September kicks off a busy Fall publication season, with many books by returning favorite authors and much more. Get ready to cozy up to darker and chillier nights with one of the books below!
9/3: Colored Television by Danzy Senna
On sabbatical and house-sitting in Los Angeles, Jane works on her second novel, but also takes a meeting with a television producer where she pitches a comedy, jumping into the dicey waters of Hollywood and the varying definitions of “diverse content.” (satire/general fiction)
9/3: Creation Lake by Rachel Kushner
Sadie Smith, a freelance undercover agent, is sent to rural France to infiltrate a group of radical environmentalists and undermine their efforts to sabotage factory farming, including intercepting emails from the group’s leader, Bruno, who lives in a cave and muses on Neanderthals and philosophy. (general fiction)
9/3: Death at the Sign of the Rook by Kate Atkinson
PI Jackson Brodie is back, attending a hotel’s Murder Mystery weekend in order to investigate a series of art thefts. (mystery)
9/3: Guide Me Home by Attica Locke
In this last book in the Highway 59 trilogy, Detective Darren Mathews is back, investigating the disappearance of a Black college student from her all-white Texas sorority, even as he grapples with his own familial relationships and hope for his future. (mystery)
9/3: The Life Impossible by Matt Haig
When retired math teacher Grace Winters unexpectedly inherits a house on Ibiza, she books her ticket. Grace digs into her friend’s life, her own past, and the possibility of the magic yet to come. By the author of The Midnight Library. (general fiction)
9/3: The Night Guest by Hildur Knútsdóttir, translated by Mary Robinette Kowal
In Reykjavik, a woman suffers from constant exhaustion for which doctors can’t seem to find a cause. Turning to lifestyle advice, she wears a step-counting watch – and one night in her sleep walks 40,000 steps. Where did she go? Why does she wake up with injuries when she tries to lock herself in? And where are the neighborhood cats disappearing to? (horror)
9/3: Small Rain by Garth Greenwell
A poet is struck down by a sudden illness. In the ICU, confined to a bed and struggling with the inhumanity of the American healthcare system, he turns his mind to his past, to thoughts on art, and to the sensations of his body. By the author of Cleanness. (general fiction)
9/10: Once More from the Top by Emily Layden
Singer-songwriter Dylan Read has spent fifteen years – since her senior year of high school – transforming herself into a megastar. But she’s still haunted by a secret she keeps, the disappearance of her best friend and first fan Kelsey. When Kelsey’s body is found, Dylan searches for answers she didn’t know she needed. (thriller/general fiction)
9/10: Somewhere Beyond the Sea by T.J. Klune
In this sequel to The House in the Cerulean Sea, Arthur Parnassus reckons with the trauma of his past and the potential of his future with Linus Baker and the kids of their magical orphanage. (fantasy)
9/10: Tell Me Everything by Elizabeth Strout
Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, Bob Burgess and the residents of Crosby, Maine, are back. Bob investigates a murder in town; Bob and Lucy develop a deep friendship; and Lucy and Olive finally meet, spending long afternoons together telling one another stories. (general fiction)
9/17: Entitlement by Rumaan Alam
Brooke is searching for meaning, and thinks she’s found it when she lands a job helping an aging billionaire give away his money. But money is seductive, and generosity, worth, and privilege are not clear cut concepts. By the author of Leave the World Behind. (general fiction)
9/17: Rejection by Tony Tulathimutte
Linked short stories chart the impacts of rejection – in relationships, sex, work, and more – across an ensemble cast of characters. (satire/general fiction)
9/17: A Sunny Place for Shady People by Mariana Enriquez, translated by Megan McDowell
Argentinian writer Enriquez presents 12 stories of lives upended by encounters with the terrifying and the supernatural. (horror)
9/17: We Solve Murders by Richard Osman
The author of The Thursday Murder Club series is back with a new crime solving duo. Steve Wheeler is retired from his life of investigation – his daughter-in-law Amy has taken up that work. But when Amy gets in over her head doing protection work on a remote island, she calls in Steve as a reinforcement. (mystery)
9/24: The Empusium by Olga Tokarczuk, translated by Antonia Lloyd-Jones
In 1913, university student Mieczyslaw Wojnicz seeks treatment for tuberculosis at a resort in the Silesian mountains. But as the other patients debate topics both heady and mundane, all is not as it seems as Wojnicz connects local legends to disturbing incidents at the sanatorium. (historical fiction/horror/general fiction)
9/24: Intermezzo by Sally Rooney
Two brothers, dissimilar in every way, struggle to balance grief after their father’s death with new and ongoing romantic relationships. By the author of Normal People. (general fiction)
9/24: The Last Dream by Pedro Almodóvar, translated by Frank Wynne
Film writer and director Almodóvar makes his writing debut with this collection of short stories, based sometimes on events from his own life, and always on his lifelong obsessions. (general fiction)
9/24: Playground by Richard Powers
Four characters travel to Makatea, an island in French Polynesia, as part of an experiment to create and launch floating, autonomous islands into the open sea. Each character faces the history that brought them there, as the residents of Makatea must decide if they want to be the site of this effort. By the author of The Overstory.
9/24: A Reason to See You Again by Jami Attenberg
Over the course of 40 years following the death of the family patriarch, the Cohen women – daughters Shelly and Nancy, and mother Frieda – run from their pasts while struggling to define their futures, and to make their family what they need it to be. (general fiction)
~ posted by Andrea G.
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