We know, it’s likely you haven’t finished all those books you planned to enjoy on the beach this summer, and you may have just added another novel to your reading list. But the calendar doesn’t stop, holidays end, and around the corner await, for literature lovers, the autumn editorial novidades. And, fortunately, there are many. Bestselling authors Freida McFadden, Carmen Mola, or Roberto Saviano are among the bestselling writers who will return to bookstores in the coming months.
The new literary venture of Pedro Almodóvar, the new, young voices of Spanish, Swiss, or other literatures, or the novels that won, or aspire to win, the prestigious Booker Prize are among the works that will give plenty to talk about throughout the autumn. And we must not forget such important names as Elisabet Benavent, Nuria Pérez or Patrick Radden Keefe, who in very different genres have become indispensable writers in current literature.
So if you want to stay up to date with everything arriving in bookstores in the coming months, don’t miss this selection of the 25 most anticipated books of autumn.
Portada de Los años secos, la novela debut de Raquel Zas.
The Dry Years. Raquel Zas. Temas de hoy. September 2.
This debut novel promises to be one of the most talked-about of the season and centers on Clara, a young woman who returns to her parents’ hometown after a breakup that leaves her without the life she had built around her partner. There, among temporary jobs, family routines and friendships that survive the passage of time, she begins to revisit her relationship with desire: childhood, shame, fear of being touched or of anyone ever touching her again.
A sexual experience unable to be named and a visit to her therapist will lead her to rethink her relationship with sex and intimacy, to ask how much of what we desire has really been chosen.
Portada de Lázár, la novela de Nelio Biedermann.
Lázár. Nelio Biedermann. Salamandra. September 3.
The most surprising Swiss literary debut is by this young man in his twenties, whose paternal family belongs to Hungarian nobility and whose grandparents fled to Switzerland in the 1950s. In this novel, halfway between his genealogical tree and fiction, Biedermann delves into a family saga that begins at the start of the 20th century and reaches to the middle of the century.
In just 288 pages, we follow the steps of Lajos von Lázár, a boy whose true lineage will never be known. After governing for generations, the days of the Habsburg monarchy come to an end and, although Lajos inherits the family title, not even his strength resists the ravages of war and occupation. And it will be his children who must find a way to challenge oppression and take the first steps toward freedom.
Portada de La Inquilina, la nueva novela de Freida McFadden.
The Tenant. Freida McFadden. Suma de letras. September 3.
The author of The Housemaid returns with a novel about a man who is forced to host in his home someone who will help him pay the mortgage. Fired one day from his job as a executive at a marketing firm, Blake Porter is desperate to stay afloat after reaching the peak of success.
Whitney, a charming and sensible young woman looking for a room to rent, becomes the solution to his problems, but something isn’t right. Neighbours begin treating him differently, the smell of rot pervades the kitchen no matter how hard he cleans, and strange noises wake him in the middle of the night. The danger lives in his own house, and when he realizes what is happening, it may be too late.
Portada de El retiro, la novela de Charlotte Wood.
The Retreat. Charlotte Wood. Libros del Asteroide. September 7.
Exhausted by her work and in the middle of an existential crisis, a woman leaves Sydney and her family to spend a season in a small religious community located in a rural area of Australia. She is not religious nor does she know what praying is, but little by little she adapts to the rhythm of life of the sisters and is carried away by the calm of the place.
The passage of time, the everyday, the silence and the beauty of what surrounds her make time blur and the events of the past resurface in her memory and acquire another meaning. But the exterior reality, relentless, threatens that newly found peace.
Portada de La oficina de premoniciones, el libro del periodista británico Sam Knight.
The Premonitions Office. Sam Knight. Errata Naturae. September 7.
Everything begins after the Aberfan disaster, in 1966, when a coal waste slide buries a school and kills 116 children. In the midst of national mourning, the British psychiatrist John Barker discovers that many of those children had forebodings of the tragedy. Something that leads him to become obsessed with what happened: what if these intuitions could be studied, classified and allow anticipating future disasters? A question that drives him to issue a public call, by which he receives dozens of letters speaking of prophetic dreams and inexplicable visions.
