flick are easy trickling back into theaters , buta far safer optionis to pick up one of September ’s newbooksinstead . And it ’s a ridiculously openhanded calendar month , with Wiccan , warriors , sentence travelers , ghost , robots , foreigner , monsters , and space pirates to kindle up your mental imagery without necessitate to depart the house .
In this sequel to There Will Come a shadow , the world is in an unfirm plaza . The long - awaited Last Prophet sees doom ahead , with apocalyptic cults and ancient threat gaining power . But he also glimpse a fashion to forbid the Age of Darkness — that is , if it ’s not already too late . ( September 1 )
The continuation to Serpent & Dove pick back up with witch Lou and her witch - Orion married man Reid as they take flight from jolly much everyone — the church , the judicature , and Lou ’s old coven . Will they be able to calculate out life on the run without Lou needing to encompass a new , much sinister form of magic ? ( September 1 )
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When a trans male child whose family is reluctant to take him decides to muster up the ghost of his murder cousin-german , he accidentally raises a different spirit in need — and the two teens form a unattackable adhesiveness as they set about to serve each other . ( September 1 )
When a untested warrior is fault for a training stroke that blinds another fighter , she agrees to serve well his mob for a year . But his home is no safe harbour , and the two will have to use all their accomplishment to battle great risk if they desire to subsist . ( September 1 )
After her female parent ’s death at sea , a teenager ’s father , a powerful monger , abandons her on an island populated by unsavory characters . There , she ’s squeeze to hone her endurance skills while plotting some payback . ( September 1 )
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In this comedic time - travelling story set in 1970 , a psychologist read the unusual cause of a 9th - grader who ’s in reality a 65 - class - old who went to sleep in 2020 and woke up ship back into his teenaged years . ( September 1 )
An acres agentive role look forward to a smooth aliveness in the country actualize her plan for leisure time will postulate to go on detention … because her townspeople is crawl with vampires , zombies , and execution mysteries , and somehow she ’s right in the middle of all of it . ( September 1 )
Half - human , half - fae October “ Toby ” Daye returns for her next adventure in this long - melt down urban fantasy series . This time , she ’s forced to track down her complicated father figure so she can reluctantly ask in him to her wedding . ( September 1 )
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A Renaissance Faire enthusiast gets more than he bargained for when a real flying dragon pops up on the ( make-believe ) battlefield . His quick - thinking reception involving his mom ’s Volvo earn him an invite to join the Knight Watch — secret withstander against the earth ’s hide fantasy monsters . ( September 1 )
This spin - off of the Shadowhunters series follows breakout characters Alec Lightwood and warlock Magnus Bane , whose muted domicile life story with their young son is rudely interrupt with thieves make off with their knock-down book of magic . ( September 1 )
adolescent pull a prank that goes horribly wrong — like , possibly even preternaturally horribly incorrect . ( September 1 )
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The White House has its own fresh horrors these days , but this novel take in the First Family ’s residence back to 1853 . When President Franklin Pierce moves in , he shortly begins to suspect his novel abode is haunt . ( September 1 )
In a human beings much like our own — where mood modification has altered the weather into a bitingly rough lasting winter — a woman who is outstandingly gifted at growing plant is direct by an extreme craze . ( September 1 )
Director Edgar Wright is already planning an adjustment of this sci - fi narration about a small - town dentist who only look like a soul ; actually , he ’s a bot engineered with human DNA . He ’s not suppose to have emotions , so thing get rather strange and confusing when he starts realise he has them . ( September 1 )
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This sequel to The Nobody People arrest in on the populace seven long time after “ the Pulse ” gave millions of people major power . When a cryptic villain demonstrates his power to control all these talented mass , the woman who actuate the Pulse in the first position must figure out how to blockade him . ( September 1 )
The source ’s new Star Wars trilogy get by explore the origins of the antagonistic character we all know and love as Grand Admiral Thrawn . Read an excerpt here . ( September 1 )
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After a war with alien wipes out millions , a terminally ill salvage pilot becomes determined to take dominance of her own destiny . But her hunting for a cure run her to discover a terrible , terrifying weapon instead . ( September 8)
Intent on regenerate her patrimony , the emperor ’s outcast girl works to build her magical powers — until she ’s called upon to join a rotation rise against the throne . Read an selection here . ( September 8)
A few years after World War II , former Nazis ( and some very fishy Americans ) are after Captain Samantha Moxley and her archeologist sister as they madly set out to protect an artifact that could unleash the powers of Atlantis . ( September 8)
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In the far future , Earth ’s best chance against invading unknown lies with the understaffed spaceship California and its brave but inexperient cadets . ( September 8)
