We’re saying goodbye to summer and welcoming the cooler days ahead with these first staff picks for fall. What are we reading? Scroll to find out!

“The library, to me, was two magical things at the same time: the safest and coziest place on earth with a thousand adventures snuggled up inside of it.”

From the bestselling author of The Dog Stars and The Last Ranger, a novel about two men—friends since boyhood—who emerge from the woods of rural Maine to a dystopian country racked by bewildering violence.

From #1 New York Times bestselling author Ava Reid comes a “masterful reimagining” (Publishers Weekly) of Lady Macbeth, Shakespeare’s most famous villainess, giving her a voice, a past, and a power that transforms the story men have written for her.

Request eGalleys of some of our favorite November titles, and if you love the books, please consider nominating them for LibraryReads! Remember, voting for the November list ends on 10/1. View our featured picks below, or browse an extended collection here. View a Spanish language collection of November releases here.

A stunning, inspiring new novel from Abi Daré, New York Times bestselling author of The Girl with the Louding Voice.

Public library staff across the nation have spoken! Congratulations to the books selected for the September 2024 LibraryReads Top Ten List.

With starred reviews from publications including Booklist, AudioFile, and Library Journal—your patrons will want to read these much-anticipated books that reviewers are raving about.

From the New York Times bestselling author of Reconstructing Amelia: A daughter races to uncover her mother’s secret life in the wake of her disappearance in this “breathless, shocking thriller.” —Jodi Picoult, #1 New York Times bestselling author

“The Haunting of Moscow House is many things. It is about a society on the cusp of momentous change, a persecuted group in history now quite forgotten, a female-centric story of survival and the unbreakable bonds of sisterhood that make this possible, an old house with hundreds of years of past and memory. But at its heart, The Haunting of Moscow House is a ghost story.”

In 2024 alone, *Season 5* of Penguin Random House Library Marketing’s Morning Book Buzz, we have shared 116 titles in over 30 book categories! Can you guess our favorites?

This gripping and emotionally riveting tale is a dark and timely retelling of The Wizard of Oz, where one little girl is forced to face head on the prejudices of the Midwest in the late nineteenth century.