Celebrate the Best Month of the Year With These 13 Book Releases

Updated on Oct 27, 2015 at 10:00 AM

Fall is FINALLY here, so now we have even more reasons to curl up with a good book. We've broken up our October must reads by topic so that you can read these new releases based on your mood. From Rainbow Rowell's latest YA novel to romantic thrillers and historical fiction, we've got them all!

For Something Fast and Fun: Bliss

Pretty Little Liars star Shay Mitchell teamed up with her best friend Michaela Blaney to pen Bliss, a sexy and fun story about the lives of three best friends in their early 20s.

Out Oct. 6

For Fairy Tale Goodness: After Alice

Gregory Maguire, bestselling author of the magical Wicked series, is back with After Alice, a novel that puts a new spin on Lewis Carroll's classic.

Out Oct. 27

For Romance: See Me

In Nicholas Sparks's newest romance novel See Me, a man and woman — both recovering from their difficult pasts — find each other in the process of rebuilding themselves.

Out Oct. 13

For a Nonfictional Look at Love: Frank and Ava: In Love and War

Frank and Ava: In Love and War is an eye-opening roller coaster ride through the passionate love affair between famous actress Ava Gardner and musical legend Frank Sinatra.

Out Oct. 13

For Insight Into Modern Dating: Popular

Lauren Urasek, once named New York Magazine's most sought-after woman in the city, details the ups and downs of online dating in hilarious and cringeworthy essays compiled in her book Popular, cowritten with Laura Barcella.

Out Oct. 6

For a Sweet YA Love Story: Carry On

Fans of Rainbow Rowell will fall in love with Simon and Baz, two rivals (and roommates) at a school for magic. Carry On is the follow-up to Rowell's heartwarming YA novel Fangirl and is an absolute must read for anyone who is a sucker for sweet love stories.

Out Oct. 6

For Inspiration: Smoke

In Catherine McKenzie's Smoke, a former firefighter — recently divorced and trying to cope — reunites with an ex-friend with her own familial struggles as an encroaching wildfire threatens a town.

Out Oct. 20

For a Thriller: The Lake House

A young detective and a mystery writer team up to uncover the truth about what really happened 10 years before when a baby boy went missing. Kate Morton's The Lake House is a perfect mixture of romance, mystery, and thrill.

Out Oct. 20

For Historical Fiction: Twain's End

How did one woman go from being Mark Twain's beloved secretary who ran his life to a someone he was determined to destroy? In Lynn Cullen's Twain's End, she reimagines the tangled relationships between Twain, Isabel V. Lyon, and Ralph Ashcroft (his former secretary and her husband), as well as the "little-known love triangle" between Helen Keller, her teacher Anne Sullivan Macy, and Anne's husband, John Macy.

Out Oct. 13

For a Mystery to Solve: Pretending to Dance

Secrets have a way of coming back to haunt us. In Diane Chamberlain's Pretending to Dance, a woman's mysterious past threatens to come to light when she begins the process of adopting a child.

Out Oct. 6

For Something Glamorous: All the Stars in the Heavens

If you love the drama, magic, and glamour of Old Hollywood, then get your hands on a copy of Adriana Trigiani's All the Stars in the Heavens, a novel about two young women crossing paths in 1930s Tinseltown.

Out Oct. 13

For a Juicy Read: The Good Neighbor

When her ex-husband moves to town with his new girlfriend, a now-single mother begins blogging about her made-up boyfriend. Problems arise in Amy Sue Nathan's The Good Neighbor when a very real love interest makes having a fake significant other very complicated.

Out Oct. 13

For Funny Feminist Essays: You Don't Have to Like Me

Don't Worry, It Gets Worse: One Twentysomething's (Mostly Failed) Attempts at Adulthood author Alida Nugent is back with her collection of autobiographical essays titled You Don't Have to Like Me: Essays on Growing Up, Speaking Out, and Finding Feminism. "From the 'scarlet F' thrust upon you if you declare yourself a feminist at a party to how to handle judgmental store clerks when you buy Plan B," this book will warm your feminist heart.

Out Oct. 20