The top 20 blockbuster books of fall, according to Amazon

The Insider Picks team writes about stuff we think you'll like. Business Insider has affiliate partnerships, so we get a share of the revenue from your purchase.

bi_graphics_bookpick1 (1)
Amazon / Anaele Pelisson

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. 

Advertisement

"The Midnight Line: A Jack Reacher Novel" by Lee Child

511GBNV0UbL
Amazon

Reacher 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?

Buy it here >> 

Advertisement

"Origin: A Novel" by Dan Brown

51F2CYT8YkL
Amazon

Robert 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.

Buy it here >>

Advertisement

"Turtles All the Way Down" by John Green

51YjlK890rL
Amazon

Sixteen-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.

Buy it here >>

"Sticky Fingers: The Life and Times of Jann Wenner and Rolling Stone Magazine" by Joe Hagan

51yQujYcqpL
Amazon

The first and only biography of Jann Wenner, the iconic founder of Rolling Stone magazine, and a romp through the hothouses of rock and roll, politics, media, and Hollywood, from the Summer of Love to the Internet age.  

Buy it here >>

Advertisement

"Hardcore Twenty-Four: A Stephanie Plum Novel" by Janet Evanovich

61LEPw9XNfL
Amazon

Trouble comes in bunches for Stephanie Plum. First, professional grave robber and semi-professional loon, Simon Diggery, won’t let her take him in until she agrees to care for his boa constrictor, Ethel. Stephanie’s main qualification for babysitting an extremely large snake is that she owns a stun gun — whether that’s for use on the wandering serpent or the petrified neighbors remains to be seen.

Events take a dark turn when headless bodies start appearing across town. At first, it’s just corpses from a funeral home and the morgue that have had the heads removed. But when a homeless man is murdered and dumped behind a church Stephanie knows that she’s the only one with a prayer of catching this killer.

Buy it here >>

"Manhattan Beach: A Novel" by Jennifer Egan

71kY0YesgBL
Amazon

Anna Kerrigan, nearly twelve years old, accompanies her father to visit Dexter Styles, a man who, she gleans, is crucial to the survival of her father and her family. She is mesmerized by the sea beyond the house and by some charged mystery between the two men.

‎Years later, her father has disappeared and the country is at war. Anna works at the Brooklyn Naval Yard, where women are allowed to hold jobs that once belonged to men, now soldiers abroad. She becomes the first female diver, the most dangerous and exclusive of occupations, repairing the ships that will help America win the war. One evening at a nightclub, she meets Dexter Styles again, and begins to understand the complexity of her father’s life, the reasons he might have vanished.

Buy it here >>

Advertisement

"Sleeping Beauties: A Novel" by Stephen King

71FbA1NZfAL
Amazon

In this spectacular father/son collaboration, Stephen King and Owen King tell the highest of high-stakes stories: what might happen if women disappeared from the world of men?

Buy it here >>

"We Were Eight Years in Power: An American Tragedy" by Ta-Nehisi Coates

41yJjSbSq4L
Amazon

In these “urgently relevant essays,” the National Book Award–winning author of "Between the World and Me" “reflects on race, Barack Obama’s presidency and its jarring aftermath”—including the election of Donald Trump.

Buy it here >>

Advertisement

"Unqualified" by Anna Faris

510D9OoxfJL
Amazon

Anna Faris has advice for you. And it’s great advice, because she’s been through it all, and she wants to tell you what she’s learned. After surviving an awkward childhood (when she bribed the fastest boy in the third grade with ice cream), navigating dating and marriage in Hollywood, and building a podcast around romantic advice, Anna has plenty of lessons to share: Advocate for yourself. Know that there are wonderful people out there and that a great relationship is possible. And, finally, don’t date magicians.

Buy it here >>

"The Book of Dust: La Belle Sauvage (Book of Dust, Volume 1)" by Philip Pullman

61f7BLRxqiL
Amazon

The much-anticipated new work from the author of "The Golden Compass" is coming at last!

Renowned storyteller Philip Pullman returns to the parallel world of Lyra Belacqua and His Dark Materials for a thrilling and epic adventure in which daemons, alethiometers, and the Magisterium all play a part.

Buy it here >>

Advertisement

"Year One: Chronicles of the One, Book 1" by Nora Roberts

917fAK76nDL
Amazon

It began on New Year’s Eve.

The sickness came on suddenly, and spread quickly. The fear spread even faster. Within weeks, everything people counted on began to fail them. The electrical grid sputtered; law and government collapsed ― and more than half of the world’s population was decimated.

