Wondering what to read now? Here are all the hot new September 2024 book releases for you. I’ll let you know what I’ve read, what I can’t wait to read, and what’s getting all the attention this month.
In case you’re new to Booklist Queen, every month I cover all the hottest new book releases. I try to read as many new book releases as I can to give you an honest perspective on what to read and what to skip.
However, I realize that my to-read list might not exactly match yours. That’s why I’ve also included some of the most popular September 2024 book releases from your favorite authors.
Enough from me. Let’s get on to the September 2024 book releases so you can fill up your to-read list.
Top September 2024 Book Releases
Here One Moment
Liane Moriarty
It’s no surprise that the most anticipated September 2024 book release comes from bestselling author Liane Moriarty (Big Little Lies, Nine Perfect Strangers). When they board their short domestic flight, none of the passengers think that it will change their lives forever. They land safely at their destination and regale their family and friends with a tale of “The Death Lady” who oddly predicted the date of each of their deaths. When three passengers die exactly as she predicted, the rest of the passengers begin to wonder what they can do to live their lives in the time remaining and what they are willing to do to defy fate.
Publication Date: 10 September 2024
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The Life Impossible
Matt Haig
Retired math teacher Grace Winters is shocked when she inherits a run-down house on a Mediterranean island from a long-lost friend. With a one-way ticket in hand, Grace arrives in Ibiza and searches for answers on how her friend lived and died. But what Grace uncovers seems impossible, forcing her to confront her own past in another touching novel from the author of The Midnight Library.
Publication Date: 3 September 2024
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The Night We Lost Him
Laura Dave
Among the October 2024 book releases is a new thriller from Laura Dave, author of The Last Thing He Told Me, who is known for her slower but thought-provoking suspense. When Liam, a wealthy hotel magnate, falls to his death at his cliffside home, the police rule it an accident. But Nora and Sam have other ideas about their father’s death. Although they barely know each other since Liam kept his life with each ex-wife separate, they form an uneasy alliance. Digging into Liam’s life, they discover a secret that could impact their own future.
Publication Date: 17 September 2024
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Somewhere Beyond the Sea
TJ Klune
In a sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, Arthur Parnassus hopes to adopt the six magical children he caretakes at his orphanage. When Arthur is summoned to make a public statement about his part, he fears for the future of his family and all magical children. With the arrival of a new magical child who finds power in calling himself a monster, Arthur finds his family is at a breaking point.
Publication Date: 10 September 2024
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The Games Gods Play
Abigail Owen
(1 Week) In a bestselling new romantic fantasy, Lyra is a cursed office clerk in the Office of Thieves just trying to keep her head down and out of the way of Zeus. To determine who will next sit on the throne in Olympus, the gods chose mortal as their champions in a deadly contest. For the first time ever, Hades enter the contest and chooses Lyra as his champion. Now Lyra must decide if she’s a pawn or a player while resisting the feelings she is developing for the God of the Underworld.
Publication Date: 3 September 2024
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Playground
Richard Powers
From the author of The Overstory, four lives are brought together at a French Polynesian island debating whether to allow the construction of floating cities. As a child in Montreal, Evie Beaulieu was one of the first to use an aqualung. Ina Aroita grew up on naval bases across the Pacific only finding home in art. Rafi and Todd meet at an elite Chicago high school and bond over an ancient board game as one goes on to get lost in literature and the other makes an AI breakthrough.
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
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Entitlement
Rumaan Alam
Brooke has so many wants. She wants a purpose in life. She wants to please her mother. She wants family and friends and independence. Working as an assistant to an octogenarian billionaire, Brooke is in charge of helping him give away his vast fortune. But such close proximity to astonishing amounts of money changes a person, creating moral quandaries for Brooke.
