Most Popular Books Published in October 2023

“Wounded Land is . . . a deeper, richer world than that presented in the previous volumes. . . . [Stephen R.] Donaldson is extending himself, creating a fuller, more mature world of imagination.”—Seattle Post-IntelligencerFour...

A heart-wrenching and heart-warming YA romance that builds an inspiring love story around a history of trauma. The Way I Am Now is a deftly told story that grapples with all-too-real themes. Eden and Josh decide to give their relationship...

A down-on-his-luck actor and an English lord reluctantly team up to solve the murder of Christopher Marlowe in this Shakespearean-era young adult romp perfect for fans of F.T. Lukens and Mackenzi Lee.London, 1593. Sixteen-year-old Will Hughes is busy...

From the author of I Killed Zoe Spanos comes a YA thriller in the vein of The White Lotus and Karen M. McManus’s The Cousins following a doomed family reunion at a posh Caribbean resort, where old grudges and dangerous...

The heroes are bulking up ahead of the big battle with the villains, but there are moles at UA! Midoriya yet again takes center stage with the war looming. Midoriya inherits the superpower of the world’s greatest hero, but greatness won’t...

Ooh la la! At long last, Nikki Maxwell and her friends are back in a LOL-worthy Parisian adventure that Dork Diaries fans won’t want to miss. Nikki Maxwell deals with the trials and triumphs of middle school in this fifteenth installment of the...

Rex Dexter is itching to have a dog. He was practically born to have one. His name is Rex, for crying out loud. It's a dog's name. Any pooch is preferable, but a chocolate Labrador is the pinnacle. The best of the best. The dream of all dreams.When Rex's...

This cookbook has accompanying pictures from the cast of Yellowstone paired with the fantastic recipes from real-life chef and Yellowstone character Gator Guilbeau. It’s the perfect kitchen companion for fans of the hit series...

It was not easy for Cassidy Hutchinson to step up and tell the whole truth, but she did, and now we get to hear the entire account of how and why she did. This is as much a political narrative detailing one of the most disastrous days in American...

A fascinating insight into faith and healing, Jill Dugger's life was anything but ordinary. Now she and her husband tell their story with refreshing honesty and empathy. For the first time, discover the unedited truth about the Duggars, the traditional...

The hidden history of one of the world’s greatest inventors, a man who disrupted the status quo and then disappeared into thin air on the eve of World War I—this book answers the hundred-year-old mystery of what really became of Rudolf Diesel...

The bestselling, award-winning author of The Midnight Library offers his funniest, most devastating dark comedy yet, a “silly, sad, suspenseful, and soulful” (Philadelphia Inquirer) novel that’s “full of heart”...

One single mom. One chaotic family. One quirky stranger. One irresistible love story from the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Giver of Stars and the forthcoming Someone Else's Shoes Suppose your life sucks. A lot...

This is Colette's famous love story about the romance between an older woman and a younger man.Léa de Lonval is a magnificent and aging courtesan facing the end of her career. She has devoted the last six years to the amorous education of the...

“A novel that portrays with devastating immensity how those on the dark fringes of society can be consumed by the darkness of their own hearts.”—Yoko Ogawa, author of The Memory PoliceThis second half of Lady Joker,...

One of Japan’s great modern masters, Kaoru Takamura, makes her English-language debut with this two-volume publication of her magnum opus.Tokyo, 1995. Five men meet at the racetrack every Sunday to bet on horses. They have little in common except a...

'A terrific novel' -- Angela CarterKoko won't do what is expected of her. Defying her family's wishes, she has brought up her eleven-year-old daughter alone in her apartment. And now, after a casual affair, she is unexpectedly pregnant again. What will...

'One of Japan's most venerated writers' David MitchellIn this unnerving fable from one of Japan's greatest novelists, a recluse known as 'Mole' retreats to a vast underground bunker, only to find that strange guests, booby traps and a giant toilet may...

Botchan is a modern young man from the Tokyo metropolis, sent to the ultra-traditional Matsuyama district as a Maths teacher after his the death of his parents. Cynical, rebellious and immature, Botchan finds himself facing several tests, from the pupils...

'My father tried to kill my mother one Sunday in June, in the early afternoon.' Thus begins Shame, the probing story of the twelve-year-old girl who will become the author herself, and the traumatic memory that will echo and resonate throughout her life...