Most Popular Books Published in October 2023

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...

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...

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,...

A captivating collection of ghost stories from “one of the most gifted writers working today” ( New York Times ), The Night Side of the River  is as ingeniously provocative as it is downright spooky.In this delightfully chilling...

Conrad the cat returns to solve another purr-fectly fiendish mystery as a brutal murder and audacious art theft call for feline investigation of the highest order. Retired police detective Lulu Lewis's life changed forever when she met a street cat...

The visionary writer and director of Get Out, Us, and Nope, and founder of Monkeypaw Productions, curates this groundbreaking anthology of all-new stories of Black horror, exploring not only the terrors of the supernatural but the...

The siege of Calais and pirate ships spell new dangers for the Essex Dogs as the Hundred Years' War rages on in the second part of the gripping trilogy from the popular historian and broadcaster. For the Dogs, the war has only just begun. Caught up in...

Masterfully combining a cosmic quest with the intimacies of an individual life, MacInnes’ stunning and sombre speculative novel sees a researcher of ancient algae make a discovery which will propel her on a journey across the universe...

A drag queen initiates her protégée into the magical arts in this phantasmagoric epic, the first novel from the legendary comics writer and New York Times bestselling author.“Grant Morrison is a modern mythmaker...