2026
Seasonal reads
From Bookbub: Here Are Fall’s Buzziest New Mysteries and Thrillers
From The New York Times: Thrillers That Provide Escape, Not Terror
From Real Simple: 6 Books for Every Kind of Fall Mood—From Cozy to Creepy
From Bookbub: Spend a Cozy Fall Weekend Curled Up with These Books
October New Releases
From Bookbub: October’s Must-Read Literary Fiction
From The New York Times: 26 Books Coming in October
From Vulture: 7 New Books to Read This October
Book Club Picks
Books Adaptations
On Netflix: 22 TV Shows Based on Books for Your Streaming (and Reading!) Pleasure
Coming Soon:
From SlashFilm: 8 Upcoming Movies And TV Shows Based On 2025 Books. Read More: https://www.slashfilm.com/2201092/upcoming-movies-tv-shows-based-2025-books/
From The New York Times: Read These Books Before They Hit Your Screens in 2026
From The New York Public Library: 20 Books To Read Before You See Their Upcoming Screen Adaptations
From Purewow: 4 Book-to-Screen Adaptations I’m Excited for in 2026—and 1 I’m Really Worried About
From Barnes and Noble: Page-to-Screen Adaptations Coming in 2026
New in October:
Verity (in theaters), adapted from Colleen Hoover’s best-selling novel. Lowen Ashleigh gets hired by Jeremy Crawford to ghostwrite novels for his bestselling author wife Verity.
Other Mommy (horror in theaters), An 8-year-old girl named Bela (Arabella Olivia Clark) confronts a malevolent supernatural entity emerging from her closet that looks identical to her mother. The film is based on Josh Malerman’s 2024 bestselling novel Incidents Around the House.
East of Eden (premieres on Netflix October 1st), A 7-episode limited series adaptation of John Steinbeck’s classic novel. In the early 1900s, a fiercely independent woman drives a rift between two brothers, igniting a saga that unfolds across two generations.
Carrie (horror series on Prime Video October 7th), Summer H. Howell plays Carrie White, a teenager who has been home-schooled by her strict religious mother (Samantha Sloyan). When Carrie’s father dies in an accident and her mother has to get a job, the sheltered Carrie goes to high school for the first time, where she deals with bullies, the wonders and dangers of the internet, and the relative strangeness of a secular education, Carrie also experiences an awakening of her latent telekinetic abilities, discovering that social misfits can have their own kind of power. Adaption of Stephen King novel.
Harlan Coben’s Lazarus (series on Prime Video October 22nd), follows Joel Lazarus (Sam Claflin) who returns home after his father Dr. Jonathan Lazarus (Bill Nighy) dies by suicide and begins to have disturbing experiences that can’t be explained.
Nocturne (crime/thriller series premieres on Apple TV on October 30th), As a serial killer’s victim turns up alive — two detectives race against time for answers. Based on two books: Lars Kepler’s Lazarus and The Sandman, the seventh and fourth books, respectively, in their Killer Instinct series.
Events for Writers and Readers
Bookstore Events
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Boston area bookstores: (Find author events on these websites.)
- Beacon Hill: https://www.bhbooks.com/
- Brookline Booksmith: https://brooklinebooksmith.com/ Events: https://brooklinebooksmith.com/upcoming-author-events
- Trident Booksellers: https://tridentbookscafe.com/
- Harvard Book Store: https://www.harvard.com/ Events: https://www.harvard.com/events
- I Am Books: https://www.iambooksboston.com/ Events: https://iambooksboston.com/events
- Frugal Book Store: https://frugalbookstore.net/
- Porter Square Books: https://portersquarebooks.com/. Events calendar: https://portersquarebooks.com/events/calendar
- Lovestruck books and cafe: https://lovestruckbooks.com/
- Brattle Book Shop: https://www.brattlebookshop.com/
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