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10 new books Amazon's editors are adding to their reading list this October
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Maybe it's the brisk weather and the leaves changing color, or maybe it's the abundance of pumpkin spice lattes and cozy sweaters — whatever it is, there's something about fall that makes you just want to curl up with a good book. If you too feel the forces of fall pulling you to read, you can check out Amazon's Best Books of the Month section. Each month, Amazon's editors curate a list of 10 new, exciting must-reads. For October you'll find the spotlight on "Virgil Wander" by Leif Enger, as well as nine other great picks.
For a great read you can cozy up with this October, check out the list below to see what Amazon's editors think are the month's best new book releases.
Captions have been provided by Erin Kodicek, editor of books and Kindle at Amazon.com.
A movie house owner’s memory is spotty after surviving a harrowing car crash. As it improves, little by little, we learn not only more about him, but the denizens of his quirky community. "Virgil Wander" is a charming, Midwestern yarn that packs a subtle emotional punch.
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My colleague, Adrian Liang, says "A Winter's Promise" “has the assured world-building of "Harry Potter" and the opaque political shenanigans of "The Golden Compass", but for an older, more thoughtful audience.” An audacious claim for an audacious new series.
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Don’t expect cameos from anyone on the Dublin Murder squad in this riveting standalone thriller by Tana French. "The Witch Elm" finds Toby Hennessy’s charmed life upended by a brutal attack — the reverberating effects of which haunt him, and his family.
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Barbara Kingsolver returns with a poignant and politically-tinged tale of two families, separated by centuries but connected by the same disorienting realization that you can try and do everything right, but the world will still conspire against you.
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Miss Peregrine and her peculiars arrive State-side in the latest installment of Ransom Riggs’ remarkable series. While they navigate this bewildering new world, readers will also learn more about Abe’s double life, and how Jacob Portman’s unusual journey began.
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David W. Blight has penned the long overdue, definitive biography of the escaped slave who went on to become one of the most preeminent abolitionists and orators of the nineteenth century.
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When ISIS starts studying how it can employ the Instagram strategies of Taylor Swift, you know that “battlefields” are shifting. Frightening and fascinating, "LikeWar" examines how disinformation and actual fake news is being used as a tool of war.
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Ailing Daniel Ahearn is wending his way down the East Coast to see his daughter, but this is no ordinary visit. Susan hasn’t seen him since 1973, when, in a fit of jealousy, he murdered her mother. In "Gone So Long" Andre Dubus III has written a novel of profound grit and grace.
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Casey Gerald’s life took a dramatic turn when he was recruited to play football for Yale. Suddenly catapulted from the margins to a life of (relative) power and privilege, Gerald finds that he is unwittingly complicit in keeping others from achieving the same success.
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In Jodi Picoult’s latest heart-pounding and provocative novel, a deranged gunman opens fire on a women’s reproductive health services clinic, setting off a chain of events that has consequences for people on both sides of the abortion debate.
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