Notable New Releases in October

After September‘s massive introduction to an autumn of epic fall reading, October is carrying the tourch with some wonderful diversity. There are so many interesting titles this month (in my opinion) that I just couldn’t narrow it down much more than what you see. Iconic names like Danielle Steel, John Grisham, Dennis Lehane, Nelson DeMille, Patricia Cornwell and Justin Cronin all have upcoming releases, and there’s a host of unique debuts as well. Orhan Pamuk’s Silent House isn’t new – it was originally published in 1983, his second novel – but it’s available this month for the first time in English, so I thought it was a very relevant book to include. Another of my very much anticipated releases for the month, which isn’t on the list simply because I don’t know its exact release date, is Christine Nolfi‘s Second Chance Grill, the second book in her beloved Liberty series. You can find more information and follow Christine for the details leading up to its release. On the list here I’ve also added a new category for the already-upcoming Holiday 2012 titles – it’s early, I know! There are books about books (The End of Your Life Book Club, The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap), books about icons (Mick Jagger, Hello, Gorgeous, Alexander McQueen), and books about everything in between – even a dose of highly-acclaimed poetry from Mary Oliver. Here’s to another month of exciting reads!

The Round House by Louise Erdrich (10/2; HarperCollins)
A Working Theory of Love by Scott Hutchins (10/2; The Penguin Press)
Silent House by Orhan Pamuk (10/9; Knopf)
Back to Blood by Tom Wolfe (10/23; Little, Brown & Company)
The Middlesteins by Jami Attenberg (10/23; Grand Central Publishing)
The Sins of the Mother: A Novel by Danielle Steel (10/30; Delacorte Press)

Total Recall: My Unbelievably True Life Story by Arnold Schwarzenegger (10/1; Simon & Schuster)
America Again: Re-becoming the Greatness We Never Weren’t by Stephen Colbert (10/2; Grand Central Publishing)
Mick Jagger by Phillip Norman (10/2; Ecco)
Luck or Something Like It: A Memoir by Kenny Rogers (10/2; William Morrow)
The End of Your Life Book Club by Will Schwalbe (10/2; Knopf)
The Little Bookstore of Big Stone Gap: A Memoir of Friendship, Community, and the Uncommon Pleasure of a Good Book by Wendy Welch (10/2, St. Martin’s Press)
Hello, Gorgeous: Becoming Barbra Streisand by William J. Mann (10/9; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
A Thousand Mornings: Poems by Mary Oliver (10/11; The Penguin Press)
There Was A Country: A Personal History of Biafra by Chinua Achebe (10/11; The Penguin Press)
Elsewhere: A Memoir by Richard Russo (10/30; Knopf)
Alexander McQueen: The Life and the Legacy by Judith Watt (10/9; HarperCollins)
A Gift of Hope: Helping the Homeless by Danielle Steel (10/30; Delacorte Press)

In Sunlight and in Shadow by Mark Helprin (10/2; Houghton Mifflin Harcourt)
In Need of a Good Wife by Kelly O’Connor McNees (10/2; Berkley)
Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women’s Literary Society: A Novel by Amy Hill Hearth (10/2; Atria)
The Secret Keeper by Kate Morton (10/9; Atria)
Astray by Emma Donoghue (10/30; Little, Brown & Company)

Sultry with a Twist by Macy Beckett (10/1; Sourcebooks)
Against the Tide by Elizabeth Camden (10/1; Bethany House Publishers)
The Runaway Princess by Hester Browne (10/2; Gallery Books)
How I Came to Sparkle Again by Kaya McLaren (10/2; St. Martin’s Press)
The Duchess War by Courtney Milan (10/19; Courtney Milan)

Paradise City by Archer Mayor (10/2; Minotaur Books)
The Jewels of Paradiseby Donna Leon (10/2; Atlantic Monthly Press)
Phantom by Jo Nesbø (10/2; Knopf)
Live by Night by Dennis Lehane (10/2; William Morrow)
Mad River by John Sandford (10/2; Putnam Adult)
NYPD Red James Patterson and Marshall Karp (10/8; Little, Brown & Company)
by Patricia Cornwell (10/16; Putnam Adult)
The Twelve by Justin Cronin (10/16; Ballantine Books)
The Panther by Nelson DeMille (10/16; Grand Central Publishing)
Sleep No More by Iris Johansen (10/16; St. Martin’s Press)
The Racketeer by John Grisham (10/23; Doubleday)
The Uncommon Appeal of Clouds by Alexander McCall Smith (10/23; Pantheon)

A Wreath of Snow: A Victorian Christmas Novella by Liz Curtis Higgs (10/2; WaterBrook Press)
The Bridge: A Novel by Karen Kingsbury (10/23; Howard Books)
My Kind of Christmas by Robyn Carr (10/23; MIRA)
Angels at the Table by Debbie Macomber (10/23; Ballantine Books)
A Winter Dream by Richard Paul Evans (10/30; Simon & Schuster)
A Christmas Garland: A Novel by Anne Perry (10/30; Ballantine Books)