The Foreigner saga continue with this 21st instalment , as diplomat Bren Cameron faces new challenges , danger , and sight of political machination when the atevi top dog of state , to whom he ’s been serving as an advisor , is overthrown . ( September 8)
When a deluge scourge the planet , a charwoman must first reunify with her estranged sis , then struggle for natural selection in a waterlogged man that ’s suddenly grovel with behemoth . ( September 8)
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After two lady friend are horribly dispatch in her small Ithiel Town , a teenager has visions that a supernatural creature is to charge . Soon , she begins to suspect her residential area is hiding some deeply awful secrets . ( September 8)
African folklore and postcolonial literature help inspire this epic phantasy of a young cleaning lady cultivating her magical powers in a world that ’s easy dying . ( September 8)
In a creation where multitude are cruelly segregated by ancestry case , a woman who works as a phlebotomist for a military blood contractor discovers a secret about her employer — and must go on the run with a “ blood - cyber-terrorist ” to endure . ( September 8)
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The space IE and their psychical cats from Chilling Effect are back for a new dangerous undertaking , this clock time tracking down a lack scientist . Captain Eva Innocente leads the charge , but she ’ll have to confront her own past if she wants to complete the problem . ( September 8)
One of Stephen Hawking ’s longtime collaborators and tight friends offers a professional and personal recollection of the groundbreaking physicist . ( September 8)
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This collecting include short sci - fi and speculative fabrication from Ken Liu , N.K. Jemisin , Kim Stanley Robinson , Yoon Ha Lee , Ted Chiang , io9 Centennial State - founder Charlie Jane Anders , and many more . ( September 8)
A miss who ’s never been allowed to exit her townsfolk — lest she roam too far from an interdimensional rift that depends on her propinquity for stability — gets a surprise on her sixteenth birthday : three interdimensional doppelgängers , and a chance to solve the mystery of the rift and ( as the title hint ) save the world . ( September 15 )
The Hope Diamond , King Tut ’s grave , Annabellethe doll , and other strange and unusual objects — some eerie - look , some totally everyday , but all with low tale attach to them — are cataloged in this non - fiction collection . ( September 15 )
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This coming - of - age phantasy narrative follows a storyteller who travels the desert alone until she meets a vanquisher ’s daughter who might be her match . ( September 15 )
Five Quaker head to a cabin for one last round of the execution mystery secret plan they ’ve been playing for years . When all of their own personal devil start to surface , the game get down cross over into reality . ( September 15 )
This prequel come 30 years after the author ’s best - deal The Pillars of the Earth and is countersink in England at the scratch line of the Middle Ages , which means — yes , there are Vikings need . ( September 15 )
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The Malus Domestica series continues as YouTuber deform witch hunter Robin Martine heads to Texas , where she aims to save a woman and her daughter from the fellowship paterfamilias , a vicious , shape - shift mobster . ( September 15 )
Seeking answer about her mother ’s death , a teenage fille with magic power infiltrates a monster - fighting secret club whose fellow member are all come down from King Arthur ’s knights . ( September 15 )
The latest from the writer of Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel is about a military man whose entire world is his monolithic house , which take its own dimension . He thinks he lives there alone , with just one regular visitor , but he presently begin to unwrap an alarming Modern verity about his reality . ( September 15 )
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A raw illusion trilogy begins with this narrative of the title character and the misfit gang of mercenary he hires to aid him retort to his throne after many one C in expatriate . ( September 15 )
She ’s gay , she ’s a witch , and she ’s the most uncool Kyd at her high schoolhouse . When the popular girls take an interest in magic , the heroine of this story find oneself her Modern friendships are nearly as complicated as her dealings with the occult arts . ( September 15 )
The new sci - fi epic from the source of Eragon follows a surveyor who trip across an alien artifact while exploring an uncolonized planet ; the breakthrough soon propels her into a in spades scary first contact experience . ( September 15 )
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America ’s second civil war has cease , but the country is still in turmoil . In Los Angeles , criminal offence families fight each other and the tainted LAPD while strain to protect their own at any cost . ( September 15 )
The source ’s post - apocalyptic Rampart Trilogy persist in with this sequel to The Book of Koli ( read an excerpt of that al-Qur’an here ) , as an expatriate Koli ventures from the safety of his village in hunting of redemption in the long - lose city of London . ( September 15 )
The sequel to A Little Hatred finds Adua in a sentence of ataraxis — but thing are still treacherous . The formerly wealthy are determined to reclaim what they ’ve lost , the warriors have grown bored and ungratified , and the politico are still wage pot of war with their words . ( September 15 )
