Here is The Qwillery's list of novels, etc. being published in September 2017. If there is something that we've missed, please leave a comment below. Any genre mistakes are ours. Leave a comment below if you feel that the genre is wrong. Also note that this list is always under revision. Publication dates change. We try to keep this as accurate as possible. Please note that we use the publisher's publication date in the US. Check The View From Monday each week for each week's release list.
Debut novels are highlighted in blue. Novels, etc. by formerly featured DAC Authors are highlighted in green.
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D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
Illus - Illustrator
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CB - Coloring Book
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
CulH - Cultural Heritage
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PI - Private Investigator
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PopCul - Popular Culture
PRS - Paranormal Romantic Suspense
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
RSus - Romantic Suspense
Satire - Satire
Sc - Science
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
UFR - Urban Fantasy Romance
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| Daughter of Eden | Chris Beckett | SF - The Eden Trilogy 3 |
| Black Jesus and Other Superheroes: Stories | Venita Blackburn | SS - Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Fiction |
| Song of Edmon (D) | Adam Burch | SF - The Fracture Worlds 1 |
| Phasma | Delilah S. Dawson | SF/SO - Star Wars |
| Tricks of the Trade (e)(ri) | Laura Anne Gilman | UF - Paranormal Scene Investigations 3 |
| The Death of All Things (e) | Laura Anne Gilman (Ed) Kat Richardson (Ed) | SF/F - Anthology |
| One Night with the Valkyrie (e) | Jane Godman | PNR |
| Charmed by the Wolf (e) | Kristal Hollis | PNR |
| Servant of the Forest (e) | Shona Husk | PNR/FairyT |
| The Master of Time | David Wingrove | SF/TT - Roads to Moscow 3 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| Ravenor Rogue | Dan Abnett | SF - Ravenor 3 |
| Ashes Reborn | Keri Arthur | UF - Souls of Fire 4 |
| The Bronze Skies | Catherine Asaro | SF - Skolian Empire 8 |
| Robert Kirkman's The Walking Dead: Search and Destroy (h2tp) | Jay Bonansinga | H - The Walking Dead 7 |
| Clade (D) | James Bradley | SF/AP/PA |
| Skyfarer (D - Solo) | Joseph Brassey | F/SF/SO |
| Sea of Rust | C. Robert Cargill | SF/AP/PA |
| Highland Dragon Warrior | Isabel Cooper | Hist/PNR - Dawn of the Highland Dragon 1 |
| The Gates to Futures Past (h2mm) | Julie E. Czerneda | SF - Reunification Series 2 |
| The Last to See Me | M Dressler | Hist/LF/GH |
| Eye of Ezekiel | C Z Dunn | SF - Space Marine Battles Series |
| The Devil You Know (h2mm) | Erin M. Evans | F |
| Dark Legacy | Christine Feehan | PNR - Carpathian 31 |
| Iron Angels | Eric Flint Alistair Kimble | UF |
| The Ruin of Angels | Max Gladstone | F/UF/CF - A Craft Sequence Novel |
| Time Travel: A History (h2tp) | James Gleick | Hist/PopCul/Sc |
| One Night with the Valkyrie | Jane Godman | PNR |
| Beforelife: A Likely Story (D) | Randal Graham | F/SF/HU |
| Doctor Who: Paper Dolls | Simon Guerrier Christel Dee | SF - Doctor Who |
| Ursula K. Le Guin: The Hainish Novels and Stories | Ursula K. Le Guin | SF - Library of America |
| Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Vol. 1 | Ursula K. Le Guin | SF - Library of America |
| Ursula K. Le Guin: Hainish Novels and Stories, Vol. 2 | Ursula K. Le Guin | SF - Library of America |
| Five Ways to Forgiveness (e) | Ursula K. Le Guin | SF - Library of America E-Book Classics |
