October 2026 book and audiobook releases

The month of October 2026 features a variety of new literary releases across multiple genres, including crime, thriller, literary fiction, memoir, and non-fiction.

Early releases in the crime and thriller categories include Ian Rankin’s ‘The Heights’, his first stand-alone novel in two decades, David McCloskey’s ‘London Station’, which explores tensions between the CIA and MI6, Stephanie Wrobel’s ‘Revenge Plot’, Matthew Aldrich’s ‘99 The Natural Order’, and William Cook’s ‘99 The Fifteenth Man’.

Literary and romance titles include Ríoghnach Robinson’s debut ‘Bad Words’, which follows a feud between an author and a critic, and Bonnie Garmus’s ‘Peck & Peck’, a novel set in 1982 New York City involving an aspiring poet caught in a corporate feud. Subsequent releases expand into diverse themes, such as Barbara Kingsolver’s ‘Correspondre’, Natalie Baszile’s ‘Amis et famille’, John Green’s ‘Hollywood, Ending’, and Charlotte B. Plumb’s ‘Récolter et semer’. Non-fiction and memoir offerings include Belle Burden’s ‘Strangers: A Memoir of Marriage’, Eleanor Johnson’s ‘Chienne monstrueuse’, and Anne Carson’s poetry and essay collection ‘Glass, irony, and God’.

Releases scheduled for the week of October 25, 2026, introduce new mystery, fantasy, and romance titles. Mystery works include Christopher Seto’s ‘Heart of a Killer’, involving an art theft prevention mission, and Carolyn Ridder Aspenson’s ‘The Dead Don’t Tell’, a private investigator mystery set in Atlanta. Other mystery titles include Lyla Blue’s ‘Murder Over Pumpkin Spice’ and Susan M. Boyer’s ‘Hard Candy Christmas’. Fantasy and romance releases include Ann Aguirre’s ‘The Hocus Pocus Handbook’, Rachel Harrison’s horror-themed time-loop novel ‘Kiss Slay Replay’, and B. K. Borison’s paranormal romance ‘Grim Tidings’.