Here is our list of notable new releases due for publication in October 2020 — in a format that includes imprint info, and allows you resort the list by clicking the up/down arrows. This selection is our editorial aggregation from a wide variety of sources including bookseller and librarian lists, wholesaler top buys, Publishers Lunch Buzz Books and seasonal forecasts, well-known authors, news items and more. Once published, you can find them listed in the New Releases section at Bookateria. Lists are available at PM looking forward two to three months for reference purposes, and are updated live as on-sale dates and other information changes. Click for August and September lists.
FICTION
| Title | Author | On Sale | Imprint | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 978-0062667632 | Leave the World Behind | Alam, Rumaan | 10/6 | Ecco |
| 978-0765399274 | Over the Woodward Wall | Baker, A. Deborah | 10/6 | Tor |
| 978-1982155551 | Cuyahoga | Beatty, Pete | 10/6 | Scribner |
| 978-0735224650 | The Searcher | French, Tana | 10/6 | Viking |
| 978-0063034839 | When We Were Young and Brave | Gaynor, Hazel | 10/6 | Morrow |
| 978-1538752203 | Consensual Hex | Harlowe, Amanda | 10/6 | Grand Central |
| 978-1250768537 | Dear Child | Hausmann, Romy | 10/6 | Flatiron |
| 978-0316435581 | Troubles in Paradise | Hilderbrand, Elin | 10/6 | Little, Brown |
| 978-1982108847 | Magic Lessons | Hoffman, Alice | 10/6 | S&S |
| 978-0062980786 | A Wild Winter Swan | Maguire, Gregory | 10/6 | Morrow |
| 978-0802157447 | Still Life | McDermid, Val | 10/6 | Atlantic Monthly |
| 978-1641292030 | The Traveller and Other Stories | Neville, Stuart | 10/6 | Soho Crime |
| 978-0802157997 | Cardiff by the Sea | Oates, Joyce Carol | 10/6 | Mysterious Press |
| 978-0316300131 | The Ministry for the Future | Robinson, Kim Stanley | 10/6 | Orbit |
| 978-0765387561 | The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue | Schwab, V.E. | 10/6 | Tor |
| 978-0374222017 | The Nightworkers | Selfon, Brian | 10/6 | MCD |
| 978-1728206028 | The Devil and the Dark Water | Turton, Stuart | 10/6 | Sourcebooks |
| 978-0778310150 | Confessions on the 7:45 | Unger, Lisa | 10/6 | Park Row |
| 978-1335230003 | Snow | Banville, John | 10/13 | Hanover Square |
| 978-1250767028 | Ring Shout | Clark, P. Djeli | 10/13 | Tor |
| 978-0593160336 | The Lost Love Song | Darke, Minnie | 10/13 | Ballantine |
| 978-1250757531 | Attack Surface | Doctorow, Cory | 10/13 | Tor |
| 978-0385545969 | A Time for Mercy | Grisham, John | 10/13 | Doubleday |
| 978-1250257925 | A Garland of Bones | Haines, Carolyn | 10/13 | Minotaur |
| 978-0316422048 | The Once and Future Witches | Harrow, Alix | 10/13 | Redhook |
| 978-1982137335 | Invisible Girl | Jewell, Lisa | 10/13 | Atria |
| 978-1984818751 | Jingle All the Way | Macomber, Debbie | 10/13 | Ballantine |
| 978-1641292207 | The Land | Maltman, Thomas | 10/13 | Soho |
| 978-0062881922 | Goodnight Beautiful | Molloy, Aimee | 10/13 | Harper |
| 978-1645660071 | The Midnight Bargain | Polk, C. L. | 10/13 | Erewhon |
| 978-0316479257 | A Song for Dark Times | Rankin, Ian | 10/13 | Little, Brown |
| 978-1534444959 | Long Way Down | Reynolds, Jason | 10/13 | Atheneum |
