Most Popular Books Published in October 2023

A frightening dystopian horror novel where grief is forbidden and purged from the mind – a nightmarish mix of 1984 and Never Let Me GoSorrow is inefficient. It’s also inescapable.Lieutenant Dev Singh dutifully spends his days recording the...

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...

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 a...

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...

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...

FOR ALMOST THIRTY YEARS, ONE MAN HAS DOMINATED THE BRITISH COMIC SCENE. He is judge, jury and executioner, a merciless far-future lawman delivering justice with an iron fist on the mean streets of Mega-City One. He is Judge Dredd! Now you can re-discover...

The first Graphic Novel in the world of Gaming Phenomenon Minecraft!Tyler is your everyday kid whose life is changed when his family has to move from the town he's always known. Thankfully, Tyler has a strong group of friends forever linked in the world...

An epidemic of apocalyptic proportions has swept the globe, causing the dead to rise and feed on the living. In a matter of months, society has crumbled: There is no government, no grocery stores, no mail delivery, no cable TV. In a world ruled by the...

Brian Michael Bendis, the New York Times bestselling, Peabody and multi-Eisner award-winning co-creator of Miles Morales, Naomi, Jessica Jones, and POWERS tells a comedic life lesson about the horrors of Hollywood.Before his acclaimed...