Get a Hot Cup of Tea Ready, Because We’re Dropping Our 10 Most Anticipated Novels for Fall 2021

Is that the very slightest cool breeze that just blew through the yard? Did a single yellow leaf just go skittering past you on the sidewalk? Are those Halloween decorations you just saw in the seasonal aisle? Holy crap, fall is coming.

What do we look for in a great new fall release? After a summer of easy reads and happy endings, we want some meaty, substantial stories—and maybe a few things that lean a little darker. We want the perfect book to hide under a blanket with, to read next to a fire, or to enjoy with a hot drink.

Here are our favorite book picks for fall—the ones everyone will be talking about.

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SEPTEMBER BOOK CLUB PICK

All’s Well, by Mona Awad

How do you move through the world with chronic pain when you’re a woman? How do people respond to that pain? How does your life unravel because of it? These are all questions Mona Awad imagines in her new novel, All’s Well.

“Miranda Fitch’s life is a waking nightmare. The accident that ended her burgeoning acting career left her with excruciating, chronic back pain, a failed marriage, and a deepening dependence on painkillers. And now she’s on the verge of losing her job as a college theater director. Determined to put on Shakespeare’s All’s Well That Ends Well, the play that promised, and cost, her everything, she faces a mutinous cast hellbent on staging Macbeth instead. Miranda sees her chance at redemption slip through her fingers.

That’s when she meets three strange benefactors who have an eerie knowledge of Miranda’s past and a tantalizing promise for her future: one where the show goes on, her rebellious students get what’s coming to them, and the invisible, doubted pain that’s kept her from the spotlight is made known.”

AND YES, THERE'S A GIVEAWAY!

FOLLOW ALONG WITH US

Sadly, the Scary Mommy Book Club cannot fit in your living room, even if we bring in the folding chairs from the garage. But the good news is that we can all hang out online, and it’s probably better that way since we didn’t have time to shower today. 

Read along with us by following discussion threads on Instagram and Facebook. We also have a private discussion group open to all book lovers!