The 20 most anticipated books of fall 2022, according to Goodreads

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Stephen King returns for a new fantasy/horror read where Charlie Reade, a seemingly average high schooler, mysteriously inherits a house, a massive amount of gold, a narrative cassette tape, and the keys to a portal to a parallel universe. There, a fantastical world awaits where good and evil are at war, forcing Charlie into a hero role with everything at stake. 

Publication Date: September 6, 2022

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This joyful upcoming contemporary fiction uses magical realism to tell the story of the Duong sisters, whose family was long ago cursed by a Vietnamese witch, destined to never find love or happiness and only give birth to daughters. Though the descendants seem to still be suffering from the curse, their psychic Auntie Hua delivers a prophecy that will reunite families and spur victories big and small. 

Publication Date: September 6, 2022

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Four women friends, now in their 60s, have worked for the Museum for 40 years as elite assassins, now over looked at their age. When they're set on an all-expense paid trip to celebrate their retirement, they realize they're being targeted and marked for assassination by one of their own and must lean on each other's experience to outsmart their own organization and survive. 

Publication Date: September 6, 2022

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From the author of "Queenie," "People Person" follows Dimple Pennington, a lifestyle influencer whose distant family and lackluster boyfriend have left her feeling terribly lonely. But when a major event brings her four estranged siblings back into her life, they're forced to reconnect with their absent father and find the power of family, no matter how far apart they may have once been. 

Publication Date: September 13, 2022

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This fascinating nonfiction read applies real scientific concepts to hypothetical questions like "Could we cool the atmosphere if everyone opened their freezers at the same time?" and "What would happen if we tried to make a lava lamp with real lava?" Filled with stick-figure cartoons and interesting science lessons, this book answers some of our more outlandish questions about the world. 

Publication Date: September 13, 2022

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In this third book of the bestselling "Locked Tomb" series, readers follow Nona six months after she wakes up in a stranger's body, desperate to live an ordinary life and not give this body back. But as the city begins to crumble and the planet's fate hangs in the balance, leaders reach for Nona to be the weapon that saves them all. 

Publication Date: September 13, 2022

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Siblings Isaac and Bellatine have been estranged since childhood but are drawn together over a peculiar inheritance of a sentient house on chicken legs called Thistlefoot, an ancestral home from Russia. Not far behind, however, comes the sinister Longshadow Man in close, destructive pursuit as the siblings embark on their family's cross-country theater tour. 

Publication Date: September 13, 2022

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Marion Shaw was raised in poverty, knowing little about the luxuries afforded to the nobles in the north when she applies to a peculiar newspaper listing, seeking a bloodmaid with the ominous line "Girls of weak will need not apply." Days later, she finds herself the bloodmaid at the House of Hunger, eager to please her new mistresses until bloodmaids begin to go missing in the night and Marion must avoid being next. 

Publication Date: September 13, 2022

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Neil deGrasse Tyson's new book seeks to walk readers through a scientific view of the world to potentially "reset" our brains and priorities to unify society. In this book, Tyson truths that apply to us all and illuminate our place in the universe while making a case for an enlightened marriage between cosmic engagement and scientific rationality. 

Publication Date: September 20, 2022

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In this third novel of the "Thursday Murder Club" series where four friends living in a retirement village investigate unsolved murders, the group is following the trail of two homicides that took place 10 years apart. At the same time, Elizabeth is presented with a life-or-death mission that the group must help her escape in this fun and fast-paced mystery. 

Publication Date: September 20, 2022

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Author Daniella Mestyanek Young was raised in a religious cult in Brazil, prohibited from traditional education, forced to abide by strict rules, and subject to abuse masked as divine love. In this memoir, Daniella tells the story of her escape to Texas, determination to get an education, and enlistment into the military, facing situations eerily similar to those she once left behind. 

Publication Date: September 20, 2022

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Fredrik Backman is known for his visceral characters in emotionally raw situations, like those in "Beartown," where a hockey-centered community is devastated and torn apart by a violent act. "The Winners" is the third novel in the "Beartown" trilogy, set two years later as the community tries to move on while questioning loyalties, making sacrifices, and accepting great change. 

Publication Date: September 27, 2022

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This gothic science fiction novel boasts elements of horror as a physician travels to an isolated, far north home, occupied by a baron and his family, to replace their physician who has passed away. As he begins to investigate how the Interprovincial Medical Institute — responsible for protecting society from apocalyptic-level horrors — lost track of one of their bodies, he uncovers great horrors that may mean war for all of humanity. 

Publication Date: September 27, 2022

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This philosophical, suspenseful horror story follows the now-elderly artist Penny who has been moved to a long-term care residence after one too many "incidents" at home. There, Penny lives a contented life until she finds herself slowly losing her grip on time, reality, and the world around her with a growing concern that the forces at work are far more than those of old age. 

Publication Date: September 27, 2022

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"The Genesis of Misery" is an epic space opera about Misery Nomaki (she/they), who possesses the rare abilities of a saint, but keeps them quiet as they're the same powers that once drove their mother to madness. But when Misery is led to the heart of the Empire, two rival factions each hope to use them as she trains with a group of outlaws. 

Publication Date: September 27, 2022

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Known for her internationally bestselling novels "Everything I Never Told You" and "Little Fires Everywhere," Celeste Ng's new novel follows 12-year-old Bird Gardner who lives quietly in a world where authorities are allowed to relocate children of dissidents, especially those of Asian descent. Though Bird has spent much of his life disavowing his mother and her "unpatriotic" poetry, a mysterious letter draws him into a powerful journey of art, family, and the importance of defiance. 

Publication Date: October 4, 2022

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This historical fiction read imagines what would happen if Hester Prynne, the heroine of "The Scarlet Letter," could tell her own story. After being stranded in early 1800s Salem, Isobel meets Nathaniel Hawthorne, enchantingly drawn to each other as they grapple with young American life and a legacy of witchcraft trials. 

Publication Date: October 4, 2022

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"Mad Honey" is a suspenseful contemporary fiction read about Olivia McAfee, who has just relocated to her New Hampshire hometown with her son, Asher, after discovering her husband's darker side. When Asher's girlfriend and another new girl in town, Lily, are found dead, Olivia wants to be sure of her son's innocence but fears he may have inherited his father's anger. 

Publication Date: October 4, 2022

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When Liz reluctantly returns to her predominantly white hometown for her best friend's wedding, she doesn't expect it to turn into a frantic manhunt for the bride's daughter, Caroline. But as similarities arise between Caroline's disappearance and that of another Black girl from her high school, she digs deeper and finds a disturbing history of young Black girls disappearing into their town's forest. 

Publication Date: October 4, 2022

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In the first book of the "Great Cities" duology, readers were introduced to a fantastical world where great cities have souls that embody their spirit and hold their magic. "The World We Make" follows New York City's six souls as they take on a detrimental mayoral candidate and the mysterious Enemy to protect their city and the world. 

Publication Date: November 3, 2022