The Biggest Series Releases Dropping This Fall
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Few things compare to the electric anticipation of the next entry in a series you're obsessed with–you get to drop back into worlds your brain has occupied since the last book and find out what your favorite characters have gotten up to since you last saw them. It's as simple as this: You get to find out what happens.
Below are some of this fall's most hotly anticipated series releases. These entries include the continuing adventures of Claire and Jamie across history, the last year for the students of the Scholomance, and the terrifying machinations of the Hawthorne family as they pursue the fortune of their dead patriarch.
These are the new series entries causing the biggest stir with readers on Goodreads, including the number of early reviews, additions to Want to Read shelves, and star ratings–every book here has an average reader rating above 3.5 stars.
Below are some of this fall's most hotly anticipated series releases. These entries include the continuing adventures of Claire and Jamie across history, the last year for the students of the Scholomance, and the terrifying machinations of the Hawthorne family as they pursue the fortune of their dead patriarch.
These are the new series entries causing the biggest stir with readers on Goodreads, including the number of early reviews, additions to Want to Read shelves, and star ratings–every book here has an average reader rating above 3.5 stars.
Historical Fiction
The Outlander series gets a fresh entry as Claire Randall and Jamie Frasier find themselves reunited at last with their daughter Brianna in the hills of 1779 North Carolina. It all seems too good to be true–which of course it is, as the violence of the Revolutionary War finds its way to their door, forcing them to do everything they can to keep their family safe from the spreading conflict. You'd think that somewhere in time and space, they'd be able to catch a break once in awhile.
This new book will be available on November 23rd.
New to the series? Start with Outlander.
This new book will be available on November 23rd.
New to the series? Start with Outlander.
Science Fiction
In the final chapter of the critically lauded series, Ada Palmer gives us a world on the edge of chaos as the secrets and back-room dealings that have kept the status quo of the Hives in place are made plain, immolating the fragile bonds that have kept society running smoothly and sending every corner of the Hives rushing toward total war. The Hives face the specter of total annihilation if its various contingents, from the lowest members of the food chain to the architects of the world's machinery, can't figure out how to form a true and lasting peace.
This new book will be available on October 19th.
New to the series? Start with Too Like The Lightning.
This new book will be available on October 19th.
New to the series? Start with Too Like The Lightning.
In the second installment of the Noumena series, we continue the saga of Earth's struggle in the aftermath of making first contact with an alien race that challenges humanity's conceptions of what counts as "intelligent life." Cora Sabino, the liaison between the enigmatic alien being Ampersand and the government, struggles to make sense of both her psychic connection with Ampersand and the struggle unfolding as Earth acts out its terror of the unknown, bringing everything to a boil when a terrifying newcomer flashes across the sky.
This new book will be available on October 12th.
New to the series? Start with Axiom's End.
This new book will be available on October 12th.
New to the series? Start with Axiom's End.
In the long-anticipated finale of the Shadow Saga, which combines and collides with the original Ender series, the descendants of Ender and Bean convene to solve the problem posed by the deadly and all-consuming virus called the descolada. They must weigh whether to make a grave and terrible choice to save humanity at the expense of billions, echoing and repurposing the events of Xenocide to bring the series to an explosive conclusion.
This new book will be available on October 19th.
New to the series? Start with Ender's Shadow.
This new book will be available on October 19th.
New to the series? Start with Ender's Shadow.
The Union is in total disarray as a revolution sweeps the landscape, leveling social ties and halting the machinery that keeps the world running smoothly as the Breakers and Burners grasp for power. While the rest of the Union tries to get its bearings, the Weaver draws the noose tighter, setting plans in motion that the world may not see coming until it's too late to stop them.
This new book will be available on September 14th.
New to the series? Start with A Little Hatred.
This new book will be available on September 14th.
New to the series? Start with A Little Hatred.
Fantasy
In this continuation of Naomi Novik's dark boarding school tale, El must face the terrifying prospect of her last year at the Scholomance, and the graduation ritual that promises death for anybody unlucky enough to fail it. To keep herself and her friends safe, she'll have to decide what's worth saving—and what's worth sacrificing.
This new book will be available on September 28th.
New to the series? Start with A Deadly Education.
This new book will be available on September 28th.
New to the series? Start with A Deadly Education.