Publication Date: 17 September 2024
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I Dreamed of Falling
Julia Dahl
In a small Hudson Valley town, Roman Grady normally covers store openings and DUIs as the sole reporter for the local paper. When Roman’s longtime girlfriend (and mother of his young son) is killed, he realizes there is much more going on in town than he thought. As Roman and his mother investigate Ashley’s death, they are shocked at how much they didn’t know about Ashley and at the secrets hidden in their small town.
Publication Date: 17 September 2024
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Something Lost, Something Gained
Hillary Rodham Clinton
Taking a look back at her life, Hillary Rodham Clinton shares her thoughts on life, love, family, politics, and democracy. Clinton gives insights into her days as a college professor, the bond between the former First Ladies, the pain of moving past the dream of being president and the power of finding new hope in activism for women and democracy.
Publication Date: 17 September 2024
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Nexus
Yuval Noah Harari
The author of Sapiens looks at how the flow of information has shaped human history. From the Stone Age to witch-hunts and modern-day populism, Yuval Noah Harari discusses the complex connection between information and truth. How have different societies and political entities wielded information to further their own goal? And what do we do now as AI threatens to upend everything we know?
Publication Date: 10 September 2024
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Book of the Month – September 2024
Receiving my blue box from Book of the Month Club is a highlight of every month.
Here’s how it works – each month, they pick 5 books and you get to choose one book or skip until the next month. If you want to add any extra books, then you get them at a discounted price.
Each month is usually a mix of new releases and advance copies of unreleased books. If you are interested in joining, right now you can use my Book of the Month Club affiliate link to get your first book for $5!
The September Book of the Month selections are:
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GMA’s Book Club September 2024 Pick
Colored Television
Danzy Senna
After a series of sketchy rentals, Jane lands a house-sitting gig in the luxury hills of Los Angeles. Now the mother of two can finally have time to finish her latest novel which she views as a biracial War & Peace. When things don’t go as planned, Jane turns to a Hollywood producer desperately wanting “diverse content.” But Jane’s big break is not all it’s cracked up to be in this darkly witty novel.
Publication Date: 3 September 2024
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Read with Jenna Book Club September 2024 Pick
Blue Sisters
Coco Mellors
The three Blue sisters are each exceptional in her own way: Avery, a former heroin addict turned London lawyer; Bonnie, a former boxer turned bouncer in LA; Lucky, a former party girl turned model in Paris. But the death of their sister Nicky left the family reeling. A year after Nicky’s death, the estranged sisters gather to stop the sale of the apartment they grew up in and are forced to reckon with their childhood disappointments and their grief.
Publication Date: 3 September 2024
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Reese’s Book Club September 2024 Pick
The Comfort of Crows
Margaret Renkl
In a series of 52 essays, Margaret Renkl describes the creatures and plants in her backyard over the span of a year. From the crow on New Year’s Day to the bluebirds in December, Renkl paints a portrait of nature in flux as seasons pass and change. Yet, Renkl also describes a human world in constant change as adult children come home and go. and the city where she lives continues to transform as well.
Publication Date: 24 October 2023
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Oprah’s Book Club September 2024 Pick
Tell Me Everything
Elizabeth Strout
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Strout finally brings her beloved characters Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and Bob Burgess together. In Crosby, Maine, Bob Burgess finds himself defending a lonely isolated man accused of killing his mother. Meanwhile, Bob and Lucy Barton begin taking evening walks together, intimately sharing their fears and regrets. And, at last, Lucy is finally introduced to Olive Kitteridge, spending hours at Olive’s apartment in a retirement community outside of town.
Publication Date: 10 September 2024
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The Most Anticipated September 2024 Book Releases
Madwoman
Chelsea Bieker
Clove has a perfectly settled life with her husband and two children in Portland, Oregon. But a call from a women’s prison shatters threatens to shatter the life she’s built for herself. Before she was named Clove, she was a young girl growing up in a violent household in Hawaii. Switching between Clove’s present and past, Madwoman tells the story of a woman finally facing the worst day of her life, which will set her free or undo her.
