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Appropriately for October, these new fall historical fiction books are full of ghosts, cults, seances, and terrible mysteries. I don’t know about you, but that’s the kind of reading I crave this time of year, so all eight of these books have my full attention. Not that a book has to be creepy to be a good fit for fall, but, well, it doesn’t hurt. I prefer my historical fiction a bit on the strange side, anyway.
 Capitalists Must Starve by Seolyeon Park, translated by Anton HurRelease date: October 7, 2025 Capitalists Must Starve tells the fictionalized story of a real-life labor activist who led a strike for workers’ rights in 1930s Pyongyang. The novel, set in Japanese-occupied Korea, follows a woman willing to risk everything to fight for better conditions for working-class women in a world determined not to hear what they have to say. It’s a story that can find comparisons the world over through the struggle for humane working conditions within the unrelenting capitalist machine. |
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