Here is our list of notable new releases due for publication in October 2023 — 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 | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 978-0063274877 | The List | Adegoke, Yomi | 10/3 | William Morrow |
| 978-1250872333 | A Cold Highland Wind | Alexander, Tasha | 10/3 | Minotaur |
| 978-1250827517 | The Jinn-Bot of Shantiport | Basu, Samit | 10/3 | Tordotcom |
| 978-1668024843 | Death Valley | Broder, Melissa | 10/3 | Scribner |
| 978-1250274977 | The Intern | Campbell, Michele | 10/3 | St. Martin's |
| 978-0063256743 | Mary and the Birth of Frankenstein | Eekhout, Anne | 10/3 | Harper Via |
| 978-0374208080 | Menewood | Griffith, Nicola | 10/3 | MCD |
| 978-0063277274 | The Hurricane Wars | Guanzon, Thea | 10/3 | Voyager |
| 978-1250799050 | Starling House | Harrow, Alix E. | 10/3 | Tor |
| 978-1250867025 | The Dead Take the A Train | Kadrey, Richard | 10/3 | Nightfire |
| 978-1250865489 | A Traitor in Whitehall | Kelly, Julia | 10/3 | Minotaur |
| 978-0593654477 | The MANIAC | Labatut, Benjamin | 10/3 | Penguin |
| 978-0062938824 | Brooklyn Crime Novel | Lethem, Jonathan | 10/3 | Ecco |
| 978-0316557290 | Throne of the Fallen | Maniscalco, Kerri | 10/3 | Little, Brown |
| 978-1324050759 | Moscow X | McCloskey, David | 10/3 | Norton |
| 978-0778305316 | The Twelve Months of Christmas | Roberts, Sheila | 10/3 | Mira |
| 978-0778305200 | The Roaring Days of Zora Lily | Salazar, Noelle | 10/3 | Mira |
| 978-1250899699 | Yumi and the Nightmare Painter | Sanderson, Brandon | 10/3 | Tor |
| 978-0593542811 | Judgement Prey | Sandford, John | 10/3 | Putnam |
| 978-1984821959 | Second Act | Steel, Danielle | 10/3 | Delacorte Press |
| 978-1538739204 | The Scandalous Confessions of Lydia Bennet, Witch | Taub, Melinda | 10/3 | Grand Central |
| 978-1668007433 | The Refugee Ocean | Toutonghi, Pauls | 10/3 | S&S |
| 978-1728269962 | Midnight is the Darkest Hour | Winstead, Ashley | 10/3 | Sourcebooks Landmark |
| 978-1250852489 | After the Forest | Woods, Kell | 10/3 | Tor |
| 978-1250893963 | Let It Crow! Let It Crow! Let It Crow! | Andrews, Donna | 10/10 | Minotaur |
| 978-0593543887 | Shoot the Moon | Arsen, Isa | 10/10 | Putnam |
| 978-1538726037 | Stars in Your Eyes | Callender, Kacen | 10/10 | Forever |
| 978-1728270418 | Hold My Girl | Carr, Charlene | 10/10 | Sourcebooks Landmark |
| 978-1668009161 | Becoming the Boogeyman | Chizmar, Richard | 10/10 | Gallery |
| 978-0593237663 | The Art of Destiny | Chu, Wesley | 10/10 | Del Rey |
| 978-0525619994 | Sword Catcher | Clare, Cassandra | 10/10 | Del Rey |
| 978-1501101816 | Blood Lines | DeMille, Nelson | 10/10 | Scribner |
| 978-0553387414 | The Children's Bach | Garner, Helen | 10/10 | Pantheon |
| 978-1668004821 | What We Kept to Ourselves | Kim, Nancy Jooyoun | 10/10 | Atria |
| 978-0063031463 | The Leftover Woman | Kwok, Jean | 10/10 | William Morrow |
| 978-0593536322 | Roman Stories | Lahiri, Jhumpa | 10/10 | Knopf |
