Move over PSL, these new fiction books are what's trending this fall. Find the best new book for your book club and fun, fall food and drink pairings.
If you or your book club are looking for new fall reads to spice up your discussions, you've come to the right place. Fall is the perfect time to curl up with a good book and indulge in the cozy atmosphere that the season brings. Whether you're a fan of thrilling mysteries, heartwarming friendships, thought-provoking dramas, or captivating historical fiction, the options are endless.
We've pulled together some of our favorite picks for each of these book club themes:
Literary fiction
Women's fiction
Historical fiction
Thrillers and mysteries
World literature
Friendship fiction
And as always, our editors at Page & Pairing have discovered delicious, fall food and drink pairings for each category.
We open up our bookshelves and fridge by sharing our current reads with you. Check them out!
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New Thriller and Mystery Book Club Picks for Fall 2023
There's something about the chilling air and the anticipation of Halloween that makes diving into a gripping mystery novel all the more exciting. From psychological thrillers to classic whodunits, there are plenty of options to choose from that will keep you on the edge of your seat.
The bestselling, award-winning author of The Power delivers a dazzling tour de force where a handful of friends plot a daring heist to save the world from the tech giants whose greed threatens life as we know it.
The New York Times bestselling author of the Reese's Book Club pick The Last Story of Mina Lee returns with a timely and surprising new novel about a family's search for answers following the disappearance of their mother.
An evocative family drama and a riveting mystery about the ferocious pull of motherhood for two very different women--from the New York Times bestselling author of Searching for Sylvie Lee and Girl in Translation.
From the critically acclaimed author of In My Dreams I Hold A Knife and The Last Housewife comes Midnight is the Darkest Hour, a gothic Southern thriller about a killer haunting a small Louisiana town, where two outcasts--the preacher's daughter and the boy from the wrong side of the tracks--hold the key to uncovering the truth.
A woman risks everything to end her family's centuries-old curse, solve her mother's disappearance, and find love in this mesmerizing novel from the New York Times bestselling author of Spells for Forgetting.
From the author of the cult hit Boy Parts comes a chilling, brilliantly told story of murder among a group of teenage girls--a powerful and disturbing novel as piercing in its portrait of young women as Emma Cline's The Girls.
A dark and stylish novel of psychological suspense about a young theater critic drawn into a dangerous game that blurs the lines between reality and performance.
The dangers of Alaska aren't limited to storms, starvation, and grizzly bears. Sometimes the most dangerous thing is the person you love.
New Literary Fiction Book Club Picks for Fall 2023
If you're in the mood for something more thought-provoking, fall is the perfect time to dive into a drama or literary fiction novel. These genres often explore complex themes and offer deep insights into the human condition. From exploring moral dilemmas to examining societal issues, these books are sure to spark intense discussions and provide ample material for your book club meetings.
The award-winning author of How Much of These Hills Is Gold returns with a rapturous and revelatory novel about a young chef whose discovery of pleasure alters her life and, indirectly, the world.
From the acclaimed author of The Atmospherians--"a Fight Club for the Millennial Generation" (Mat Johnson)--a gender-bending, body-switching novel that explores marriage, identity, and sex, and raises profound questions about the nature of true partnership.
The most profound book yet from the visionary author of Milk Fed and The Pisces, a darkly funny novel about grief that becomes a desert survival story.
A wild story of female friendship, language, and power, from France to colonial America to the moon, from 1775 to this very moment: a historical novel like no other.
An imaginative, feminist, and brilliantly relevant-to-today retelling of Orwell's 1984, from the point of view of Winston Smith's lover, Julia, by critically acclaimed novelist Sandra Newman.
The fourth novel in the internationally bestselling Before the Coffee Gets Cold Series – Featuring signature heartwarming characters and wistful storytelling, in the beautifully haunting Before We Say Goodbye, Kawaguchi asks: Who would you visit if you could travel through time?
A dazzling collection of eleven interconnected stories from the bestselling, award-winning author of Shrines of Gaiety and Life After Life, with everything that readers love about her novels--the inventiveness, the verbal felicity, the sharp observations on human nature, and the deeply satisfying emotional wallop.
From #1 New York Times bestselling author Jennifer Weiner comes a warmhearted and empowering new novel about love, family, friendship, secrets, and a life-changing journey.
New Women's Fiction Book Club Picks for Fall 2023
With a diverse array of voices and perspectives, these books spark meaningful dialogues on identity and empowerment that resonate deeply. Choose a women's fiction book and embark on a literary adventure that not only entertains but also enlightens, making your book club gatherings truly unforgettable.
An original and hilarious satire of both our political culture and those who rage against it, The Book of Ayn follows a writer from New York to Los Angeles to Lesbos as she searches for artistic and spiritual fulfillment in radical selfishness, altruism, and ego-death.
The year is 2050. Ava and her girlfriend live in what's left of Brooklyn, and though they love each other, it's hard to find happiness while the effects of climate change rapidly eclipse their world. Soon, it won't be safe outside at all. The only people guaranteed survival are the ones whose applications are accepted to The Inside Project, a series of weather-safe, city-sized structures around the world.
An intensely gripping reimagining of Mary Shelley's youth, vividly exploring innocence, young love, gothic mystery and the roots of her literary masterpiece, Frankenstein.