Counting Miracles
Nicholas Sparks
Raised by his grandparents, Tyler Hughes has spent his entire adult life on the go, never staying in one place long as an Army Ranger. On her deathbed, his grandmother reveals the name and possible location of the father Tyler never met. Before starting his next assignment, Tyler visits Asheboro, North Carolina, and immediately falls for Kaitlyn, a doctor and single mom. Meanwhile, a local man becomes obsessed with protecting a rare white deer from poachers, never expecting a miracle that will tie Tyler, Kaitlyn, and him together.
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
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The Lightning Bottles
Marissa Stapley
Even though Jane Pyre wrote all the songs that catapulted her rock band, The Lightning Bottles, she was never as popular with the fans as her husband/bandmate, Elijah Hart. When Elijah mysteriously disappeared five years ago, Jane instantly became the most hated woman in the music industry. Living a quiet life in Germany, Jane is shocked when her superfan teenage neighbor claims Elijah is alive and dropping clues for Jane to find him.
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
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Intermezzo
Sally Rooney
Although they are brothers, Peter and Ivan Koubek are nothing alike. A successful Irish lawyer, Peter seems untouchable as he walks through life. On the other hand, competitive chess player Ivan is socially awkward and lonely. When their father dies, the grieving brothers each struggle with their love life as they balance despair and hope.
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
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The Butcher Game
Alaina Urquhart
Alaina Urquhart returns to the September 2024 book releases list with a sequel to her bestselling thriller, The Butcher and the Wren. Having been foiled by forensic pathologist Dr. Wren Muller, the Bayou killer heads north to escape capture and plot his revenge. On forced medical leave, Wren can’t help but again pursue her nemesis as he leaves a trail of mutilated bodies through Massachusetts, entering a cat-and-mouse game that might force her to risk everything for justice.
Publication Date: 17 September 2024
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The Third Gilmore Girl
Kelly Bishop
From winning a Tony Award as part of the original cast of A Chorus Line on Broadway to her beloved role as Emily Gilmore in Gilmore Girls, Kelly Bishop has had a storied career. But she has also had a turbulent personal life: first married to a compulsive gambler and then losing her second husband to cancer. In her new memoir, Bishop reminisces about her past and looks to the future, telling the greatest stories and enduring life lessons she has learned throughout her journey.
Publication Date: 17 September 2024
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The Trap
Ava Glass
In the third Alias Emma book, British Agent Emma Makepeace must decide how far she is willing to go to catch a killer. When her team is dispatch to the G7 Summit in Edinburgh, Scotland, they must stop a Russian assassination attempt. Except they don’t know who is the target. Instead, Emma must use herself as bait to set a trap in the gridlocked city.
Publication Date: 3 September 2024
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The Hitchcock Hotel
Stephanie Wrobel
Hitchcock superfan Alfred Smettle runs the Hitchcock Hotel in the White Mountains. With props and memorabilia in every room, the hotel even offers round-the-clock screens of Hitchcock’s movies. To celebrate the first anniversary, Alfred invites his former best friends from his college film club. They haven’t seen each other for sixteen years, not after what happened, and Alfred has a reunion planned that none of them will forget.
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
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If I Were You
Cesca Major
Amy and Flynn have been dating for two years but frustrations arise as the drive to Amy’s sister’s lavish wedding. When their car is struck by lightning, Amy and Flynn switch bodies. Now they are forced to attend the wedding in each other’s places, giving a whole new meaning to seeing things through someone else’s eyes. As secrets from the past are revealed, Amy and Flynn wonder if their relationship can survive even if they manage to switch their bodies back.
Publication Date: 24 September 2024
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UPCOMING SEPTEMBER 2024 BOOK RELEASES BY DATE
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September 17th Book Releases
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James Patterson and David Ellis
Kenny G and Philip Lerman
Jack Carr and James M. Scott
What September 2024 Book Releases are You Most Excited to Read?
What books can you not wait to get your hands on this month? Did I miss any September 2024 book releases that you are anticipating? As always, let me know in the comments!
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