Best Books of the Month

Discover more to read with our monthly round-up of new releases! Explore October's best books here: https://www.goodreads.com/featured_lists/379-best-books-of-the-month-october-2016

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Holding Up The Universe

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All The Bright Places

Best Book of October 2016—Libby Strout feels invisible; all she wants is someone to see her for who she is. Enter Jack, a boy with his own issue—he can't recognize faces. Expectedly fate has a way of bringing these two together in this novel for teens.

A child in a battle zone, ten-year-old Ana navigates the streets of 1991 Zagreb as Croatia erupts in war. This haunting literary novel bears witness to both her violent coming-of-age and her struggles with that past as a college student in New York. Best Book Club Books, Best Fiction Books, Books You Should Read, Air Raid, Make Peace, Random House, Page Turner, E Reader

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Girl at War

A child in a battle zone, ten-year-old Ana navigates the streets of 1991 Zagreb as Croatia erupts in war. This haunting literary novel bears witness to both her violent coming-of-age and her struggles with that past as a college student in New York.

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Best Book of October 2016—If you're searching for the perfect book to read around All Hallows' Eve, look no further than Colin Dickey's Ghostland. In it Dickey investigates the "true stories" behind America's most notoriously haunted houses.

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The Mapmaker's Children

Best Book of May—After yet another miscarriage, Eden investigates a porcelain doll head she finds in the cellar of her new house, a clue that links her to the incredible true story of Sarah Brown, an abolitionist and mapmaker for the Underground Railroad whose life is told in parallel.

Best Book of April—In this chilling paranormal horror tale, cult leader Jeffrey Halcomb, a murderer on death row, offers struggling writer Lucas an exclusive interview, but there's a catch: Lucas must go live in the house where Halcomb's followers all died. Scary Books, Horror Fiction, Horror Novel, Horror Lovers, Indie Horror, Best Horrors, House Book

Within These Walls

Best Book of April—In this chilling paranormal horror tale, cult leader Jeffrey Halcomb, a murderer on death row, offers struggling writer Lucas an exclusive interview, but there's a catch: Lucas must go live in the house where Halcomb's followers all died.

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Zombieland Double Tap

Best Book of October 2016—For $50 Jefferson Kyle Kidd has agreed to deliver a young orphan to her only living relatives 400 miles away. The only problem? They don't want her. The journey truly is the destination in this masterwork of historical fiction.

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Best Book of October 2016—Margaret Atwood takes her readers to a remote prison in this literary retelling of a Shakespeare classic. Here we meet Felix, an ousted theater director who has landed a job producing The Tempest. Drama ensues.

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Best Book of October 2016—In this taut thriller, Julie Prentice has a stalker. Ever since she published her bestselling novel, she hasn't been safe. But now that her family has moved, they can rest easy. That is, until they discover their new neighbor's secret.

Best Book of October 2016—Journalist Gary Younge captures what is currently happening in America, a country where on any given day seven children are shot to death. Younge delves into one such day and tells the true tale of all of the lives lost. Read It And Weep, Book Wishlist, Book Awards, Choice Awards, Another Day

Best Book of October 2016—Journalist Gary Younge captures what is currently happening in America, a country where on any given day seven children are shot to death. Younge delves into one such day and tells the true tale of all of the lives lost.

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The Soul of an Octopus: A Surprising Exploration into t…

Best Book of May—How does an octopus think or feel? In this nonfiction account, naturalist Sy Montgomery approaches the question by describing her special friendships with octopuses at the New England Aquarium, including one sweet and intelligent animal named Athena.

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The Day We Met

Best Book of April—Told in the voice of a woman facing early-onset Alzheimer's, this moving, humorous novel describes how Claire fights to hold on to all she knows and loves about her life—including the husband she's starting to forget and her two daughters, ages 3 and 20.

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An Ember In The Ashes

An Ember in the Ashes (An Ember in the Ashes, #1)

Best Book of April—An elite soldier forced to compete to the death for the throne. A slave undercover, determined to clear her brother's name. Two rebellious souls meet in this epic fantasy for teens that evokes ancient Rome.

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Little Black Lies

Best Book of May—A marine biologist plotting murder. Her best friend racked with guilt. An insular community seeking justice for a missing child. This dark thriller set on the remote Falkland Islands asks, How far would you go for revenge?

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Rain: A Natural and Cultural History

Best Book of April—From billions of years of earth history to rain gods and rainmakers to climate change today, this micro history offers a torrent of curious stories about our intricate dependency on rain, a quotidian fact of life that has influenced human civilizations, religions, and culture.

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The Ingenious Mr Pyke: Inventor, Fugitive, Spy

Best Book of May—This rollicking biography tells the unusual life story of an unsung genius. A British war correspondent who escaped a German camp during World War I, Geoffrey Pyke went on to become a military adviser to Winston Churchill famous for his zany yet inspired ideas (an aircraft carrier made of ice!)…and possibly a Soviet spy.