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October 2026 Book Releases
48
items Books I'm looking forward to being released this month organized by genre and described by plot and tropes! Lots of thrillers and mysteries this month, which is perfect for the fall!
Sections
6
Romance
Fantasy
Horror
Thriller/Mystery
Dark Academia
Dystopian
Romance
A second-chance romance following a young woman who wakes up in the hospital with no memory of the past six years, only to find that she apparently married the one man she can’t stand—her arrogant and infuriating former boarding school rival. One of ...
Once, Again, Always by Amanda Gayle
A woman reunites with her first love to solve the mystery of the strange occurrences plaguing her family’s pear orchard—only to discover the land holds more magic than she thought—in this cozy second chance romance. The perfect book for fall!
Under the Orchard's Spell by Ann Adams
A Dirty Dancing-inspired contemporary romcom! Need I say more?
It's Only Dancing by Jasmine Guillory
A speculative romance about an aspiring New York lifestyle influencer who gets trapped in her own "day in the life" video, with only a mysterious stranger to help her break out.
Once in a Timeline by Iman Hariri-Kia
A second-chance romance that takes place over one night inside the Metropolitan Museum of Art!
The Museum of Modern Love by Mariko Turk
When a PhD candidate inherits more grief than she can quantify, an attractive musician—and his mysterious jacket—unravels everything she thought she knew about love, loss, and reality.
Solar Eclipse of the Heart by Kate Robb
A jaded grim reaper and a woman who wants another chance at life give ‘til death do us part a new meaning in this paranormal romance! Another release that’s at the top of my list!
Love You to Death by Jenna Levine
A witchy, sapphic rom-com about a mischievous runaway bride and her prim-and-proper Witchery Council rival who must fake-date in order to catch a would-be murderer—and accidentally fall in love. Such Wednesday x Enid vibes!
Vengefully Matched by Audrey Goldberg
Two rival tour guides end up hexed by a matchmaking ghost, forcing them into forced proximity.
Entities to Lovers by Mallory Marlowe
A spicy, angsty, slow burn F1 academy sports romance about fast cars, forbidden attraction, and family secrets.
Crash Course by Piper Lawson
The holiday romances have begun!!
Mistletoe All the Way by Lauren Blakely
Another holiday romance!
Counting Down To You by Emily Stone
The conclusion to the Gods of the Game series!
The Keeper by Ana Huang
Fantasy
ACOTAR 6!!! Must I say more?
A Court of Splintered Harmony by Sarah J Maas
A debu romantasy inspired by Robin Hood!
Wench by Erynne Rivers
A romantic portal fantasy where a chambermaid’s and an intergalactic bounty hunter’s worlds—and hearts—collide through a magical book, threatening to rewrite fate.
Written in Starlight by Sloane Brooks
A young woman bargains with a demon to save her brothers, only to lose her heart in this slow-burn romantasy about dark magic, unlikely love, and the imperfect beauty of mortality.
Reap & Sow by Charlotte B. Plumb
A romantasy adventure set in the modern day that's based on the true history of Atahualpa, the last emperor of the Inca people!
The Lost Guardian by Natalia Hernandez
The first in the Sons of Salem series- a seductive, dark why-choose romance filled with cursed bloodlines, secret societies, and a powerful heroine destined to save the coven.
Hallowed Bones by Lucy Smoke
The 3rd book in the Hurrican Wars series!
This Shattered Tempest by Thea Guanzon
A fast-paced epic fantasy of tarot magic and deadly competitions!
The Tarot Trials by Katee Robert
The conclusion to the Villains series!
Victorious by V.E. Schwab
A goblin changeling caught between the human and fey worlds must find a way to save her home
Goblin Market by A.J. Hackwith
Rivals, immortals, and Marie Lu? Take my money now!
Mortal Things by Marie Lu
Horror
A supernatural horror in which a series of car accidents traps a group of strangers at a dive bar.
Dive Bar at the End of the Road by Kelley Armstrong
A woman reflects on her life and regrets in this haunting, unsettling meditation on mortality in which death takes the form of a black dog.
