This October’s reading list features both classics and hidden gems, from short stories to novels, that will help inspire chills and thrills as the days get shorter and the nights get eerier.

Favorites which may have flown under your radar in such a packed season of releases.  

This month, we celebrate Translated Fiction by Women Authors—a tribute to voices that cross borders, resist silence, and reimagine the shape of narrative itself. From epistolary fragments to auto fictional confession, from lyrical meditations to spare monologues, each book in this collection enacts its own quiet defiance: of genre, of expectation, of erasure.

Whether you're reclining under striped umbrellas or holed up in a breezy café, these books will transport you far beyond the horizon. Take them with you, lt them keep you company.

This reading list moves along the fault lines of memory and identity, through haunted landscapes and liminal lives. From Berlin’s rain-soaked streets to Quebec’s frozen forests, from Istanbul’s layered languages to postwar Parisian salons, these books carry voices that linger—and resonate long after the final page.