Old Town Books’ Most Anticipated Fall Pre-Orders
The team at Old Town Books is ready for cozy fall days and curling up with a good book – especially those we pre-ordered in advance so they feel like a gift when they finally arrive. Check out the titles we’re most excited for this fall below and shop our full list here.
Happy reading!
Kim: I’m excited for BY THE HORNS by Ruby Dixon (out September 2) because we all know I was obsessed with Bull Moon Rising and love a monster romance (plus it's gorgeous)!
And DADDY ISSUES by Kate Goldbeck (out November 18) - I loved YOU, AGAIN and I have high expectations of her sophomore release!
Anna: I’m looking forward to SECRETS OF THE PURPLE PEARL by Kate McKinnon (out September 30), the second book in the Millicent Quibb School of Etiquette for Young Ladies of Mad Science series. I adored the first last year - McKinnon’s writing is full of her signature sass, sarcasm and love for all things “weird.” Her characters are unapologetically and delightfully quirky, and save the world by embracing their curiosity and imagination. I love it and I especially love it for kids who march to their own drumbeats.
Rowan: YOU WEREN’T MEANT TO BE HUMAN by Andrew Joseph White (out September 9) is my most anticipated fall read. This is his adult debut and his YA books have been absolutely visceral! I can’t wait to see what it looks like when he isn’t trying to keep his writing in check for teens.
Nicole: I’m super excited for Samanta Schweblin’s new short story collection GOOD AND EVIL (out September 16). She writes right on the edge of literary and horror, and is the exact limit of my scaredy cat ability to read scary books!
I’m also very pumped for NIC BLAKE AND THE REMARKABLES: THE BOOK OF ANANSI (out September 16), the second book in Angie Thomas’s middle grade fantasy series. The worldbuilding and story of the first was excellent and I’m so excited to get back into world!
Dermaine: I’m looking forward to NOTES ON BEING A MAN by Scott Galloway (out November 4) because I’m at a pivotal age where I am a sponge to any and all advice that can advance my character as a human period, but especially as a man.
I’m also excited for GOLIATH’S CURSE by Luke Kemp (out September 23). My guilty pleasure is reading/watching books and movies on the development and destruction of societies. This book was written for me.
Sarah: I’m very excited for WHAT WE CAN KNOW by Ian McEwan (out September 23). A post-apocalyptic academic mystery that opens in 2014 and jumps to 2119. An artful, philosophical novel that asks the question: How do we know what we think we know?
Also so excited to pre-order JOYRIDE, a memoir by Susan Orlean (out October 14th). A celebration of writing and the creative life by one of our most accomplished journalists. As much a look back at the heyday of print media of the 80s and 90s in NYC as it is an expert workshop on craft. Thoroughly enjoyable.
Lane: The lyrical horror novelist Mariana Enriquez is an autobuy author for me, so I'm really excited for her memoir/cemetery travelogue, SOMEBODY IS WALKING ON YOUR GRAVE: MY CEMETERY JOURNEYS (out September 30).
I’m also excited for VAMPIRES AT SEA by Lindsay Merbaum (out October 7). A silly, campy, fantasy horror debut about vampires on a cruise ship that's essentially What We Do in the Shadows in book form.
Robyn: I can’t wait to get my hands on HEART THE LOVER by Lily King (out October 10). I devoured her novel WRITERS AND LOVERS in early 2020, appreciating the chance to get lost in someone else’s story, and am excited to go back in time with the same protagonist to her college years and get lost again.
Cate: TOURIST SEASON by Brynne Weaver (out September 23) is at the top of my list! Brynne Weaver is one of my auto-buy authors, thanks to Kim, and I'm so excited to meet a new cast of characters cooked up by her brain!
GIRL DINNER by Olivie Blake (out October 23) is another I’m looking forward to – a sorority that promises more opportunities than you could imagine...but at what (bloody) cost?
Melissa: Everyone should listen to Robyn and preorder HEART THE LOVER because I read an advance copy and it's hands down my favorite adult read of the year, but the preorder I've been refraining from reading until I have the beautiful finished in my hands is Catherine Newman's WRECK (out October 23), the follow up to last year's SANDWICH, so I can inhabit the inner thoughts of this wonderfully flawed and so relatable menopausal mother and spouse once again.