| 978-1681377780 | A Year and a Day | Lopate, Phillip | 10/10 | New York Review Books |
| 978-0802161840 | Touched | Mosley, Walter | 10/10 | Atlantic Monthly |
| 978-1250828842 | Twas the Bite Before Christmas | Rosenfelt, David | 10/10 | Minotaur |
| 978-0374293574 | Blackouts | Torres, Justin | 10/10 | FSG |
| 978-0593421093 | Family Meal | Washington, Bryan | 10/10 | Riverhead |
| 978-0593188484 | Obsession | Woods, Stuart | 10/10 | Putnam |
| 978-1668020791 | The Hive and the Honey | Yoon, Paul | 10/10 | Marysue Rucci Books |
| 978-1640093713 | The Premonition | Yoshimoto, Banana | 10/10 | Counterpoint |
| 978-1250848475 | Under the Smokestrewn Sky | Baker, A. Deborah | 10/17 | Tordotcom |
| 978-1646220625 | Straw Dogs of the Universe | Chun, Ye | 10/17 | Catapult |
| 978-0812997118 | Tremor | Cole, Teju | 10/17 | Random House |
| 978-1250262622 | Silent City | Davis-Goff, Sarah | 10/17 | Flatiron |
| 978-1639731930 | The House of Doors | Eng, Tan Twan | 10/17 | Bloomsbury |
| 978-0385548953 | The Exchange | Grisham, John | 10/17 | Doubleday |
| 978-1643753591 | Distant Sons | Johnston, Tim | 10/17 | Algonquin |
| 978-0593548707 | Paws to Remember | Kelly, Sofie | 10/17 | Berkley |
| 978-1948226387 | Artificial | Kurzweil, Amy | 10/17 | Catapult |
| 978-1662602115 | Jonathan Abernathy You Are Kind | McGhee, Molly | 10/17 | Astra House |
| 978-1668015063 | Murder by Degrees | Mukerji, Ritu | 10/17 | S&S |
| 978-1250887894 | Home at Night | Munier, Paula | 10/17 | Minotaur |
| 978-0593534243 | Vengeance Is Mine | NDiaye, Marie | 10/17 | Knopf |
| 978-0374607616 | The Future Future | Thirlwell, Adam | 10/17 | FSG |
| 978-0593598672 | The Unmaking of June Farrow | Young, Adrienne | 10/17 | Delacorte Press |
| 978-1496735478 | Take the Long Way Home | Alers, Rochelle | 10/24 | Dafina |
| 978-0593186350 | What Wild Women Do | Brown, Karma | 10/24 | Dutton |
| 978-0593357576 | Lost & Hound | Brown, Rita Mae | 10/24 | Ballantine |
| 978-0593447345 | Organ Meats | Chang, K-Ming | 10/24 | One World |
| 978-1620403228 | I Must Be Dreaming | Chast, Roz | 10/24 | Bloomsbury |
| 978-1984818584 | The Secret | Child, Lee | 10/24 | Delacorte Press |
| 978-0062991638 | Hercule Poirot's Silent Night | Hannah, Sophie | 10/24 | William Morrow |
| 978-0374298494 | The Dimensions of a Cave | Jackson, Greg | 10/24 | FSG |
| 978-0063240964 | The Queen of Days | Kelly, Greta | 10/24 | Voyager |
| 978-0593537572 | West Heart Kill | McDorman, Dann | 10/24 | Knopf |
| 978-1250320551 | Sisters Under the Rising Sun | Morris, Heather | 10/24 | St. Martin's |
| 978-0063265332 | Julia | Newman, Sandra | 10/24 | Mariner |
| 978-0593639009 | Guy's Girl | Noyes, Emma | 10/24 | Berkley |
| 978-0063318502 | America Fantastica | O'Brien, Tim | 10/24 | Mariner |
| 978-1982104498 | Let Us Descend | Ward, Jesmyn | 10/24 | Scribner |
| 978-1990778919 | What Happens on Vacation | Watson, Jo | 10/24 | W by Wattpad |
| 978-0802161512 | The Night Side of the River | Winterson, Jeanette | 10/24 | Atlantic Monthly |
