It’s the most wonderful time of the year! Not THE holiday season, but it’s as good as the holidays for the book lovers out there—the start of the fall publishing season. Fall sees the release of the heavy hitters of publishers’ catalogs as award season ramps up and booksellers start to build stock—and buzz—for those holiday shoppers. Here’s what to look forward to for next month:
--Fans of memoirs will get an embarrassment of riches as several pioneering women release their anticipated stories this month. The newest Supreme Court justice—and first African American woman to serve on the highest court—Ketanji Brown Jackson bows with Lovely One, while groundbreaking presidential nominee Hillary Rodham Clinton shares the latest chapter of her life in Something Lost, Something Gained. Equally groundbreaking newswoman Connie Chung has penned her autobiography, the simply titled Connie, which Publisher’s Weekly has termed ‘an intimate and rewarding personal history.’
--Heavy hitting fiction from some big names make their appearance this month. Bestselling Sally Rooney probes the estrangement of two high achieving brothers after the death of their father in Intermezzo. Rumaan Alam had a massive hit with 2020’s Leave the World Behind; he returns with Entitlement, due out mid-month. Literary favorites Danzy Senna and Elizabeth Strout return to form with Colored Television and Tell Me Everything, respectively. And Matt Haig, author of the word-of-mouth hit The Midnight Library, takes his characters to the Mediterranean in The Life Impossible; Publisher’s Weekly calls it ‘magnificent’. And Nobel laureate Olga Tokarczuk returns with The Empusium, set in a sanatorium near where some mutilated bodies have been found, on the eve of the First World War.
--Mystery lovers can look forward to some notable releases. Expect a lot of buzz around Richard Osman’s new series launch We Solve Murders. The man behind the massively popular Thursday Murder Club centers his new mystery on an ex-cop father- and bodyguard daughter-in-law who end up jetting around the world in an attempt to find a killer that wants to frame them for the deaths of clients under their care. Attica Locke wraps up her acclaimed Highway 59 series with Guide Me Home, while longtime favorite Kate Atkinson adds to her Jackson Brodie series with Death at the Sign of the Rook. Thriller readers can look forward to Laura Dave’s The Night We Lost Him, and bestseller stalwart Liane Moriarty returns with Here One Moment.
--The romantasy juggernaut continues with The Games Gods Play by Abigail Owen, with a massive 500k print run—a sure bet this will show up on the Goodreads feed. For fans of lighter fantasy fare, TJ Klune has penned a sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea with, fittingly, Somewhere Beyond the Sea, and CM Waggoner bridges the cozy mystery/fantasy gap with The Village Library Demon-Hunting Society.
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Happy reading!