The fall publishing season is kicking off, with plenty of great books coming out in the month of September that blend genres. Things  I haven’t read but that get me squeeing with excitement? A new historical romance from Sara Donati, author of the swoonworthy Into the Wilderness; Girl Waits With Gun, which is getting great buzz from people I trust; and the start of a new steampunk series from Jim Butcher.  Oh, and I’m always up for Margaret Atwood, especially when she is in scifi mode. Things I’ve read that I can wholeheartedly recommend? A new October Daye book from Seanan McGuire and the historical fantasy set in Napoleonic England from Zen Cho called Sorcerer to the Crown. Happy reading!

SEPTEMBER 1

• A Red-Rose Chain (October Daye) by Seanan McGuire (Fantasy/Mystery/Romance)
• Dark Ghost (Carpathian) by Christine Feehan (Romance/Fantasy)
• Archangel’s Enigma (Guild Hunter) by Nalini Singh (Romance/Fantasy)
• Undercover by Danielle Steel (Romance/Suspense)
• The Drafter (The Peri Reed Chronicles) by Kim Harrison (Science Fiction/Adrenaline)
• The Gilded Hour by Sara Donati (Historical Fiction/Romance)
• A Curious Beginning (Veronica Speedwell) by Deanna Raybourn (Historical Fiction/Mystery/Romance)
• Girl Waits with Gun by Amy Stewart (Historical Fiction/Mystery)
• The Darling Dahlias and the Eleven O’Clock Lady by Susan Wittig Albert (Mystery/Historical Fiction)
• The White Ghost (A Billy Boyle WWII Mystery) by James R. Benn (Mystery/Historical Fiction)
• Sorcerer to the Crown (A Sorcerer Royal Novel) by Zen Cho (Fantasy/Historical Fiction)
• Only a Kiss (Survivors’ Club) by Mary Balogh (Romance/Historical Fiction)
• Chapelwood (Borden Dispatches) by Cherie Priest (Historical Fiction/Fantasy/Horror)

SEPTEMBER 8

• Two Years Eight Months and Twenty-Eight Nights by Salman Rushdie (Literary Fiction/Fantasy)
• Obsession Falls (The Virtue Falls Series) by Christina Dodd (Romance/Suspense)

SEPTEMBER 15

• Devoted in Death (Eve Dallas) by J.D. Robb (Mystery/Science Fiction/Romance)
• The Scam (Fox and O’Hare) by Janet Evanovich and Lee Goldberg (Mystery/Romance)
• Corridors of the Night (William Monk) by Anne Perry (Mystery/Historical Fiction)

SEPTEMBER 22 (NO NEW)

SEPTEMBER 29

• The Cinder Spires: the Aeronaut’s Windlass by Jim Butcher (Fantasy/Historical [Steampunk]/Adventure)
• The Heart Goes Last (Positron) by Margaret Atwood (Literary Fiction/Science Fiction)
• The Hidden (Krewe of Hunters) by Heather Graham (Romance/Suspense/Fantasy)