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First Tuesday in October New Books Megalist!

Happy Giant New Release Day! It’s a good one, because it’s the first Tuesday of the month, which means there are a bunch of new titles out today. I’ve got a big list for you below, and you can hear about a few of these books on this week’s episode of the All the Books! Rebecca and I talked about amazing books we loved, such as Manhattan Beach, Origin, and An Unkindness of Ghosts.


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(And like last time, I’m putting a ❤️ next to the books that I have read and loved. There are soooo many more on this list that I can’t wait to read!)

27 hours27 Hours by Tristina Wright ❤️

Ali: A Life by Jonathan Eig

Winter Storms (Winter Street) by Elin Hilderbrand

Joni: The Anthology by Barney Hoskyns

Before the Devil Breaks You (The Diviners) by Libba Bray

The Orphan of Florence: A Novel by Jeanne Kalogridis

Last Christmas in Paris: A Novel of World War I by Hazel Gaynor and Heather Webb

From a Certain Point of View: 40 Stories Celebrating 40 Years of Star Wars

Without Merit by Colleen Hoover

Satellite by Nick Lake

nasty womenNasty Women: Feminism, Resistance, and Revolution in Trump’s America by Samhita Mukhopadhyay and Kate Harding (editors) ❤️

Logical Family: A Memoir by Armistead Maupin

The Origins of Creativity by Edward O. Wilson

Tamed and Untamed: Close Encounters of the Animal Kind by Sy Montgomery and Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

the sun and her flowers by Rupi Kaur

Baking with Kafka by Tom Gauld ❤️

The Relive Box and Other Stories by T.C. Boyle

The Adventurers Guild by Zack Loran Clark, Nick Eliopulos

Origin by Dan Brown

pashminaPashmina by Nidhi Chanani

Seven Suspects (The Bobbi Logan Series) by Renee James

Odd Child Out by Gilly Macmillan

Brooding YA Hero: Becoming a Main Character (Almost) as Awesome as Me by Carrie DiRisio, Linnea Gear (Illustrator)

Ahimsa by Supriya Kelkar ❤️

Where the Sun Shines Out by Kevin Catalano

This Is How It Begins: A Novel by Joan Dempsey ❤️

Quillifer by Walter Jon Williams

Reservoir 13: A Novel by Jon McGregor ❤️

Mixed Up: Cocktail Recipes (and Flash Fiction) for the Discerning Drinker (and Reader) by Nick Mamatas (Compiler), Molly Tanzer (Compiler)

an unkindness of ghostsAn Unkindness of Ghosts by Rivers Solomon ❤️

Dunbar (Hogarth Shakespeare) by Edward St. Aubyn

The Witches’ Tree: An Agatha Raisin Mystery (Agatha Raisin Mysteries) by M. C. Beaton

Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban: The Illustrated Edition by J.K. Rowling, Jim Kay (Illustrator)

Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 3 The Ship of the Dead by Rick Riordan

Paris in the Present Tense by Mark Helprin

Things I’m Seeing Without You by Peter Bognanni

The Murders of Molly Southbourne by Tade Thompson ❤️

fresh complaintFresh Complaint: Stories by Jeffrey Eugenides ❤️

Old Scores: A Barker & Llewelyn Novel by Will Thomas

Earth Hates Me: True Confessions from a Teenage Girl by Ruby Karp

Among the Red Stars by Gwen C. Katz

The Future Is History: How Totalitarianism Reclaimed Russia by Masha Gessen

Far From the Tree by Robin Benway

If You Knew My Sister by Michelle Adams

The Glass Eye: A Memoir by Jeannie Vanasco ❤️

To the Back of Beyond by Peter Stamm, Michael Hofmann (Translator)

the tiger's daughterThe Tiger’s Daughter (Their Bright Ascendency) by K Arsenault Rivera ❤️

Advice from the Lights: Poems by Stephen Burt

Wild Beauty by Anna-Marie McLemore

Going Into Town: A Love Letter to New York by Roz Chast ❤️

Shai & Emmie Star in Break an Egg! (A Shai & Emmie Story) by Quvenzhané Wallis

Blackwing by Ed McDonald

There Will Be No More Good Nights Without Good Nights by Laura van den Berg

William Shakespeare’s The Force Doth Awaken: Star Wars Part the Seventh (William Shakespeare’s Star Wars) by Ian Doescher

Sparked by Helena Echlin and Malena Watrous

Fear by Dirk Kurbjuweit

the last balladThe Last Ballad by Wiley Cash ❤️

Recovery: Freedom from Our Addictions by Russell Brand

From Here to Eternity: Traveling the World to Find the Good Death by Caitlin Doughty ❤️

Under the Pendulum Sun by Jeanette Ng

Haunting the Deep by Adriana Mather

That Inevitable Victorian Thing by E.K. Johnston ❤️

What the Hell Did I Just Read: A Novel of Cosmic Horror (John Dies at the End) by David Wong

London and the South-East by David Szalay

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories by Carmen Maria Machado ❤️

The Hanging Girl by Eileen Cook

Everyone is Watching by Megan Bradbury

malagashMalagash by Joey Comeau ❤️

Dawn of Detroit: A Chronicle of Slavery and Freedom in the City of the Straits by Tiya Miles

The Last Namsara by Kristen Ciccarelli

Beyond the Rice Fields by Naivo, Allison M. Charette (Translator)

We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy by Ta-Nehisi Coates ❤️

The Secrets on Chicory Lane: A Novel by Raymond Benson

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan ❤️

The Trials of Solomon Parker by Eric Scott Fischl

The Bloodprint (The Khorasan Archives) by Ausma Zehanat Khan

The Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Yan GlaserThe Vanderbeekers of 141st Street by Karina Glaser ❤️

The Devils You Know by M.C. Atwood

Akata Warrior by Nnedi Okorafor

All That Man Is by David Szalay (paperback) ❤️

Ghostland: An American History in Haunted Places by Colin Dickey ❤️

That’s it for me today – time to get back to reading! If you want to learn more about books new and old (and see lots of pictures of my cats, Millay and Steinbeck), or tell me about books you’re reading, or books you think I should read (I HEART RECOMMENDATIONS!), you can find me on Twitter at MissLiberty, on Instagram at FranzenComesAlive, or Litsy under ‘Liberty’!

Stay rad,

Liberty