Most Popular Books Published in October 2023

Komi has a smartphone, which should make getting to 100 friends easier, but she doesn’t know how to use it. The humorously angsty series marches on!The journey to 100 friends begins with a single conversation.Socially anxious high school student...

The adventure is over but life goes on for an elf mage just beginning to learn what living is all about.Elf mage Frieren and her courageous fellow adventurers have defeated the Demon King and brought peace to the land. But Frieren will long outlive the...

From the creator of MURDER-FALCON and WONDER WOMAN: DEAD EARTH comes the wrestling adventure of the decade! Lona Steelrose wants to be a pro-wrestler, but she's living under the shadow of her mother, the best to ever do it. Everything changes when a...

Alain de Botton's redemptive volume charts a course from collapse to recovery with kindness, compassion and wisdom.   “Alain de Botton, one of our era’s most uncommonly perceptive, lyrical, and lucid existential contemplatives.”...

In A Brief History of Black Holes, award-winning University of Oxford researcher Dr Becky Smethurst charts five hundred years of scientific breakthroughs in astronomy and astrophysics.Right now, you are orbiting a black hole.The Earth orbits the...

Stephen Hawking's worldwide bestseller, A Brief History of Time, has been a landmark volume in scientific writing. Its author's engaging voice is one reason, and the compelling subjects he addresses is another; the nature of space and time, the role of...

Goncharov was the leading Russian writer of the 1850s and, as the author of The Same Old Story, was regarded as "the real heir to Nikolai Gogol". But the publication of Turgenev's first full-length novel, A Nest of the Gentry, in 1859, at around the same...

The first unabridged publication of Goncharov's masterpiece, which took him twenty years to finish. This new translation is by the award-winning translator Stephen Pearl.After his university studies and a short stint in the army and the civil service,...

Filled with dreams of pursuing a career as a poet, the young Alexander Aduev moves from the country to St Petersburg, where he takes up lodgings next to his uncle Pyotr, a shrewd and world-weary businessman. As his ideals are challenged by disappointment...

Discover the new Penguin Crime and Espionage seriesA master criminal and a master detective are locked in battle. Who will win?They call her the 'Dark Angel'. Queen of Tokyo's underworld, Mme Midorikawa is famed for her beauty, her jewels and the tattoo...

Nicholas Sparks meets The Empty Man in this modern Southern Gothic horror about a palm reader swept up in a disturbing missing-child case with a twist you won’t see coming. After striking out on her own as a teen mom, Madi Price is forced...

Concise lessons in design, drawing, the creative process, and presentation, from the basics of “How to Draw a Line” to the complexities of color theory. This is a book that students of architecture will want to keep in the studio and in their...

The haunting young adult gothic romance classic that launched Virginia Andrews' incredible best-selling career. Up in the attic, four secrets are hidden. Four blonde, beautiful, innocent little secrets, struggling to stay alive... Chris, Cathy, Cory and...

Meet the traders who supply the world with oil, metal and food - no matter how corrupt, war-torn or famine-stricken the source.The modern world is built on commodities - from the oil that fuels our cars to the metals that power our smartphones.We rarely...

The #1 bestselling economist shows how capitalism has been replaced by a more exploitative system, technofeudalism, in which the owners of big tech have become the world's feudal overlords.* A GUARDIAN BEST FORTHCOMING BOOK OF 2023 * THE TIMES BIGGEST...

Code Red is what thrillers are all about — scintillating action, a strong hero and villains you love to root against. All that, and a plot that engages remarkably well with the modern world. Mitch Rapp returns to make a mortal enemy of...

Matthew McConaughey is known around the world for a variety of admirable reasons. When his best-selling Greenlights hit book stores in 2020, McConaughey's influence and inspiration somehow reached an even higher level. Now, paired with gorgeous...

Dark humor and quirky horror unite in this tale of clashing heroes and monsters from the creator of Tokyo Ghoul and Tokyo Ghoul: re!Best friends Tokio and Azuma do everything together, even if most of the time it feels like Tokio is just...

The Wheel of Time is now an original series on Prime Video, starring Rosamund Pike as Moiraine!Since its debut in 1990, The Wheel of Time® by Robert Jordan has captivated millions of readers around the globe with its scope, originality, and...

Juan Cabrillo and the crew of the Oregon must track down a nuclear torpedo before it unleashes World War III in this electrifying new installment of the #1 New York Times bestselling series.When Juan Cabrillo fails to capture the...