Prime Big Deal Days, also known as October Prime Day, runs October 6 to 7, and Prime members can already shop early deals. Each day we’ll add a handpicked set of book deals we think are worth a look. This isn’t every deal out there, just our favorites. Newest day is at the top, so bookmark this page and check back. If you’re not on Prime yet, see if a free trial is open to you or sign up for a paid membership.
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Early Prime Big Deal Days book deals: Thursday, October 1
Last updated: October 1, 2026
For Day one we’ve selected nine book deals: three 2026 releases, three big box sets and collector editions, and three reads from earlier years. Prices below are what each listing showed when we checked.
New 2026 releases
Escape Me Deluxe Limited Edition, by Tahereh Mafi
This is the closing book of the Shatter Me Series Two trilogy, and the deluxe edition is dressed for the occasion. It has a jacket finished in holographic foil, custom endpapers, a foil-stamped case with a line from the novel, and holographic page edges:
"THE NEXT CHAPTER OF THE REBELLION IS COMING"
Deal as listed: 25% off · limited time deal
The story picks up ten years after the fall of the Reestablishment. James Anderson, Rosabelle Wolff, and Aaron Warner Anderson are each carrying a different agenda. It’s book three, so Watch Me and Release Me come first. The listing says quantities of this edition are limited. Published September 29, 2026.
Pokémon Deluxe Character Guide
This 336-page hardcover marks 30 years of Pokémon and walks through the Pokédex in order, region by region. It starts at Bulbasaur (#0001) and finishes at Pecharunt (#1025). A Pikachu chapter opens the book, a chapter on Legendary and Mythical Pokémon closes it, and an index helps when you only want to look one up.
The official ultimate character guide to every Pokémon ever discovered. For Pokémon fans of all ages.
Deal as listed: 34% off · limited time deal
It’s built as a keepsake, with a ribbon bookmark, gilded page edges, and Pikachu endpapers. Tsunekazu Ishihara of The Pokémon Company wrote the foreword. Suitable for fans of every age. Published August 25, 2026.
Harbinger by Geneva Lee
This is a slow-burn romantasy and the first book in the Harbinger series. Arden Icaros comes from the poorest of five noble bloodlines and would rather be on the family farm than at court. Then a ceremony hands her a dagger and an impossible choice, and she’s branded an omen of war with assassins on her trail. Her best chance of survival is Bishop, a feared figure who answers to his order and should be the one to end her. Instead, he offers her sanctuary.
Deal as listed: 30% off · limited time deal
Fans of Sarah J. Maas might want to give this a look, and Amazon has tagged it an Editors’ pick in Best Romance. It’s a 496-page deluxe limited edition hardcover, published September 22, 2026.
Box sets and collector editions
The Hobbit Deluxe Illustrated by the Author
If you want one big object to put on a shelf today, this is the one. It’s a slipcased edition with more than 50 sketches, drawings, paintings, and maps by Tolkien himself, set alongside the full text printed in two colors.
Special Edition An Illustrated Edition of Tolkien's Classic Epic Fantasy Adventure (Tolkien Illustrated Editions, 9)
Deal as listed: 57% off · Early Prime Big Deal
Extras include two poster-size fold-out maps (Thror’s Map and Wilderland), an 88-page illustrated booklet, and a printed art card of Tolkien’s original dustjacket painting. The spine is quarterbound with raised ribs, the black cloth boards are stamped in three foils, and the pages have gold edges and a ribbon marker. Published October 22, 2024.
Throne of Glass Paperback Box Set, by Sarah J. Maas
This set gathers the complete Throne of Glass series in eight paperbacks, from The Assassin’s Blade through Kingdom of Ash.
Deal as listed: 44% offÂ
It all begins with Celaena Sardothien, an assassin summoned to the castle. She enters a deadly contest to earn her freedom as the king’s champion. The series comes from the author of A Court of Thorns and Roses, and if you’ve been meaning to start it, a single box covers the whole run. Published July 23, 2024.
Frank Herbert’s Dune Saga 6-Book Boxed Set
This trade paperback box set holds the first six novels of the Dune saga: Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune.
Includes Dune, Dune Messiah, Children of Dune, God Emperor of Dune, Heretics of Dune, and Chapterhouse: Dune
Deal as listed: 55% offÂ
It’s aimed at longtime fans and new readers alike, and servers as a practical way to get the whole sequence under one lid rather than hunting for each volume. Published on August 25, 2020.
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Earlier releases
The Correspondent: A Novel, by Virginia Evans
This is a quiet novel built around letters. Sybil Van Antwerp, a lawyer, mother, and grandmother, sits down most mornings to write to friends, family, and authors she admires, and to one person whose letter she never sends.
Deal as listed: 50% offÂ
When correspondence from her past forces her to revisit a painful chapter, she has to decide what to do about forgiveness. It’s a hardcover of 304 pages, published April 29, 2025.
The Nightingale: A Novel, by Kristin Hannah
This WWII novel follows two sisters in occupied France. Vianne is a mother in the village of Carriveau, forced to share her home with a German captain.
Deal as listed: 42% offÂ
Isabelle is a rebellious teenager who joins the Resistance and keeps risking her life to help others. Their paths run separately, with different choices and different dangers. It’s a 608-page paperback, first published April 25, 2017.
Babel: Or the Necessity of Violence, by R. F. Kuang
This is dark academia with a colonial edge. The story opens in 1828, when Robin Swift, orphaned by cholera in Canton, is taken to London by the enigmatic Professor Lovell. Robin spends years drilling in Latin, Ancient Greek, and Chinese so he can enter Oxford’s Royal Institute of Translation, known as Babel.
Babel Or the Necessity of Violence: An Arcane History of the Oxford Translators Revolution An Historic Fantasy of Dark Academia
Deal as listed: 50% off
In this world, translation is also the engine of British power. Enchanted silver bars capture the meaning that gets lost between languages, and the Empire uses that magic to expand. Oxford feels like paradise to Robin until he sees what his work serves. He ends up between the institute and a secret society working against empire, just as Britain heads toward a war with China over silver and opium. It won the 2022 Nebula Award and the 2023 Locus Award, and Amazon has it marked as an Editors’ pick in Best Science Fiction & Fantasy. It’s a 560-page paperback, published August 29, 2023.
Quick answers
When is Prime Big Deal Days?
October 6 to 7, 2026. Prime members can shop early deals before then, and we’re adding our book picks here each day
How often is this page updated?
Daily. Each day gets its own section, with the newest at the top. Older days stay below for reference, but their deals may have ended, so check availability.
Is this every Prime Day book deal?
No. These are the deals we picked, and there are plenty more on Amazon. Browse Amazon’s full Prime Day listings.
Where do I sign up for Prime?
Here’s the Prime sign-up page.