Where there had been order, there was now chaos. And as the power of science and technology receded, magic rose up in its place. Some of it is good, like the witchcraft worked by Lana Bingham, practicing in the loft apartment she shares with her lover, Max. Some of it is unimaginably evil, and it can lurk anywhere, around a corner, in fetid tunnels beneath the river―or in the ones you know and love the most.

Buy it here >>

"The Rooster Bar" by John Grisham

51nkI46+RlL
Amazon

#1 New York Times bestselling author John Grisham’s newest legal thriller takes you inside a law firm that’s on shaky ground.

Buy it here >>

Advertisement

"Tower of Dawn (Throne of Glass)" by Sarah J. Maas

91EVLUSOx+L
Amazon

In the next installment of the New York Times bestselling "Throne of Glass" series, follow Chaol on his sweeping journey to a distant empire.

Buy it here >>

"Two Kinds of Truth (A Harry Bosch Novel)" by Michael Connelly

519Wh5sxVrL
Amazon

Harry Bosch searches for the truth in the new thriller from#1 New York Times bestselling author Michael Connelly.

Buy it here >>

Advertisement

"The Getaway (Diary of a Wimpy Kid Book 12)" by Jeff Kinney

515bCkpiEsL._SX345_BO1,204,203,200_
Amazon

With the cold weather and the stress of the approaching holiday season, the Heffleys decide to escape to a tropical island resort for some much-needed rest and relaxation. A few days in paradise should do wonders for Greg and his frazzled family.

But the Heffleys soon discover that paradise isn't everything it's cracked up to be. Sun poisoning, stomach troubles, and venomous critters all threaten to ruin the family's vacation. Can their trip be saved, or will this island getaway end in disaster?

Buy it here >>

Advertisement

"A Legacy of Spies: A Novel" by John le Carré

41iX18cO4eL
Amazon

Peter Guillam, staunch colleague and disciple of George Smiley of the British Secret Service, otherwise known as the Circus, is living out his old age on the family farmstead on the south coast of Brittany when a letter from his old Service summons him to London. The reason? His Cold War past has come back to claim him.

Intelligence operations that were once the toast of secret London, and involved such characters as Alec Leamas, Jim Prideaux, George Smiley and Peter Guillam himself, are to be scrutinized by a generation with no memory of the Cold War and no patience with its justifications.

Buy it here >>

Advertisement

"Endurance: A Year in Space, A Lifetime of Discovery" by Scott Kelly

51shDz8Ub2L
Amazon

A stunning memoir from the astronaut who spent a record-breaking year aboard the International Space Station ― a candid account of his remarkable voyage, of the journeys off the planet that preceded it, and of his colorful formative years.

Buy it here >>

"A Column of Fire (Kingsbridge)" by Ken Follett

61HfiKj9llL
Amazon

International bestselling author Ken Follett has enthralled millions of readers with "The Pillars of the Earth" and "World Without End", two stories of the Middle Ages set in the fictional city of Kingsbridge. The saga now continues with Follett’s magnificent new epic, "A Column of Fire".

Buy it here >>

Advertisement

"Magnus Chase and the Gods of Asgard, Book 3 The Ship of the Dead" by Rick Riordan

61RdD2N2mEL
Amazon

Magnus Chase, a once-homeless teen, is a resident of the Hotel Valhalla and one of Odin's chosen warriors. As the son of Frey, the god of summer, fertility, and health, Magnus isn't naturally inclined to fighting. But he has strong and steadfast friends, including Hearthstone the elf, Blitzen the dwarf, and Samirah the Valkyrie, and together they have achieved brave deeds, such as defeating Fenris Wolf and battling giants for Thor's hammer, Mjolnir. Now Magnus faces his most dangerous trial yet. His cousin, Annabeth, recruits her boyfriend, Percy Jackson, to give Magnus some pointers, but will his training be enough?

Buy it here >>

Advertisement

"Leonardo da Vinci" by Walter Isaacson

91Ey0+6N LL
Amazon

He was history’s most creative genius. What secrets can he teach us?

The author of the acclaimed bestsellers "Steve Jobs", "Einstein", and "Benjamin Franklin" brings Leonardo da Vinci to life in this exciting new biography.

Buy it here >>

Subscribe to our newsletter.

You can purchase syndication rights to this story here.

Disclosure: This post is brought to you by the Insider Reviews team. We highlight products and services you might find interesting. If you buy them, we get a small share of the revenue from the sale from our commerce partners. We frequently receive products free of charge from manufacturers to test. This does not drive our decision as to whether or not a product is featured or recommended. We operate independently from our advertising sales team. We welcome your feedback. Email us at reviews@businessinsider.com.

Read the original article on Insider Picks. Copyright 2017. Follow Insider Picks on Twitter.
Advertisement