Fall’s 24 Most-Anticipated Books: Goodreads Picks for the Season

Time Out New York highlights 24 fall releases Goodreads flags as highly anticipated, spanning contemporary and historical fiction, mystery and thrillers, sci‑fi and fantasy, romance and YA, plus notable nonfiction. Highlights include The Pirate Queen by Ariel Lawhon; Taipei Story by R.F. Kuang; Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel by Lucy Foley; The French Illusion by John Grisham; The Witch by Freida McFadden; Under Story by Chloe Benjamin; Dead Beat by Leigh Bardugo; Kiss Slay Replay by Rachel Harrison; The Witches of Cambridge by Alice Hoffman; Nightjars by Michael Wehunt; Hawk & Sparrow by Ayana Gray; The Sixth Faction by Veronica Roth; The Last King of Faerie by Cassandra Clare; and nonfiction picks such as Crossing the Wine-Dark Sea by Emily Wilson and The American Way of Killing by Malcolm Gladwell—selected from early reviews and readers’ Want to Read shelves to forecast the season’s buzziest titles.