The best new books out this week 📚✨
 Hello, book lovers! Each week, dozens of new releases hit the shelves. Here are our favorites. ❤️📚 –The BuzzFeed Books team
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 Credit: Berkley The Heart Principle by Helen Hoang
First, violinist Anna Sun accidentally achieves career success but can't seem to replicate it. Then, her long-term boyfriend tells her he wants to try an open relationship before making a final commitment. Fed up and needing to let loose, Anna decides to have a string of one-night stands with the most ineligible men she can find. Enter, a tattooed, motorcyle-riding Quan Diep. He's the perfect candidate but during each of their attempts at a one-night stand, something goes wrong. Anna begins to wonder if maybe it's because she wants more with Quan than just the physical. But when tragedy strikes in her family, Anna has to figure out her own life before she can face her feelings for Quan head on. —Shyla Watson
 Credit: Tor.com, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers, Tor Teen In the Watchful City by S. Qiouyi Lu
This lovely and surreal metanarrative novella is like nothing else I've ever read. The city Ora uses a living network called the Gleaming to maintain peace. Anima (who uses æ/ær pronouns) is an extrasensory, nonbinary human who can plug into the Gleaming to watch its inhabitants and its borders. When a mysterious visitor with a trunk arrives, Anima's equilibrium is disrupted. Within the trunk are objects, and as Anima explores the stories behind each object, æ begins to question ær part of the Gleaming and to wonder if maybe æ wants something more. —Margaret Kingsbury
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The Witch Haven by Sasha Peyton Smith
In 1911 New York City, a man has been found dead at the feet of seamstress Frances Hallowell, her scissors in his neck, and she can't explain how they got there. Sweeping in to her rescue are two nurses who whisk her off to Haxahaven Sanitarium, which is a front for a school for witches. While at school, she finds herself drawn to a boy named Finn who appears in her dreams, and claims he can teach her more about magic than the school. Magic that could help her discover what happened months prior when her brother mysteriously died. —Rachel Strolle
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Forestborn by Elayne Audrey Becker
When Finley, Rora's best friend and a young prince, catches the magical illness that has been erupting across the kingdom, his only hope is stardust. But stardust is rare and can only be found deep in the wilderness — a wilderness where Rora grew up, and where all those born are born magical. Rora, alongside her brother and the obstinate, older prince who decides to come with, must survive sentient forests and unknown creatures among a magical wood. —Rachel Strolle
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 Credit: Dutton Books for Young Readers The Woods Are Always Watching by Stephanie Perkins
Perkins has been known for her strong ties to YA romance, but The Woods Are Always Watching focuses on two friends: Neena and Josie. The two girls decide to go on a multi-day camping expedition in the Pisgah National Forest as a last hurrah to high school as they go their separate ways for college. But the deeper they get, the more the cracks in their friendship begin to show — especially when they've both been bottling things inside in hopes it will all be okay. When a detour leads them straight into a walking nightmare, Josie and Neena must rely on each other to survive. Perkins pens a story about the lengths you'll go to protect a sacred friendship, which also serves as the perfect spooky Halloween read. —Farrah Penn
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