The books everyone will be reading this autumn

Autumn is the biggest publishing time of the year, when nail-biting thrillers, scintillating dramas and revealing memoirs all jostle for position to reach the Christmas number one.For autumn 2026, Super Thursday will take place on October 8, marking the single biggest release day of the year for autumn books, featuring thousands of titles timed ahead of the Christmas shopping season, but the flurry begins in September.The obvious candidates are all there. Richard Osman’s We Chase Shadows, the second in his We Solve Murders series, will no doubt be vying for top spot in September, while the second novel from Bonnie Garmus, whose soaraway debut Lessons In Chemistry was made into a TV series with Brie Larson, brings us her second novel Peck & Peck, set in the world of poetry in the 1980s.Ther