With the inevitable cold nights creeping closer and closer, rewatching television episodes and movies is losing its touch. This is why now is the perfect time to lose yourself in the latest books to hit the shelves.

1. Lauren Owen’s The Quick: In 1982, London, James Norbury finds lodging with a charming, young aristocrat until he vanishes without a trace. His sister, Charlotte sets out to find him in the city while undercovering supernatural characters who just may lead her to discovering the mystery of her missing sibling($17.00).
2. Benedict Carey’s How We Learn: Award-winning science reporter Benedict Carey searches through decades of research on education and learning and then continues to deconstruct all previous ways people have been taught to learn. Introducing new ways to think deeply, efficiently and effectively($27.00).
3. Sarah Waters’ The Paying Guests: Lillian and Leonard Barber are a couple of the “clerk class” in 1922, London. When they arrive at the calm, Camberwell Villa owned by the impoverished Mrs. Wray and her spinster daughter, their lives will be transformed and their relationships tested($17.37).
4. Meg Wolitzer’s Belzhar: Jam Gallahue is forced to go to a therapeutic boarding school in rural Vermont where “life-changing” classes focus solely on the works of Sylvia Plath which lead to her own involvement in looking into her own dark past and secrets with surprising results($14.00).
5. Lydia Millet’s Mermaids in Paradise: In Millet’s “funniest book yet,” newlyweds Deb and Chip meet a marine biologist who claims to have sighted mermaids off a coral coast in the Caribbean. The marine biologist turns out to be not only right in her observations, but suspicions as well that others are working to create the reef of mermaids into a theme park. These unlikely friends must now work together to save the mermaids against these forces of evil($16.00).
6. Amy Poehler’s Yes Please: The SNL alum and comedian takes her charming and quick witted voice and puts it on paper in her new novel, including everything from entertaining anecdotes to thoughtful advice($16.00).
7. Katy Smith’s Story of Land and Sea: Set in the waning years of the American Revolution in a small town off the coast of North Carolina, this novel takes a look through multiple families, relationships and situations of the late 1700’s($20.00).
8. David Mitchell’s Bone Clocks: After a terrible fight with her mother over her boyfriend, Holly Sykes decides to close her door on her family and past. Roaming the English countryside, visions and coincidences begin to bring her nightmares to life($18.00).
9. Caitlin Doughty’s Smoke Get’s in Your Eyes: And Other Lessons from the Crematory: A young mortician goes behind the scenes of the interesting and gruesome details in her profession($18.00).
10. Edward Rutherford’s Paris: Going back and forth throughout time, this historical novel opens up the dazzling lives of Paris and its past to the eyes($20.00).