| 978-1668030622 | The Glutton | Blakemore, A.K. | 10/31 | Scribner |
| 978-0778333500 | A Dish Best Served Hot | Cana, Natalie | 10/31 | Mira |
| 978-1668003091 | Dirty Thirty | Evanovich, Janet | 10/31 | Atria |
| 978-0593550113 | Blood Sisters | Lillie, Vanessa | 10/31 | Berkley |
| 978-0593316993 | From a Far and Lovely Country | McCall Smith, Alexander | 10/31 | Pantheon |
| 978-0374610487 | Absolution | McDermott, Alice | 10/31 | FSG |
| 978-1668018262 | The Paleontologist | Dumas, Luke | 10/31 | Atria |
| 978-1250872340 | When I'm Dead | Morrissey, Hannah | 10/31 | Minotaur |
| 978-1646221950 | The Berry Pickers | Peters, Amanda | 10/31 | Catapult |
NONFICTION
| Title | Author | On Sale | Imprint | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 978-1250844200 | Collision of Power | Baron, Martin | 10/3 | Flatiron |
| 978-0385350549 | Eve | Bohannon, Cat | 10/3 | Knopf |
| 978-0593655078 | The Cost of Free Land | Clarren, Rebecca | 10/3 | Viking |
| 978-1538725061 | In Light of All Darkness | Cross, Kim | 10/3 | Grand Central |
| 978-0393868050 | I've Been Thinking | Dennett, Daniel C. | 10/3 | Norton |
| 978-0525659259 | Latinisimo | Gutierrez, Sandra A. | 10/3 | Knopf |
| 978-0374102616 | The Boy from Kyiv | Harss, Marina | 10/3 | FSG |
| 978-0374193393 | Lou Reed | Hermes, Will | 10/3 | FSG |
| 978-0593297865 | Differ We Must | Inskeep, Steve | 10/3 | Penguin |
| 978-1668004494 | What Winners Won't Tell You | Jenkins, Malcolm | 10/3 | S&S |
| 978-1324074335 | Going Infinite | Lewis, Michael | 10/3 | Norton |
| 978-1982146863 | Extremely Online | Lorenz, Taylor | 10/3 | S&S |
| 978-0802160508 | A Man of Two Faces | Nguyen, Viet Thanh | 10/3 | Grove |
| 978-1524748814 | The Lumumba Plot | Reid, Stuart A. | 10/3 | Knopf |
| 978-1324065463 | Alfie and Me | Safina, Carl | 10/3 | Norton |
| 978-1982132330 | How to Say Babylon | Sinclair, Safiya | 10/3 | S&S |
| 978-1982167738 | Making It So | Stewart, Patrick | 10/3 | Gallery |
| 978-1250854971 | A Day in the Life of Abed Salama | Thrall, Nathan | 10/3 | Metropolitan |
| 978-0316437905 | Familia | Valladolid, Marcela | 10/3 | Voracious |
| 978-1250289315 | Surely You Can't Be Serious | Zucker, David | 10/3 | St. Martin's |
| 978-0063039582 | To Rescue the Constitution | Baier, Bret | 10/10 | Mariner |
| 978-1250278777 | The Meth Lunches | Foster, Kim | 10/10 | St. Martin's |
| 978-0316456470 | Madonna | Gabriel, Mary | 10/10 | Little, Brown |
| 978-0063341463 | Opinions | Gay, Roxane | 10/10 | Harper |
| 978-0593300473 | A Bold Return to Giving a Damn | Harris, Will | 10/10 | Viking |
| 978-0593490297 | Every Man for Himself and God Against All | Herzog, Werner | 10/10 | Penguin |
| 978-0307958921 | Hollywood and the Movies of the Fifties | Hirsch, Foster | 10/10 | Knopf |
| 978-0593443163 | Breaking Through | Kariko, Katalin | 10/10 | Crown |
| 978-1982176327 | Fashion Killa | Krishnamurthy, Sowmya | 10/10 | Gallery |
| 978-1400238255 | Not That Fancy | McEntire, Reba | 10/10 | Harper |
| 978-0593655955 | Be Useful | Schwarzenegger, Arnold | 10/10 | Penguin |