From the PEN-Faulkner Award-winning author of The Great Man comes a novel about grief, love, growing older, and the complications of family that is the story of a fifty-something woman who goes home--reluctantly--to Maine after the death of her mother.
Pushing intimacy to its limits in prose of unearthly beauty, Vauhini Vara explores the nature of being a child, parent, friend, sibling, neighbor, or lover, and the relationships between self and others.
New Historical Fiction Book Club Picks for Fall 2023
For history buffs, fall is also a great time to delve into the world of historical fiction. These novels transport you to different eras and allow you to immerse yourself in richly detailed settings. Whether you're interested in ancient civilizations or the World Wars, there's a historical fiction novel out there that will transport you and your fellow readers back in time.
From Jesmyn Ward--the two-time National Book Award winner, youngest winner of the Library of Congress Prize for Fiction, and MacArthur Fellow--comes a haunting masterpiece, sure to be an instant classic, about an enslaved girl in the years before the Civil War.
Following her New York Times bestselling debut Fifty Words for Rain, Asha Lemmie's next sweeping and evocative novel introduces a determined young woman's search for the larger-than-life literary figure she believes to be her father.
From the bestselling author of The Garden of Evening Mists, a spellbinding novel about love and betrayal, colonialism and revolution, storytelling and redemption.
From New York Times bestselling author Katherine Howe comes a daring first-hand account of one young woman's unbelievable adventure as one of the most terrifying sea rovers of all time.
From acclaimed and bestselling novelist Zadie Smith, a kaleidoscopic work of historical fiction set against the legal trial that divided Victorian England, about who gets to tell their story--and who gets to be believed.
A Woman Forges a Treacherous Path to Save Hundreds from the Guillotine
Geneviève Fouquier-Tinville dresses like a man to attend a forbidden university and convinces her father to hire her as a court clerk. She saves Louis LaGarde's life while copying lists of names scheduled for execution, but must face the truth of her own heart. She fights for her life and the lives of those she's come to love. Sponsored
New Friendship Fiction Book Club Picks for Fall 2023
Unite your group through shared laughter, tears, and insights as you embark on a meaningful journey into the heart and profound bonds of friendship. When you choose a book with friendship as its core theme, it adds a layer of relatability that readers from all walks of life will love.
In the vein of Such a Fun Age, a whip-smart, compulsively readable novel about two upper-class stay-at-home mothers--one white, one Black--living in a "perfect" suburb that explores motherhood, friendship, and the true meaning of sisterhood amidst the backdrop of America's all-too-familiar racial reckoning.
From the bestselling author of The Vibrant Years comes an emotional story of three women navigating ugly truths and safe lies with only love to guide them on a journey of motherhood, friendship, and life.
The New York Times-bestselling, National Book Award-winning author of The Friend and What Are You Going Through brings her singular voice to a story about modern life and connection.
From Perfectly Impossible author Elizabeth Topp comes an unforgettably searing novel about a band of mothers who are forced to reckon with themselves after the unexpected loss of one of their own.
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER – An intimate, sharply funny novel about a couple heading toward their wedding, and the three friends who may draw them apart.
From Lola Akinmade Åkerström, international bestselling author of In Every Mirror She's Black, comes the highly anticipated second novel, focusing on the lives of three Black women as they fight their own personal struggles in one of the most egalitarian societies, Sweden.
New World literature fiction Book Club Picks for Fall 2023
Transport your book club to a world of literary diversity and cultural richness by selecting a captivating book penned by an international author. Immerse yourselves in the vivid tapestry of new landscapes, traditions, and perspectives, as you embark on a reading voyage that transcends borders.
The internationally beloved author of Kitchen and Dead-End Memories returns with a beautiful and heartfelt story of a young woman haunted by her childhood and the inescapable bitterness that inevitably comes from knowing the truth.
My Work is a novel about the unique and fundamental experience of giving birth, mixing different literary forms--fiction, essay, poetry, memoir, and letters--to explore the relationship between motherhood, work, individuality, and literature."Olga Ravn writes dazzlingly about the work of motherhood and the work of writing. Reading Ravn's book, you run through the whole gamut of human emotion, as though you too were a new mother: tears, laughter, anger, fear, pain, frustration. This is powerful writing that's hard to put down."--Politiken
From the best-selling author of Three Strong Women comes a thrilling novel about a triple homicide that dredges up unsettling memories from a lawyer's childhood.
Award-winning author Michelle Porter makes her fiction debut with an enchanting and original story of the unrivaled desire for healing and the power of familial bonds across five generations of Métis women and the land and bison that surround them.
A powerful, intimate novel that masterfully explores what constitutes a meaningful life in a violent world--from the award-winning author of Open City.
The first short story collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author and master of the form since her number one New York Times bestseller Unaccustomed Earth - Rome--metropolis and monument, suspended between past and future, multi-faceted and metaphysical--is the protagonist, not the setting, of these nine stories.
A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly arrows at anyone who tries to come ashore. As the web of modernity draws ever closer, the island represents the last chapter in the Age of Discovery--the final holdout in a completely connected world. Sponsored
Discover the captivating world of women's, historical, thriller, friendship, and world fiction books, and elevate your book club experience to new heights. Immerse yourselves in rich narratives that ignite thought-provoking conversations that transcend the pages.
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