Thus the Premonitions Office is born, an experiment as ambitious as it is perplexing, located at the frontier between science, the inexplicable, and the human need to find meaning in the midst of chaos. Among all the people who contact him, two of them seem to possess an inconceivably precognitive ability. A true story told with hypnotic precision and an extraordinary narrative pulse, weaving the lives of its protagonists with the context of an era marked by uncertainty, faith in scientific progress, and the weight of what escapes rationality.
Portada de Los huérfanos, la nueva novela de Carmen Mola.
The Orphans. Carmen Mola. Planeta. September 9.
Following the overwhelming success of The Gypsy Bride, the renowned writer’s trio returns with a novel starring three children who grew up in an orphanage in Belfast where fear was the law, and violence, the only way to survive. A hell that turned them into siblings, but also into something much more dangerous.
Because years later they own a criminal empire that stretches from Ireland to the Costa del Sol. There, in Marbella, they have learned that power is not inherited but seized. But they will have to deal with the Pastor and Sister Mei pulling the strings from the shadows. A crime will force them all to make decisions in which loyalty and blood, perhaps, are not the important thing.
Portada de Te di la mano, la nueva novela de Nuria Pérez.
Te di la mano. Nuria Pérez. Salamandra. September 10.
After the success of No tocarás, the writer who has made curiosity an art returns with a novel about the power of writing and the risks of the digital revolution. The story begins in the Congo, in 1908. On the banks of the Maringa River lives Makasi, a woman invisible to many, but capable of embracing a simple yet enormous dream: to have her voice reach far, like the protagonists of the books that accompany her.
Her spirit will endure through subsequent generations and reach our days, after a journey shaped by everything her land has placed in our hands; from the rubber that propelled the first automobiles, to the copper that electrified the world, and the cobalt that sustains current technology. Makasi’s dream thus leaves the forests of Kasai, reaching Soviet communal houses, the outskirts of Milan, the Irish coast, and the skyscrapers of London. A woman who may seem distant from our reality but who, unexpectedly, is very closely tied to ours.
Portada de la nueva novela de Douglas Stuart, nominada al premio Booker, John, hijo de John.
John, Son of John. Douglas Stuart. Random House. September 10.
Winner of the Booker Prize for Shuggie Bain, and a Booker finalist in 2026 with this novel, the Scottish author returns with a moving and suspenseful work. The protagonist is John-Calum Macleod who, lacking money and with an artistic training that has proved little use, must return to the island where he was born to discover that nothing has changed. In the desolate family farm where he was born, Cal resumes his old life among what marked his childhood: his father, a shepherd and pillar of the local Presbyterian church, and his maternal grandmother, Ella, who has maintained precarious peace with his son-in-law.
While Cal wonders if there are other solitary men on the barren slopes of his home, John contemplates with unease the apparent resistance of his son to be saved. The changing of the seasons brings changes and the threads that sustain the fragile community to which he belongs are about to break.
Portada de El hijo del oligarca, el nuevo libro del maestro del periodismo de investigación, Patrick Radden Keefe.
The Oligarch’s Son. Patrick Radden Keefe. Seix Barral. September 16.
After No Say Anything and Snakehead, one of today’s most important investigative journalists returns with the story of a young impostor who ends tragically. His parents, the Brettlers, try to discover what led their nineteen-year-old son to jump from the balcony of a luxury apartment along the Thames.
And as the American journalist dives into the doubts and questions that such an event provokes within the family, in the memories and the anger of parents trying to discover who their son really was, he delves into the city’s darker side, where dirty money, corruption and violence run rampant thanks to the freedom and permissiveness enjoyed by the powerful.
Portada de La carne, la novela de David Szalay ganadora del Premio Booker 2025.
The Flesh. David Szalay. Feltrinelli Editores. September 16.
