Today, it is officially fall: does it feel like it? The gradual transition from the beating heat to the falling leaves is all around us, and yet it can still feel surprising, too fast. To celebrate our fall equinox, here’s another great selection of new books for us all. Memoirs, novels, historical texts, we have it all. Take a look at the full list below, and have a great first day of autumn!
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Gloria Steinem, An Unexpected Life (Random House)
“This is a fiercely beautiful book about how we survive, how we learn, how we keep faith with one another, and how an unexpected life can become a formidable force for freedom and connection.”
–Roxane Gay
John Green, Hollywood, Ending (Dutton)
“John Green makes his much-anticipated return to fiction with a behind-the-scenes Hollywood love story about finding someone to trust in an untrustworthy world.”
–From the publisher
Lucy Foley and Agatha Christie, Murder at the Grand Alpine Hotel (William Morrow)
“Foley channels the one-and-only Agatha Christie with precision and flair. I couldn’t put it down!”
–Bonnie Garmus
Tamryn Sprull, The W: A History of the WNBA (Abrams)
“A passionate history … Filled with sharp analyses and vivid game recaps, this is a much-needed account of a league on the rise.”
–Publishers Weekly
Amy Fusselman, Cloud Six (Catapult)
“Heartfelt moments offer insight into death, the afterlife, grief, violence, life phases, nature, and family. Funny moments abound.”
–Library Journal
Sam Tallent, Brut (Random House)
“Tallent blends striking prose and rich characterization in this exceptional thriller centered on an ex-Marine turned hit man.”
–Publishers Weekly
Ari Emanuel, Roll the Calls (Knopf)
“Here in Technicolor is another of Hollywood’s greatest characters.”
–Rick Rubin
Keith Rosson, Crone (Random House)
“A brilliant, heartbreaking melding of folk horror, crime novel, and crippling grief.”
–Christopher Golden
Benjamin Moser, Anti-Zionism: A Jewish History (Doubleday)
“Reinforced my pride in my ancestors who fought against the supremacist project in the name of justice and true Jewish identity.”
–Hannah Einbender
Laleh Khadivi, Female Life on Planet Earth (Ecco)
“At moments deeply moving, unusual, and funny—testimonials that reveal the range of resilience a woman can summon.”
–Kirkus
Doireann Ní Ghríofa, Said the Dead (FSG)
“Reading it, I had the eerie sense that the book felt as if it had been waiting for her to come along and write it.”
–Anne Enright
Grandmaster Flash, Robert "Scoop" Jackson, Birth of a Culture (Amistad)
“A must-read for anyone curious about the history of American music.”
–Kirkus
Madeline ffitch, Avalon, Rise (FSG)
“A blistering, multifaceted novel about collective action, community, and fighting for what’s right.”
–Kirkus
Sharon Weinberger, Valley of Death: How Big Tech is Fueling the Future of War (Little Brown)
“It’s an alarming, deeply reported tale with a cast of colorful figures and implications that touch our security, democracy, and future.”
–Garrett M. Graff
Naomi Alderman, The Strangers (Little Brown)
“An entirely new species of writing about grief. I loved this peculiar, ardent, and inquisitive work.”
–Eleanor Catton
Marion Gibson, Witchland: A Deadly Moral Panic in Seventeenth-Century Britain (Scribner)
“Gibson is an immensely knowledgeable and engaging guide to a bizarre historical phenomenon, with a knack for drawing out the personal stories behind the national panic.”
–The Times
David Pakman, Pay Attention: How the Algorithms and Media Wars Are Suppressing Truth and Rewiring Your Brain (Harper)
“A sharp, unsettling look at our well founded anxieties over how the attention economy and AI-driven media are warping our politics, our psychology, and our sense of reality.”
–Jessica Tarlov
