Most Popular Books Published in October 2023

An unforgettable, surrealist gothic folk-thriller with commercial crossover appeal from a brilliant new voice.1643: A small group of Parliamentarian soldiers are ambushed in an isolated part of Northern England. Their only hope for survival is to...

In this stunning new collection of four horror stories, award-winning author Rachel Harrison explores themes of body image, complicated female friendship, heartbreak, and hauntings. In “Reply Hazy, Try Again,” an indecisive young woman...

Not for those of a nervous disposition, this chilling collection contains some of Edgar Allan Poe's best known stories, including The Fall of the House of Usher and The Masque of the Red Death.Themes of guilt, fear and revenge abound as the master of...

With his "highly visual and cinematic worldbuilding" (Booklife by Publishers Weekly), Brian Asman spins a horrifying and imaginative tale of an ordinary family and their extraordinary new house... Sabrina Haskins and her family have just moved...

Wyoming Game Warden Joe Pickett investigates a mysterious death at a secret remote high-tech facility in this riveting new novel from #1 New York Times bestseller C.J. Box.    When a prominent University of Wyoming professor...

A social media influencer with a secret past buys a murder house to renovate, but finds more than she bargained for behind the peeling wallpaper in this gothic psychological debut.Sarah Slade is starting over. As the new owner of the infamous Black Wood...

A woman is determined to stay in her dream home even after it becomes a haunted nightmare in this compulsively readable, twisty, and layered debut novel.When Margaret and her husband Hal bought the large Victorian house on Hawthorn Street—for sale...

Nicholas Sparks meets The Empty Man in this modern Southern Gothic horror about a palm reader swept up in a disturbing missing-child case with a twist you won’t see coming. After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced...

It wouldn't be a country house weekend without a little murder. . .Three rival actresses team up to solve a murder at the stately home of Lettice Davenport, the author whose sleuthing creation of the 1930s, Dahlia Lively, had made each of them famous to...

The only novel from bestselling author Alice Munro, winner of the Nobel Prize in LiteratureCatching frogs, grazing knees, singing songs to save England from Hitler - that was childhood for Del Jordan, and now she's impatient for more.More than she can...

WINNER OF THE 2022 NOBEL PRIZE IN LITERATUREAnother masterpiece of remembering from Annie Ernaux, the Man Booker International Prize–shortlisted author of The Years.In A Girl’s Story, Annie Ernaux revisits the season fifty years earlier when...

Employing Ovid's ancient tale of Iphis and Ianthe as a means of interrogating notions of gender fluidity and the rigidity of social convention, Smith's dazzling and playful short novel centres on two very different sisters and their paths through life...

Return to #1 New York Times bestseller Brandon Sanderson’s Mistborn world of Scadrial as its second era, which began with The Alloy of Law, comes to its earth-shattering conclusion in The Lost Metal.For years, frontier lawman...

HarperCollins is proud to present its new range of best-loved, essential classics. 'So he rose and lighted one lamp after another, till he had lighted the whole eighty and the palace seemed to dance with brilliancy.' Beginning with the legend of King...

Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of “How to Draw a Line” to the complexities of color theory. This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their...

The first new book of poetry from Dr. John Cooper Clarke for several decades is a brilliant, scabrous, hilarious collection from one of our most beloved and influential writers and performers. From the "Attack of the Fifty Foot Woman" to a...

The Virgins is the story of Aviva Rossner and Seung Jung's erotic awakening at Auburn Academy re-imagined in richly detailed episodes by their classmate Bruce, a once-embittered voyeur, now repentant narrator, whose envy spurs the novel's tragic end. * A...

England, 1536. Home to the greatest, most glittering court in English history. But beneath the dazzling facade lies treachery . . .Elizabeth Tudor is daughter to Henry VIII, the most powerful king England has ever known. She is destined to ascend the...

Collected fiction and essays by a pillar of the American feminist canon—with an introduction by Halle Butler, a National Book Award Foundation “5 Under 35” honoree and a Granta Best Young American NovelistCharlotte Perkins...

She’s off-limits, but he’s never been good at following the rules.For the first time in her life, Clementine “Emmy” Ryder has no idea what she’s doing. She’s accomplished everything on her to-do list. She left her...