Most Anticipated Reads of October 2019

Hi everyone! As October draws nearer, I'm getting more and more excited for all the new books coming out this month! I'm doing my best to reach outside of my reading comfort zone with this blog, so some of these books will be new releases by old favorites and some will be completely new to me. Hopefully you'll find some hidden gems to add to your ever-growing tbr pile!

Without further ado, let's get into our first section:

Sequels

For October I've only got one sequel that I'm really excited about: The Sinister Mystery of the Mesmerizing Girl by Theodora Goss. This is the third book in the The Extraordinary Adventures of the Athena Club series (I know, it's a mouthful). I devoured the first two books in this series earlier this year and I'm so excited to be able to read this one soon! I haven't heard many people talk about these books but they're so much fun! You should check them out if you like: historical fiction, retellings, badass women, or the Parasol Protectorate series by Gail Carriger.

Release Date: October 1

New Series

Good lord, there are so many cool new series starting in October, I'm excited but slightly terrified. If I tried to give a detailed description of all these books we'd be here for ever, so I'm going to do my best to sum them each up with just a few words.

• Crier's War by Nina Varela (Crier's War #1) : Automaton girl + human girl = love, but also war?

Release Date: October 1

• The Beautiful by Renée Adieh (The Beautiful #1) : New Orleans! Vampires! The 1800s! What more could you want?

Release Date: October 8

• The Never Tilting World by Rin Chupeco (The Never Tilting World #1) : The first words of the synopsis are "Frozen meets Mad Max" and I literally don't need anything else. I just want this book right now.

Release Date: October 15

• Ninth House by Leigh Bardugo (Ninth House Series #1) : Dark academia? Secret societies? An unsolved murder? I'm sold.

Release Date: October 8

• Quantum by Patricia Cornwell (Captain Chase #1) : A cybercrime investigator, her missing twin, and a NASA research center. Please just give this to me now!

Release Date: October 1

• War Girls by Toni Onyebuchi (War Girls #1) : Based in a futuristic, war-torn Nigeria, this cyborg heavy narrative sounds directly up my alley and I can't wait to read it.

Release Date: October 15

Stand Alones

• Tarnished Are the Stars by Rosiee Thor: Supposedly this is like a combination of the Lunar Chronicles and Rook by Sharon Cameron (an underrated book that I literally wrote a term paper on because I love it) so I'm 200% sold.

Release Date: October 15

• Now Entering Addamsville by Francesca Zappia: Dark contemporaries are my very favorite kind, so this book seems directly up my alley and I can't wait to get my hands on it.

Release Date: October 1

• The Fountains of Silence by Ruta Sepetys: I have loved every book Ruta Sepetys has written previously and I'm beyond excited to finally get another one! I honestly don't know much about this book because Ruta Sepetys is so solidly in my favorite authors of all time, I'm ready to dive in without any background.

Release Date: October 1

• The Grace Year by Kim Liggett: This sounds a bit like the Glass Arrow by Kristen Simmons, which I never got around to reading but always wanted to. I'm here for any an all books about women resisting oppressive systems so this one's definitely high on my list.

Release Date: October 8

• The Memory Thief by Lauren Mansy: Memories as currency and a girl on a quest to save her mother's life from an evil Madame, sounds like my cup of tea!

Release Date: October 1

• Mooncakes by Suzanne Walker and Wendy Xu: Everything about this book seems adorable! The main character is a teenage witch working in a bookshop that sells spellbooks and ends up discovering that her childhood crush is a werewolf and they've got to work together to defeat the forces of evil. Sign me UP!

Release Date: October 15

• I Know You Remember by Jennifer Donaldson: Can't finish up this list without a good old fashioned mystery. This one involves a missing girl and a small Alaskan town, which seems like the perfect combo for a spooky October read!

Release Date: October 8

Those are the books I'm most excited for next month! Do you guys agree with my picks? Did I miss any?