The third entry in this sweeping fantasy epic sees Princess Théra, the former Empress Üna of Dara, locking horns with the Lyucu as both of their nations scrabble for purchase amid social changes from within and without. As the lower classes begin to unlock new innovations and new ways of thinking, will the past provide a blueprint for the future?
This new book will be available on November 2nd.
New to the series? Start with The Grace of Kings.
This new book will be available on November 2nd.
New to the series? Start with The Grace of Kings.
What happens once you finally become the Emperor after a long, hard-fought battle for the throne? Well, a lot of trouble, mostly—unpopularity and suspicion among your subjects, tenuous political bonds, and the gathering specter of an approaching insurgency is enough to make anybody paranoid. All that would have been enough before a mythical cadre of sorcerers return to the kingdom to shake things up.
This new book will be available on November 9th.
New to the series? Start with The Bone Shard Daughter.
This new book will be available on November 9th.
New to the series? Start with The Bone Shard Daughter.
The third installment in the Green Bone Saga finds the Kaul family desperately holding their empire together as everybody from small-time hustlers to world governments try to get their hands on the magical jade. Amid this mad grab for resources, long-simmering resentments bring everything to a boil, forcing the Kauls to make impossible choices in to survive and protect everything they hold dear.
This new book will be available on November 30th.
New to the series? Start with Jade City.
This new book will be available on November 30th.
New to the series? Start with Jade City.
Mystery & Thriller
In this fresh entry in Anthony Horowitz's meta crime series, ex-detective Daniel Hawthorne and author Anthoy Horowitz attend an invite-only literary conference on a remote island filled with a wild cast of characters—one of whom, of course, becomes a corpse murdered under mysterious circumstances. All points of entry and exit on the island are shut off until the killer can be nabbed, and the sleuths are faced with a tautly paced locked-room mystery as Horowitz deftly skewers the genre, the characters, and even himself.
This new book will be available on October 19th.
New to the series? Start with The Word is Murder.
This new book will be available on October 19th.
New to the series? Start with The Word is Murder.
In the seventeenth installment of Louise Penny's enormously popular series, Chief Inspector Gamache is once again ensconced in the Québec village of Three Pines as he gets drawn into the schemes of a poisonous academic who stokes local hysteria until it results in murder. Gamache and his comrades have to stick together as they unravel the plot and withstand the unpredictability of a riled-up mob.
This new book will be released on August 24th.
New to the series? Start with Still Life.
This new book will be released on August 24th.
New to the series? Start with Still Life.
What do you do when someone you knew back in the day shows up begging for your help, along with a story about hot diamonds and the mob on his tail? You round up the Thursday Murder Club, and together, the four of you unravel a harrowing murder plot—and maybe, hopefully, find some diamonds along the way.
This new book will be available on September 28th.
New to the series? Start with The Thursday Murder Club.
This new book will be available on September 28th.
New to the series? Start with The Thursday Murder Club.
Jack Reacher is back, this time getting mixed up with FBI agent Michaela Fenton whose twin brother has gone missing after getting tangled up with a shadowy underworld crime lord. As he gets closer and closer to finding out the truth, and finding the man responsible for the death of Michaela's brother, he realizes that this time, he might be up against a criminal element who's too dangerous, even for him.
This new book will be available on October 26th.
New to the series? Start with Killing Floor.
This new book will be available on October 26th.
New to the series? Start with Killing Floor.
In this entry in the continuing adventures of Detective Harry Bosch, he teams up with LAPD Detective Renée Ballard to untangle the events that led to a man on New Year's Eve being hit with a bullet that fell from the sky. As the two get closer to the truth, an old case finds its way into their path, and the two must find out how the two intersect before it's too late.
This new book will be available on November 9th.
New to the series? Start with The Black Echo.
This new book will be available on November 9th.
New to the series? Start with The Black Echo.
Romance
You can't always get what you want, and in this entry of the League of Extraordinary Women series, scholar and heiress Hattie Greenfield finds herself in a marriage of convenience with ruthless Scottish businessman Lucian Blackstone—and all she wanted was to settle down with a nice, gentle man. After a stormy start, the two realize that the real danger is falling horribly in love as they learn about who the other person really is.
This new book will be available on September 7th.
New to the series? Start with Bringing Down The Duke.
This new book will be available on September 7th.
New to the series? Start with Bringing Down The Duke.