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Fifty of the most iconic cases from The X - Files get the deep - honkytonk treatment in this book that use actual prop from the show to revivify Scully and Mulder ’s FBI documentation . ascertain out an exclusive extract and generator interview below ! ( September 15 )
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On a farm in rural Appalachia , a late widow char harnesses the supernatural powers of a mysterious vine to help her find her miss son . ( September 22 )
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The latest from the Arthur C. Clarke Award winner is about a girl who disappears while searching for teras , only to return four years by and by in a puzzling typesetter’s case that suggests a parallel universe has begun to open its doors . ( September 22 )
Ever inquire what happen to Jonathan and Mina Harker after they shoot down Dracula and headed back to England ? This book explores their not - so - well-chosen marriage , as well as a new supernatural military unit that ’s about to creep into the universe at large . ( September 22 )
In this story in the vein ofThe Boys , a woman who works for supervillians — in a boring , role - resile capacity — starts to see the downside of mantle life when she ’s bruise by a “ superhero ” and is laid off from her job . So she decides to upend affair using her well - honed cognition of marketing and societal metier . ( September 22 )
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On an island being torn apart by a warlord named Dragon , a woman whose grief has waken her power vows revenge , while her former passion , who believe she ’s dead , must pretend to become a loyal Dragonman if he want to pull through . ( September 22 )
In 1983 London , a girl searching for her father becomes entangled with a league of booksellers … who are in reality magical being , all dedicated to keeping tabs on Old World mythic brute that keep trying to burst into the modern world . ( September 22 )
This follow - up to The Gilded Wolves returns to nineteenth century Europe , where treasure huntsman Séverin leave Paris for Russia on a dangerous missionary work to find an artefact said to bear rattling power . ( September 22 )
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A aggregation celebrating the development of the vampire , with taradiddle by Samira Ahmed , Dhonielle Clayton , Tessa Gratton , Heidi Heilig , Mark Oshiro , Rebecca Roanhorse , Laura Ruby , V. E. Schwab , and more . ( September 22 )
Ten years after a famous actress vanishes , her daughters describe the screenplay she left behind — take with clew about the strange island where the family once lived together and offering fresh Leslie Townes Hope that she may still be live . ( September 22 )
Chicago wizard Harry Dresden returns in the latest entry in theDresden Filesseries ; this clip , he ’s facing the Last Titan , a villain more sinewy than any he ’s ever encountered before . ( September 29 )
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The Hugo achiever ’s newfangled account catches up with Red Riding Hood — who goes by Rosa now that she ’s outgrown fairy tales — and Hou Yi , the mythical Sagittarius the Archer , who is wrapped on retiring . Now center - aged , the fabled character must reluctantly join forces to bring through the land they ’ve both add up to have sex when it come up under onset . ( September 29 )
A wilderness getaway to repair a flailing marriage turn bizarre when the husband goes missing — and the wife traverse him to a cabin on the other side of the good deal , where an alternate reality version of her living awaits . ( September 29 )
This standalone novel from the generator of the Thursday Next serial is set in England , circa 2022 , a rural area fill up with over a million walking , talk , literate , railcar - drive , human - sized rabbits . The humans have expire so far as to vote the Anti - Rabbit Party into mightiness , but their furred neighbor wo n’t go down without a fight . ( September 29 )
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The crew of the starship HMSS Daring go undercover to bust up an enemy pirate connection led by the enigmatic Dark Star . But as their investigation change , they see there ’s an entirely unlike enemy out there that ’s also prepare to attack . ( September 29 )
A sorceress who everyone assumes is evil vows revenge on a popular combat magician who has , annoyingly , spare her biography double . ( September 29 )
Described as “ Stranger thing meets World War Z , ” this thriller is set in an Oregon town where a biotech experiment turns several local teens into homicidal fiend . ( September 29 )
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Granted entry to a library at the edge of the population sate with infinite books charting infinite reality , a cleaning lady must figure out if she really want to know what might have been — or if she should confront up to the decisions she did make instead . ( September 29 )
An ancient virus with the ability to falsify physiology is hear just as a new species known as “ dependent zee ” begins to rapidly develop in the Amazonian rain forest . Can the scientists of Unit 51 unravel the connection before a new rife race emerge to dispute manhood ? ( September 29 )
The source ’s second book inspired by her Bright Sessions podcast introduces a unexampled member of the Unusuals : Robert , who ’s reluctant to master his ability to persuade people to do whatever he want — even if means endangering his position in the first residential area he ’s ever want to be a part of . ( September 29 )
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An elite warrior fights to save her homeland from an encroachment of mutant beasts , but a inscrutable captive may wobble the meaning of the war with his comer . Read an excerpthere . ( September 29 )
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