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Our Top 10 books of October 2024

Louise Erdrich, Sabaa Tahir and more of the literary world’s best and brightest are among our top picks for October!
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Exposure by Ramona Emerson book jacket

Exposure is equally—if not more—electrifying than Ramona Emerson’s debut, the National Book Award-longlisted Shutter.

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American Scary by Jeremy Dauber book jacket

The rigorous yet still enticing American Scary invites readers to peer into the horror show of American history through the lens of literature and film.

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Gripping, disturbing and absolutely wild, The Sequel is a more than worthy, well, sequel, to Jean Hanff Korelitz’s The Plot.

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Book jacket image for Heir by Sabaa Tahir

Heir offers a welcome blend of mystique and weightiness—plus a dollop of romance—that will delight anyone seeking more complexity in young adult fantasy.

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Book jacket image for Black Star by Kwame Alexander

Readers continuing Kwame Alexander’s Door of No Return trilogy, as well as those starting with Black Star, will be gifted with a reading experience that

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Book jacket image for The Barn by Wright Thompson

Wright Thompson reckons with the culture of the Mississippi Delta and the murder of Emmett Till in his brilliant, probing history, The Barn.

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Book jacket image for The City in Glass by Nghi Vo

The City in Glass, a beautifully written tale of a bereaved demon and a cursed angel, finds Nghi Vo at the peak of her craft.

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Book jacket image for The Message by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Ta-Nehisi Coates wrestles with the weighty responsibility of being a writer in The Message, a powerful collection of essays.

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Book jacket image for The Mighty Red by Louise Erdrich

Centered on a teen love triangle in a North Dakota community dominated by sugar beet farming, Louise Erdrich’s The Mighty Red might just be a

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Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk looses her deft, dark satirical wit on the rigid patriarchal world of pre-World War I Europe. The result is an enchanting,

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