| 978-1534437678 | Black Sun | Roanhorse, Rebecca | 10/13 | Gallery |
| 978-1250257147 | Silent Bite | Rosenfelt, David | 10/13 | Minotaur |
| 978-0802119735 | Midnight Train to Prague | Windley, Carol | 10/13 | Atlantic Monthly |
| 978-1524860714 | Eagerly Awaiting Your Irrational Response | Adams, Scott | 10/20 | Andrews McMeel |
| 978-1250760128 | The Gift of the Magpie | Andrews, Donna | 10/20 | Minotaur |
| 978-1534403017 | Machine | Bear, Elizabeth | 10/20 | Gallery |
| 978-0399178542 | The Last Druid | Brooks, Terry | 10/20 | Del Rey |
| 978-0063030145 | The Girl in the Mirror | Caryle, Rose | 10/20 | Morrow |
| 978-0062911407 | Christmas at the Island Hotel | Colgan, Jenny | 10/20 | Morrow |
| 978-0062942852 | Plain Bad Heroines | Danforth, Emily | 10/20 | Morrow |
| 978-1982164553 | The Silence | DeLillo, Don | 10/20 | Scribner |
| 978-0062910301 | The German House | Hess, Annette | 10/20 | Harper Via |
| 978-1593766900 | Where the Wild Ladies Are | Matsuda, Aoko | 10/20 | Soft Skull |
| 978-0062562388 | Death and the Maiden | Norman, Samantha | 10/20 | Morrow |
| 978-0316541619 | Three Women Disappear | Patterson, James | 10/26 | Little, Brown |
| 978-1984806130 | Crazy Stupid Bromance | Adams, Lyssa Kay | 10/27 | Berkley |
| 978-1984818461 | The Sentinel | Child, Lee & Andrew Child | 10/27 | Delacorte |
| 978-1501154690 | The Eyes of the Queen | Clements, Oliver | 10/27 | Atria |
| 978-1324001850 | Bad Island | Donwood, Stanley | 10/27 | Norton |
| 978-1982129606 | The Noel Letters | Evans, Richard Paul | 10/27 | Gallery |
| 978-0593133842 | The Wonder Boy of Whistle Stop | Flagg, Fannie | 10/27 | Random House |
| 978-0063021341 | House of Correction | French, Nicci | 10/27 | Morrow |
| 978-0062998309 | The Forgotten Daughter | Goodman, Joanna | 10/27 | Harper |
| 978-0062982063 | A Solitude of Wolverines | Henderson, Alice | 10/27 | Harper |
| 978-1982104382 | Truly, Madly, Deeply | Kingsbury, Karen | 10/27 | Atria |
| 978-0316423694 | The Tower of Fools | Sapkowski, Andrzej | 10/27 | Orbit |
| 978-0385546553 | Fortune Favors the Dead | Spotswood, Stephen | 10/27 | Doubleday |
| 978-0062868084 | The Cold Millions | Walter, Jess | 10/27 | Harper |
| 978-0593188323 | Shakeup | Woods, Stuart | 10/27 | Putnam |
NONFICTION
| Title | Author | On Sale | Imprint | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 978-1538702895 | Unapologetically Ambitious | Archambeau, Shellye | 10/6 | Grand Central |
| 978-0393635713 | The Man Who Ate Too Much | Birdsall, John | 10/6 | Norton |
| 978-0385544009 | The Zealot and the Emancipator | Brands, H.W. | 10/6 | Doubleday |
| 978-1631498770 | Trust | Buttigieg, Pete | 10/6 | Liveright |
| 978-1982147105 | The Times I Knew I Was Gay | Crewes, Eleanor | 10/6 | Scribner |
| 978-1524747435 | Lon Chaney Speaks | Dorian, Pat | 10/6 | Pantheon |
| 978-0399179785 | The AfterGrief | Edelman, Hope | 10/6 | Ballantine |
| 978-0804187060 | Modern Comfort Food | Garten, Ina | 10/6 | Clarkson Potter |
| 978-1250217035 | Losing the Long Game | Gordon, Philip | 10/6 | St. Martin's |
| 978-1948226745 | White Tears/Brown Scars | Hamad, Ruby | 10/6 | Catapult |
| 978-0062917775 | Win at All Costs | Hart, Matt | 10/6 | Dey Street |
