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The Best Paperback Releases of the Month: October 2026

Featuring new-in-paperback releases from Steve Berry, May Cobb, John Fram, Gilly Macmillan, Tom Ryan, Nic Stone, and more
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Prisoner of Love: On Research, Ethics, and Matters of the Heart

When intimate and private love letters are the only surviving evidence from an old trial, should a researcher include them in their book?
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10 New Books Coming Out This Week

New offerings from the world of crime, mystery, and thrillers.
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The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers, of the Month: October 2026

Featuring new titles from Michael Connelly, Lyndsay Faye, Elizabeth Hand, T. Geronimo Johnson, Stephen Graham Jones, Elizabeth Kostova, and more

Leigh Bardugo on 50 Years of 'Interview with the Vampire' and the Immortality of Anne Rice's Lestat

By Leigh Bardugo

The Best Paperback Releases of the Month: October 2026

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Neil Kleid on Learning to Write Horror as Someone Afraid of Jumpscares

By Neil Kleid

10 Epistolary Thrillers That Let the Evidence Do the Talking

By Eva Jurczyk

Katherine Reay on the Enduring Popularity of Golden-Age British Mysteries

By Katherine Reay

Stages, Museums, Retreats: 5 Horror Novels Set in the Art World

By Faith Gladwin

Prisoner of Love: On Research, Ethics, and Matters of the Heart

By Jack El-Hai

New York City Police Commissioner Teddy Roosevelt's War Against Banana Peels

By Olivia Rutigliano

Crime and the City: Nairobi

By Paul French

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Hank Phillippi Ryan on Endings, Generational Scars, and Secrets in Mysteries

By John B. Valeri

9 Suspense Novels with Unforgettable Settings

By Hallie Shepherd

The Best Crime Novels, Mysteries, and Thrillers, of the Month: October 2026

By Molly Odintz

Remembering Kevin, the KGB Officer Who Watched Us During a Secret Mission to the USSR

By Dr. Merryl Goldberg

Eight of the Best Meta Mysteries

By Olivia Rutigliano

Welcome to The Wiregrass, Where Corruption Is Rampant, Contradictions Abound, and Cynicism Reigns Supreme

By Matt Kessler

Literary Hub

October 7, 2026

Leigh Bardugo on 50 Years of Interview with the Vampire and the Immortality of Anne Rice’s Lestat

By Leigh Bardugo

Lydia Millet on Writing a Double Novel of Grief and Loss

By Jane Ciabattari

Do Smartphones Belong in Fiction?

By Ankur Thakkar

Thomas McGuane is Writing the Most Vital Literature of the Trump Era

By Ryan Chapman

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The Best Reviewed Books of the Month