Winner of the Booker Prize 2025, this novel traces István’s portrait, who at fifteen lives with his mother in an ordinary apartment block in a Hungarian town. Timid, hermetic, almost invisible even to himself, his life takes an unexpected turn when a married neighbor, the same age as his mother, drags him into a clandestine relationship that he barely understands.
This first carnal encounter will have tragic consequences that mark his existence and begin a journey that will take him from Hungary to London, among precarious jobs and relationships that barely touch him. The instability arrives first as a chauffeur for a magnate and later as a billionaire himself, always unmoved by trauma and loss, joy and success. A novel that explores how class and money, but also the body and desire, dictate the fate of our destinies.
Portada de Mientras espero, el nuevo libro de Elisabet Benavent.
While I Wait. Elisabet Benavent. Suma de Letras. September 17.
Between the travel notebook and the personal diary, the author of the Valeria series returns with a work that explores what happens when the only person who truly hears us is ourselves. Waiting, gratitude, patience, journeys, love, writing, and inspiration are some of the themes addressed in this book born in diverse spaces, from airports to hotels, through restaurants and cafés. But always written when the sun sets, the moment when we are truly alone.
Portada de Famesick, la biografía de la directora, guionista y actriz estadounidense Lena Dunham.
Famesick. Lena Dunham. Debate. September 23.
The creator of Girls, hailed as the voice of her generation, faces in these memoirs the question that has marked her adult life: Is pain the price you pay to achieve your dreams? Over the last decade, as her career rose meteorically, Dunham found that her body was breaking down little by little. Each achievement came with long hospitalizations, uncertain diagnoses, medication dependencies, and personal crises. Dragging herself along as if towing a broken car in the middle of the night became an inseparable condition of her success.
Divided into three parts that chart the triumphs and shadows of her career, this work probes how professional life can distort relationships, isolate people, and amplify fragilities. When neither recognition nor drugs can dull the suffering, the search for meaning becomes unavoidable. Dunham examines the cost of her ambitions, undertaking a journey toward transformative learning that leads her to accept what cannot be changed, to come to terms with her limits, and to replace regret with a strength capable of sustaining her.
Portada de Tío grande, la nueva novela de Jacobo Bergareche.
Uncle Large. Jacobo Bergareche. Libros del Asteroide. September 28.
After Los días perfectos and Las despedidas, Jacobo Bergareche returns with a story born from the mus tournament he organizes in memory of his brother Roque. The afternoon of the event, while he negotiates with Amadou, the young person in charge of the venue, he dares to tell him the story of his brother, killed in Africa. And Amadou replies with his own story, that of a 12-year-old boy who fled his home in Guinea-Conakry with five friends to reach Europe. After four years of travel, only two of them did it.
This encounter prompts the Spanish writer born in London to travel with Amadou to the village from which he departed and to become interested in the circumstances of so many invisible immigrants. And from that experience arises this work, in which his brother’s story intertwines with Amadou’s and with other memories of the author, in an unexpected mirror of absences, dangers and hope.
Portada de la nueva novela de Tatiana Tibuleac, Cuando seas feliz, golpea tú primero.
When You Are Happy, Hit First. Tatiana Tibuleac. Impedimenta. September 28.
The author of The Summer When My Mother Had Green Eyes, with more than 150,000 copies sold, returns with a love letter to an absent father. Mila is 50, born in an Eastern country but now living in Paris, surviving on precarious jobs, trapped in a thick loneliness. Her life, carved by hard knocks, has dragged her toward alcohol and humiliation.
At the center of it all has always been her father: as tender as he is irresponsible, as radiant as he is toxic. A bohemian and alcoholic journalist, he taught her to write, but loved books more than his daughter and died without saying what she needed. The most autobiographical and intimate novel from the Moldovan writer in which family heritage and the impossibility of starting anew shape the protagonist’s story.
Portada de Cosas en todas partes, la novela de Helen Longstreth.
Contenta. Santiago Lorenzo. Blackie Books. October 7.
