New Stories for Your Book Club To Read in Fall 2026

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a magnificent novel about the wondrous, mysterious nature of the human heart. A thrilling feat of world-building and a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, one that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore the fundamental question: What does it mean to love? Soon to be a major motion picture directed by Taika Waititi and starring Jenna Ortega!

#1 bestselling author John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world. Tender, heartbreaking, and shrewdly funny, this is a story as only Green can tell it. Hollywood, Ending is a deeply observed novel about the tension between a public and a private life, and the audacity to pursue the kind of love we all deserve.

A heartwarming novel about what it means to chase the life — and love — of your dreams, from the bestselling author of The Unsinkable Greta James. Full of Jennifer E. Smith’s signature heart and warmth, Rabbit Rabbit is a powerful romantic novel about paths not taken … and what happens when you meet the right person at the wrong time.

The New York Times bestselling author of The In-Between presents a vulnerable, moving memoir about the unraveling of her marriage and her evolving journey to find beauty in life’s endings and beginnings. Like her beloved first memoir, How to Let Go is a beautiful reminder that every moment — even a difficult and complicated one — is an opportunity: Until we take our final breath, we always have the ability to connect, to grow, and to begin again.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Trust turns to the future with a novel that examines the place of technology in the American imagination. Combining Dickensian odyssey, family drama, and scientific thriller, Ply poignantly charts the tenuous boundaries of selfhood and the distance that inevitably stands between us and those we love.

No novel in English has given more pleasure than Pride and Prejudice, one of the great classics in literature. Critics in every generation reexamine and reinterpret it, but the rest of us simply fall in love with it — and with its wonderfully charming and intelligent heroine Lizzy Bennet, as she famously meets her match in Mr. Fitzwilliam Darcy. Here is the official Netflix series tie-in edition of Austen’s most beloved novel.

In this highly anticipated sequel, Liane Moriarty examines the complexities of modern women’s lives, shining light on family dynamics and long-hidden truths with wit and compassion. Whether you’ve read Big Little Lies or not, this is the perfect novel for longtime fans and new readers alike.

The legendary actor behind Roots, Star Trek: The Next Generation, and Reading Rainbow shares never-before-told stories from a life that has shaped generations — told at last on his own terms. Generous, deeply moving, and illustrated with personal family photos, Take My Word for It is a courageous self-portrait of an iconic artist.

Dartrine Beaumont believes her mother’s sudden death has left her alone in the world — until she learns of long-lost wealthy relatives living in Florida. Confused but delighted by the possibility of extended family, Dart travels to her grandmother’s stately Gilded Age mansion just in time to stake a claim on an unusual inheritance: An alligator farming empire. But as Dart uncovers the truth about her violent birthright, she faces a terrible choice: Accept her place in her family’s grim legacy or forge a new path by slaying a different beast entirely.

The award-winning, bestselling author of Station Eleven and Sea of Tranquility returns with a breathtaking novel of doubles, shadow worlds, and fractured timelines as a man disappears from a glittering Los Angeles party, and a woman — a gunrunner, an art collector, an operative of the State — searches for answers.

A paradigm-shattering exploration of how we fight and how we build healthy conflict, from the author of The Art of Gathering. In The Art of Fighting, Priya Parker explains that we can’t form and grow effective relationships without a fight. She rejects the idea that conflict is abnormal or that good groups don’t fight. All groups change and evolve; indeed, it’s because people disagree that good groups flourish. The Art of Fighting is a vital primer to help all of us understand how to do that.

From the #1 New York Times bestselling author of By Any Other Name comes a riveting novel about the risks we take to protect the ones we love in a world where crisis is always just around the corner.

Subjects of the hit Netflix show, The Hunting Wives, share more than target practice, martinis, and bad behavior in this novel of obsession, seduction, and murder.

When Sophie O’Neill moves to a small Texas town in order to settle down with her family, she meets Margot Banks, an alluring socialite who is part of an elite clique secretly known as the Hunting Wives. Sophie is drawn to Margot and swept into her mysterious world of late-night target practice and dangerous partying. But when the body of a teenage girl is discovered in the woods where the Hunting Wives meet, Sophie finds herself in the middle of a murder investigation and her life spirals out of control.

The New York Times bestselling author of The Immortalists returns with an intimate yet epic love story — and a sweeping odyssey of scientific discovery. Under Story invites us to consider the promise of this life, what might lie beyond it, and how far we would go for more time with the people we love, cementing Chloe Benjamin’s place among our best, and most lasting, storytellers.

A desperate writer’s pursuit of a powerful literary agent takes a dark turn in this new novel from the internationally bestselling author of The Hitchcock Hotel and Darling Rose Gold.

Now in paperback, Cursed Daughters is about a young woman who must shake off a family curse and the widely held belief that she is the reincarnation of her dead cousin in this wickedly funny, brilliantly perceptive novel about love, female rivalry, and superstition from the author of the smash hit My Sister, the Serial Killer.