| The Boats of the "Glen Carrig" and Other Nautical Adventures | William Hodgson | F - Collected Fiction of William Hope Hodgson Vol. 1 |
| Charmed by the Wolf | Kristal Hollis | PNR |
| Battlefield Earth (ri) | L. Ron Hubbard | SF |
| Acadie | Dave Hutchinson | SF/GenEng |
| The Salt Line (D - SpecFic) | Holly Goddard Jones | LF/SF/AP/AP |
| Godsgrave | Jay Kristoff | F/SP/HistF - The Nevernight Chronicle 2 |
| Who's Afraid? | Maria Lewis | FR - Tommi Grayson 1 |
| Death's End (h2tp) | Cixin Liu Ken Liu (Tr) | SF - Remembrance of Earth's Past 3 |
| Sherlock Holmes and the Shadwell Shadows (h2tp) | James Lovegrove | M/PI - Cthulhu Casebooks 1 |
| MJ-12: Shadows | Michael J. Martinez | SF/Th - Majestic-12 #2 |
| The Brightest Fell | Seanan McGuire | UF - October Daye 11 |
| The Legend of Sigmar | Graham McNeill | F - Warhammer Chronicles |
| Fever | Deon Meyer | Dys/LF/Th |
| Gloriana: Or, The Unfulfill'd Queen (h2tp) | Michael Moorcock | HistF |
| A Secret History of Witches | Louisa Morgan | MR |
| Circle's End | Lisanne Norman | SF/SO/AC - Sholan Alliance 9 |
| Norma | Sofi Oksanen | CW/F/Sleuths |
| Star Trek The Next Generation: The Art of Juan Ortiz | Juan Oritz | PopCul/Art - Star Trek |
| Immortal Architects | Paige Orwin | SF/AP/PA/SH/F/UF - Interminables 2 |
| The Two of Swords: Part Sixteen (e) | K. J. Parker | F - Two of Swords |
| The Family Plot (h2tp) | Cherie Priest | UF/Occ/Sup/Gothic/GH |
| The Devil's Rosary | Seabury Quinn | F/H/DF/P - The Complete Tales of Jules de Grandin 2 |
| Star Wars The Blueprints | J.W. Rinzler | Film |
| Secrets in Death | J.D. Robb | In Death 45 |
| White Trash Zombie Unchained | Diana Rowland | P/UF/CF - White Trash Zombie 6 |
| The Golden House | Salman Rushdie | LF/Satire |
| Clockwork Futures: The Science of Steampunk and the Reinvention of the Modern World | Brandy Schillace | History |
| Frankenstein Dreams | Michael Sims (Ed) | SF - Anthology |
| The Uploaded | Ferrett Steinmetz | SF/CyP |
| Her Dark Half | Paige Tyler | PRS - X-Ops 7 |
| The End of the World Running Club (D) | Adrian Walker | Dys |
| Cloudbound (h2tp) | Fran Wilde | F - Bone Universe 2 |
| Forged in Blood | Michael Z. Williamson | SF - Freehold Anthology |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| Angel of the Blockade: A Tor.com Original | Alex Acks | SF |
| Making Amends (e) | Mur Lafferty | UF/M - Bookburners Season 3 #8 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| In the Dark: Tales of Terror by E. Nesbit | Hugh Lamb (Ed) | GH - HarperCollins Chillers |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| The Sum of Us: Tales of the Bonded and Bound (e) | Susan Forest (Ed) Lucas K. Law (Ed) | SF - Laksa Anthology Series: Speculative Fiction 2 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| A Tangled Web: A Fantasy Retelling of a Greek Mythology Romance (e) | Mercedes Lackey | FR - A Tale of the Five Hundred Kingdoms |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| Magicians Impossible (D) | Brad Abraham | CF/P |
| A Field Guide to the Aliens of Star Trek: The Next Generation | Zachary Auburn | SF/AC/HU |
| The War Dogs Trilogy | Greg Bear | SF/SO - War Dogs |
| The Abandoned Heart (h2tp) | Laura Benedict | Gothic - Bliss House 3 |
| Iraq + 100: The First Anthology of Science Fiction to have Emerged from Iraq | Hassan Blasim (Ed) | SF/AH/CulH - Anthology |
| Retrograde | Peter Cawdron | SF |
| Sirius: A Novel About the Little Dog Who Almost Changed History (h2tp) | Jonathan Crown | LF |
| Werebiker (e) | Paige Cuccaro | PNR |
| All the Light There Is | Anise Eden | PRS - Healing Edge 3 |
| Blood Guard (e) | Megan Erickson | PNR - Mission 1 |
| The Law of Love | Laura Esquivel | MR |
| The Twilight Pariah | Jeffrey Ford | DF/H |
| Taste of Marrow | Sarah Gailey | HistF/AH - River of Teeth 2 |
