OCTOBER 20, 2021
MEGAN O'NEILL MELLE
There’s a literary harvest of major fall books this season, which means you won’t have a problem finding good reads to add to your TBR pile. We’ve got debut authors, literary superstars, made-for-TV writers, celebs and multiple Pulitzer Prize winners. So we’ve done some investigating, interviewing and lots of reading to gather the books we’ve loved so far this season, from contemporary fiction and mystery must-reads to gothic horror (tis the season) and memoirs by famous faces. Check out some of our favorite books of fall.
Best Fall Books of 2021
Callahan has read C.S. Lewis her entire life (and has already given us Becoming Mrs. Lewis), so it’s no surprise that the author’s fascinating work would inspire her latest novel.
This time, she’s asking, “Where did Narnia come from?” In Once Upon a Wardrobe, a dying 8-year-old boy (captivated by a new book The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe), asks his Oxford physics prodigy sister to find its origins. His older sister is drinking tea with the author in search of answers—and hope. BUY THE BOOK
Once Upon a Wardrobe by Patti Callahan
The Lincoln Highway by Amor Towles
Beautiful World, Where Are You: A Novel
Still Life by Sarah Winman
Dava Shastri’s Last Day by Kirthana Ramisett
Cloud Cuckoo Land by Anthony Doerr
State of Terror by Louise Penny and Hillary Rodham Clinton
Harlem Shuffle by Colson Whitehead
Rock Paper Scissors by Alice Feeney
The Family by Naomi Krupitsky
Apples Never Fall by Liane Moriarty
The Storyteller by Dave Grohl
Taste: My Life Through Food by Stanley Tucci
Forever Young by Hayley Mills
Crossroads by Jonathan Franzen
The Brides of Maracoor by Gregory Maguire
The Neighbor’s Secret by L. Alison Heller
The Death of Jane Lawrence by Caitlin Starling
Sankofa by Chibundu Onuzo
The Sentence by Louise Erdrich
Win Me Something by Kyle Lucia Wu
We Are Not Like Them by Christine Pride and Jo Piazza
Three Sisters by Heather Morris
Will by Will Smith
Fight Night by Miriam Toews