Your Friendly Book Guide Is Back At It Again

September is very close and as much as I am excited for football and figure skating, I’m also excited for new fall books. And of course I needed to give you all a heads up as well on 10 new releases to check out. Just doing every thing I can to get more people to read since 1980 (yes I came out of the womb this way!).

1. Holly by Stephen King (Release date: 9/5)This follows a popular King character: Holly Gibney who investigates a case about a missing girl. Blocks away from where that girl disappeared lives married professors. And they are harboring an unholy secret in the basement of their well-kept, book-lined home, one that may be related to the girl’s disappearance.

2. Rouge by Mona Awad (Release date: 9/5)This is billed as Snow White meets Eyes Wide Shut. Belle has been obsessed with her skin and skincare videos. When her estranged mother mysteriously dies, Belle finds herself back in Southern California, dealing with her mother’s debts and grappling with lingering questions about her death. But when a strange woman in red appears at the funeral, offering a clue about her mother’s demise, Belle is lured into the barbed embrace of La Maison de Méduse, the same lavish, culty spa to which her mother was devoted.

3. The September House by Carissa Orlando (Release date: 9/5)A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after she learns it’s a haunted nightmare. She moves in with her husband and they got it at a surprising reasonable price. But every September, the walls drip blood, the ghosts of former inhabitants appear and all of them are terrified of something that lurks in the basement.

4. The Fraud by Zadie Smith (Release date: 9/5)This is a novel based on the famous Tichborne case that captivated and divided Victorian London where a lower-class butcher from Australia claimed he was in fact the rightful heir of a sizable estate and title. We follow a housekeeper during this time where she lives her life and is skeptical of many things, including her cousin by marriage who is an in decline novelist and his friend Charles Dickens.And we also follow the star witness in this case who knows his future depends on telling the right story.

5. A Hundred Vicious Turns by Lee Page O’Brien (Release Date: 9/12)A YA fantasy with elements of dark academia. We follow Rat Evans, a non-binary heir to one of the oldest magical bloodlines in New York. And they do not cast spells anymore. They also find themselves surrounded by doorways no one else sees and corridors that aren’t on any map. When Rat is accepted into Bellamy Arts, all they want is a place to hide and to make sure they never open another passageway again. But when the only other person who knows what really happened last year turns up on campus, Rat begins to realize that Bellamy Arts might not be as safe as they’d thought.

6. The Death I Gave Him by Em X. Liu (Release date: 9/12)A sci-fi retelling of Hamlet as a locked-room thriller. Hayden Lichfield finds his father murdered in the lab. And he ends up finding a recording his father made days before where he says: avenge me. Hayden is locked in the lab with 4 others and one of them could be the killer. And his only ally is the lab’s resident artificial intelligence, Horatio, who has been his dear friend and companion since its creation.

7. Starter Villain by John Scalzi (Release date: 9/19)Charlie is a divorced substitute teacher living with his cat in a house his siblings want to sell. All he wants to do is open a pub downtown. After his long lost uncle dies, he is left a supervillain business. And he must navigate that as well as deal with a war his uncle started against a league of supervillains

8. A Study in Drowning by Ava Reid (Release date: 9/19)YA fantasy set in a historical fantasy world inspired by early twentieth-century Wales. It is also standalone dark academia. We follow Effy Sayre who has always believed in fairytales and has been haunted of visions of the Fairy King. She believes the Fairy King is real while others just say it’s a superstition. She’s also obsessed with a book where a mortal girl falls for the fairy king and then destroys him. She ends up learning that the family of the author of said book announces a contest to redesign the late author’s estate and Effy feels certain this is her destiny.

9. Thieves’ Gambit by Kayvion Lewis (Release date: 9/26)YA thriller which is billed as The Inheritance Games meets Ocean’s Eleven. We have Ross Quest who is a master thief. And her plan is to runaway from her legendary family of thieves. She ends up entering the Thieves’ Gambit, a series of dangerous, international heists where killing the competition isn’t exactly off limits, but the grand prize is a wish for anything in the world. And she wants to save her mother.

10. The Confessions of Hemingway Jones by Kathleen Hannon (Release date: 9/26)YA sci-fi set in North Carolina. A modern day Dr. Frankenstein. After a deadly accident, MC Hemingway Jones does what no doctor has been able to do: revive his father from the dead. The only problem? His father doesn’t come back entirely human. And the billionaire who owns the cryogenic preservation research center where he interns, and also revived his father, offers him a proposal to recreate the experiment or go to prison.

Happy reading! Talk soon.

Cherie