| Blood Vengeance (e) | Yasmine Galenorn | PNR - Bewitching Bedlam Novellete |
| Constantine: A History (e) | Donna Grant | PNR - Dark Kings |
| Hunter's Season (e) | Thea Harrison | PNR - Elder Races Novella 4.7 |
| Butcher Bird: A Novel of the Dominion (ri) | Richard Kadrey | UF/P/DF |
| An Excess Male (D) | Maggie Shen King | SF |
| Doom with a View | Kate Kingsbury | PM - Merry Ghost Inn Mystery 2 |
| Intimations: Stories (h2tp) | Alexandra Kleeman | LF |
| The Horned Blade | Richard A. Knaak | F - Legends of the Dragonrealm: Turning War 3 |
| Deadland: Valkyrie Rising | Paul Mannering | SF/AP/PA |
| Rising Darkness | Shannon Mayer | UF/FR/P - Rylee Adamson 9 |
| My House Gathers Desires | Adam McOmber | F/HistF.LF - American Readers Series |
| Hath No Fury | Melanie R. Meadors (Ed) J.M. Martin (Ed) | F - Anthology |
| The Two of Swords: Part Seventeen (e) | K. J. Parker | F - Two of Swords |
| Infinity Wars | Jonathan Strahan (Ed) | SF - Anthology |
| Darkness Visible: Inside the World of Philip Pullman and His Dark Materials | Nicholas Tucker | LC/SF/F |
| Supernatural: The Men of Letters Bestiary: Winchester Family Edition | Tim Waggoner | Occ/Sup |
| The Man in the Tree | Sage Walker | SF |
| Thessaly: The Just City, The Philosopher Kings, Necessity | Jo Walton | F/SF/TT/FairyT/FolkT/LM - Thessaly Omnibus |
| Split Feather | Deborah A. Wolf | UF/DF - Daughter of the Midnight Sun 1 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| Homecoming (e) | Brian Francis Slattery | UF/M - Bookburners Season 3 #9 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| The Geeky Chef Strikes Back! | Cassandra Reeder | Cooking - Geeky Chef 2 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| Danger's Halo (e) | Amanda Carlson | SF/AP/PA - Holly Danger 1 |
| An Orchard in the Street (e) | Reginald Gibbons | LF/VM/SS - American Readers Series |
| Witches Brew: Stories for the Season | Paula Guran (Ed) | F - Anthology |
| Light of the Spirit (e) | Lisa Kessler | FR - Muse Chronicles 4 |
| An Unkindness of Ghosts (e) | Rivers Solomon | SF/SO/LF/AP/PA |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| Of Sand and Malice Made (h2tp) | Bradley P. Beaulieu | F/DF - A Shattered Sands Novel |
| Wickedly Spirited (e) | Deborah Blake | PNR - A Baba Yaga Novella |
| Successor's Promise | Trudi Canavan | F - Millennium's Rule 3 |
| House on the Forgotten Coast | Ruth Coe Chambers | M/PNR/RSus |
| Wicked Abyss (h2mm) | Kresley Cole | PNR - Immortals After Dark 17 |
| Trinity (ri) | Lauren Dane | PNR - de La Vega Cats 1 |
| Blade of Darkness | Dianne Duvall | PNR - Immortal Guardians 7 |
| Whispers of Warning | Jessica Estevao | Hist/M - A Change of Fortune Mystery 2 |
| Kung Fu High School (ri) | Ryan Gattis | Cr/Dys |
| Demon Hunting with a Sexy Ex | Lexi George | PNR - Demon Hunter 5 |
| Wicked Deeds (h2mm) | Heather Graham | SupTh - Krewe of Hunters 23 |
| Grave Danger | S.K. Gregory | PNR - Aurelia Graves |
| A Dream Given Form: The Unofficial Guide to the Universe of Babylon 5 | Ensley F. Guffey K. Dale Koontz | LC/SF |
| Dark Debts (h2tp) | Karen Hall | Th |
| The Wicked (e) | Thea Harrison | PNR - Elder Races Novella |
| Strangers of the Night and Witch's Hunger | Megan Hart Deborah LeBlanc | PNR |
| Paperbacks from Hell: The Twisted History of '70s and '80s Horror Fiction | Grady Hendrix | LC/H/Sup |
| Blood of Sanguinius | Darius Hinks | SF - Mephiston 1 |
| The Year's Best Science Fiction & Fantasy 2017 Edition | Rich Horton (Ed) | SF - Anthology |
| The Chaos Prophecy (e) | Rosalie Lario | UFR - Elemental Guardians 2 |
| The Legion Prophecy | Mark A. Latham | UF - Lazarus Gate 3 |
| The Imperial Radch Boxed Trilogy: Ancillary Justice, Ancillary Sword, and Ancillary Mercy | Ann Leckie | SF - Imperial Radch |
