The October Books With the Most Pre-Release Hype

Twelve books arriving in October 2026, from Barbara Kingsolver, Bonnie Garmus, V.E. Schwab, Stephen Graham Jones, Becky Chambers, Yiyun Li and six more. A wife hides a novel before early-onset Alzheimer's takes her memory, and her husband publishes it as his own. Four Blackfeet elders and a twenty-year-old pile into a camper van to bring a boy's remains home from the Carlisle Indian Industrial School. A would-be poet lands a job at the world's most secretive poetry journal. Nathaniel Philbrick takes on the Gold Rush.

1. Partita — Barbara Kingsolver #1
2. Luna, Phoenix, Queen — Julie Orringer #2
3. Peck & Peck — Bonnie Garmus #3
4. Victorious — V.E. Schwab #4
5. Off the Reservation — Stephen Graham Jones #5
6. The Occidental Book of the Dead — T. Geronimo Johnson #6
7. The Rush — Nathaniel Philbrick #7
8. Public Access Afterworld — Jane Schoenbrun #8
9. The Brightness — Chad Harbach #9
10. Music Against the Night — Yiyun Li #10
11. As You Wake, Break the Shell — Becky Chambers #11
12. Rottenheart — Kat Dunn #12