Spend the coziest months of the year with your next great read. The most anticipated books of fall include best-selling author and philosopher Yuval Noah Harari’s brief history of information, a new essay collection from Ta-Nahesi Coates, and Rachel Kushner’s savvy send-up of the classic spy thriller.
Start spooky season early with Mariana Enriquez’s follow up to her best-selling 2023 novel, Our Share of Night, which TIME named one of its best of the year. Send a chill down your spine with the new thriller from The Last Thing He Told Me author Laura Dave. And dig into the complex histories of several celebrities in memoirs from Ina Garten, Cher, and Lisa Marie Presley, whose autobiography was finished by her daughter, Riley Keough, following her death last year.
Other notable releases include Haruki Murakami’s first full-length novel in six years, an ambitious new book from Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Powers, and Malcolm Gladwell’s long-awaited sequel to his best-selling debut The Tipping Point, which is about to celebrate its 25th anniversary.
From Elizabeth Strout’s 10th novel to the first installment in Sabaa Tahir’s new YA fantasy duology, these are the books that will get you excited for sweater weather.
Madwoman, Chelsea Bieker (Sept. 3)
Clove, the protagonist of Chelsea Bieker’s second novel, Madwoman, has told everyone, including her capitalist husband, that her parents died when she was 17. In actuality, her mother Alma is serving time in a California prison for killing Clove’s abusive father. Now, in the wake of the Me Too movement, Alma’s case is being reevaluated and she needs her estranged daughter to testify about the events of the night her father died. The truth could set both women free, if Clove is willing to face the trauma of her past.
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We’re Alone, Edwidge Danticat (Sept. 3)
In award-winning author Edwidge Danticat’s latest work of nonfiction, We’re Alone, the personal is the…
