21 Fall Debut Novels to Read Now

"One of the great joys of a serious reading habit is discovering a new author that no one else knows about. Yet. This collection is designed to help you scout for new talent, with a few quick caveats.

Each of the books below is a debut novel for adult readers, published late August through mid-October. Bear in mind, however, that some of these authors have published before–just not in the adult novel category. So you might have a YA author's first foray into adult fiction – and, in fact, you do: Zoraida Córdova's The Inheritance of Orquídea Divina. Or maybe it's a short story writer ramping up to her first novel, as with Shruti Swamy's The Archer. Or maybe it's an astronaut with an orbital mystery-thriller (Chris Hadfield's The Apollo Murders)."