Zibby's Most Anticipated Fall Books
My Top Picks That Are Worth Your Time
Hi book lovers! So many books come out every week. Which ones should you pay attention to? Let me help. I research every book coming out and select my favorites, so you can read what’s worth your time.
I choose books for my award-winning daily podcast Totally Booked with Zibby and buy books to add to our highly curated shelves at Zibby’s Bookshop in Santa Monica! Some, I love so much I publish them or select them for my book club. And one, I wrote myself!
(To watch yesterday’s pre-launch conversation with Renee Rosen's Book Bunker about my book, Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot, click here!)
Here are the fall books I’m most excited about. Read with me!
By Category
By Publication Date
By Category
Coming-of-Age
Kit de Waal, Sweet Pea (11/3)
Chad Harbach, The Brightness (10/27)
Hollywood-Adjacent
John Green, Hollywood, Ending (9/22)
Elizabeth Castellano, Proof of Progress (9/15)
Jessica Radloff, Young Sheldon (10/20)
Living on the Land (or Sea)
Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen (9/8)
Meghan Cox Gurdon, Free Range Girl (10/20)
Amanda Peters, The Birthing Tree (9/1)
Grown-ups Behaving Badly
Noa Yedlin, House Arrest (10/13)
Christine Pride and Jo Piazza, I Never Knew You at All (10/13)
Emiko Jean, Before You Were Anne (9/1)
Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows (9/15)
Jonathan Santlofer, Ten Perfect Guests (9/8)
Ann Garvin, Tell Two Friends (9/8)
Taking Care of Yourself – and Others
Natalie Silverstein, Simple Acts of Care (12/1)
Meghan O’Rourke, The Story of the Body (10/20)
Juana Libedinsky, Downhill: A Memoir of an Accident, Two Comas, Many Books, and Starting Over (9/22)
Beth Ricanati, MD, The Braided Prescription: Seven Practices for Living Well from the Ancient Ritual of Making Challah (9/1)
Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones (9/15)
Rebekah Lowin, A Year of Jewish Joy: Inspired Recipes, Rituals, and Traditions for Beautiful Celebrations (9/8)
Chloe Melas & Judy Batalion, The Girl’s Guide to Guts (11/10)
Allison Sweet Grant, Lump (9/15)
Barry Michels, Ahead of All Parting (9/29)
Social Science Stuff
Yael Schonbrun, Why Don’t You Understand Me? (10/27)
Adam Grant, Vibe (10/13)
David Byrne, Sleeping Beauties (10/6)
Sherry Turkle, Artificial Intimacy (9/29)
Fran Hauser, Twenty Minutes Is the New Hour (9/22)
Reinvention Era (and Proudly Publishing)
Zibby Owens, Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot (9/22)
Tarajia Morrell, Desire Feeds the Feast: A Memoir (11/3)
Alexandra Potter, One Good Thing (12/1)
Bookish Books
Bonnie Garmus, Peck & Peck (10/13)
Susan Coll, Word Salad (9/15)
Harlan Coben, Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir on Writing (9/8)
Kate Hash, The Mother-in-Law Book Club (10/13)
Meg Mason, Sophie, Standing There (9/29)
Books for the Griever
Matthew Salesses, To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time (12/1)
Celebrity Reads
Dustin Hoffman, Look at Me (11/3)
Gloria Steinem, An Unexpected Life (9/22)
Eric Dane, My Book of Days (11/3)
Sylvester Stallone, The Steps: A Memoir (9/29)
Dame Judi Dench, Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It? (11/3)
Jane Leeves, Daphne & Me (10/20)
Eriq La Salle, Laws of Solomon (9/8)