| 978-1250113085 | Let Love Rule | Kravitz, Lenny | 10/6 | Holt |
| 978-1982145620 | What Were We Thinking | Lozada, Carlos | 10/6 | S&S |
| 978-1984856135 | War | MacMillan, Margaret | 10/6 | Random House |
| 978-0374293314 | Bland Fanatics | Mishra, Pankaj | 10/6 | FSG |
| 978-0358352556 | Jacques Pepin Quick & Simple | Pepin, Jacques & Tom Hopkins | 10/6 | HMH |
| 978-0063017542 | The Fragile Earth | Remnick, David & Henry Finder | 10/6 | Ecco |
| 978-1982112691 | Is This Anything? | Seinfeld, Jerry | 10/6 | S&S |
| 978-0802148100 | Chicago’s Great Fire | Smith, Carl | 10/6 | Atlantic Monthly |
| 978-1982132071 | Keep Moving | Smith, Maggie | 10/6 | Atria |
| 978-1250114297 | Humans | Stanton, Brandon | 10/6 | St. Martin's |
| 978-0062892713 | The Hidden Habits of Genius | Wright, Craig | 10/6 | Dey Street |
| 978-0393542134 | Ten Lessons for a Post-Pandemic World | Zakaria, Fareed | 10/6 | Norton |
| 978-1645020165 | Outrages | Wolf, Naomi | 10/6 | Chelsea Green |
| 978-0062895776 | Finding Your Harmony | Brooke, Ally | 10/13 | Dey Street |
| 978-0593239261 | American Crisis | Cuomo, Andrew | 10/13 | Crown |
| 978-0393609998 | A Good Time To Be Born | Klass, Perri | 10/13 | Norton |
| 978-1328546333 | Chasing Flavor | Kluger, Dan | 10/13 | HMH |
| 978-0062911223 | Pieometry | Ko, Lauren | 10/13 | Morrow |
| 978-0593191088 | This Just Speaks To Me | Kotb, Hoda | 10/13 | Putnam |
| 978-1324006756 | Kant's Little Prussian Head and Other Reasons Why I Write | Messud, Claire | 10/13 | Norton |
| 978-1982107581 | The Butterfly Effect | Moore, Marcus | 10/13 | Atria |
| 978-1982129149 | The Upswing | Putnam, Robert | 10/13 | S&S |
| 978-1982120931 | The Luckiest Man | Salter, Mark | 10/13 | S&S |
| 978-0307266880 | Gambling with Armageddon | Sherwin, Martin | 10/13 | Knopf |
| 978-1982140588 | The Call Me Ishmael Phone Book | Smalley, Logan & Stephanie Kent | 10/13 | Avid |
| 978-0393292268 | Mad at the World | Souder, William | 10/13 | Norton |
| 978-1631491375 | The Knowledge Machine | Strevens, Michael | 10/13 | Liveright |
| 978-0593183526 | How to Write One Song | Tweedy, Jeff | 10/13 | Dutton |
| 978-1524746056 | The Captain | Wright, David | 10/13 | Dutton |
| 978-0062992031 | Reclaiming Her Time | Andrews-Dyer, Helena & R. Eric Thomas | 10/20 | Dey Street |
| 978-0393634921 | Science and Cooking | Brenner, Michael | 10/20 | Norton |
| 978-0307961167 | Red Comet | Clark, Heather | 10/20 | Knopf |
| 978-1501192111 | Cary Grant | Eyman, Scott | 10/20 | S&S |
| 978-0316425315 | Do You Feel Like I Do? | Frampton, Peter | 10/20 | Hachette |
| 978-0062995285 | Make Me Rain | Giovanni, Nikki | 10/20 | Morrow |
| 978-0063042940 | Battle of Brothers | Lacey, Robert | 10/20 | Harper |
| 978-0593139134 | Greenlights | McConaughey, Matthew | 10/20 | Crown |
| 978-1631491665 | The Dead Are Arising | Payne, Les & Tamara Payne | 10/20 | Liveright |
| 978-1982129750 | Prince Philip | Seward, Ingrid | 10/20 | Atria |
| 978-0063019478 | I Marched with Patton | Sisson, Frank & Robert Wise | 10/20 | Morrow |
| 978-0062965998 | The Nom Wah Cookbook | Tang, Wilson | 10/20 | Ecco |
| 978-1982154615 | Group | Tate, Christie | 10/20 | Avid |
