Every month we break down our most excitedly awaited new book releases. Here are our picks for September....
Release date: September 14th
Genre: Thriller
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From the author of Big Little Lies and Nine Perfect Strangers comes this new thriller, following the Delaneys, a family headed by two aging tennis stars. Stan and Joy have sold their renowned tennis academy and are hoping to relax — until Joy suddenly vanishes. As the family works to figure out who might have wished to harm her — one of Stan’s former protégés? A mysterious woman who takes shelter at the Delaneys’ home? Their secrets and tensions boil over.
Release date: September 7th
Genre: Fiction
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Rooney returns with another bookish, epistolary novel — this time following the friendship of two intelligent young adults, as they navigate their personal lives amid the backdrop of environmental and social upheaval. Alice achieved unexpected global fame as a novelist and has relocated to the Irish coast after a nervous breakdown, while Eileen works as an assistant at a Dublin literary magazine. On a whim, Alice, invites Felix, a warehouse worker she just met, to travel to Rome with her. Meanwhile, while recovering from a breakup, Eileen begins flirting with Simon, a childhood friend. Their lengthy, erudite emails to one another leap from cultural and philosophical engagements to chatty inquiries about romantic partners. One email captures the mood of the novel succinctly: “I agree it seems vulgar, decadent, even epistemically violent, to invest energy in the trivialities of sex and friendship when human civilization is facing collapse. But at the same time, that is what I do every day.”
Release date: September 28th
Genre: Fiction
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From the author of All the Light We Cannot See comes an ambitious work of literary fiction. Doerr’s novel toggles between three timelines – the Fall of Constantinople in 1453, present-day Idaho, and interstellar ship far in the future. Each piece explores the power of stories as a fictional ancient Greek comedy weaves throughout the entire book.
Release date: September 14th
Genre: Fiction
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After two Pulitzer Prizes, Colson Whitehead has graced us once again with the pleasure of his writing. It’s 1960s Harlem, and Ray Carney, who has a wife, child and another baby on the way, has made a good life for himself and his family selling furniture. But when he gets mixed up in a heist gone wrong, he struggles between the two competing sides of himself: the (mostly) upright businessman, and the man eager to get ahead and provide for his loved ones. Because for all his schemes, “Carney was only slightly bent when it came to being crooked.”
Release date: September 14th
Genre: Historical Fiction
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Gayl Jones, author of Corregidora, is back after a 20 year hiatus with Palmares, a sweeping tale of slavery, liberation, trauma and myth set in 17th-century on the last of the seven fugitive slave settlements in colonial Brazil. Combining her mastery of language with her unique brand of mythology and magical realism, Jones reimagines the historical novel.
Release date: September 21st
Genre: Fiction
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This novel is a window into the European refugee crisis. It follows Mina a Lebanese American doctor who heads to the Greek island of Lesbos to help with refugee resettlement. Nothing has prepared her for the scale of the disaster, and she quickly becomes close to Sumaiya, a Syrian woman who’s done her best to keep her serious illness a secret from her family.
Release date: September 14th
Genre: Fiction
Available on Amazon
In 1999, Kaya, a Mauritian musician and activist, performed at a public concert to advocate for the legalization of marijuana in the archipelago nation. Later arrested for smoking weed onstage, Kaya was found dead in his jail cell within a few days. This ignited widespread protests and violence across the ethnically diverse country, which had long simmered under poverty and inequality, especially among the island's Creole inhabitants. This highly charged backdrop serves as the point of departure for de Souza's frenetic novel, which follows Santee as she searches for her brother, Ram, who goes missing in the riotous aftermath. A Book of Revelations-caliber explosion of politics and prose, a humid dream-world of revolutionary fervor where seemingly anything—everything—is possible, if only for the night.
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