Edward Burns, The Marlboro Road Gang (9/15)
Michael Douglas, One Helluva Ride (10/6)
Bob Woodward, Secrets: A Reporter’s Memoir (9/29)
Second-Chance Romance
Becca Freeman, Back Where We Started (10/13)
True Story
Michael Lewis, Blockers (10/6)
Robert Kolker, The Vanishing Family (9/29)
Jimmy Chin, Rules to Live By (9/29)
Kara Kavensky, Tell Me About Joy (9/8)
Dara Horn, The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living (9/1)
Family Lore Behind Closed Doors
Mary Beth Keane, Whale Harbor (11/3)
Min Jin Lee, American Hagwon (9/29)
Hank Phillippi Ryan, Mother Daughter Sister Stranger (9/1)
Elizabeth Wellington Rollins, The Three Graces of Pearl Street (9/1)
Marriage, Motherhood, and Memory
Amy Irvine, Almost Animal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Wildness, and the American West (11/10)
Carolyn Huynh, Fetal Position (12/8)
Julie Orringer, Luna, Phoenix, Queen (10/13)
Julianna Glasse, This Is What Happens When Women Read (10/13)
Barbara Kingsolver, Partita (10/6)
Sarah Langan, Trad Wife (9/29)
Sona Movsesian, The World’s Worst Mom (9/1)
Friendship
Natalie Baszile, Friends and Family (10/6)
Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie is Working on It (9/8)
Alex Durand and Tom Carles, Pardon Our French: The Parisian Way to a Happier Life (9/8)
Books That Make You Laugh
Laurie Notaro, I’ve Got a New Complaint: Essays on Aging Disgracefully and Other Small Disasters (9/1)
Chris Olsen, I Think My Therapist Hates Me (9/1)
Another Time & Place
Philippe Collin, The Barman of the Ritz (9/1)
Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat (9/15)
Chloe Benjamin, Under Story (9/1)
Sarah Addison Allen, Paper Ghosts (9/1)
Sarah Hepola, The Only Thing There is to Want (9/29)
Audrey Niffenegger, Life Out of Order (10/6)
New Books by Old Favorites
If you loved Lessons in Chemistry, you’ll love Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus
If you loved The Berry Pickers, you’ll love The Birthing Tree by Amanda Peters
If you loved Save What’s Left, you’ll love, Proof of Progress by Elizabeth Castellano
If you loved Pachinko, you’ll love American Hagwon by Min Jin Lee
If you loved The Half Moon or Ask Again, Yes, you’ll love Whale Harbor by Mary Beth Keane
If you loved Sorrow and Bliss, you’ll love Sophie, Standing There by Meg Mason
If you loved Demon Copperhead, you’ll love Partita by Barbara Kingsolver
If you loved The Invisible Kingdom, you’ll love The Story of the Body by Meghan O’Rourke
By Publication Week
September 1
Amanda Peters, The Birthing Tree (9/1)
Beth Ricanati, MD, The Braided Prescription: Seven Practices for Living Well from the Ancient Ritual of Making Challah (9/1)
Chloe Benjamin, Under Story (9/1)
Chris Olsen, I Think My Therapist Hates Me (9/1)
Dara Horn, The Final Solution to the Jewish Question: A Love Story for the Living (9/1)
Elizabeth Wellington Rollins, The Three Graces of Pearl Street (9/1)
Hank Phillippi Ryan, Mother Daughter Sister Stranger (9/1)
Laurie Notaro, I’ve Got a New Complaint: Essays on Aging Disgracefully and Other Small Disasters (9/1)
Sona Movsesian, The World’s Worst Mom (9/1)
Philippe Collin, The Barman of the Ritz (9/1)
Emiko Jean, Before You Were Anne (9/1)
Sarah Addison Allen, Paper Ghosts (9/1)
September 8
Alex Durand and Tom Carles, Pardon Our French (9/8)
