New Fiction for Fall Reading

Last week, we suggested a few timeless classics to get you in the mood for fall, but the weeks following this weekend’s equinox will bring plenty of new fiction to read as well. Check out this autumn’s hottest new fiction releases:

Leaving Time by Jodi Picoult – coming October 14th from Ballantine Books

Picoult’s 24th book, about a woman who seeks to solve her mother’s mysterious disappearance by searching online and pouring through her mother’s old journals, is expected to rocket to the top of the New York Times Best Seller list.

Gray Mountain by John Grisham – coming October 21st from Doubleday

Another perennial best-selling author, Grisham’s latest thriller centers on a young attorney who loses her job with New York’s largest law firm in the wake of the 2008 recession and takes a job with a legal aid clinic in small-town Virginia – a mining town harboring secrets they don’t want brought to light.

Prince Lestat: The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice – coming October 28th from Knopf

Just in time for Halloween, Anne Rice returns to the series – and the character – that put her on the bestseller list and arguably started the entire contemporary vampire craze.

Revival by Stephen King – coming November 11th from Scribner

The Master of Horror returns to New England in his 48th novel, a story of loss and obsession that spans more than half a century and culminates in what is purportedly “the most terrifying conclusion Stephen King has ever written.”