14 New Books Coming Out in September 2020

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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

Book cover for One by One by Ruth Ware, a new book for September that is a psychological 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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Book cover for When No One is Watching by Alyssa Cole, a new book released in September that is a psychological thriller with a blue house on the cover.

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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Book cover for And Now She's Gone by Rachel Howzell hall, a new book coming out in September featuring a girl on the cover and a psychological thriller book.

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.

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Fiction

Book cover for Anxious People by Fredrik Backman, a new book that is contemporary fiction featuring a man and a woman wearing blue shirts in Sweden.

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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Book cover for The Book of Two Ways by bestselling author Jodi Picoult, a new contemporary fiction book featuring a yellow sun and a blue background.

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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Book cover for Transcendent Kingdom by Yaa Gyasi, a new book that is a great contemporary fiction book featuring a pink and black background.

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

Book cover for new YA book Grown by Tiffany D. Jackson featuring a Black girl with gold earrings on a yellow background in New York, New York.

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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Book cover for YA romance book All This Time by Mikki Daughtry and Rachael Lippincott, a new book with a purple hourglass with flowers and a boy and a girl holding hands.

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.

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Book cover for YA book Dear Justyce by Nic Stone, the follow-up book to Dear Martin featuring a Black teenage boy wearing a blue outfit.

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

Book cover for A Rogue of One's Own, a new romance book by Evie Dunmore featuring a London skyline and a woman in a blue dress and a man in a red suit.

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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Book cover for new book The Return by Nicholas Sparks, a romance book with a blue door and yellow flowers.

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.

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Fantasy & Science Fiction

Book cover for new fantasy book A Deadly Education by Naomi Novik, featuring a magical cover with a black background for fans of Harry Potter.

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.

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Book cover for The Midnight Library by Matt Haig, a new science fiction and fantasy book featuring a library and a cat on the cover.

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.

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Book cover for To Sleep in a Sea of Stars by Christopher Paolini, a brand new science fiction book featuring a black background and a woman swimming in a galaxy.

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.

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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.

Yuki Klotz-Burwell from Yuki Reads, a book blog for bookstagrammers and book lovers.

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