Find Me Where It Ends by Cassandra Khaw
A skeptical reality TV show producer and a misanthropic ghosthunter must team up to survive a shoot from hell.
House Haunters by K.C. Jones
Seven ballerinas. One fallen primadonna. The audition of a lifetime. And a mysterious house that swallows the weakest one by one.
The Finalist by Faith Gladwin
After fearing it all her life, a young woman embraces her ability to see ghosts after a murder occurs that appears dangerously linked to her past.
Portrait of a Haunting by Madison Tyler Nelson
As fascination turns to obsession, two women drag each other into an academic horror of forgery, murder, and rage
Your Beloved Remains by Quinn Connor
A YA horror fantasy where a girl must save her best friend from a deadly Void.
What Feeds Below by Tatiana Schlote Bonne
A sharp satire that follows a murderous duo who enact revenge on predatory men in the fine art world.
My Violent Muse by Rosie Sycamore
Reuniting with long lost relatives takes a turn for the unusual when Dartrine Beaumont discovers that the reason for their generational wealth is a cutthroat alligator farming empire. This swampy Floridian gothic is full of curses, creaky mansions an...
The House Built on Alligator Bones by Sophia Huneycutt
A soldier’s desperate kidnapping unleashes Hecate’s power, pulling captor and captive into a labyrinth where gods and monsters reign. As nightmares close in, love and madness blur, and the labyrinth reveals more than meets the eye.
Hecate's Labyrinth by Michael Lightsey
A Hamlet reimagining with a gothic, sapphic twist creating a haunting love story exploring grief, revenge and longing.
Rottenheart by Kat Dunn
A psychological body horror with an original take on the vampire myth in which a woman named Beatrice serves her vampire coven as a broodmother, nursing the little undead through their first years, but motherhood takes a disturbing turn when her hung...
Milkteeth by Caitlin Starling
Two professors with monstrous secrets become entangled in a deadly academic rivary when bodies start dropping on campus in this gory, seductive, sapphic horror-romance.
Lethal Kiss by Taylor Grothe
Thriller/Mystery
A genre-bending thriller following a retired photographer who begins to hear the murders of women she knew in her punk youth, forcing her to reckon with the past she's desperate to forget.
Hear the Dead by Ann Dávila Cardinal
A Mormon wife undergoes a new beauty procedure, but the cost of perfection proves all too high…
Eternal Glow by Heather Gay
After her life unravels, Julie flees to her family’s Massachusetts estate to care for her grandmother. But not everything is idyllic in this old house, which has a haunting history dating back to the witch trials, and Julie discovers a terrifying tru...
The Witch by Freida McFadden
After a young Anishinaabe woman vanishes, her sister tries to pick up the pieces of her broken family, even as her investigations put her at risk of suffering a similar fate.
Another Name for Red by Amber Blaeser-Wardzala
After a true crime podcast reopens her cousin’s murder case, a woman must confront her past at a glamorous European castle where she follows a trail of toxic family secrets and deadly lie
Please Enjoy Your Stay by Tara Goedjen
A domestic suspense exploring the lengths a woman trapped in an unhappy marriage by an ironclad trust fund clause will go to in order to escape her greedy, gaslighting husband.
One of Us Must Die by Zelly Ruskin
An amnesic psychiatrist returns to the hospital where she was institutionalized as a teen to find answers.
Resurrection Kill by Laura Joh Rowland
Dark Academia
A dark academia enemies-to-lovers fantasy where an undead librarian and a shapeshifter much solve the mystery behind magical artifacts going missing
Nightcurse by Emma Hinds
A dark academia romantic fantasy where young woman must embrace Dark Magic and an alliance with a deadly Wielder to fight a powerful threat cloaked in shadow.
Our Dark Incantations by Wanda Hellmund
An ambitious alchemist must uncover her university's dark secrets after it's headmistress' murder while trying to escape from her mysterious past in modern-day Paris.
Mothsblood by Lynn D. Jung
Dystopian
A return to the Divergent world!
The Sixth Faction by Veronica Roth