The summer is sadly coming to a close, but the fall brings with it plenty of pleasures –– the changing foliage colors, the cooler weather, and, of course, plenty of new novels.

September kicks off a busy time for publishers as they each vie to produce consumers’ next fall reading obsession.

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Here’s a look at five novels out this fall you may want to pick up.

1.) “Sleeping Beauties,” by Stephen King and Owen King (September 26). The family that writes together stays together.

That seems to be the motto in the King family. Stephen King has already collaborated on stories with son Joe Hill, and now he’s teaming up with his other son, Owen King, for a new novel.

“Sleeping Beauties” examines a world where women are put into cocoon-like states when they go to sleep. If they are woken or disturbed, they became violent and feral without explanation. The earth quickly becomes a world without women.

“We certainly had a lot of fun,” Owen King said of writing with his father, according to USA Today, at the Book and Author Breakfast at BookExpo America, in New York in June.

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Owen King first concocted the story and wanted his dad to write it himself. They later agreed to collaborate. Stephen King said he was responsible for 50 percent of the final product, which he called “a really good book.”

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While Stephen King’s popularity as a novelist has never dwindled much, there is certainly more press and more anticipation around this novel thanks to recent high-profile movie adaptations of his work, such as August’s “The Dark Tower” and the upcoming “It” reboot.

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2.) “Origin,” by Dan Brown (October 3). The character of Robert Langdon is an odd literary sensation, to say the least. Instead of being a muscle-bound, trained-to-kill lethal weapon like Lee Child’s Jack Reacher or countless other tough-guy series characters, he’s a man whose weapon is his mind. Langdon is a professor of symbology and religious iconology.

Brown has used his character’s wacky expertise to craft ludicrous but entertaining adventures before, such as the bestsellers “The Da Vinci Code” and “Inferno,” both of which were turned into films (along with “Angels and Demons”) that starred Tom Hanks as Langdon.

In “Origin,” Langdon finds himself attending an event hosted by a former student, a futurist who promises to unveil something that will completely change human existence.

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When the night ends in chaos, Langdon takes his student on the run and ends up in a conspiracy that will no doubt be as out of this world and complicated as those from Brown’s previous books.

Brown’s novels are always pulpy and breezy reads with plenty of entertainment value from their unique main character and the wild conspiracies Brown pieces together.

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3.) “Turtles All the Way Down,” by John Green (October 10). “Turtles All the Way Down” is arguably the most anticipated book coming this fall, and that’s all thanks to the author –– John Green.

Green exploded as an author quickly with best-selling young adult novels including “Looking for Alaska” and “Fault in Our Stars,” which was adapted into a box-office hit in 2014.

People have eagerly been awaiting Green’s next novel since 2012, and it comes in the form of “Turtles All the Way Down.”

The story follows a young girl named Aza who, with her best friend Daisy, begins digging into the mystery of billionaire fugitive Russell Pickett. There’s a $100,000 reward on the line, and they soon find Pickett’s son, Davis, which complicates things.

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Green’s books are wildly popular because they strike the right balance between page-turning mystery and relatable humor. Even “Fault in Our Stars,” which followed the story of two cancer-stricken teenagers, managed to inspire smiles and laughs from readers and theatergoers.

“While the story is fictional, it is also quite personal.”

Green will also be tackling a serious and personal subject through the character of Ava. He said of “Turtles,” according to publisher Penguin’s official website, “This is my first attempt to write directly about the kind of mental illness that has affected my life since childhood, so while the story is fictional, it is also quite personal.”

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4.) “The Midnight Line,” by Lee Child (November 7). Few literary characters have found the sort of success that Lee Child’s Jack Reacher has found. Reacher is a former member of the military police who now lives off the grid and wanders from adventure to adventure, a la the classic series “Kung Fu.”

Though the big-screen version of the character, played by Tom Cruise, didn’t make much of a splash through two films, Reacher is still going strong in the literary world.

This release marks the 22nd Reacher novel from Lee Child.

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“Retrospectively, I look at the character as an update of a very old figure, who comes out of 1,000 years of literary tradition: the loner, the mysterious stranger, the knight-errant who shows up, solves a problem, and then leaves. He came out of Scandinavian sagas and English tales of knights and survived into the American West and pop lit,” Child told The Globe and Mail about his popular character in 2011.

In the new novel, Reacher discovers a West Point class ring in a pawn shop in Wisconsin. He decides to return the ring to its original owner — and the history of the item and its owner turn out to be far more dangerous and conspiratorial than Reacher ever imagined.

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5.) “Hardcore Twenty-Four,” by Janet Evanovich (November 14). Stephanie Plum is a wisecracking New Jersey bounty hunter who has hit a chord with audiences: “Hardcore Twenty-Four” is her 24th novel adventure from author Janet Evanovich.

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In this new tale, Plum is dealing with her usual day-to-day work, which includes babysitting snakes, dealing with headless corpses popping up around town, and chasing grave robbers. Evanovich has found success with Plum because she’s a deadly mix of lethal and zany. Her books bring the suspense, but they never forget the absurd and inviting humor readers seem to love so much.

In a cinematic world in which studios are looking to cash in on more female protagonists, thanks to hits such as “Wonder Woman,” it’s a shock Evanovich’s novels haven’t been mined for material. The last film version was in 2012 and starred Katherine Heigl, but with a 2 percent rating on Rotten Tomatoes and a lackluster haul at the box office, it’s safe to say fans weren’t as warm to the movie as they are to the books. Perhaps it’s time for a reboot?

(photo credit, article images: Stephen King/Lee Child, Twitter)