| 978-1101947104 | Judgment at Tokyo | Bass, Gary J. | 10/17 | Knopf |
| 978-1324035367 | Touch the Future | Clark, John Lee | 10/17 | Norton |
| 978-1250279279 | The Longest Minute | Davenport, Matthew J. | 10/17 | St. Martin's |
| 978-0063135970 | The Dish | Friedman, Andrew | 10/17 | Mariner |
| 978-0062334732 | The Life and Times of Hannah Crafts | Hecimovich, Gregg | 10/17 | Ecco |
| 978-0593655269 | I Love Russia | Kostyuchenko, Elena | 10/17 | Penguin |
| 978-1668019146 | The Canceling of the American Mind | Lukianoff, Greg | 10/17 | S&S |
| 978-0593238172 | The Sisterhood | Mundy, Liza | 10/17 | Crown |
| 978-0593536407 | The Dictionary People | Ogilvie, Sarah | 10/17 | Knopf |
| 978-1984862129 | Behind the Seams | Parton, Dolly | 10/17 | Ten Speed |
| 978-0063293137 | Conflict | Petraeus, David | 10/17 | Harper |
| 978-0593653166 | An Inconvenient Cop | Raymond, Edwin | 10/17 | Viking |
| 978-0525560975 | Determined | Sapolsky, Robert M. | 10/17 | Penguin |
| 978-0374606978 | Thank You (Falettinme Be Mice Elf Agin) | Stone, Sly | 10/17 | Auwa |
| 978-0063079816 | Gray Areas | Wingfield, Adia Harvey | 10/17 | Amistad |
| 978-0393881264 | American Visions | Ayers, Edward L. | 10/24 | Norton |
| 978-0871404220 | Emperor of Rome | Beard, Mary | 10/24 | Liveright |
| 978-0593230060 | How to Know a Person | Brooks, David | 10/24 | Random House |
| 978-1982196202 | Romney | Coppins, McKay | 10/24 | Scribner |
| 978-0062962843 | The Pioneer Woman Cooks: Dinner's Ready! | Drummond, Ree | 10/24 | William Morrow |
| 978-0063115712 | Our Secret Society | Ford, Tanisha | 10/24 | Amistad |
| 978-0063279735 | The Little Book of Aliens | Frank, Adam | 10/24 | Harper |
| 978-0374603427 | The Upstairs Delicatessen | Garner, Dwight | 10/24 | FSG |
| 978-0593653142 | Hidden Potential | Grant, Adam | 10/24 | Viking |
| 978-0063073449 | Hunting the Falcon | Guy, John | 10/24 | Harper |
| 978-1643752648 | It's Not You, It's Capitalism | Jabali, Malaika | 10/24 | Algonquin |
| 978-0812993202 | Ours Was the Shining Future | Leonhardt, David | 10/24 | Random House |
| 978-1324004660 | Endangered Eating | Lohman, Sarah | 10/24 | Norton |
| 978-1982195861 | George Harrison | Norman, Philip | 10/24 | Scribner |
| 978-1524761042 | Tupac Shakur | Robinson, Staci | 10/24 | Crown |
| 978-0593540152 | Opposable Thumbs | Singer, Matt | 10/24 | Putnam |
| 978-0063341043 | The Secret Life of John le Carre | Sisman, Adam | 10/24 | Harper |
| 978-1668009048 | The Woman In Me | Spears, Britney | 10/24 | Gallery |
| 978-1250890979 | If You Would Have Told Me | Stamos, John | 10/24 | Holt |
| 978-1982197056 | The Wolf of Investing | Belfort, Jordan | 10/31 | Gallery |
| 978-0393882124 | Fierce Ambition | Conant, Jennet | 10/31 | Norton |
| 978-0593320464 | Start Here | El-Waylly, Sohla | 10/31 | Knopf |
| 978-1982176358 | Charlie Chaplin vs. America | Eyman, Scott | 10/31 | S&S |
| 978-1250832313 | Big Heart Little Stove | French, Erin | 10/31 | Celadon |
