Release Week: 13 October 2026

Release Week: 13 October 2026

Posted on 2026-10-13 at 12:00 by Samuel Montgomery-Blinn

PICKS:

* The End of Everything: A Novel by M. John Harrison, read by Russ Bain for Penguin -- "A haunting apocalyptic adventure, and a formidable exploration of what it means to be human in a shifting world."

* Off the Reservation by Stephen Graham Jones, read by a full cast for Simon and Schuster -- "A ragtag group of activists sets out to repatriate the bones of a Blackfeet boy taken to the infamous Carlisle Indian Industrial School in author Stephen Graham Jones’s return to the Blackfeet reservation of his award-winning New York Times bestsellers The Only Good Indians and The Buffalo Hunter Hunter."

* Passengers: A Novel by Alexander Maksik, read by Cory Herndon for Europa Editions -- "A taut, emotionally gripping, and surprisingly funny novel about a father and daughter stranded in an airport at the end of the world."

* Peck & Peck by Bonnie Garmus, read by Seth Numrich for Simon and Schuster -- "The #1 New York Times bestselling author of global sensation Lessons in Chemistry returns with an irresistible, delightful, and tender literary novel set in the publishing world of 1980s New York City about a young man whose life turns upside down when he is hired by the most prestigious, secretive, and dysfunctional poetry journal in the world: the renowned Peck & Peck."

* As You Wake, Break the Shell: A Novel by Becky Chambers, read by Megan Gage and Norma Butikofer for Harper -- "Life on the resource-poor planet of Fortune is challenging, but for its inhabitants, it’s home. For two of them, Signy and Cora, this home might no longer be enough. Signy is a brilliant but reclusive botanist who bio-prints medicine from her small plant shop, often bending the rules to help those the system leaves behind. Her life is filled with the green of her store, the warmth of her one elderly friend, and the quiet determination to help others without putting herself in danger. Cora is a rorqual pilot, one of the few with the unique ability to navigate the massive, living ships that connect the scattered settlements of their solar system. Her bond with her rorqual, Colibri, is profound—a connection that is both her greatest gift and a threat to her career."

* As We Fall Through Time by Claire North, read by Peter Kenny for Orbit -- "When Cal meets a soldier of the French Revolution, he knows his lover is destined to die. But what's the point of being a time traveler if you can’t make a few small tweaks to the course of history? A little paradox here, an alteration there—nothing Cal can’t fix, to save the man he loves. When Fadimatu walks into a museum in 2018, she stumbles upon her own mummified corpse, setting her on the path to a betrayal that has already killed her, and a murder that has not yet come to pass. And when a sudden rupture in the fabric of history rips through the lives Cal and Fadimatu have built, breaking both past and future, they must reckon with death foretold, love forsaken, and a secret that will shatter time itself."

SERIES WATCH:

* The Thrice-Bound Fool by Christopher Buehlman, read by the author -- "The epic, rollicking next chapter in the bestselling fantasy adventure series that began with The Blacktongue Thief."

* Burning Skies: A Hell Divers Prequel, Part II by Nicholas Sansbury Smith, read by R. C. Bray

TIE-IN WATCH:

* Truth to Power: A Luke Cage Marvel Crime Novel by S. A. Cosby, read by Adam Lazarre-White for Audible -- "Luke Cage plays detective and super hero when he uncovers a conspiracy turning vulnerable Americans into unwitting pawns of a madman."

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