Literary Fiction Novels For Your Fall Reading List | October 2021

08 Oct 2021

Literary Fiction Novels For Your Fall Reading List | October 2021

October is a fabulous month for readers. Check out these new literary fiction novels to add to your Fall reading list. Read these new novels today by bestselling authors Thomas Scott, William J. Cook, Jocelyn Nicole Johnson, Myriam J. A. Chancy, James Han Mattson, Miriam Toews, and James J. Cudney. Enjoy your new literary fiction novels!

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Wayward Strangers

by Thomas Scott

Release Date: September 30, 2021

Thomas Scott, author of the Virgil Jones Series, has created an epic tale inspired by the true story of a forgotten hero… The year is 1939 and the world is on the brink of yet another global war. Jack Bellows is just sixteen years old, and he’s on the run…not from the war, but from his own past. When he walks away from the home where he was born and raised, Jack soon discovers that the assistance of strangers who offer him help comes with a cost, one that is buried beneath layers of secrets, lies, and betrayal. And if Jack can’t find a way out from underneath the people who have brought him into their circle of deception and criminal activity, he’ll be running from more than just his past…he’ll be running for his life.

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Before Our House Fell into the Ocean

by William J. Cook

Release Date: September 30, 2021

A new collection of stories on love and death by William J. Cook…Meet a most unusual cast of characters: John Frost, a criminal who uses the strategies of chess to ferret out and punish the snitch in his drug-dealing organization. Joey Douglas, a zombie who can’t eat meat but craves coffee from his favorite barista. Little Cinda, whose wish upon a falling star gives her the chance to see her deceased mother again. Young Sonny, helpless to prevent his house from sliding off a cliff into the ocean. Dax, an autistic boy who listens to the oak tree in his front yard and learns a hundred-year-old secret. These and other unforgettable characters are the dramatis personae in this offbeat collection of short stories.

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My Monticello

by Jocelyn Nicole Johnson

Release Date: October 5, 2021

Jocelyn Nicole Johnson’s precisely imagined debut explores burdened inheritances and extraordinary pursuits of belonging…A young woman descended from Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings driven from her neighborhood by a white militia. A university professor studying racism by conducting a secret social experiment on his own son. A single mother desperate to buy her first home even as the world hurtles toward catastrophe. Each fighting to survive in America.

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What Storm, What Thunder

by Myriam J. A. Chancy

Release Date: October 5, 2021

An Indie Next Pick and a TIME, Washington Post, BuzzFeed, Vulture, Chicago Tribune, Good Housekeeping, Amazon, LitHub, AARP, Alma, PureWow, Alta, Thrillist, Bookish, and Library Journal Best Book of Fall…Brilliantly crafted, fiercely imagined, and deeply haunting, What Storm, What Thunder is a singular, stunning record, a reckoning of the heartbreaking trauma of disaster, and—at the same time—an unforgettable testimony to the tenacity of the human spirit.

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Fight Night

by Miriam Toews

Release Date: October 5, 2021

An Amazon Editors’ Pick for Best Literature and Fiction by Miriam Toews…Alternating between the exuberant, precocious voice of young Swiv and her irrepressible, tenacious Grandma, Fight Night is a love letter to mothers and grandmothers, and to all the women who are still fighting-painfully, ferociously- for a way to live on their own terms.

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Reprieve

by James Han Mattson

Release Date: October 5, 2021

An astonishingly soulful exploration of complicity and masquerade, Reprieve combines the psychological tension of classic horror with searing social criticism to present an unsettling portrait of this tangled American life…A chilling and blisteringly relevant literary novel of social horror centered around a brutal killing that takes place in a full-contact haunted escape room—a provocative exploration of capitalism, hate politics, racial fetishism, and our obsession with fear as entertainment. Recommended by New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Esquire, and more!

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