She had always felt that she must stay in the shadows, that if she asked for little, she could not feel loss. But here was life and joy.

A mesmerizing coming-of-age story of an extraordinary young woman in turn-of-the-century France as she rises to find a life she’d never dreamed possible. Odette is a heroine for the ages — complex and flawed, but compelling and full of warmth — and we share her joy as she begins to soar.

A mesmerizing portrait of an aging man’s last pilgrimage, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Girls and The Guest. Hypnotic and startlingly original, Switzy probes the depths of human consciousness, revealing what a man is left with when the accomplishments and compromises that have defined him, and the illusions he’s relied on, vanish.

For 43 days, Tavish Advani has been the happiest man in the world — until his new life turns to ash, his wealthy in-laws’ house going up in a fiery explosion. His badly injured wife lies in a coma, her family all but annihilated. Desperately trying to clear his name as the authorities zero in on him, he begins his own investigation into the fire — and learns that his wife’s picture-perfect family may have been nothing but a meticulously constructed mirage. The truth is much darker than anything Tavish could’ve imagined …

From the New York Times bestselling author of Behold the Dreamers and How Beautiful We Were, a captivating novel about love lost — and the weight of regret. What do we owe to those who have hurt us? Are we defined by our worst moments and our deepest regrets? And, more than anything, can forgiveness ease our suffering? Moving and full of life, Every Story Is a Love Story charts the uneven path from heartbreak to healing.

A young model is catapulted from her life in Jamaica to the international world of high fashion in this tender, powerful novel about the distance one woman must travel to find out what it means to be truly free — by the critically acclaimed and award-winning author of Patsy and Here Comes the Sun.

When two young men meet during a tech internship, it sparks an intense friendship — and even more intense competition — in this sweeping novel of privilege, identity, and ambition from the acclaimed author of What We Were Promised. Nostalgic, heart-wrenching, and propulsive, Tiger’s Mouth is a nuanced portrait of complex friendship, family dynamics, and love in its most unexpected forms.

Three lives, 100 years, one ghost town: An explosive novel about a mysterious place called Sunrise, where the secrets of the past refuse to stay buried, from the New York Times bestselling author of The Tiger’s Wife.

A sweeping historical adventure inspired by the life of Grace O’Malley, the legendary Irish folk heroine who risked everything to defend her people. Venture onto the high seas with the thrilling latest from the New York Times bestselling author of The Frozen River and I Was Anastasia.

Gloria Steinem offers an inspiring and candid memoir of her early life and the journey that made her one of the world’s most influential activists and storytellers. Moving between past and present, Steinem examines the progress and setbacks of six decades of activism. As she reflects on the movements she helped build and the victories won for women’s and human rights, she also looks ahead, urging new generations to imagine bolder, more inclusive paths forward.

A thrilling tale of post-World War II London, where peace proves as tricky to navigate as the past, from the #1 international bestselling author of Life After Life. With her unique voice and her skill at conjuring the past, Kate Atkinson turns her light on a nation reconstructing its image and the lengths to which some might go to manipulate the outcome. Witty, brilliantly plotted, and with an unforgettable cast of characters, Our Noble Selves paints a vivid portrait of a former empire struggling with its identity in the aftermath of war.

Becky Bloomwood has a fabulous flat in London’s trendiest neighborhood, a troupe of glamorous socialite friends, and a closet brimming with the season’s must-haves. The only trouble is, she can’t actually afford it — not any of it … This 25th Anniversary Edition of the delightful #1 New York Times bestseller features a new introduction and stunning package with sprayed edges!

In this clever and surprising thriller about the perils of modern dating and the female rage it sometimes inspires, a board game designer starts playing by her own rules, and losers won’t be tolerated.

A wickedly funny office comedy about one bookseller’s (occasionally) ludicrous attempts to understand her manager while against all odds clinging to her passion for books — the perfect read for anyone who has felt that they can’t even … with the idiots among us.

The world’s most celebrated thriller writer and author of The Da Vinci Code returns with his most stunning novel yet—a propulsive, twisty, thought-provoking masterpiece that will entertain readers as only Dan Brown can do. In The Secret of Secrets, Robert Langdon is plunged into the dual worlds of futuristic science and historical lore — navigating a labyrinth of codes and symbols … and finally uncovering a shocking truth about a secret project that will forever change the way we think about the human mind. Now in paperback!

The story of a runaway mother’s 10 days of freedom — and the pain, desire, longing, and wonder we find on the messy road to enlightenment — from Pulitzer Prize winner Quiara Alegría Hudes. “The White Hot has the effect of pressing your hand to a barbed live wire. April’s is one of the most memorable voices I’ve encountered in recent fiction … [A] brilliant depiction of a woman learning to transform her rage into something resembling transcendence” (The New York Times Book Review). Now in paperback!