Save up to 65% on best-selling books and box sets with early Prime Day pricing
October ushers in the spooky season and cooler weather, making it the ideal time to curl up with a good book. If you’re looking for a new book or box set to expand your collection, or perhaps as an affordable holiday gift for the book lover in your life, Amazon’s Prime Day in October is a great time to score bestsellers at great basement prices. Although Prime Day in October officially takes place on October 8 and 9, we are already seeing a lot of deals. You can score books and box sets for it no less than 65% discount now.
From thrillers to chillers to books for younger readers, we’ve highlighted some of the best book deals on Amazon right now. And if you’re looking for even more great bargains on Amazon before Prime Day, check out this roundup of our favorite deals under $50 and under $25. Word to the wise: many of these book deals — as well as other Prime Day ones deals – are only available to Prime members. If you’re thinking about signing up for a membership, check out these tips to get one for free.
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Kick off the spooky season with this box set from the King of Horror, which includes three classic King novels: Carrie, Salem’s Lot And The radiant. Currently discounted by 51%.
The epic series that introduced us to the world of Percy Jackson and exemplified the fantasy genre in a way that any high school student can relate to is now on sale. If your kids are obsessed with the Disney show, which is fantastic, the books are much better.
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More Prime Day deals for books in early October
- Tolkien Fantasy Tales box set: $15 (save $21). A four-book set, perfect for anyone who loved the Lord of the Rings trilogy and wants to feed their Tolkien obsession.
- Baby University Complete Book Set with 18 Boards: $97 (Save $83). Put a book in their chubby little hands, even if they’re just chewing on it.
- Heroes of Olympus 5-Book Box Set, 10th Anniversary Edition: $21 (Save $29). Keep all the Rick Riordan spirit at home with this 5-book box set that followed the Percy Jackson series.
- Going Home by Yaa Gyasi: $8 (Save $10). Don’t pass up this award-winning novel, which takes readers through the troubled legacy of slavery, following three sisters across eight generations, from the Gold Coast to Jazz Age Harlem.
- Banyan Moon from Thao Thai: $15 (Save $15). Three generations of women are confronted with their family saga from 1960s Vietnam to the swamps of Florida, under the roof of their inherited home, Banyan House.
- Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga, 6-Book Box Set: $52 (Save $56). All six of Herbert’s seminal science fiction novels.
- Intermezzo by Sally Rooney: $10 (Save $33). Buy this NYT bestselling novel from acclaimed Irish author Sally Rooney at 77% off.
- Colson Whitehead’s Nickel Boys: $9 (Save $6). The underground railway The author’s second award-winning novel explores the horrors of reform school and the implicit injustice of our legal system.
- Aru Shah and The End of Time (graphic novel) by Roshani Chokshi: $8 (save $5). The graphic novel version of the first book in the Pandava series in which Aru Shah battles demons and searches for the Pandava brothers, the heroes of the Hindu epic poem, the Mahabharata.
- Lucy Foley 3-Book Box Set: $20 (Save $35). Get three of the most heartbreaking thrillers you’ll read, all wrapped up in a beautiful box set, perfect for that person who’s already run out of mystery podcasts to listen to.
- Mexican Gothic by Silvia Moreno-Garcia: $8 (save $9). A horror novel with shades of The yellow wallpaper but with its own twists.
- Foster by Claire Keegan: $13 (Save $8). Irish writer Claire Keegan is a master of place and in this short novel you feel as if you are looking through someone’s kitchen window and watching everything unfold.
- George RR Martin’s Game of Thrones 5-Book Box Set: $26 (Save $24). Fans of the show and fantasy enthusiasts alike will devour every last word in these pages.
- Shadow and Bone Series by Leigh Bardugo 3-Book Box Set: $17 (Save $16). Perfect for teen readers who are ready for a little more blood and guts than Rick Riordan.
- The Wild Robot by Peter Brown 3-Book Box Set: $40 (Save $14). Buy this series in hardcover and give it as a gift to the person you want to visit The wild robott movie with.
- Singing, Unburied, Singing: A Novel by Jesmyn Ward: $8 (Save $9). Ward’s second novel, winner of the National Book Award, follows a family through rural Mississippi.
- The Jane Austen Box Set: $33 (Save $18). Pride and prejudice, EmmaAnd Feeling and sensitivity in a hardcover set designed by Rifle Paper Company, perfect for Bridgerton fans.
- Where They Last Saw Her by Marcie Rendon: $22 (save $6). When a Native woman on Minnesota’s Red Pine Reservation becomes fed up with the injustice of missing Native women, she takes matters into her own hands in this riveting standalone crime novel from Marcie Rendon, author of the Cash Blackbear series.
- From Crook to Chef: Platinum Recipes from Tha Boss Dogg’s Kitchen by Snoop Dogg: $9 (Save $16 with on-page coupon). This hardcover cookbook gives you everything you ever wanted in a cookbook but were afraid to ask for.
- Between Two Fires by Christopher Buehlman: $17 (save $2). Genre-bending Southern Gothic horror fiction, anyone?
- More critically acclaimed titles with a whopping 65% discount.
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