| Stranger of Tempest | Tom Lloyd | F - God Fragments 1 |
| The Forgotten Beasts of Eld | Patricia A. McKillip | F/MR/HistF/FR |
| New Fears - New horror stories by masters of the genre | Mark Morris (Ed) | H - Anthology |
| Autonomous (D) | Annalee Newitz | SF |
| Null States | Malka Older | SF/CyP/TechTh/Pol - The Centenal Cycle 2 |
| The Two of Swords: Part Eighteen (e) | K. J. Parker | F - Two of Swords |
| Poison | Sarah Pinborough | DF - Fairy Tales 1 |
| The Exiled King (e) | Sarah Remy | F - Bone Magic 4 |
| A Small Charred Face | Kazuki Sakuraba | Gothic |
| Words of Radiance (ri) | Brandon Sanderson | F - Stormlight Archive 2 |
| Zero-G: Green Space | William Shatner Jeff Rovin | SF - Samuel Lord 2 |
| Sisters of Battle: The Omnibus | James Swallow | SF - Sisters of Battle |
| Desert Wolf and Protector Wolf | Linda Thomas-Sundstrom Linda O. Johnston | PNR |
| Her Guardian Shifter & Royal Enchantment | Karen Whiddon Sharon Ashwood | PNR |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| Into the Woods (e) | Andrea Phillips | UF/M - Bookburners Season 3 #10 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| The Runabout (e) | Kristine Kathryn Rusch | SF - Diving 6 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| The Warlord Wants Forever (e)(ri) | Kresley Cole | PNR - Immortals after Dark |
| Forsaken by Night (e) | Larissa Ione | PNR - Moonbound Clan Vampires 3 |
| Lazy Son | Eve Langlais | PNR - Hell's Son 1 |
| Dark Swan (e) | Gena Showalter | PNR - Alien Huntress 3 |
| Hug Chickenpenny: The Panegyric of an Anomalous Child (e) | S. Craig Zahler | FairyT/FolkT/LM/Gothic/H/CoA |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| The Sound of Seas | Gillian Anderson Jeff Rovin | SF - The EarthEnd Saga 3 |
| Lost Gods (h2tp) | Brom | DF |
| Gentleman Jole and the Red Queen (ri) | Lois McMaster Bujold | SF - Vorkosigan Saga 17 |
| The Visitors (D) | Catherine Burns | PsyTh |
| Ender's Game Gift Edition | Orson Scott Card | SF - The Ender Quintet |
| Star Trek: The Original Series Adult Coloring Book - Where No Man Has Gone Before | CBS | TV/SF/CB |
| Leech Girl Lives (D) | Rick Claypool | SF/HU |
| Paradox Bound | Peter Clines | SF/H/TT |
| Wolf Unbound (ri) | Lauren Dane | PNR - Cascadia Wolves 4 |
| Blade Runner (ri) | Philip K. Dick | MTI/SF |
| War and Craft | Tom Doyle | CF/SF - American Craft 3 |
| Planet of the Apes Omnibus 3 | George Alec Effinger | MTI/SF - Planet of the Apes |
| Castaway Odyssey (h2mm) | Eric Flint Ryk E. Spoor | SF/SO - Boundary 5 |
| Alien: Covenant Origins - The Official Prequel to the Blockbuster Film | Alan Dean Foster | MTI/SF - Alien |
| Kane (e)(ri) | Jacquelyn Frank | PNR - Nightwalkers 1.5 |
| Neverwhere Illustrated Edition | Neil Gaiman | SF |
| The Sleeper and the Spindle Deluxe Edition | Neil Gaiman | F |
| Doctor Who: Now We Are Six Hundred: A Collection of Time Lord Verse | James Goss | TV/SF |
| An Angel's Touch (h2mm) | Heather Graham | R/F/FR |
| Homer's Daughter (ri) | Robert Graves | FairyT/FolkT/L/F/LF |
| Slayers & Vampires: The Complete Uncensored, Unauthorized Oral History of Buffy & Angel | Edward Gross Mark A. Altman | TV/HC |
| The Cocktail Guide to the Galaxy: A Universe of Unique Cocktails from the Celebrated Doctor Who Bar | Andy Heidel | Beverages/SF |
| An Unkindness of Magicians | Kat Howard | DF |
| Original Sin | David R. George III | SF - Star Trek: Deep Space Nine |
| Infernal Machines | John Hornor Jacobs | F - Incorruptibles 3 |
| Sleeping Beauties | Stephen King Owen King | Th/Sus |
| Path of Gods (h2tp) | Snorri Kristjansson | HistF - The Valhalla Saga 3 |
| Provenance | Ann Leckie | SF |
| In Constant Fear (h2tp) | Peter Liney | SF - The Detainee 3 |
