The Fall 2024 Reading Guide

Get your fall reading list ready because I have the best books to read this Fall 2024 with all the top choices of great books to read.

Hallelujah, fall is just around the corner!

With back-to-school season and cooler weather come some of the best fall reads I’ve seen in a while. All summer long, I’ve been perusing the upcoming release lists. I’ve wrestled over which books to include and which to leave out.

Here for your reading pleasure is my list of the best books of Fall 2024. I’ve got book club favorites, historical fiction, mysteries, thrillers, and some nonfiction books. Some I’ve read and some I can’t wait to read, but all of them are perfect for my Fall 2024 Reading Guide.

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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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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As children, Jeremy and Rafe disappeared for six months only to reappear with no explanation. Rafe has scars but no memory of what happened and Jeremy has never told him that they traveled to an enchanted magical land. When Emilie hires Jeremy, now a famed missing persons investigator, to find her missing sister, Jeremy must come clean to Rafe about their past and return to the enchanted world to recover everything they lost.

Publication Date: 16 July 2024
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When her brother ships off to Vietnam, nursing student Frankie McGrath impulsively decides to leave her sheltered life on Coronado Island and join the Army Nurse Corps. In Vietnam, Frankie is overwhelmed by the chaos of war. Yet, even more unsettling is the shock of coming home to a country that has been divided by war and disillusioned by politics. The Women reminds us that war is a messy, traumatizing business even when veterans are fully supported. And Vietnam was messier than any other war in American history, leaving unheard of struggles for returning soldiers, especially for the women who were often overlooked and forgotten.

Publication Date: 6 February 2024
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In August 1975, Barbara Van Laar is discovered missing from her summer camp bed. A tragedy for any child, but Barbara is the daughter of the wealthy owner of the camp and the nearby estate. Fourteen years ago, Barbara’s older brother also went missing without a trace. Tying together the wealthy Van Laar family with the working class community that supports the camp and estate, The God of the Woods is a multi-layered drama about secrets that refuse to be forgotten.

Publication Date: 2 July 2024
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From the author of Hidden Pictures comes another suspenseful fall thriller. For the first time in three years, Frank Szatowski receives a call from his estranged daughter Maggie inviting him to her wedding. Maggie fails to mention she is marrying Aidan Gardner, the son of a tech billionaire, at a swanky private estate. As Frank tries to reconnect with Maggie he becomes alarmed at the local hostility toward Aidan’s family. Can Frank discover the truth without driving Maggie away forever?

Publication Date: 8 October 2024
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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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In the 19th novel of the series, a phone call shatters the pieces of Inspector Armand Gamache. A random series of events leads Gamache and his team to realize that more is going on than just one murder. Soon, friends seem like enemies and enemies act like friends in a case that will take the inspector throughout Québec.

Publication Date: 29 October 2024
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Off the Scottish coast, Eris is an island only accessible for twelve hours each day. Eris was famously the home of Vanessa Chapman, a renowned artist whose cheating husband disappeared twenty years ago. Now caring for Vanessa until her death, Grace now lives alone on Eris. When a shocking discovery about one of Vanessa’s works is made, an art curator comes to visit Grace, threatening Grace’s content lifestyle.

Publication Date: 29 October 2024
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In the third book of The 6:20 Man series, FBI agent Travis Devine needs to lay low from his nemesis, the girl on the train. That’s why he is now escorting twelve-year-old Betsey Odom on a flight to Seattle to meet with her uncle who’s under FBI investigation. Yet, as Devine gets to know Betsey, he discovers the story of her parents’ deaths are not adding up. The more Devine digs the more he realizes an even bigger conspiracy is at play.

Publication Date: 12 November 2024
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In 1581, Emilia Bassano feels trapped by the societal expectations for women. As Lord Chamberlain’s mistress, she has access to all of England’s theatrical productions. Desperate to see her own work come to life, Emilia pays William Shakespeare to use his name, writing herself out of history. A century later, Melina Green has written a play based on Emilia’s life and is faced with the same question: should she give up her credit as the author just to see her work performed?

Publication Date: 20 August 2024
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In a reimagining of The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn, Percival Everett rewrites the story from Jim’s perspective. When he finds out he will be sold away from his family, Jim hides out on Jackson Island. There he meets Huckleberry Finn who has faked his death to avoid his violent father. Together, Jim and Huck take a raft down the Mississippi River where their adventures are shown in a new light.

Publication Date: 19 March 2024
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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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Growing up, Shiloh’s friendship with Cary was the only thing that got her through high school in Omaha, Nebraska. However, after graduation they lost touch when Shiloh went off to college and Cary joined the Navy. Fourteen years later, Shiloh finds herself back in her hometown, a divorced single mom who lost her dreams along the way. When Cary returns for a friend’s wedding, Shiloh hopes to reconnect with Cary, whom she never realized she loved until he was gone.

Publication Date: 30 July 2024
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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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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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When Phoebe Stone turns up at the grand Cornwall Inn in Newport, Rhode Island, everyone just assumes she is another wedding guest. Yet, Phoebe just happened to book the long-anticipated trip she always dreamed of taking with her husband on the same weekend. Quickly, Phoebe and the bride find themselves confiding in each other, helping Phoebe to start anew.

Publication Date: 30 July 2024
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From the author of We Begin at the End comes a decades-spanning love story filled with mystery. In 1975, girls are disappearing from a small Missouri town. When the daughter of a wealthy family is targeted, she is saved by Patch, a one-eyed local boy. But when Patch disappears, his best friend searches for him and the missing girls.

Publication Date: 25 June 2024
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Twenty-five years ago, Malcolm Gladwell topped the bestseller list with The Tipping Point, analyzing the science of viral trends. Now, Gladwell revisits his bestseller to reframe the lessons for the modern day. Gladwell expands his focus to look at the dark side of contagious phenomena using his trademark mix of fascinating anecdotes and social science.

Publication Date: 1 October 2024
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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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In a new memoir, former President Bill Clinton writes about his post-presidential years. Leaving the White House in 2001 when he was just fifty-four years old, Clinton knew he still wanted to make a difference in the world. Clinton shares his public service and advocacy work as well as portions of his personal life, including supporting his wife Hillary Clinton has she unsuccessfully ran for president.

Publication Date: 19 November 2024
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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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Jonathan Haidt explains why moving from a play-based childhood to a screen-based childhood has changed the neurological development children, making them more anxious, along with other mental health problems. Haidt shows why this causes them to withdraw further into a digital world, and then proposes a solution that he says will reduce the incidence of mental illness in the rising generations.

Publication Date: 26 March 2024
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