Most Popular Books Published in October 2023

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The definitive cookbook on French cuisine for American readers: "What a cookbook should be: packed with sumptuous recipes, detailed instructions, and precise line drawings. Some of the instructions look daunting, but...

‘This book will earn a place in kitchens up and down the country’ -- Nigella LawsonSeventy-five one-tin recipes: half vegan, half vegetarian, all delicious.With all seventy-five recipes in this book, you simply pop your ingredients in a...

‘Touching and uplifting’ MILLY JOHNSON ’A beautiful story of loss, discovery and recovery’ HEIDI SWAIN ‘Heart-wrenching and compelling’ SARAH MORGAN ‘This book tore my heart into tiny pieces, then...

The debut adult novel from Jessie Cave is a spry yet reflective comedy of sisterhood, loneliness and second chances as a rootless young woman starts to piece her life back together again.Sunset is an unconventional love story about putting yourself...

A sexy standalone novel from New York Times and international bestselling author Elle Kennedy.   Everyone says I'm a bad girl. They're only partly right—I don't let fear rule me, and I certainly don't care what people think. But I draw the...

'A stunning, sexy, surprising, super-modern romance that dares to delve where no romcom has gone before. I loved it.' - Emma Jane Unsworth, author of AnimalsStraight-laced Jean has always done what's expected of her. By her traditional parents, her...

Brimming with Giovanna Fletcher's characteristic positivity and feelgood storytelling, Walking on Sunshine is another unputdownable tale of friendship and love peopled by unforgettable characters.   You never know where life will take...

Travel back to 1703 with Skulduggery Pleasant in this standalone novel featuring all your favorite characters. So many enemies, so little time . . .   Italy, 1703. As the war with Mevolent rages on, the Dead Men are dispatched to a walled town in...

Two sisters, two very different lives: the next edge-of-your-seat thriller by Sophie McKenzie, the bestselling author of Girl Missing.Asha has spent her life on an island community built on the principle of truth. But she discovers she has been...

Seventeen-year-old Aisha hasn't seen her sister June for two years. And now that a calamity is about to end the world in nine months' time, she and her mother decide that it's time to track her down and mend the hurts of the past. Along with Aisha's...

THE DEAD begins one year before the action in THE ENEMY, just after the Disaster. A terrible disease has struck everyone sixteen and over, leaving them either dead or a decomposing, flesh-eating creature. The action starts in a boarding school...

c In this first book in a series set in post-apocalyptic London, children under the age of sixteen must battle for survival against grown-ups who succumbed to a disease that turned them into flesh-eating monsters.In the wake of a devastating...

Mortal Engines is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!   "Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." — School Library Journal, starred review"A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester...

Mortal Engines is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!   "Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." — School Library Journal, starred review"A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester...

Mortal Engines is now a major motion picture produced by Peter Jackson!"Reeve's [Mortal Engines] remains a landmark of visionary imagination." — School Library Journal, starred review"A breathtaking work of imagination, Hester Shaw...

Now available in a stunning hardback edition with a gorgeous sprayed edge, the first instalment of Mafi's bestselling dystopian series introduces a girl who can kill with a single touch. A fragile young teenage girl is held captive. Locked in a cell...

A chilling, thrilling collection of 13 haunting tales. Perfect for every YA reader!From supernatural thrillers to contemporary horror, creepy ancient legends to murders gone wrong - this insatiable anthology is impossible to put down, and even more...

A deliciously sly retelling of The Picture of Dorian Gray for the TikTok generation, Steven's seductive thriller finds the students at an elite drama school being picked off one by one through their enchanted likenesses. A feminist YA...

"In 1920, H.G. Wells wrote a two-volume work which became a best-seller, The Outline of History . . . Why not engage the same subject matter Wells had taken up, but from a perspective fully appreciative of the unique place Christianity held in human...

From three-time Shirley Jackson, World Fantasy, and Nebula Award-winning author Elizabeth Hand comes the first-ever authorized novel to return to the world of Shirley Jackson's  The Haunting of Hill House:  a suspenseful, contemporary,...