10 Must-Read New Books Out in Fall 2024 to Preorder Now

From the author of Leave the World Behind (now a Netflix movie) comes a new “novel of money and morality.” It follows Brooke, a woman looking to make a difference and make a name for herself. When she gets a job helping an elderly billionaire give away his fortune, she gets a taste of what it’s like to have proximity to the kind of wealth that can pull the rest of the world into its gravity. This looks like a thought-provoking and unsettling read about the “seductive distortions of money.”

Mariana Enriquez’s haunting novel Our Share of Night solidified her reputation as one of the biggest names in Latin American literature right now. In this collection of short stories, ordinary people in Argentina find their lives upended when they encounter the supernatural, from ghosts and goblins to women who have turned into birds.

Dark academia fans, this one is for you! Lennon’s life was falling apart when she was invited to Drayton College. There, she learns to control her supernatural powers of persuasion, bending others’ will to her own. She falls in love with the campus — and maybe with her intimidating mentor, Dante — but the longer she’s there, the more she discovers about the dark history of Drayton College and the danger of her newfound power corrupting her.

Do I really need to explain why Sally Rooney is on this list? Her books, like Normal People and Conversations with Friends, have gathered a passionate fanbase. Who else has multiple bookstores hosting midnight release parties these days? Her newest is about two brothers: Peter, a lawyer; and Ivan, a competitive chess player. As they both grieve the loss of their father, they find themselves tangled in unexpected romances.

Louise Erdrich is a Pulitzer Prize-winning Ojibwe author of The Round House, The Night Watchman, The Sentence, and many more. As my colleague Erica Ezeifedi describes it, The Mighty Red “follows messy lives against a backdrop of resources being sucked dry through climate changes and the 2008 recession. Gary is a young man about to inherit two farms, and is set on marrying lapsed Goth Kismet Poe, while Hugo’s messy, red-headed behind wants to steal her for himself. Amidst the drama, the people of the Red River Valley try their best to survive, while things like visions of angels and drastic changes complicate things.”

The author of genre-defying novels like An Unkindness of Ghosts and Sorrowland is back with a take on haunted houses like no other. The Maxwell siblings grew up the only Black family in their neighborhood, in a house haunted by unexplained phenomena. Their mother refused to give the house up, so they endured — but as adults, they avoid it at all costs. When their parents die, they’re forced to walk inside again to determine what led to their demise. Rivers Solomon draws on real-life horrors of racism and segregation in this unforgettable haunted house story.