Most Popular Books Published in October 2023

A contagious readalong with hilarious illustrations, this picture book—one of many in the Dinosaur series—addresses the very real issue of getting sick, but under the entertaining guise of dinosaur hijinks. A playful peek into the homes of...

I will love you till the cows come home from a trip to Mars through skies unknown, in a rocket ship made of glass and stone… I will love you till the cows come home. Love knows no bounds in this tender tribute to the depths of family love. For...

What better way to wind down at the end of the day than with this charming, rhythmic board book about getting ready for bed—featuring a pile of loudly snoozing dinosaurs.Ah, all those dinosaurs look so cute in their pajamas. See them yawn and...

The #1 New York Times bestselling children's book and beloved bedtime story! As the sun sets behind the big construction site, all the hardworking trucks get ready to say goodnight.One by one, Crane Truck, Cement Mixer, Dump Truck,...

A family of “faceless” nobles reside in a secretive mansion alongside their living dolls, who act as both servant and face. Although Kate Shadow and her living doll, Emilico, hope to be one such pair, their impending “debut” and...

Baldo and Lau have uncovered the blood collection scheme at the Athena Sanitorium for Former Service men in record time, but the situation is not as cut-and-dry as they had assumed. While chief nurse Ada wants nothing more than to wash her hands of the...

The outrageous shojo comedy finally comes to print! A boy and a girl come to share each other's secrets: She remixes her real life and fantasies into a pervy Twitter feed, and he's selfish and manipulative on the inside. The relationship (?) that results...

Fumi has finally realized how she feels about Akatsuki—only to be met with a rival for his affections! Sure, she may have shared some tender moments with him, but how is she to compete with Katsura, an adept working woman determined to snag the...

A HEARTBEAT AWAYWith her pregnancy all but confirmed, Sachi decides to visit a clinic alone and in secret. She indicates that she plans to have an abortion while filling out all the paperwork, but once she hears the quiet heartbeat of the life forming...

In this poignant and award-winning romantic shojo drama, a teenage couple's lives are changed forever after a positive pregnancy test.Sachi and her boyfriend Takara are your average high school couple. They go to school together, hang out, and even...

NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • The second volume of The Passenger series, from The Pulitzer Prize–winning author of The Road • An intimate portrait of grief and longing, as a young woman in a psychiatric...

Six friends.The holiday of their dreams.One night that changed it all . . .1989: The tunes are loud and the clothes are louder when a group of friends arrives in Mallorca for a post-graduation holiday of decadence and debauchery at a luxury villa.A...

"Pacing of the breakneck variety. Short chapters, funny asides, lethally potent descriptions: They all contribute to a frenetic page-turning momentum… you’ll have great fun reading it." —The New York Times Book ReviewIntroducing...

Narcotics office Cal Moore's orders were to look into the city's latest drug killing. Instead, he ends up in a motel room with a fatal bullet wound to the head and a suicide note stuffed in his back pocket. Working the case, LAPD detective Harry Bosch is...

Forensics expert Laughton Rees hunts an unusually clever killer who appears to be staging murder scenes just for her in this twisty new psychological thriller by the bestselling author of the Sanctus trilogy. How do you catch a killer if the victim...

Detective Eira Sjodin, introduced in the electrifying Swedish crime thriller We Know You Remember, races to solve a disappearance that hits chillingly close to home in the second book in the High Coast series, hailed by People as...

When a Sri Lankan immigrant is discovered in a canal, Brunetti becomes embroiled in a labyrinthine case involving terrorism, Italian politics and his own student days in this page-turning addition to Leon's bestselling series. On a cold November...

A panoramic revisionist portrait of the nineteenth-century invention that is transforming the twenty-first-century world“Excellent . . . calls to mind Bill Bryson, John McPhee, Rebecca Solnit.”—The New York Times Book...

“A blow-by-blow account … An important corrective to the conventional view of China's rise.”—Financial TimesFrom internationally renowned historian Frank Dikötter, winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize, a...

One of our most important public intellectuals reveals the hidden history of our current global crisis.Longlisted for the Orwell PrizeA New York Times Notable Book of 2017Named a Best Book of the Year by Slate and NPRHow can we...