| 978-0063272200 | Energy Follows Thought | Nelson, Willie | 10/31 | William Morrow |
| 978-1593767457 | Black Punk Now | Terry, Chris L. | 10/31 | Soft Skull |
| 978-0525510086 | On Great Fields | White, Ronald C. | 10/31 | Random House |
| 978-1250888099 | Being Henry | Winkler, Henry | 10/31 | Celadon |
CHILDREN’S
| Title | Author | On Sale | Imprint | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 978-1335458018 | The Scarlet Alchemist | Baker, Kylie Lee | 10/3 | Inkyard Press |
| 978-0593485545 | Plan A | Caletti, Deb | 10/3 | Labyrinth Road |
| 978-0063223356 | Kween | Chum, Vichet | 10/3 | Quill Tree |
| 978-0063091597 | The Blackwoods | Colbert, Brandy | 10/3 | Balzer & Bray |
| 978-1250838735 | Hockey Girl Loves Drama Boy | Hicks, Faith Erin | 10/3 | First Second |
| 978-0063260795 | The Forest Demands Its Due | Jackson, Kosoko | 10/3 | Quill Tree Books |
| 978-1368089234 | The Spells We Cast | June, Jason | 10/3 | Hyperion |
| 978-1338745344 | Beholder | La Sala, Ryan | 10/3 | Push |
| 978-1665939270 | Curious Tides | Lacelle, Pascale | 10/3 | Margaret K. McElderry Books |
| 978-1534404489 | The Broke Hearts | Mendez, Matt | 10/3 | Atheneum |
| 978-1728272160 | Night of the Witch | Raasch, Sara & Beth Revis | 10/3 | Sourcebooks Fire |
| 978-0593524787 | I Loved You in Another Life | Arnold, David | 10/10 | Viking |
| 978-0062990853 | The Blood Years | Arnold, Elana K | 10/10 | Balzer & Bray |
| 978-1250846808 | Songs of Irie | Bromfield, Asha Ashanti | 10/10 | Wednesday Books |
| 978-0358538165 | Run and Hide | Brown, Don | 10/10 | Clarion |
| 978-1665940719 | By Any Other Name | Cotter, Erin | 10/10 | S&S |
| 978-0063266483 | Too Scared to Sleep | Duplessie, Andrew | 10/10 | Clarion |
| 978-1368048217 | Realm of Wonders | Monir, Alexandra | 10/10 | Disney Hyperion |
| 978-1335458032 | Wrath Becomes Her | Polydoros, Aden | 10/10 | Inkyard Press |
| 978-0062982391 | Charming Young Man | Schrefer, Eliot | 10/10 | Katherine Tegen Books |
| 978-0593643419 | Hatchet Girls | Wallach, Diana Rodriguez | 10/10 | Delacorte |
| 978-1250873736 | Layers | Bagieu, Penelope & Montana Kane | 10/17 | First Second |
| 978-1250887733 | Unholy Terrors | Clipstone, Lyndall | 10/17 | Holt |
| 978-0310156222 | Our Divine Mischief | Howard, Hanna | 10/17 | Blink |
| 978-1250823700 | Flower and Thorn | Mehrotra, Rati | 10/17 | Wednesday Books |
| 978-1250868091 | At the End of the World | Mikail, Nadia | 10/17 | Feiwel & Friends |
| 978-1990778742 | The God of High School Vol. 1 | Park, Yongie | 10/17 | Webtoon |
| 978-0593526002 | Thin Air | Parker, Kellie M | 10/17 | Razorbill |
| 978-0063115965 | All That Consumes Us | Waters, Erica | 10/17 | Harper Teen |
| 978-1250851208 | A Curse for True Love | Garber, Stephanie | 10/24 | Flatiron |
| 978-0063144408 | When We Become Ours | Gibney, Shannon, et.al. | 10/24 | Harper Teen |
| 978-1250803375 | What the River Knows | Ibanez, Isabel | 10/31 | Wednesday Books |
| 978-0063287600 | The Rosewood Hunt | Reed, MacKenzie | 10/31 | Harper Teen |