If you’re looking for the best books coming out in September 2020, get your wallet ready because September is THE month for publishing. September 2020 will be even more book-filled than previous months because many publishers pushed back spring releases due to COVID-19 issues.
There are definitely some much-anticipated releases on here, including some from my favorite authors like Fredrik Backman and Ruth Ware. I know I’m getting my pre-order list ready, so use this guide to see what books to read this fall!
Best New Books Coming Out in September 2020
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Thriller
One By One – Ruth Ware
From the bestselling thriller author Ruth Ware comes a new suspense novel featuring a tech company retreat (set in a remote cabin) gone wrong. Come Monday morning, how many members short will the team be?
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When No One is Watching – Alyssa Cole
Where do people go when gentrification pushes them out? This thriller highlights a Brooklyn neighborhood thrust into paranoia and fear when neighbors start disappearing…and they’re not moving to the suburbs.
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And Now She’s Gone – Rachel Howzell Hall
Isabel Lincoln is gone, and it’s up to Grayson Sykes to find her. And Now She’s Gone explores the nature of secrets — and how violence and fear can lead you to abandon everything in order to survive.
Fiction
Anxious People – Fredrik Backman
From the bestselling author of A Man Called Ove comes a whimsical crime novel featuring a bank hostage situation gone wrong. With 8 impossible & dysfunctional hostages, the bank robber struggles with his next steps.
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The Book of Two Ways – Jodi Picoult
When Dawn Edelstein’s plane crashes, her panicked thoughts aren’t of her husband—instead, she thinks about a man she hasn’t seen in 15 years. After Dawn survives the crash, she begins to rethink her life.
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Transcendent Kingdom – Yaa Gyasi
The follow-up to Homegoing features Gifty, a fifth-year neuroscience candidate at Stanford studying depression and addiction in mice in an attempt to discover the science behind her family’s suffering.
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Young Adult
Grown – Tiffany D. Jackson
Enchanted is the lone Black girl in her high school, and dreams of being an R&B singer. When a famous R&B artist who took an interest in Enchanted is found dead, Enchanted’s life turns upside down as she becomes the police’s number one suspect.
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All This Time – Mikki Daughtry & Rachael Lippincott
After surviving a car crash that killed his girlfriend, Kyle feels like no one understands his life. Until he meets Marley, who is suffering from her own loss. While the pair work to heal each other’s wounds, Kyle can’t help but feel like he’s heading toward another crashing moment—and he’s right.
Dear Justyce – Nic Stone
In the stunning and hard-hitting sequel to the New York Times bestseller Dear Martin, incarcerated teen Quan writes letters to Justyce about his experiences in the American prison system.
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Romance
A Rogue of One’s Own – Evie Dunmore
The sequel to the bestselling Bringing Down the Duke highlights the story of Oxford suffragist Lady Lucie, who receives an indecent proposal from her nemesis. Lucie soon discovers there’s truth in what the poets say: all is fair in love and war.
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The Return – Nicholas Sparks
Bestselling romance author Nicholas Sparks is back with another swoon-worthy novel. The Return follows the story of an injured Navy doctor — and two women whose secrets will change the course of his life.
Fantasy & Science Fiction
A Deadly Education – Naomi Novik
At this school for the magically gifted, students either graduate or die. When El begins to unlock the school’s secrets, she realizes that her powerful dark magic might also kill all the other students.
The Midnight Library – Matt Haig
The Midnight Library has two books: one for the life you have lived, and one for the life you could have lived. When Nora Seed finds herself forced with this decision, she must search within herself as she travels through the Midnight Library.
To Sleep in a Sea Of Stars – Christopher Paolini
After finding an alien relic on an uncolonized planet, xenobiologist Kira NavĂ¡rez realizes her first contact might be necessary to save humanity and change the course of history.
What books are you excited for that are coming out in September 2020? I’ve been waiting for months for One by One and Anxious People, but new releases like The Midnight Library and A Deadly Education are now high up on my TBR list.
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