Fake-dating your gorgeous, sculpted friend who has a penchant for wearing a kilt and not much else? There are worse ideas. When single mother April Parker agrees to pretend to be her friend Mitch Malone's girlfriend at a family function, the dinner date turns into a weekend trip, which turns into something that's hard to pretend isn't real.
This new book will be available on October 19th.
New to the series? Start with Well Met.
This new book will be available on October 19th.
New to the series? Start with Well Met.
In this hotly anticipated entry into the Guild Hunter series, archangels Aodhan and Illium are forced to reckon with the weight of their century-spanning relationship as it's tested by forces beyond their control. As the world shifts and cracks beneath the weight of secrets and the emergence of a new world, can the two soulmates hold onto each other as their world collapses around them?
This new book will be available on October 26th.
New to the series? Start with Angels' Blood.
This new book will be available on October 26th.
New to the series? Start with Angels' Blood.
Troubled actor Alexander Woodroe isn't having a great time dealing with the specter of his future after his TV show, God of the Gates, is finished—and after a knock-down drag-out bar fight, former ER therapist Lauren Clegg is hired to keep him on the straight and narrow. Which should be easy, considering he's impulsive and stubborn and brooding and gorgeous and- oh, no.
This new book will be available on October 26th.
New to the series? Start with Spoiler Alert.
This new book will be available on October 26th.
New to the series? Start with Spoiler Alert.
Sure, it's easy to say that you'll never put your heart on the line again after having it broken from a particularly devastating breakup, but when devil-may-care lawyer Zara Patel is forced to be in close quarters with smoldering, career-focused Jay Donovan, things get tricky. And when she agrees to play matchmaker for Jay, things get a whole lot trickier when the answer to "who should Jay end up with" starts looking a lot like "the person you've spent a whole wedding season with."
This new book will be available on October 26th.
New to the series? Start with The Marriage Game.
This new book will be available on October 26th.
New to the series? Start with The Marriage Game.
Young Adult
In this follow-up to the explosive The Inheritance Games, Avery's world is turned upside-down as she digs for answers about why Tobias Hawthorne left his vast fortune to her—and what it's going to take to stay alive as forces gather from within and without to take her down. You don't need to be blood relations to inherit family drama.
This new book will be available on September 7th.
New to the series? Start with The Inheritance Games.
This new book will be available on September 7th.
New to the series? Start with The Inheritance Games.
The crew finds themselves in the labyrinthine canals of Venice, Italy in pursuit of Séverin, who has seemingly sold them out to the Patriarch of the Fallen House. Heart-pounding action ensues as all their paths converge at a subterranean temple full of unearthly song and deadly peril, and time is running out for Laila, who has ten days left before the curse of her birth catches up to her.
This new book will be available on September 21st.
New to the series? Start with The Gilded Wolves.
This new book will be available on September 21st.
New to the series? Start with The Gilded Wolves.
Aristotle and Dante Dive Into The Waters of The World (Aristotle and Dante #2)
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
by Benjamin Alire Sáenz
After falling in love with gorgeous, maddening Dante, Aristotle has finally come to accept who he really is in a border town that seems determined to crush them both. But when a shocking loss shakes Ari's new and tender foundations, he'll need to hold on tight to Dante, and the truth he refuses to deny any longer, to make it through.
This new book will be available on October 12th.
New to the series? Start with Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets of The Universe.
This new book will be available on October 12th.
New to the series? Start with Aristotle and Dante Discover The Secrets of The Universe.
In this smoldering follow-up to These Violent Delights, Juliette is on a razor's edge as her beloved Roma seeks her death for a crime she didn't commit, but the truth of which she can never tell him without marking him for death. But when a new and terrifying danger appears in Shanghai and threatens to plunge the city into chaos, they're going to have to decide whether stopping it together is worth putting their own hearts in the line of fire.
This new book will be available on November 16th.
New to the series? Start with These Violent Delights.
This new book will be available on November 16th.
New to the series? Start with These Violent Delights.
Which new series entries are you looking forward to most? Let us know down in the comments!
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Check out more recent articles, including:
Back to School with 33 Tales of Campus Life
Goodreads Members' Most Anticipated Fall Books
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I have also been wondering about this ....... great series.
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It's an awesome series, and I also have great expectations for Cytonic!