201d) set sail from the Netherlands, bound for Africa, where it would take on its human cargo. But it was captured by a British privateer and departed for Jamaica, crammed with 442 enslaved people. But bad weather and navigational mistakes sent it off course, and a proposition was made: Save the crew and the most valuable of the slaves \u2014 by throwing dozens of people, starting with women and children, overboard. This book charts the fascinating legal drama that turned a nascent abolitionist movement into front-page news.<\/p>\n

‘Cursed Daughters’ by Oyinkan Braithwaite <\/p>\n

‘Cursed Daughters’ by Oyinkan Braithwaite.<\/p>\n

A girl who’s raised as the reincarnation of her dead cousin, a family curse that causes three generations of women to live under one roof and a love that sends her seeking answers in the darkest corners of Lagos \u2014 this is a story of romance, familial obligation and wisdom.\n<\/p>\n

‘Joyride’ by Susan Orlean <\/p>\n

‘Joyride’ by Susan Orlean.<\/p>\n

Surfing, taxidermy, orchids, Rin Tin Tin. The celebrated nonfiction writer Orlean gets into all of this and more in a captivating memoir that illustrates her core belief that \u201cfamiliar things examined closely\u201d can be \u201cmagnificent.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"As the kids start heading back to school, don’t let them be the only ones with reading lists…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":172330,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[1022,171,67,132,68],"class_list":{"0":"post-172329","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-books","8":"tag-books","9":"tag-entertainment","10":"tag-united-states","11":"tag-unitedstates","12":"tag-us"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115085134567106742","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172329","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=172329"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/172329\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/172330"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=172329"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=172329"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=172329"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}