The fall publishing season kicks off with some big-name authors, critiques of current events, science and nature reads, and so much more!
POLITICS & CURRENT EVENTS
In The Divider, journalists Peter Baker and Susan Glasser consider how Trump evolved to emulate the foreign autocrats he admired as president, while Andrew Kirtzman looks at the rise and fall of America’s Mayor in Giuliani. Sarah Kendizor examines the rise of conspiracy culture along with the decline of faith in institutions in They Knew and David Korn takes an in-depth look at how paranoia and conspiracy theories took over the GOP in American Psychosis. Douglas Rushkoff takes a look at The Mindset, the escape fantasies of tech billionaires who plan to leave the rest of us behind, in Survival of the Richest while J. Bradford DeLong delivers an economic history of the 20th century in Slouching Towards Utopia. In Africa is Not a Country, Dipo Faloyin busts stereotypes with a history of the continent’s 54 nations and 1.4 billion people. And for those seeking a lighter touch on current events, New Yorker writer Andy Borowitz looks at how America’s politicians got dumb and dumber in Profiles in Ignorance.
HISTORY
Buzz Bissinger (Friday Night Lights) chronicles The Mosquito Bowl, a football game between two Marine regiments just before many of them would die in one of the bloodiest battles in World War II; meanwhile, Ben Macintyre (The Spy and the Traitor) looks at the POWs who were held by the Nazis in Colditz for four years in Prisoners of the Castle. Michael Frank tells the remarkable story of Stella Levi, who reveals how she survived Auschwitz over years of weekly conversations in One Hundred Saturdays. And Pekka Hämäläinen rewrites America’s origin story to reveal that Native peoples were much more powerful than history books would have you believe in Indigenous Continent.
SCIENCE & NATURE
Novelist Annie Proulx turns her attention to peatland destruction and its role in the climate crisis in Fen, Bog and Swamp while religious writer Karen Armstrong helps us restore our ancient bond with the natural world in Sacred Nature. Astrophysicist Neil deGrasse Tyson returns with a cosmic perspective on civilization in Starry Messenger, and theoretical physicist Sean Carroll tackles the mind-boggling concepts of space, time, and motion to make physics accessible in The Biggest Ideas in the Universe. Rachel Aviv debuts with case studies that test the limits of psychiatry to reveal how we talk about mental illness in Strangers to Ourselves.
BIOGRAPHY & MEMOIR
Daytime talk show host Kelly Ripa shares sharp, funny and honest “long-winded short stories” in her debut, Live Wire; called “the greatest editor of his generation,” Jann Wenner talks about launching one of the most influential magazines of the 20th century in Like A Rolling Stone; television writer David Milch looks back on his personal life, complicated by alcohol, drugs, and gambling, in Life’s Work; and cartoonist Kate Beaton chronicles her time working in the petroleum fields on northern Canada, complicated by relentless sexism and misogyny, in the graphic memoir Ducks: Two Years in the Oil Sands.
HOUSE & HOME
Mother-daughter duo Ann Lightfoot and Kate Pawlowski will get you to Love Your Home Again by decluttering and organizing your space. Margot Guralnick and Fan Winston collaborate on a sourcebook for those who won’t sacrifice style for eco-friendly living in Remodelista: The Low-Impact Home. And Alexandra Horowitz (Inside of a Dog) chronicles how dogs become themselves during the first year of life in the scientific memoir The Year of the Puppy.
SELF IMPROVEMENT
Gabor Maté (The Realm of Hungry Ghosts) returns with a groundbreaking investigation into overcoming trauma and illness and thriving in a toxic culture in The Myth of Normal while Cassie Mogliner Holmes teaches us how to beat distraction and make the best use of time to focus on what matters most in Happier Hour. In Smart Brevity, cofounder of Politico and Axios Jim Vandehei gives anyone who works with words the confidence to say more with less. In Discipline is Destiny, the second book in the Stoic Virtue Series, Ryan Holiday celebrates the power of self-control. Finally, Dr. Becky Kennedy — aka “The Millennial Parenting Whisperer” – delivers a guide to becoming the parent you want to be in Good Inside.
~posted by Frank
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