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New works of fiction by Sally Rooney, Haruki Murakami, and Rachel Kushner are being released this autumn
Check out new books by Sally Rooney, Rachel Kushner and Richard Powers, and revisit familiar worlds from Karl Ove Knausgaard, Haruki Murakami and Jeff VanderMeer.
Updated 2024-Oct-03 10:00
The cover of “Creation Lake” has a green and magenta close-up photograph of a woman’s eye, overlaid with a white drawing of a person holding two sticks.
Haruki Murakami s latest novel The City and Its Uncertain Walls follows a grieving male narrator who lost his first love in childhood based on a short story from 44 years ago.
Jeff VanderMeer surprises readers with a prequel to his bestselling Southern Reach trilogy Absolution shedding light on the mysterious Area X.Charles Baxter s Blood Test features a middle aged insurance salesman facing life changing results from a predictive blood test.
A grid of oval shapes showing snippets of various book covers on a red-purple background.
Mosab Abu Toha s Forest of Noise offers insight into life in besieged Gaza while Daniel M. Lavery s Women s Hotel introduces an ensemble cast in 1960s New York.
Fall is full of harbingers of change: Air is brisk daylight becomes fickle leaves turn red. There is perhaps no better way to ground such a time of transformation and impermanence than with a great new read.
Become seduced by the undercover spy for hire at the heart of Rachel Kushner’s thriller Creation Lake ring in Sad Girl Autumn with Intermezzo a characteristically cool Sally Rooney title about two brothers grieving their father’s death or get swept up in the kaleidoscopic journeys of multiple narrators living in and under the ocean in Richard Powers’s Playground.
Whatever your mood these books among many other reads coming this fall will provide an escape a shift in perspective and engrossing new worlds to cozy up to this season.
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Susan Minot s Don t Be a Stranger follows Ivy a writer and mother as she navigates a messy relationship after a difficult divorce.
Rebecca Yarros presents Variation a departure from her dragon filled series. Following a career ending injury a renowned dancer goes back to her hometown where she uncovers hidden family truths and rekindles her romance with her first love.