| 978-0393078855 | Max Jacob | Warren, Rosanna | 10/20 | Norton |
| 978-0316449823 | Sh*t, Actually | West, Lindy | 10/20 | Hachette |
| 978-1324006893 | A World Beneath the Sands | Wilkinson, Toby | 10/20 | Norton |
| 978-1250314482 | World Wild Vet | Antin, Evan | 10/27 | Holt |
| 978-0593134672 | I’ll Be Seeing You | Berg, Elizabeth | 10/27 | Random House |
| 978-1524733254 | Tecumseh and the Prophet | Cozzens, Peter | 10/27 | Knopf |
| 978-0307405449 | Catching the Wind | Gabler, Neal | 10/27 | Crown |
| 978-0316412629 | Looking to Get Lost | Guralnick, Peter | 10/27 | Little, Brown |
| 978-0062887214 | The Magnolia Bakery Handbook | Lloyd, Bobbie | 10/27 | Harper Design |
| 978-1982174026 | Joe Biden | Osnos, Evan | 10/27 | Scribner |
CHILDREN’S
| Title | Author | On Sale | Imprint | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 978-1250765208 | The Lives of Saints | Bardugo, Leigh & Daniel Zollinger | 10/6 | Imprint |
| 978-1368046381 | The Mirror Broken Wish | Dao, Julie | 10/6 | Disney-Hyperion |
| 978-1250235909 | Hush | Farrow, Dylan | 10/6 | Wednesday Books |
| 978-1616899912 | Little Audrey's Daydream | Ferrer, Sean Hepburn | 10/6 | Princeton Architectural Press |
| 978-1250224736 | Eventide | Goodman, Sarah | 10/6 | Tor Teen |
| 978-0593114117 | Something Happened to Ali Greenleaf | Krischer, Hayley | 10/6 | Razorbill |
| 978-1338654547 | One Way or Another | McDowell, Kara | 10/6 | Scholastic |
| 978-1419739941 | Out! | McKenna, Miles | 10/6 | Amulet |
| 978-1645670797 | Blazewrath Games | Ortiz, Amparo | 10/6 | Page Street Kids |
| 978-1335146519 | Kingdom of Sea and Stone | Rutherford, Mara | 10/6 | Inkyard Press |
| 978-0062849632 | The Shadow Mission | Sarif, Shamim | 10/6 | Harper Teen |
| 978-0062874474 | Return of the Thief | Turner, Megan Whalen | 10/6 | Greenwillow |
| 978-0062491251 | Junk Boy | Abbott, Tony | 10/13 | Katherine Tegen Books |
| 978-1536212105 | Rural Voices | Carpenter, Nora Shalaway | 10/13 | Candlewick |
| 978-1250220400 | A Golden Fury | Cohoe, Samantha | 10/13 | Wednesday Books |
| 978-1645670803 | The Puppetmaster's Apprentice | Deselm, Lisa | 10/13 | Page Street Kids |
| 978-1368052139 | Beyond the Ruby Veil | Fitzgerald, Mara | 10/13 | Little, Brown |
| 978-0062957085 | You Know I'm No Good | Foley, Jessie Ann | 10/13 | Quill Tree |
| 978-0062954404 | The Truth Project | Medema, Dante | 10/13 | Quill Tree |
| 978-1984851598 | The Magic Fish | Nguyen, Trung Le | 10/13 | Random House Graphic |
| 978-1250242341 | This Is All Your Fault | Safi, Aminah Mae | 10/13 | Feiwel & Friends |
| 978-0374313715 | Chance | Shulevitz, Uri | 10/13 | FSG |
| 978-1536207767 | Everything I Thought I Knew | Takaoka, Shannon | 10/13 | Candlewick |
| 978-0593377680 | Serpentine | Pullman, Philip | 10/15 | Knopf |
| 978-1250175779 | The Brightest Night | Armentrout, Jennifer L | 10/20 | Tor Teen |
| 978-1338268492 | Poisoned | Donnelly, Jennifer | 10/20 | Scholastic |
| 978-0062847362 | Among the Beasts & Briars | Poston, Ashley | 10/20 | Balzer & Bray |
| 978-1419748684 | Diary of a Wimpy Kid: The Deep End | Kinney, Jeff | 10/27 | Amulet |
| 978-1683692317 | The Fangirl's Guide to the Universe | Maggs, Sam | 10/27 | Quirk |