| Star Trek: Discovery: Desperate Hours | David Mack | SF - Star Trek: Discovery 1 |
| The Corporation Wars: Emergence | Ken MacLeod | SF/SO - Second Law Trilogy 3 |
| When the Floods Came | Clare Morrall | LF |
| The Hunt | Chloe Neill | UF/PA - A Devil's Isle Novel 3 |
| The Secrets of Drearcliff Grange School (tp2mm) | Kim Newman | F/P/H/AH |
| The Two of Swords: Part Nineteen (e) | K. J. Parker | F - Two of Swords |
| Death (e) | Madhuri Pavamani | FR - Keeper Series 3 |
| Of Flame and Fate (e) | Cecy Robson | PNR - A Weird Girls Novel 8 |
| Immortally Yours | Lynsay Sands | PNR - An Argeneau Novel 23 |
| Savage Woods | Mary SanGiovanni | H |
| The Eternity War: Pariah | Jamie Sawyer | SF - The Eternity War 1 |
| Everfair (h2tp) | Nisi Shawl | SP/HistF/AH |
| Archangel's Viper | Nalini Singh | PNR - Guild Hunter 10 |
| Extinction End | Nicholas Sansbury Smith | SF/PA/AP - The Extinction Cycle 5 |
| Ghost in the Shell: The Official Movie Novelization | James Swallow | MTI/SF |
| The Lilitu, Primordial, The Cain Prophecy | Toby Tate | SF - The Lilitu Trilogy |
| Your Brother's Blood (h2tp) | David Towsey | SF - The Walkin' Trilogy 1 |
| The Chosen (h2mm) | J.R. Ward | PNR - Black Dagger Brotherhood 15 |
| Horizon | Fran Wilde | F - Bone Universe 3 |
| The Emperor's Legion | Chris Wraight | SF - Watchers of the Throne 1 |
| The Black Tides of Heaven | JY Yang | F - The Tensorate Series Novella |
| The Red Threads of Fortune | JY Yang | F - The Tensorate Series Novella |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| Crossing Over (e) | Margaret Dunlap | UF/M - Bookburners Season 3 #11 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| Belador Cosaint (e) | Dianna Love | PNR - Belador 9 |
| The Wind | Jay Caselberg | Sus/H - NewCon Press Novellas Set 2 4 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| Visionary Tongue | Storm Constatine (Ed) | SpecFic - Anthology |
| Dead Man Walking: A country house murder mystery with a supernatural twist (h2tp) | Simon Green | SupM - An Ishmael Jones Mystery 2 |
| TITLE | AUTHOR | SERIES |
| River's Edge | James P. Blaylock | SupTh |
| University | Bentley Little | H |
| The Collection | Bentley Little | H |
| The Policy | Bentley Little | H |
| The Summoning | Bentley Little | H |
| The Emperor and the Maula | Robert Silverberg | SF/AC |
D - Debut
e - eBook
Ed - Editor
h2mm - Hardcover to Mass Market Paperback
h2tp - Hardcover to Trade Paperback
Illus - Illustrator
ri - reissue or reprint
tp2mm - Trade to Mass Market Paperback
Tr - Translator
AC - Alien Contact
AH - Alternate History
AP - Apocalyptic
CB - Coloring Book
CF - Contemporary Fantasy
CoA - Coming of Age
CW - Contemporary Women
CulH - Cultural Heritage
CyP - CyberPunk
DF - Dark Fantasy
Dys - Dystopian
F - Fantasy
FairyT - Fairy Tales
FolkT - Folk Tales
FR - Fantasy Romance
GenEng - Genetic Engineering
GH - Ghost(s)
Gothic - Gothic
H - Horror
Hist - Historical
HistF - Historical Fantasy
HU - Humor
LC - Literary Criticism
LF - Literary Fiction
LM - Legends and Mythology
M - Mystery
MR - Magical Realism
MTI - Media Tie-In
Occ - Occult
P - Paranormal
PA - Post Apocalyptic
PI - Private Investigator
PM - Paranormal Mystery
PNR - Paranormal Romance
Pol - Political
PopCul - Popular Culture
PRS - Paranormal Romantic Suspense
PsyTh - Psychological Thriller
R - Romance
RSus - Romantic Suspense
Satire - Satire
Sc - Science
SH -Superheroes
SF - Science Fiction
SO - Space Opera
SP - Steampunk
SS - Short Stories
Sup - Supernatural
SupM - Supernatural Mystery
SupTh - Supernatural Thriller
Sus - Suspense
TechTh - Technological Thriller
Th - Thriller
TT - Time Travel
UF - Urban Fantasy
UFR - Urban Fantasy Romance
VM - Visionary and Metaphysical
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