You never know when the best book of the year will come along . . . and even though we’ve already fallen in love with a lot of great books this year, the jury is still out until the autumn titles roll in. Here are the 10 fiction titles we’re most looking forward to reading in fall 2017.

The Golden House by Salman Rushdie

Random House • September 5

We’ve seen a handful of novels this year that address the current political climate really well—namely Jonathan Dee’s The Locals, which seemed to surprise even the author with its prescience. But Rushdie’s latest book is an intentional, pointed and often chilling dramatization of the last eight years of American politics. Beginning with the inauguration of President Obama in 2008, the book explores the recent political and social climate through the story of a young filmmaker who becomes involved in a secretive family of New York City-settled immigrants, the Goldens. Look for an interview with Rushdie in our September issue.

Sing, Unburied, Sing by Jesmyn Ward

Scribner • September 5

One of the most anticipated books of the year (we, along with everyone else, have been buzzing about it since January), the new novel from the author of Salvage the Bones blends magical realism with race relations in the 21st-century American South. It unfolds through the perspectives of three characters: 13-year-old mixed-race Jojo; his black mother, Leonie; and a boy named Richie, who died decades earlier but who knew Leonie’s father, Pop, while they were in prison—the same prison Jojo’s white father, Michael, is in now.

Forest Dark by Nicole Krauss

Harper • September 12

Come for the literary gossip, stay for the illuminating read. Krauss’ latest novel has two threads: one, the disappearance of a wealthy man in Tel Aviv; and two, a young novelist and mother of two who flees her failing marriage to seek a creative spark in Tel Aviv. It’s easy to wonder how much of the latter thread comes from Krauss’ own life (she was once married to fellow author Jonathan Safran Foer, with whom she has two kids), but this contemplative, reflective work is so good, you’ll soon forget about the gossip.

Little Fires Everywhere by Celeste Ng

Penguin Press • September 12

Ng follows her stellar 2014 debut, Everything I Never Told You, with a suburban masterwork of motherhood and secrets. Set in the affluent, progressive Cleveland suburb of Shaker Heights, Ng’s second novel introduces the Richardson family, who rent a house to artist and single mother Mia Warren and her teenage daughter, Pearl. When one of the Richardson family’s friends adopts a Chinese-American baby, those aforementioned secrets can hide no more. Look for an interview with Ng in our September issue.

Five-Carat Soul by James McBride

Riverhead • September 26

This collection of previously unpublished stories is the first work of fiction from McBride since his National Book Award-winning novel, The Good Lord Bird (2013). Within these tales, McBride condenses all his trademark humor and insight into slender scenes of history and humanity, from a story about a toy that’s passed from Robert E. Lee to a black minister in Queens, to a vignette starring an American president who overhears an inspiring conversation.

Sleeping Beauties by Stephen King and Owen King

Scribner • September 26

This anticipated father/son collaboration builds on The Handmaid’s Tale fervor with a story about a world where women vanish from society almost completely. In a near future, women fall asleep and become shrouded in a cocoon-like gauze. If she is awoken, the woman becomes violent; in dreams, she is somewhere else. But in a small Appalachian town where the primary employer is a women's prison, one woman named Evie is immune to this sleeping disease.

Fresh Complaint by Jeffrey Eugenides

FSG • October 3

The author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Middlesex and The Marriage Plot offers his very first collection of short stories. (Some have been previously published.) A master of both intimate detail and tales of ambitious scope, Eugenides seems to enjoy putting his well-intentioned characters into difficult situations. Several of the stories have ties to his novels, but all stand on their own as they explore love and ambition and good intentions gone bad.

Manhattan Beach by Jennifer Egan

Scribner • October 3

We’ve been waiting for Egan’s new novel for a long time, but we can assure you it’s worth the wait. Egan has played with our minds with her previous works, but her latest is an absorbing work of traditional historical fiction. It’s set in Brooklyn during the Great Depression, when a young girl named Anna joins her father on a trip that concerns some under-the-table dealings. Years later, Anna’s father is gone, and the country is at war. Anna becomes the first female diver at the Brooklyn Naval Yard and dances at night, hoping to meet the man who can provide answers about her father’s disappearance.

The Revolution of Marina M. by Janet Fitch

Little, Brown • November 7

The bestselling author of White Oleander and Paint It Black transports readers to St. Petersburg in 1916. Marina Makarova is a young woman of privilege, but she yearns for excitement, and so joins the marches for workers’ rights. Marina comes of age, falls in love, betrays and is betrayed in unimaginable ways—all against the backdrop of the Russian Revolution.

Artemis by Andy Weir

Crown • November 14

Fans of science, math and hard sci-fi loved The Martian, and the author makes his return with a heist thriller set on the moon. Artemis is the name of the first city on the moon, where the wealth divide is even wider than here on Earth. Jazz Bashara commits a crime in an attempt to pull herself out of poverty—and this act drops her right in the middle of a conspiracy to control Artemis. It sounds more action-driven than science-laden, so we're interested to see how Weir handles his sophomore effort.