What Will You Read for October 2024?

By Rachel Tran | July 23 2024 | News Staff Picks

Request eGalleys of some of our favorite October titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads! Remember, voting for the October list ends on 9/1.

View our featured picks below, or browse an extended collection here.

View a Spanish language collection of October releases here.

Every Valley

The Desperate Lives and Troubled Times That Made Handel's Messiah

Charles King

From New York Times bestselling historian and National Book Critics Circle Award finalist Charles King, the moving untold story of the eighteenth-century men and women behind the making of Handel’s Messiah

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Society of Lies

A Novel

Lauren Ling Brown

When a young woman is found dead on her college campus, her sister doesn't believe it was an accident—and her search for answers leads her closer to home than she ever would have imagined in this thrilling debut novel from an exciting new talent.

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Into the Uncut Grass

Trevor Noah, Sabina Hahn

A story for all ages from the author of the #1 bestselling Born a Crime

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This Cursed House

Del Sandeen

In this Southern gothic horror debut, a young Black woman abandons her life in 1960s Chicago for a position with a mysterious family in New Orleans, only to discover the dark truth: They’re under a curse, and they think she can break it.

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Clean

A Novel

Alia Trabucco Zerán

From a global star and International Booker Prize finalist, a razor-sharp, unforgettable novel about a maid who’s seen too much and a family at a breaking point