El autor de Los Asquerosos regresa con la historia de Cecilia, una mujer a la que ha contratado el ayuntamiento de un municipio para hacer promoción turística. El problema: el pueblo es horroroso de feo y Cecilia tiene un problema. No hay nada que pueda llevar a ese vídeo por el que le van a pagar pero debe rellenar 45 minutos de reportaje.
En el amor, a Cecilia le va algo mejor. Se ha echado un novio, Josito, con el que se entiende muy bien. Una historia sobre la posibilidad de vivir al margen de la ambición y el éxito, sobre lo que sucede después de huir y cómo vivir y cómo querer tras ello.
Portada de Extraños, el libro sobre el final de su matrimonio de Belle Burden.
The Strangers. Belle Burden. Aguilar. October 15.
This attorney who grew up in a privileged environment and studied at Harvard had it all: love, money, and a beautiful family. Until, during the early days of the pandemic, while spending days at the family home in Martha’s Vineyard, her husband told her he was leaving. Overnight, her companion who had been attentive and steady became almost unrecognizable. And she had to leave the life they shared, like an actor removing a mask at the end of a performance.
In this book, which has been a best-seller in the United States and has made it onto 2025’s best-of lists, Burden traces a map of the path from disillusionment, with implacable honesty and a moving elegance, to show the strength of a woman who refuses to give up on love. She does this by revisiting her marriage, searching for signals that indicate her husband was not who she believed. A revisitation that leads her to confront her own family history and the ideas she internalized about how a woman is expected to react to betrayal. And throughout that process, she herself transforms.
Portada de Mi amor no muere, la novela basada en hechos reales de Roberto Saviano.
My Love Does Not Die. Roberto Saviano. Alfaguara. October 15.
The author of Gomorrah, with more than ten million copies sold worldwide, now publishes, in his own words, “the most dramatic and powerful love story I have ever found.” Its protagonist is Rosella Casini, who is a little over twenty, lives in Florence and has grown up in a loving family that has provided a quiet life with no privations. But in Italy in 1977, the squares boil with political protests and the streets fill with rage, violence, and heroin.
For her, everything changes when she meets Francesco, a Calabrian student. An intense and unknown love arises between them, which remains alive until she discovers that he belongs to a powerful clan in the Gioia Tauro plain. During a holiday in Palmi, where she has also traveled with her parents, a war between clans erupts. Violence erupts and drags everything along, but she refuses to leave without him, convinced that love can break the spiral of violence. One day, after announcing her return home, Rosella disappears without a trace. Nobody will ever see her again.
Portada de Desierto Sonoro, la novela de Valeria Luiselli.
Desert Sound. Valeria Luiselli. Feltrinelli. October 28.
The protagonists of this story are members of a family who embark on a road trip from New York to the border with Mexico. The father and mother are documentary filmmakers: he intends to record the sonic traces of Apache towns, and she wants to document the exodus of the children who try to cross the border in search of asylum. From the back seat, their children hear stories about the extermination of the Apaches recounted by their parents, The Lord of the Flies in William Golding’s voice and the news the radio spews about the migrant crisis, mixing everything in their imagination to turn it into their own adventure.
After the success of Principle, Middle, End, the preceding Luiselli novel arrives in our country, which tells a double journey: that of a marriage in crisis, unable to hide from their children the gap that opens between them, and that of a group of children who travel through the barren lands of the border, risking detention or getting lost in the desert. A work that questions how we transmit stories from generation to generation and asks what it means to be human in an increasingly dehumanized world.
Portada de Toque de queda, la novela de Jesse Ball.
Curfew. Jesse Ball. Sigilo. October.
William is a violinist, but since the new government banned music, he works drafting epitaphs. Molly, his 8-year-old daughter, is a mute, cheerful and highly intelligent girl. The city they live in is governed by a totalitarian state that makes people disappear. One of them is Molly’s mother; they don’t know where she is detained or if they will ever see her again. As a form of resistance, father and daughter have devised a routine where play and puzzles, tenderness and essential care are the daily bond.
