The top 20 blockbuster books of fall, according to Amazon
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Despite missing out on the substantial benefits of warm weather, ample sunlight, and plenty of outdoor time, the retreat of summer is really more like a trade-in for all the perks of a colder season.
In exchange, you get comfortable sweaters, warm drinks, and plenty of excuses to stay indoors with a really good book.
If you’re looking for a list of the highlights to run through (or just some titles to begin with this season), you’ve come to the right place.
Below you’ll find Amazon’s curated picks for the top 20 blockbuster books of this fall. Thankfully, this year is a pretty great mix of genres, tones, and types, including long-awaited installments to series and new books from some of our favorite best-selling authors.
Captions taken from Amazon and edited for length.
"The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel" by Lee Child
AmazonReacher takes a stroll through a small Wisconsin town and sees a class ring in a pawn shop window: West Point 2005. A tough year to graduate: Iraq, then Afghanistan. The ring is tiny, for a woman, and it has her initials engraved on the inside. Reacher wonders what unlucky circumstance made her give up something she earned over four hard years. He decides to find out. And find the woman. And return her ring. Why not?
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"Origin: A Novel" by Dan Brown
AmazonRobert Langdon, Harvard professor of symbology and religious iconology, arrives at the ultra-modern Guggenheim Museum Bilbao to attend a major announcement—the unveiling of a discovery that “will change the face of science forever.”
The evening’s host is Edmond Kirsch, a forty-year-old billionaire and futurist whose dazzling high-tech inventions and audacious predictions have made him a renowned global figure. Kirsch, who was one of Langdon’s first students at Harvard two decades earlier, is about to reveal an astonishing breakthrough . . . one that will answer two of the fundamental questions of human existence.
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"Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green
AmazonSixteen-year-old Aza never intended to pursue the mystery of fugitive billionaire Russell Pickett, but there’s a hundred-thousand-dollar reward at stake and her Best and Most Fearless Friend, Daisy, is eager to investigate. So together, they navigate the short distance and broad divides that separate them from Russell Pickett’s son, Davis.
Aza is trying. She is trying to be a good daughter, a good friend, a good student, and maybe even a good detective, while also living within the ever-tightening spiral of her own thoughts.
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