As autumn arrives, publishers are releasing a wave of highly anticipated fiction. Min Jin Lee returns with "American Hagwon," her first novel since the best-selling "Pachinko," following a family displaced by the 1997 Asian financial crisis from Seoul to Southern California. Marlon James explores the aftermath of a 1980s anti-L.G.B.T.Q. hate crime in Jamaica in "The Disappearers," while Emily St. John Mandel imagines a post-United States Los Angeles in 2031 with "Exit Party."

John Green shifts further from young adult fiction in "Hollywood, Ending," tracking two young actors navigating early superstardom. John Grisham delivers a cross-border kidnapping thriller in "The French Illusion," and Leigh Bardugo concludes her Ninth House trilogy with "Dead Beat." Historical dramas feature prominently: Robert Harris and Ariel Lawhon reimagine Roman Emperor Octavius and 16th-century pirate queen Grace O'Malley, respectively, while Hernan Diaz follows his Pulitzer-winning "Trust" with the dystopian "Ply."

Other notable releases include Barbara Kingsolver, Imbolo Mbue, Emma Cline, Tananarive Due, Lucy Foley, Ayad Akhtar, R.F. Kuang, and Jed Perl. Lucy Foley reboots Agatha Christie's Miss Marple in "Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel," set in the Swiss Alps.