You’ve made it through the week, and whether you’re looking for page-turning fiction to get you through your weekend travels or unforgettable characters to transport you from your cozy reading nook to a different time and place entirely, we’ve got new releases just for you. Spend those brisk fall weekends off with one of these 10 new books, all of which celebrate the wide variety of fantastic fiction available to readers everywhere.

1. Revelation by Bobi Gentry Goodwin

Social worker Angela Lovelace’s world is thrown into chaos when she finds a photo of her father in the home of a child whose addict mother has just died. As she investigates the oddity, Lovelace learns the detrimental impact of lies and how to find resilience in the face of adversity.

2. The Water Dancer by Ta-Nehisi Coates

Blessed with a mysterious power, Hiram Walker uses his abilities to free himself from the slavery into which he was born. Escaping from Virginia and heading north, Walker encounters plenty of adversity along the way. Despite this, he has one goal in mind at all times: Find a way to return to the South and rescue his family.

3. Out of Darkness, Shining Light by Petina Gappah

When the inspiring Dr. Livingstone passes away in a foreign country, a group of men and women take it upon themselves to return the man’s body and portfolio of work to his home country. Traveling 1,500 miles across Africa, this group encounters the hypocrisy of slavery and discovers the truth about humanity along the way.

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4. The Warehouse by Rob Hart

Working for a massive tech company was never a part of Paxton’s plan, but it offers benefits he can’t refuse. Settling into the job at Cloud is made difficult when he encounters Zinnia, a woman trying to infiltrate it. Together, they learn the true dangers and mission of a corporation with too much power.

5. Wild Boar in the Cane Field by Anniqua Rana

When Tara is found as a baby, everyone around her is made painfully aware of the bleak future ahead of her. As women are oppressed by the men in their village, they turn to ancient belief systems to find hope. In Wild Boar in the Cane Field, Tara dedicates her inspiring life to finding hope, happiness and acceptance.

6. This Tender Land by William Kent Krueger

In 1930s Minnesota, orphan Odie O’Banion is tossed into the Lincoln School, a merciless and cruel school home to Native American children who have been separated from their families. Suffering at the hands of the superintendent, Odie, his brother, his best friend and a young girl take off in a canoe, heading to the Mississippi River to forge a new life.

7. Unpregnant by Jenni Hendriks and Ted Caplan

College-bound high school student Veronica Clarke is thrown a major curveball when she learns she’s pregnant. She knows she must seek an abortion out of state, so she turns to her ex-best friend to join her on a 900-mile road trip that teaches the girls about growing up and taking control of your future.

8. Maggie’s Ruse by Anne Leigh Parrish

Identical twins Maggie and Marta are bored, having found little success in their respective careers. After Maggie has the wild impulse to impersonate Marta one day, a rift between the two ensues, and they head their separate ways. While both find success apart, the weight of absence is ever-present and the sisters wonder if their relationship could ever truly be fixed.

9. Dear Haiti, Love Alaine by Maika Moulite and Maritza Moulite

When 17-year-old Alaine Beauparlant is suspended and sent to work at a nonprofit in Haiti for two months, her life is changed. While she doesn’t take it seriously at first, it doesn’t take long before she learns more about her family’s history, Haitian culture and other important lessons that shape her life.

10. The Sweetest Fruits by Monique Truong

Over the span of nearly 40 years, three women tell of their experiences with famed writer, Lafcadio Hearn—from a plantation in Kentucky to post-Civil War Cincinnati and late-19th century Japan, these stories explain the life of an esteemed writer and the lives he impacted throughout his career and life.

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