Ariel Lawhon, The Pirate Queen (9/8)
Ann Garvin, Tell Two Friends (9/8)
Eriq La Salle, Laws of Solomon (9/8)
Harlan Coben, Plot Twist: Life, Craft, and the Messy First Draft: A Memoir on Writing (9/8)
Rebekah Lowin, A Year of Jewish Joy: Inspired Recipes, Rituals, and Traditions for Beautiful Celebrations (9/8)
Jonathan Santlofer, Ten Perfect Guests (9/8)
Kara Kavensky, Tell Me About Joy (9/8)
Candice Carty-Williams, Queenie is Working on It (9/8)
September 15
Allison Sweet Grant, Lump (9/15)
Elizabeth Castellano, Proof of Progress (9/15)
Jodi Picoult, Hollow Bones (9/15)
Leigh Bardugo, Dead Beat (9/15)
Edward Burns, The Marlboro Road Gang (9/15)
Richard Osman, We Chase Shadows (9/15)
Susan Coll, Word Salad (9/15)
September 22
Fran Hauser, Twenty Minutes Is the New Hour (9/22)
Juana Libedinsky, Downhill: A Memoir of an Accident, Two Comas, Many Books, and Starting Over (9/22)
Gloria Steinem, An Unexpected Life (9/22)
John Green, Hollywood, Ending (9/22)
Zibby Owens, Between Chapters: How I Started Over, Took Some Chances, and Found the Plot (9/22)
September 29
Jimmy Chin, Rules to Live By (9/29)
Meg Mason, Sophie, Standing There (9/29)
Min Jin Lee, American Hagwon (9/29)
Robert Kolker, The Vanishing Family (9/29)
Barry Michels, Ahead of All Parting (9/29)
Sherry Turkle, Artificial Intimacy (9/29)
Bob Woodward, Secrets: A Reporter’s Memoir (9/29)
Sylvester Stallone, The Steps: A Memoir (9/29)
Sarah Hepola, The Only Thing There is to Want (9/29)
Sarah Langan, Trad Wife (9/29)
October 6
Audrey Niffenegger, Life Out of Order (10/6)
David Byrne, Sleeping Beauties (10/6)
Michael Lewis, Blockers (10/6)
Natalie Baszile, Friends and Family (10/6)
Barbara Kingsolver, Partita (10/6)
Michael Douglas, One Helluva Ride (10/6)
October 13
Adam Grant, Vibe (10/13)
Bonnie Garmus, Peck & Peck (10/13)
Christine Pride and Jo Piazza, I Never Knew You at All (10/13)
Julianna Glasse, This Is What Happens When Women Read (10/13)
Julie Orringer, Luna, Phoenix, Queen (10/13)
Kate Hash, The Mother-in-Law Book Club (10/13)
Becca Freeman, Back Where We Started (10/13)
Noa Yedlin, House Arrest (10/13)
October 20
Jane Leeves, Daphne & Me (10/20)
Jessica Radloff, Young Sheldon (10/20)
Meghan Cox Gurdon, Free Range Girl (10/20)
Meghan O’Rourke, The Story of the Body (10/20)
October 27
Chad Harbach, The Brightness (10/27)
Yael Schonbrun, Why Don’t You Understand Me? (10/27)
November 3
Dustin Hoffman, Look at Me (11/3)
Kit de Waal, Sweet Pea (11/3)
Mary Beth Keane, Whale Harbor (11/3)
Tarajia Morrell, Desire Feeds the Feast: A Memoir (11/3)
Eric Dane, My Book of Days (11/3)
Dame Judi Dench, Is It Too Late to Make a Run For It? (11/3)
November 10
Amy Irvine, Almost Animal: A Memoir of Motherhood, Wildness, and the American West (11/10)
Chloe Melas & Judy Batalion, The Girl’s Guide to Guts (11/10)
December 1
Alexandra Potter, One Good Thing (12/1)
Matthew Salesses, To Grieve Is to Carry Another Time (12/1)
Natalie Silverstein, Simple Acts of Care (12/1)
December 8
Carolyn Huynh, Fetal Position (12/8)
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Thank you. What a list. Great way to start my day with a cup of coffee. I will listen to your talk on Between Chapters. 💙
Thank you Zibby and Co. Thrilled to be part of this list. Looking forward to celebrating "Between the Covers" with you!