When William receives word about his wife, perhaps not very reliable, he decides to go out to look for her, and he will risk breaking curfew. Meanwhile, Molly will be left in the care of an elderly couple who hide in their home a marvelous puppet theatre. A fable about the points of contact between individual memory and collective history, about strategies for being happy in adverse times and about fiction as the best and most intimate shelter.
Portada de El hombre que solo escribía en los aviones, la novela de Pedro Almodóvar.
The Man Who Only Wrote on Planes. Pedro Almodóvar. Reservoir Books. September 29.
After the international success of The Last Dream, translated into 30 languages, the most international Spanish filmmaker returns to written fiction with a man, Flavio Guijarro, who after a life of many hobbies and few professions discovers, ten thousand meters up, his new vocation, writing. Since then he will devote himself body and soul to fight his creative blocks and pursue that dream, which inevitably slips from his hands as soon as the moment to finish comes near.
To find inspiration he will go to the most unlikely places, and, to his surprise, will discover an unusual aptitude as an acting coach. What Flavio does not imagine is where this new stage of his life might lead him, nor what future awaits his budding love with the most successful actor of the moment.
Portada de Un largo invierno, la novela de Colm Tóibín.
An Extended Winter. Colm Tóibín. Lumen. November 5.
One snowy morning, after arguing with his husband, Miquel’s mother leaves her home in the Catalan Pyrenees and does not return. Jordi, his younger brother, is doing his military service, so Miquel and his father must face a hostile village environment alone due to an old quarrel. And the mother’s desperate search will be interrupted only by Manolo, an orphan boy from a neighboring village who arrives to help at home, making Miquel glimpse the promise of another kind of life.
Two decades later, the author of Brooklyn, Long Island and The Magician returns with The Bridge, which continues the story of its predecessor after its shocking ending. The construction of a passage between two mountains will allow the isolated valley to communicate with the outside world and to hinder smuggling in that area. Miquel now dreams of escaping his father and the hostile surroundings, but a betrayal will make everything change. This edition gathers both works and includes an author’s postscript.
Portada de Cleopatra & Frankenstein, la novela de Coco Mellors.
Cleopatra & Frankenstein. Coco Mellors. Letras de Plata. September 10.
The debut and successful novel by the author of The Blue Sisters returns to bookstores to conquer all those who did not enjoy it three years ago. With New York as the setting, Cleo feels the city slips from her reach and, although parties have become a habitual ingredient in her schedule, she does not truly know anyone. Her student visa is about to expire, and she does not even have money to buy tobacco. That is when she meets Frank, a man twenty years her senior, with a life of success and excess.
He offers her the possibility of happiness, the freedom to paint and the chance to request a residence permit. She offers him a life filled with beauty and art and, with a little luck, a reason to drink less. They are all the other needs, and they dive headlong into a relationship neither of them can keep pace with, one that transforms their lives and those around them. A casual encounter on a New Year’s Eve that ends up changing everything, for better or for worse.
Portada de El milagro de San Genaro, la novela de Sándor Márai.
The Saint Januarius Miracle. Sándor Márai. Salamandra. December 12.
Originally published in German in 1957, this work springs from a wound in the author’s life: the break with the communist regime of 1948 and his definitive departure from Hungary. In Naples, among the ruins of the postwar era and the persistence of millennial religiosity, he found a city where misery and indestructible vitality intertwine; there, in foreign land, his status as a stranger allowed him to write this story set in the Neapolitan neighborhood of Posillipo.
The arrival of a mysterious couple of refugees from Eastern Europe unsettles the city’s balance. While the miracle of the liquefaction of Saint Januarius’ blood is awaited, the protagonist, an intellectual stripped of homeland and name, wages an inner battle against the meaninglessness of history. When he is found dead at the foot of a cliff, the investigation and the confession of his partner reveal that his end was not a simple suicide, but an extreme act of assertion against the crowd and bureaucracy. A novel about geographic and existential exile and about the moral resilience of the individual in times of collapse.
